Four WCC Matches: 1954, 1957, 1958 and 1963

The writings of Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911 1995) are legendary. And Botvinnik’s legacy is deeply imprinted in the DNA of every grandmaster today, says Andy Soltis in his foreword tot this book. ‘The Patriarch’ took professionalism in chess to a new level and was the first to emphasize preparation: what a player does before a game plays an enormous, if not decisive, role in what happens during a game.

Vinay Bhat rose through the ranks of American chess in the 1990s and 2000s, overcoming plateaus, competitive challenges, and academic and professional commitments, before achieving the highest title in chess. Follow Vinay’s path to improvement and the struggles he had to go through, to carve out your own path to improvement and achieve your chess goals.

Akiba Rubinstein is universally considered one of the strongest chess players who never won the world crown. From a modest upbringing in the Polish city of Lódz, he rose to become the principal challenger to the world champion Emanuel Lasker in the years leading up to the First World War. Although their world title match failed to take place, mainly due to the outbreak of wartime hostilities, Rubinstein's legacy has remained equal to that of any world champion.

The book consists of 36 attacking games from the 21st Century divided into four chapters.

Mastering attacking play in chess is a dream that we all long to achieve, but of course the art of attack does not arise by itself.

Constructing positions which favour the attack is the most difficult task.

Chess in New York between 1866-1880

Inhalt : 005 Preface and Acknowledgments

007 A Note to the Reader PART I. NEW YORK CHESS IN 1876

011 Two Players Made It to the Finish Line

015 "Johnny Bull Grit" Is Second to "Yankee Pluck and Skill"

037 A Club with "a Sad Lack of Enterprise" Organized a Tourney

039 The Strongest Meeting in the City for Many Years

087 A Competition Leaving a Bitter Taste

114 A Match Not Played PART II. NOTES, SOURCES AND INDICES

197 Notes

238 Seiten, kartoniert, Caissa 90-Olomouc, 1. Auflage 2023

The 5th World Chess Champion (1935-37)

World Chess Champion Max Euwe, who held the title from 1935-1937, is one of the greatest chess players in history. Much has been written about him, and he authored dozens of books himself. But missing was an outstanding collection of games of this 'efficient, man-eating tiger' as the American grandmaster Reuben Fine once called Euwe.

A Chess Biography

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century.

Vinay Bhat rose through the ranks of American chess in the 1990s and 2000s, overcoming plateaus, competitive challenges, and academic and professional commitments, before achieving the highest title in chess. Follow Vinay’s path to improvement and the struggles he had to go through, to carve out your own path to improvement and achieve your chess goals.

A Career Summary with 757 Games

This work chronicles the chess career and games of Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan, one of the leading United States players of the 1930s (along with such notables as Fine and Reshevsky). The main body of the work examines Kashdan's game play, with diagrams and analysis provided for many hundreds of his tournament games, match games, speed games, simultaneous exhibitions, training games and consultation games

Bent Larsen is one of the most celebrated chess players of the twentieth century. Larsen is the man who pushed Bobby Fischer down to Board 2 on the Rest of the World team in 1970. The Danish grandmaster had spectacular results, but chess fans appreciated even more his creativity and fighting spirit.

For Larsen, a drawish-looking position was no reason to halt a game, as he had the ability to create magic out of thin air.

October 26 - December 7 (HTC038)

Aus der Reihe »Historical Chess Tournaments«

64 Seiten, Broschüre, Caissa 90-Olomouc, 1. Auflage 2022

...according to Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex positions was legendary.

With his rare strategic feeling and exceptional vision, Petrosian gradually became one of the top exponents of the art of the exchange sacrifice, and perhaps the leading protagonist for the positional exchange sacrifice.

160 amüsante Aufgaben mit überraschenden Lösungen

Natürlich ist Schach keine Zauberei, aber so trickreich kann uns nur Helmut Pfleger zum Schachspielen verführen: 40 Jahre Schach im ZEITmagazin mit Helmut Pfleger

Helmut Pfleger ist unser Schachzauberer. Jede Woche gelingt es ihm eine neue kurzweilige und spannende kleine Geschichte samt kniffliger Schachaufgabe im ZEITmagazin zu präsentieren.

Korchnoi and his Chess Grandchildren features 25 of Viktor Korchnoi’s best games from the latter stages of his glorious career. The latest game is from 2011, when Korchnoi was still potent enough to defeat Fabiano Caruana. The annotations are mainly in Korchnoi’s own words, with insightful additions from other top players and the author. Between the annotated games are numerous articles and interviews - some with Viktor, and others featuring top players talking about the great man.

Match of the Century Revisited

The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer – Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this monumental match.