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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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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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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. 360 pp. Biographical, historical, and practical information on chess.
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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, born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 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, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tourn...
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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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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. 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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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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Category: Chess

The Golden Dozen: The Twelve Greatest Chess Players of All Time

KingKill: A Novel [King Kill]

Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess

Child of Change: The Autobiography of Garry Kasparov

King, Queen and Knight: A Chess Anthology in Prose and Verse

Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood

Underhanded Chess: A Hilarious Handbook of Devious Diversions and Stratagems for Winning at Chess

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