Grandmaster

Author : David Klass
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374327777
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandmaster written by David Klass and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshman Daniel Pratzer gets a chance to prove himself when the chess team invites him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament. Daniel, thinking that his father is a novice, can't understand why his teammates want so badly for them to participate. Then he finds out the truth: as a teen, his father was one of the most promising young players in America, but the pressures of the game pushed him too far, and he had to give up chess to save his own life and sanity. Now, thirty years later, Mr. Pratzer returns to the game to face down an old competitor and the same dark demons that lurk in the corners of a mind stretched by the demands of the game. Daniel was looking for acceptance—but the secrets he uncovers about his father will force him to make some surprising moves himself, in Grandmaster by David Klass.

Author : A.A. Kotov
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849940533
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think Like a Grandmaster written by A.A. Kotov and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.

Author : Warren Murphy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765311607
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandmaster written by Warren Murphy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America present Grandmaster by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original in 1985. Two men, born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, driven to oppose each other--for only one man may be the Grandmaster. Justin Gilead and Alexander Zharkov, two men driven by powerful forces they can neither understand nor deny--driven to fight each other in a battle for power that only one of them may win. Gilead, a magnificent athlete, an American, a genius, and a spy. Zharkov, a master strategist, head of the feared secret service agency, Nichevo, a determined, ambitious man. They first meet as ten-year-old chess prodigies-both lonely, both meaning to win, both born under the magical sign of the gold coiled serpent. They will come to know the uses of pleasure, the secrets of pain, the impact of evil turned upon itself. They will understand the deadly forces that grip the world in swift violence, sudden death. And they will finally know that only one man may be the Grandmaster. Grandmaster is an extraordinary tale of spymasters and assassins, murder and intrigue played against a background of Far Eastern mysticism from Moscow to Washington, from Havana to Tibet.

Author : Brin-Jonathan Butler
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501172611
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grandmaster written by Brin-Jonathan Butler and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bravura performance…An entertaining book” (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport. The first week of November 2016, hundreds of people descended on New York City’s South Street Seaport to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin. By the time it was over would be front-page news and thought by many the greatest finish in chess history. With both Carlsen and Karjakin just twenty-five years old, it was the first time the championship had been waged among those who grew up playing chess against computers. Originally from Crimea, Karjakin had recently repatriated to Russia under the direct assistance of Putin. Carlsen, meanwhile, had expressed admiration for Donald Trump, and the first move of the tournament he played was called a Trompowsky Attack. Then there was the Russian leader of the World Chess Federation being barred from attending due to US sanctions, and chess fanatic and Trump adviser Peter Thiel being called on to make the honorary first move in sudden death. That the tournament even required sudden death was a shock. Oddsmakers had given Carlsen, the defending champion, an eighty percent chance of winning. It would take everything he had to retain his title. Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament and watched every move. The Grandmaster “is not the usual chronicle of a world-championship chess match….Butler offers insight into what it takes to become the best chess player on the planet...A vibrant and provocative look at chess and its metaphorical battle for territory and power” (Booklist).

Author : David Klass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484467251
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandmaster written by David Klass and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invited to a parent-child weekend chess tournament, freshman Daniel discovers that his father was once one of the country's leading young players but that the intense competition surrounding the game proved to be unhealthy, a past they are forced to

Author : A.A. Kotov
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 184994170X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Like a Grandmaster written by A.A. Kotov and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Kotov's trilogy, of which this is the second volume and now available in digital format for the first time, marks a landmark in chess literature. For the first time, a leading player managed to tackle the important elements of chess mastery in a methodical way which all chess players could understand, spiced with insight and colourful observation. Furthermore, his ideas and approach are as relevant to players today as they were when the books were first published. Alexander Kotov was one of the strongest players of the immediate post-war period, twice reaching the Candidates stage of the World Championship. He was also one of the leading Soviet trainers but is primarily remembered for his trilogy of classic works on chess coaching, of which Think Like a Grandmaster, one of the best-selling chess books of all time, was the first volume, and Play Like a Grandmaster the second.

Author : Lev Polugaevskiĭ
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781857440492
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandmaster Achievement written by Lev Polugaevskiĭ and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Rowson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 152660387X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moves That Matter: a Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life written by Jonathan Rowson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philosopher have given him a unique perspective on why the great game is more important than ever for understanding the conflicts and uncertainties of the modern world. In sixty-four witty and addictive vignettes, Rowson takes us on an exhilarating tour of the game of life, from the psychology of gang violence, to the aesthetics of cyborgs, the beauty of technical details, and the endgame of death. Chess emerges as a singularly powerful metaphor for the thrills and set-backs that invest our daily lives with meaning and complexity.

Author : Jurgen Kaufeld
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056915320
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandmaster Chess Strategy written by Jurgen Kaufeld and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings. Kaufeld and Kern have selected 80 of Andersson’s games and grouped them into 15 thematic strategy lessons, pinpointing exactly how the Swede made the difference in each case. Their instructive verbal explanations will improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling. Every chess player knows how difficult it can be to convert an advantage into a win. Positional technique is what you need and Grandmaster Chess Strategy teaches you exactly that. Throughout the book the authors have selected dozens of test positions at particularly instructive stages of the games.

Author : John Nunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Grandmaster Chess written by John Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: