The KGB Plays Chess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The KGB Plays Chess write by Yuri Felshtinsky. This book was released on 2010-09-15. The KGB Plays Chess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB, on the one hand, and several brave individuals, on the other. Their names are famous in the chess world: Viktor Kortschnoi, Boris Spasski, Boris Gulko and Garry Kasparov became subjects of constant pressure, blackmail and persecution in the USSR. Their victories at the chess board were achieved despite this victimization. Unlike in other books, this story has two perspectives. The victim and the persecutor, the hunted and the hunter, all describe in their own words the very same events. One side is represented by the famous Russian chess players Viktor Kortschnoi and Boris Gulko. For many years they fought against a powerful system, and at the end they were triumphant. The Soviet Union collapsed and they got what they were fighting for: their freedom. Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov, who left Russia in 1996 and now lives in Canada, was one of those who had worked all his life for the KGB and was responsible for the sport sector of the USSR. It is only now for the first time that he has decided to tell the reader his story of the KGB�s involvement in Soviet Sports. This is his first book, and it is not only full of sensations, but it also dares to name names of secret KGB agents previously known only as famous chess masters, sportsmen or sport officials. Just a few short years ago a book like this would have been unimaginable. Read this book. It is not only about chess. It is about glorious victory of the great chess masters over the forces of darkness.
Chess Duels
Chess Duels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chess Duels write by Yasser Seirawan. This book was released on 2010. Chess Duels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters-both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chess players of the last 50 years. --
White King and Red Queen
White King and Red Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White King and Red Queen write by Daniel Johnson. This book was released on 2008. White King and Red Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
Lessons with a Grandmaster III
Lessons with a Grandmaster III - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons with a Grandmaster III write by Boris Gulko. This book was released on 2015. Lessons with a Grandmaster III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the third book in the highly acclaimed Lessons with a Grandmaster series. In this volume Gulko and Sneed focus on both strategic and tactical ideas, and how to successfully combine the two parts over the board.
King's Gambit
King's Gambit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King's Gambit write by Paul Hoffman. This book was released on 2007-09-11. King's Gambit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness. In King's Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt to get his game back up to master level -- without losing his mind. It's also a father and son story, as Hoffman grapples with the bizarre legacy of his own dad, who haunts Hoffman's game and life.
