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Clear, straightforward guide by noted expert coaches readers through fundamentals of attacking and positional play, as well as how to approach the endgame. Crucial processes of assessing positions and choosing moves are examined in depth; also, how to cope with difficult positions and time-trouble. 384 diagrams.
Drawing on new research, this biography of William Steinitz
(1836-1900), the first World Chess Champion, covers his early life
and career, with a fully-sourced collection of his known games
until he left London in 1882. A portrait of mid-Victorian British
chess is provided, including a history of the famous Simpson's
Divan. Born to a poor Jewish family in Prague, Steinitz studied in
Vienna, where his career really began, before moving to London in
1862, bent on conquering the chess world. During the next 20 years,
he became its strongest and most innovative player, as well as an
influential writer on the game. A foreigner with a quarrelsome
nature, he suffered mockery and discrimination from British amateur
players and journalists, which eventually drove him to immigrate to
America. The final chapters cover his subsequent visits to England
and the last three tournaments he played there.
This highly topical and relevant book for parents will help with
raising not only life long learners, but children with long and
happy learned lives.Young people are entering a world that requires
more than straight 'A's (if it ever did) and yearns for the well
rounded, multiple intelligent, creative and mature individual that
can manage change and complexity without getting upset, petulant
and stomping off in a huff. The focus in this informative,
entertaining and ultimately practical book is very straight
forward: to provide parents with practical skills, based on solid
research, to assist their children to become, not only life long
learners, but live a long and happy learned life.
A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom
before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in
Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive
market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to
expert. The author combines new information about the early history
of the game with advice for researchers into chess history and
traces the further development of chess literature well into the
20th century. Topics include today's leading chess libraries and
the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Special
attention is given to the columns that appeared in newspapers
(national and provincial) and magazines from 1813 onwards. These
articles, usually weekly, provide a wealth of information on early
chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere. The lengthy
first appendix, an A to Z of almost 600 chess columns, constitutes
a detailed research aid. Other appendices include corrections and
supplements to standard works of reference on chess.
Exploring a bygone aspect of intellectual sport, this book details
the history of British and Irish correspondence chess from the
first formal match between Edinburgh and London in 1824 through the
1980s, the most successful period in British correspondence chess.
It traces the development of postal chess, including the growth of
regional and national chess associations after World War I; the
dawn of game-changing technologies such as telegraphs, the
telephone, radio, and fax machines; the earliest transatlantic
matches between the U.S. and the U.K.; the founding of the
International Correspondence Chess Association in 1945; and the
breaking of the Soviet monopoly on the world team championship in
1982, the final act of the joint Great Britain team before Scotland
and Wales obtained separate membership in the International
Correspondence Chess Federation. Appendices list tournament
champions; I.C.C.F. title holders; known club matches; and excerpts
from rules and other primary documents.
During a career spanning more than 50 years, J. H. Blackburne
(1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several
international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world's
top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his
livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other
countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished
his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game
without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for
such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously,
and he continued to perform “blindfold” into his sixties. This
first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of
the early 20th century presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's
games chronologically, including all his surviving games from
serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are
masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive
endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are
fully explored.
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