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

Move by Move

Logical Chess

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

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

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

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

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

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

The Heart of Chess

Combinations

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

Capablanca's Best Chess Endings

Kenneth Harkness

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.

A Picture Guide to the Royal Game

An Invitation to Chess

INVITATION TO CHESS

Una vez aprendidos los movimientos básicos de las piezas, ¿hasta dónde puede progresar un jugador? En este gran clásico, Irving Chernev comenta 33 partidas completas en detalle, explicándole al lector la razón de cada jugada. Reproducir estas partidas con ayuda de las explicaciones aporta un verdadero conocimiento acerca de la fuerza de las piezas y de cómo situarlas de la manera más efectiva. “Ajedrez Lógico, jugada a jugada, de Chernev. Por fin un clásico de clásicos editado en nuestro mercado por Paidotribo. Aunque había una edición mejicana traducida hace tiempo y agotada, esta edición la supera con creces por su anotación y cuidada traducción. Chernev es un clásico de la Escuela Soviética, muy didáctico y asequible al gran público, por lo que varios de sus libros han tenido un éxito de ventas impresionante, empezando por este título. Sus magníficos comentarios de treinta y tres partidas críticas, amplios, comprensibles y adaptables a todos los niveles de juego, son un prodigio de buen hacer y de didáctica estilística, tanto en el fondo como en la forma. Sigue manteniendo esta gran obra con el paso de los años, esa frescura tan grata e intemporal de Chernev, sin haber perdido ni un ápice de actualidad todos y cada uno de los comentarios que hace sobre partidas ya clásicas, pero que a la vez contienen una gran actualidad, que las hace modernas en suma”. Comentario aparecido en Hechiceros

AJEDREZ LÓGICO. Jugada a jugada (Libro+CD ROM)

Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game. It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment. Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?

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