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Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning (Heidelbeg Science Library, Volume 11)

By: Botvinnik, M.M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The English Universities Press, Ltd.: 1970

Seller ID: 2307290

ISBN: 0340169672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1970 Trade Paperback. xiii, 89 pp. Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. He is also a world-renowned chess player. He was born in 1911, and by 1935 had become a Grandmaster of Soviet chess. In 1948 he won the world chess championship and held the title until 1963 (except for a two-year break). His ch...
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The Great Chess Automaton

By: Carroll, Charles Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1975

Seller ID: 2307294

ISBN: 0486218821

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink note on front flyleaf. 1975 Trade Paperback. xi, 116 pp. What was it? Was it really a working chess automaton, invented some two hundred years ago? Or was it an ingenious fraud that baffled the crowned heads of Europe? It was the famous Turk, invented by Kempelen around 1770 and adapted by Maelzel in the nineteenth century. A seated figure in the form of a costumed Turk, with a chessboard before it, it played chess before the royalty of Europe... It appeared in public exhibitions over much of Europe and eventually it came to the United States, where Edgar Allan Poe wrote a f...
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The Golden Dozen: The Twelve Greatest Chess Players of All Time

By: Chernev, Irving

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2307259

ISBN: 019217536X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket and front/end matter lightly stained. 1976 Large Hardcover. 331 pp. ...describes the achievements of twelve players... Capablanca, Tal, Lasker, Alekhine, Smyslov, Fischer, Bronstein, Spassky, Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, and Petrosian.
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The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy the Chess Champion

By: Edge, Frederick Milne; Lawson, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1973

Seller ID: 2307339

ISBN: 0486228827

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1973 reissue of 1859 original. Minor general wear. xiv, 203 pp. Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial second World Chess Champion 18581860.[1] A chess prodigy, he was called The Pride and Sorrow of Chess because he had a brilliant chess career but retired from the game while still young.[2] Bobby Fischer and Viswanathan Anand ranked Morphy among the ten greatest chess players of all time,[3][4] with Fischer describing him as perhaps the most accurate player who ever l...
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100 Easy Checkmates

By: Evans, Larry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Cardoza Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 2307005

ISBN: 1580421210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 144 pp. With no chess notation, this is a great book for beginning players, especially children. These easy one and two-move checkmates are not only fun, but also great training tools. Set up for quick learning, the author presents one hundred basic mating situations in large-sized, easy-to-understand diagrams. You are asked to solve the mate, and then shown how to solve the problem using plain words. Both challenging and fun, this practical guide is great for all beginning players.
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The Psychology of the Chess Player

By: Fine, Reuben

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1967

Seller ID: 2307338

ISBN: 0486215512

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1967 reissue of 1956 original. 74 pp. With new appendix and two letters by Ernest Jones. Just what is the special ability that sets great chess players apart from other men has long been a topic of intense speculation. Unfortunately, very little scientific work has been clone on the question. The major stumbling block has been that psychologists who have worked on the question, like Binet. have not been first-rank chess players and so have not had direct access to the mental processes involved in grandmaster chess. On the other hand, chess players are not usually first-rate psychologists. Ther...
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KingKill: A Novel [King Kill]

By: Gavin, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1977

Seller ID: 2307160

ISBN: 0394498275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, May 28, 1980. To Bruce and Jean Johnson, with friendship and gratitude for your warm hospitality. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Author marginalia note on page 398. 1977 Hard Cover. x, 398 pp. Author's first novel. Paris, 1825, a hunchback chess genius sat in a cafe contemplating a Philidor end game. This starts a classic study in human obsessions. The story of 3 men and 1 woman bound together in a destructive web of hatred and love.
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The Dragon Variation

By: Glyn, Anthony

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1969

Seller ID: 2307003

ISBN: 0671204882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Minor general wear. 1969 Hard Cover. 319 pp. In many ways a travel novel, the book follows a peripatetic newspaper chess correspondent as he moves back and forth across the globe reporting on international tournaments.--jacket
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Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess

By: Golombeck, Harry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1977

Seller ID: 2307251

ISBN: 0517531461

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Jacket stained. Top page ridge stained. 1977 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 360 pp. Biographical, historical, and practical information on chess.
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Chess: A History

By: Golombeck, Harry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1976

Seller ID: 2307256

ISBN: 0399115757

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned. 1976 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. A history of the game of chess. ...illustrated with contemporary engravings, woodcuts, paintings, and photographs--in color and monochrome--as well as over 70 line drawings to clarify the many move-by-move descriptions of important games and features of play.--jacket
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Chess: Quotations from the Masters

By: Hunvald, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, The Peter Pauper Press: 1972

Seller ID: 2307061

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Surface tear on pages 24-25 which partially obscures text. 1972 Small Hard Cover. 61 pp. A collection of quotations about chess by chess masters.
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Child of Change: The Autobiography of Garry Kasparov

By: Kasparov, Garry; Trelford, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, 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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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 Adventure of Chess

By: Lasker, Edward

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1959

Seller ID: 2292082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Second revised edition. Wrappers rubbed. 1959 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 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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Chessmen

By: Mackett-Beeson, A. E. J.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Octopus Books: 1973

Seller ID: 2307257

ISBN: 070640050X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Minor general wear. 1973 Large Hardcover. 97 pp. 123 illustrations in color and black and white. The game of chess has spread throughout the world since its earliest beginnings in the Ganges Valley nearly 5,000 years ago. Craftsmen have made sets and pieces from a wide variety of different materials: boxwood, ebony, softwoods, ivory, bone, glass, precious stones, silver, gold, brass, stainless steel and plastics. This attractive book illustrates and discusses the many different chesspieces which have been made, from sets of Meissen porcela...
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How to Force Checkmate [Formerly Titled: Challenge to Chessplayers]

By: Reinfeld, Fred

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1958

Seller ID: 2307293

ISBN: 0486204391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1958 reissue of 1947 original. Ink note on front flyleaf, light general wear. 111 pp. 300 practical immediate checkmates that your opponents cannot escape, selected from master play.
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Underhanded Chess: A Hilarious Handbook of Devious Diversions and Stratagems for Winning at Chess

By: Sohl, Jerry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books: 1973

Seller ID: 2307292

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink gift note on front flyleaf, general light wear. 1973 Trade Paperback. vi, 113 pp. With tongue in cheek and laughter aforethought, Jerry Sohl takes his readers on a merry romp through all the deceits and tricks of one-upmanship as it is practiced in the game of chess. Drawing from his own experiences, he sets out in amusing detail a host of put-offs, come-ons, psychological maneuverings, lures, and frauds to accomplish checkmate. All illustrated with drawings by artist Roy Schlemme. The author's inventiveness is limitless. All kinds of ploys are carefully described: the amazi...
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