Author: Graeme Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857443097
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Are you realizing your chess potential? Are you performing to the best of your capabilities? Find out in this book! Using instructive chess games, International Master Graeme Buckley repeatedly poses the question "What would you do here?" the reader is invited to step into a Grandmaster's shoes, work out all the relevant tactics and strategies of the game and select a move out of a possible four choices. A scoring system has been devised which can assess your playing strength according to the answers you give. This book is written by an experienced chess teacher and each instructive game has been carefully selected. It is a sure way to increase your playing strength.
Multiple Choice Chess II
Author: Graeme Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857443097
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Are you realizing your chess potential? Are you performing to the best of your capabilities? Find out in this book! Using instructive chess games, International Master Graeme Buckley repeatedly poses the question "What would you do here?" the reader is invited to step into a Grandmaster's shoes, work out all the relevant tactics and strategies of the game and select a move out of a possible four choices. A scoring system has been devised which can assess your playing strength according to the answers you give. This book is written by an experienced chess teacher and each instructive game has been carefully selected. It is a sure way to increase your playing strength.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857443097
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Are you realizing your chess potential? Are you performing to the best of your capabilities? Find out in this book! Using instructive chess games, International Master Graeme Buckley repeatedly poses the question "What would you do here?" the reader is invited to step into a Grandmaster's shoes, work out all the relevant tactics and strategies of the game and select a move out of a possible four choices. A scoring system has been devised which can assess your playing strength according to the answers you give. This book is written by an experienced chess teacher and each instructive game has been carefully selected. It is a sure way to increase your playing strength.
Chess Choice Challenge 3
Author: Chris Ward
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780713488661
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Three’s a charm: chess players have demanded, and now they have, a third Chess Choice Challenge. Once again, they can enjoy a bundle of tricky and varied chess positions and test their analytical abilities. Innovative multiple-choice questions direct chess mavens’ attention to different facets of each position and identify the typical train of thought (both correct and incorrect) followed by many players. There is also a range of suggested continuations for identifying strengths and weaknesses. And, after racking their brains to come up with answers, players can then compare their findings with those of Grandmaster Chris Ward, who offers deep and imaginative analysis of the solutions.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780713488661
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Three’s a charm: chess players have demanded, and now they have, a third Chess Choice Challenge. Once again, they can enjoy a bundle of tricky and varied chess positions and test their analytical abilities. Innovative multiple-choice questions direct chess mavens’ attention to different facets of each position and identify the typical train of thought (both correct and incorrect) followed by many players. There is also a range of suggested continuations for identifying strengths and weaknesses. And, after racking their brains to come up with answers, players can then compare their findings with those of Grandmaster Chris Ward, who offers deep and imaginative analysis of the solutions.
United States Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess, Fifth Edition
Author: United States Chess Federation
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 0812935594
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 0812935594
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.
Play the Open Games as Black
Author: John Emms
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book fills a gaping chasm in chess literature. For years, those who wish to take on the black side of the Ruy Lopez have had to muddle their way through against the variety of alternative openings at White's disposal, because there have been no good books to assist them. This is a detailed guide, written from Black's viewpoint, to facing such openings as the King's Gambit, Vienna, Scotch, Four Knights, Italian Game, Bishop's opening, and the variety of oddball gambits White can try.
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book fills a gaping chasm in chess literature. For years, those who wish to take on the black side of the Ruy Lopez have had to muddle their way through against the variety of alternative openings at White's disposal, because there have been no good books to assist them. This is a detailed guide, written from Black's viewpoint, to facing such openings as the King's Gambit, Vienna, Scotch, Four Knights, Italian Game, Bishop's opening, and the variety of oddball gambits White can try.
Computers and Games
Author: Jonathan Schaeffer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540400311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Computers and Games (CG) series began in 1998 with the objective of showcasing new developments in arti?cial intelligence (AI) research that used games as the experimental test-bed. The ?rst two CG conferences were held at Hamamatsu,Japan(1998,2000).ComputersandGames2002(CG2002)wasthe third event in this biennial series. The conference was held at the University of Alberta(Edmonton,Alberta,Canada),July25–27,2002.Theprogramconsisted of the main conference featuring refereed papers and keynote speakers, as well as several side events including the Games Informatics Workshop, the Agents in Computer Games Workshop, the Trading Agents Competition, and the North American Computer Go Championship. CG 2002 attracted 110 participants from over a dozen countries. Part of the successoftheconferencewasthatitwasco-locatedwiththeNationalConference of the American Association for Arti?cial Intelligence (AAAI), which began in Edmonton just as CG 2002 ended. The CG 2002 program had 27 refereed paper presentations. The papers ranged over a wide variety of AI-related topics including search, knowledge, learning, planning, and combinatorial game theory. Research test-beds included one-player games (blackjack, sliding-tile puzzles, Sokoban), two-player games (Amazons, awari, chess, Chinese chess, clobber, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, O- ello, shogi), multi-player games (Chinese checkers, cribbage, Diplomacy, hearts, spades), commercial games (role-playing games, real-time strategy games), and novel applications (Post’s Correspondence Problem).
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540400311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Computers and Games (CG) series began in 1998 with the objective of showcasing new developments in arti?cial intelligence (AI) research that used games as the experimental test-bed. The ?rst two CG conferences were held at Hamamatsu,Japan(1998,2000).ComputersandGames2002(CG2002)wasthe third event in this biennial series. The conference was held at the University of Alberta(Edmonton,Alberta,Canada),July25–27,2002.Theprogramconsisted of the main conference featuring refereed papers and keynote speakers, as well as several side events including the Games Informatics Workshop, the Agents in Computer Games Workshop, the Trading Agents Competition, and the North American Computer Go Championship. CG 2002 attracted 110 participants from over a dozen countries. Part of the successoftheconferencewasthatitwasco-locatedwiththeNationalConference of the American Association for Arti?cial Intelligence (AAAI), which began in Edmonton just as CG 2002 ended. The CG 2002 program had 27 refereed paper presentations. The papers ranged over a wide variety of AI-related topics including search, knowledge, learning, planning, and combinatorial game theory. Research test-beds included one-player games (blackjack, sliding-tile puzzles, Sokoban), two-player games (Amazons, awari, chess, Chinese chess, clobber, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, O- ello, shogi), multi-player games (Chinese checkers, cribbage, Diplomacy, hearts, spades), commercial games (role-playing games, real-time strategy games), and novel applications (Post’s Correspondence Problem).
Chess Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A Primer of Chess
Author: José R. Capablanca
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156028073
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A basic manual of chess by the master José Raul Capablanca, regarded as one of the half dozen greatest players ever. Capablanca was noted especially for his technical mastery, and in this book he explains the fundamentals as no one else could. Diagrams.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156028073
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A basic manual of chess by the master José Raul Capablanca, regarded as one of the half dozen greatest players ever. Capablanca was noted especially for his technical mastery, and in this book he explains the fundamentals as no one else could. Diagrams.
ICCF Gold
Author: International Correspondence Chess Federation
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN: 9780954375201
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN: 9780954375201
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
My Chess Career
Author: José Raúl Capablanca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Art of Learning
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743277465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743277465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.