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Logical Chess: Move By Move

By: Chernev, Irving

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1966

Seller ID: 2292083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Wrappers rubbed, light crease. 1966 Trade Paperback. An examination of chess strategy focusing on the importance of every move.
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Child of Change: The Autobiography of Garry Kasparov

By: Kasparov, Garry; Trelford, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1987

Seller ID: 2301514

ISBN: 0091727227

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Board corners lightly bumped. 1987 Hard Cover. 243 pp. Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: ?????? ???????? ?????????, Russian pronunciation: [??ar?? ?k?im?v??t? k??spar?f]; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein,[2] 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.[3] From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851,[4] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being su...
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Chess Players: A Novel of New Orleans and Paris

By: Keyes, Frances Parkinson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy: 1960

Seller ID: 2303725

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club edition. Hinges just beginning to weaken, jacket flap corner clipped, jacket toned. 1960 Hard Cover. 508 pp. A historical novel set in New Orleans and Paris, and based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the game.
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King, Queen and Knight: A Chess Anthology in Prose and Verse

By: Knight, Norman; Guy, Will; Alexander, C.H. O'D.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1975

Seller ID: 2303731

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Ink name on front endpaper, fore edge faded. 1975 Hard Cover. xv, 240 pp. An anthology of passages from various works mentioning chess in both prose and verse. Includes decorations by Sydney Greenwood. The index mentions each author and work quoted, and thus serves in part as a bibliography.
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The Soviet School of Chess

By: Kotov, A.; Yudovich, M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House: 1958

Seller ID: 2297143

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. 389 pp. A classic book on chess that includes insightful game analysis, profiles of 51 great players, photographs, a history of chess in Russia, the development of chess theory and strategy, and details on how the game is studied in the Soviet School.
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The Adventure of Chess

By: Lasker, Edward

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dover: 1959

Seller ID: 2292082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Second revised edition. Wrappers rubbed. 1959 Trade Paperback. An examination of the history and fundamentals of chess.
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Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood

By: Lasker, Edward

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay: 1942

Seller ID: 2303660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small tears to jacket edges, jacket rubbed with a few minor surface tears, jacket reverse taped in multiple places. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. Chess as art and recreation; checkmating combinations, endgame play, strategic principles, more. Full details and analysis of author's famous game with Emanuel Lasker. Illustrated Maximilian Mopp.
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Fischer Spassky: The New York Times Report on the Chess Match of the Century

By: Robert, Richard; Schonberg, Harold C.; Horowitz, Al; Reshevsky, Samuel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1972

Seller ID: 2303727

ISBN: 0553076671

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. 218 pp. Includes biographies, elimination matches, special rules, the war of nerves theory, game-by-game analysis, diagrams, strategy, crisis points, commentary.
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