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Robert Irons
Capablanca's Dazzling Debut
The international tournament held in San Sebastian, Spain in 1911 is one of the legendary chess tournaments of all time. Of the top ten players in the…
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Andy Soltis
By the time the greatest tournament in chess history has only five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for…
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Little has been written about world chess champion from 1948 to 1963 Mikhail Botvinnik. This book explores his dual career - as a highly regarded scientist and the first truly…
How does one determine the best chess games? Brought together by the use of criteria such as the overall aesthetics; the originality; the level of opposition; the soundness, accuracy, and…
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Frank Marshall (1877-1944) reigned as America’s chess champion from 1907 through 1936–the longest stint of anyone in history. A colorful character almost always decked out in an ascot and chewing…
The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest - of players, games, matches, tournaments, books and ideas…
This thoroughly updated and revised edition provides a definitive history of all championship events in the United States to April, 2011. Both the games and the occasions are covered in…
Andrew Soltis,Andy Soltis
Do masters methodically cut their way through the branches of a tree of analysis? Is it true that attacking players calculate a dozen moves ahead, while positional specialists rely on…
Andrew Soltis offers plenty of practical tips and advice for players of all strengths of when you should and should not exchange pieces.
Bobby Fischer
A Look into Bobby’s Mind
From December 1966 until January 1970, Bobby Fischer wrote a chess column for Boys’ Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. Now…
A Zeal to Understand
I do not accept an absolute limit to my knowledge. I have a zeal to understand that refuses to die. – Emanuel Lasker, 1919
Among great…
Taylor Kingston
One of Caissa’s Brightest Stars!
Mention the name Colle and many if not most chessplayers think about an opening that is both easy to play as well as one with…
Robert Sherwood
Marshall’s Brilliant Victory
In the spring of 1904, most of the chess world’s elite gathered in the sleepy northwestern Pennsylvania town of Cambridge Springs, where the first great tournament of…
Lenny Cavallaro
A Strange Enigma Is the Chess World
The origins of the Royal Game go back centuries. And throughout its diverse and multi-faceted history, controversies and mysteries have arisen. Some have…
Wilhelm Steinitz
THE BRILLIANT ORIGINALITY OF STEINITZ
More than 125 years ago, one of the first great chess books appeared. The Modern Chess Instructor, Part I, written by then world champion Wilhelm…
Isaak Linder,Vladimir Linder
The Gentleman Champion
The fifth book of the World Chess Champions series focuses on the life and career of the Dutchman Max Euwe. This soft-spoken professor of mathematics rocked the…
The Patriarch of Soviet Chess
From the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, one man towered above all other chessplayers. That was the sixth world chess champion, Mikhail Botvinnik. His calm…
The ChessCafe World Chess Champions Series Emanuel Lasker was a great chess fighter, thinker and researcher. He was possessed of gigantic playing strength, retaining the title of Worlds Number One…
Raymond Keene, OBE,Andy Soltis,Edmar Mednis,Jack Peters,Julio Kaplan
Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik…
