Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
H.O.T. Chess
Author: Paul MotwaniPublisher:
ISBN: 9781879479432
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The British Chess Magazine
Author: American Chess Bulletin
Author: Hartwig CassellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Chess Rook Check Mates Anthology@.
Author: Grigoriy BurtayevPublisher: Grigoriy Burtayev
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 1755
Book Description
Chess Rook Check Mates Anthology@. AWARDCHESS Chess Academy@pdf games. 431 pages. By Grigoriy Burtayev - AWARDCHESS@. All examples are from the pgn. games of the AWARDCHESS - Chess Coach Grigoriy Burtayev Chess Champ /Tournament Point Leader/, at the Tournament Point Leader-board, at www.chess.com, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All Time Tournament Point Leader, at www.chess.com 2008-2015-…
The Chess Artist
Author: J. C. HallmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466852232
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history. In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible allegations of his involvement in drug running, embezzlement, and murder, the impoverished Kalmykian people have rallied around their leader's obsession---chess is played on Kalmykian prime-time television and is compulsory in Kalmykian schools. In addition, Kalmyk women have been known to alter their traditional costumes of pillbox hats and satin gowns to include chessboard-patterned sashes. The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities, writer and chess enthusiast J. C. Hallman explores the obsessive hold chess exerts on its followers by examining the history and evolution of the game and the people who dedicate their lives to it. Together with his friend Glenn Umstead, an African-American chessmaster who is arguably as chess obsessed as Ilyumzhinov, Hallman tours New York City's legendary chess district, crashes a Princeton Math Department game party, challenges a convicted murderer to a chess match in prison, and travels to Kalmykia, where they are confronted with members of the Russian intelligence service, beautiful translators who may be spies, seven-year-old chess prodigies, and the sad blight of a land struggling toward capitalism.
Strange Energy
Author: Benjamin J. MyersPublisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444000357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Time is running out. Chess and her brothers, Box and Splinter, are caught in a bitter struggle between two ruthless organizations. Now they face a terrifying choice - carry out a dangerous mission for the Committee, or try to outrun the evil Twisted Symmetry alone. Chess wants to take the mission. But it could prove fatal. And it will lead the Tuesdays into the heart of the very organization that is hunting them . . .
Mating Game
Author: Jovanka HouskaPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783019824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny's hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte's life.Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York... and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat... even if you've never shouted'Checkmate!'
American Cookery
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics
Author: Janet McKenzie HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Tactics of Conquest
Author: Barry N. MalzbergPublisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"You mean we're truly going to play for the fate of the Universe?" "Exactly," the Overlord said, "a forty-one game chess match to be broadcast throughout all civilized sectors of your Universe so that everyone can witness it." "But why chess? Why me? Why this planet?" "Because chess is ideal for such a final judgement; it is a methodical game with absolutely no element of luck, and therefore there can be no complaints by the loser. Chess is known only to your plant, and you and your opponent are the most evenly matched living players. Good against evil. No other chess players are so close in true potential abilities. There is no other reason."
