Irving Chernev

Irving Chernev (1900 1981) was a Russian American chess author who wrote over 20 books, including the bestselling Invitation to Chess and emLogical Chess: Move By Move

Every Move Explained

Logical Chess : Move By Move

Fred Reinfeld

Winning Chess is a classic, beloved for more than 40 years. This updated edition, now in algebraic format, remains as lively, conversational, and appealing as ever. Written by two extremely popular chess authors, it's aimed at advanced beginners and intermediates eager to take their game to a new level. Its imaginative themes and instructional method are timeless, along with its sense of fun and humor.

How to Perfect Your Attacking Play

Winning Chess

The bestselling author of Logical Chess Move by Move guides players through 62 masterly strategies for chess success. Each game provides a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described with chess diagrams and Chernev's lively notes. The matches—all by chess greats such as Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, and Petrosian—turn theory into practice and illuminate the game for every player. This revised edition features an updated algebraic format.

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

Move by Move

Logical Chess

Having learnt the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.

Over 60 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning, featuring games by the greatest chess masters — Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, others. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagramed in the clearest possible manner for players of every level of skill. 146 illustrations.

62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

300 practical endgame situations, ranging from very simple to masterpieces by Capablanca, Reti, Tarrasch, Lasker, more.

A Basic Guide to Endgame Strategy for the Beginner and the More Advanced Chess Player

Practical Chess Endings

Kenneth Harkness

A Picture Guide to the Royal Game

An Invitation to Chess

Step-by-step explanation of intricacies of combinative play. 356 combinations by Botvinnik, Keres, Capablanca, and others, all annotated. 356 diagrams.

The Heart of Chess

Combinations

INSPIRED by the slogan "Nothing but fun," this is a gay, light - hearted book. There is many a chuckle in the epigrams by, and anecdotes about, great masters. The "bright games" are quick and clever - sharp duels of nimble minds, with annotations that highlight the fine points. The magical problems, endings and "flights of fancy" are all special favorites with Chernev - the kind he treasures in his famous little black book. Most attractive of all: Chernev's candidates for the 15 most beautiful games of all time.

The Bright Side of Chess

Analyzes endgame strategies from a variety of chess matches.

200 Brilliant Endgames

Winning Chess is a truly classic chess book, beloved of chess-mad teenagers since it was first published in 1970, updated and repackaged in algebraic format. Written in lively, conversational style by two prolific and popular chess authors, it is aimed at players who have gone past the beginner stage and want to take their game to a whole new level. Its imaginative themes and instructional method are timeless, and the whole book is shot through with fun and humour.

How to perfect your attacking play

"Winning Chess" is a classic, beloved for more than 40 years. This updated edition, now in algebraic format, remains as lively, conversational, and appealing as ever. Written by two extremely popular chess authors, it's aimed at advanced beginners and intermediates eager to take their game to a new level. Its imaginative themes and instructional method are timeless, along with its sense of fun and humor.

WINNING CHESS

Curious Chess Facts is Irving Chernev's first book. Published in 1937, it is his famous collection of chess anecdotes. The facts in this book are so famous that they have become part of chess lore, repeated thousands of times, published in countless books and magazine articles by many different authors, such that it is almost forgotten that this book is the original published source. Here are some examples: At a dinner somebody gave a toast to the World Chess Champion. Both Steinitz and Zukertort stood up. (They played a match to determine the real world champion. Steinitz won the match but Zukertort had finished three points ahead of him in London 1883.) This is Curious Chess Fact Number 197 in this book. One that I use that often helps me remember chess history is that Steinitz was World Champion for 28 years. His record was not quite equaled by Lasker who was world champion for 27 years. This is Curious Chess Fact Number 21. Since I remember that Lasker lost the world title to Capablanca in a match in 1921, I can calculate back to determine the year in which Lasker won the world championship by defeating Steinitz in a match. Then, going back another 28 years I can calculate the year that Steinitz defeated Adolf Anderssen who some consider to have been the first world chess champion. Another example is that Marshall won a famous game by a queen sacrifice that was so brilliant that the spectators showered the board with gold pieces. This is Curious Chess Fact Number 9. The moves of the game itself with the spectacular queen sacrifice are to be found in almost every anthology of famous chess games. The story that the spectators showered the board with gold pieces is always included with the moves. The list goes on any on. There are so many of them that you just have to read this book to see and recall them.

Curious Chess Facts

DIV60 complete games, annotated throughout but emphasizing endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art. /div

Capablanca's Best Chess Endings

Step-by-step explanation of intricacies of combinative play. 356 combinations by Botvinnik, Keres, Capablanca, others, all annotated. 356 diagrams.

Jos Ra£l Capablanca

These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Réti, the best. Here are real games from match and tournament play, with endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art.

60 Complete Games

An Invitation to Chess is perhaps the most successful chess book ever written, with sales of over 100,000. It is a basic beginners book, starting with the moves of the pieces and rapidly advancing to more complex problems and examples. About the Authors Kenneth Harkness was the inventor of the Chess Rating System. He was for many years the editor of Chess Review magazine, and was the author of the Blue Book and Encyclopedia of Chess and several other chess books. Irving Chernev was one of the most popular writers about the game of chess.

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