andrew soltis andy (12 risultati)

Paper Back. Condizione: Very Good. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 227+[1 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Chess is supposed to be fun. Here then is a king's treasure of insiders' chess stories, unusual problems and annotated games, dedicated to that proposition. The reader will find tales of famous grandmasters who were two-fisted drinkers, of a threatened queen leading to a fight and a broken rib, of police interrogations of a world chess champion because he was receiving post cards from Russia carrying code like notations. Condition. Light edge wear with bumped, rubbed and creased corners else very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 121 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. GM Soltis: "If white gets to attack in the Sicilian Defense anyway, why should he offer a pawn or two for the privilege? The answer is that black gets to counterplay in the Sicilian and his counterplay is usually as good as white's. That, in fact, is what makes the Sicilian popular. There are plenty of familiar Sicilian gambits(like the Smith Morra and Wing, which this book doesn't even cover). But in the last few years, a number of new ideas arising out of positional variations, have been discovered and found to pack a wallop for white". Here are six new white gambits against the Sicilian that the reader will have to attempt to destroy black! Condition: Light edge wear else near fine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 42 pages with diagrams. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This opening system pamphlet (using the English Opening) has practical aim of acquainting a player with the theoretical equipment he may need to Play 1P-QB4 in serious chess. The accent is placed on learning a simple developing plan to counter each different formation of an opponent's (Black) pieces. The many transpositional - especially rich in the English Opening - are vital to the serious player. Condition: Soiled, edge wear, corners bumped else about very good.

Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 49 pages with diagrams. Octavo ( 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers. First edition. Condition: Some sunning to wrappers, edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiv+262 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A guide to improving bad positions-and avoiding the common mistakes that lead to bad positions. The Art of Defense in Chess analyzes the practical aspects of your not having the advantage. Andrew Soltis is an International Chess Grandmaster & chess columnist. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper. Jacket with edge wear and closed tears, spine ends and corners chipped with creases, price clipped else very good in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 227 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards with faux gilt signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Even if Bobby Fischer did fall asleep in his game with Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier, chess is no sedate sport. Here are stories of famous grandmasters who were two-fisted drinkers, of a threatened queen leading to a fist-fight and a broken rib, and a chubby young Czech champion falling out of his chair. Condition: back head edge bumped and lightly chipped. Jacket spine head chipped else very good in like jacket.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2009 Trade Paperback. 408 pp. The years after the Second World War saw international chess dominated by the Soviets Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and then Spassky held the world crown, treating it as if it were almost an integral part of their country s heritage. There were occasional flashes of brilliance in the West Reshevsky, Najdorf, and later Larsen but no one really mounted a serious challenge to the Russian hegemony. Then, in the mid-1950s, a lone genius from Brooklyn emerged. Obsessed with chess, all his waking hours became devoted to finding truth on the 64 squares. It was an unrelenting, sometimes frustrating quest, but he persevered, eventually emerging as perhaps the greatest natural chess talent ever. It was clear from his early years as a gifted prodigy through his stormy ascent of the Chess Olympus, no one had ever rocked the chess world quite like Bobby Fischer. His raw genius for the royal game, combined with an indefatigable will to win, made him one of the most feared chessplayers of all time a genuine living legend. Now, for the first time, every single one of his tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Best-selling chess author, German International Grandmaster Karsten Muller, annotates each game of the player many believe to be the greatest of all time. All 736 serious tournament games are supplemented by crosstables of every major tournament and match in which Fischer participated, dozens of archival photographs, along with brief comments and observations putting the play of the great champion into historical perspective.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine +. First Edition. "A king's treasury of chess stories and unusual games and problems of budding masters, sideline kibitzers, and rainy-Sunday-afternoon beginners." - sub-title. Cute dedication: "To Marcy, without whom this book would have been finished six months ago." Much text and a nice selection of lightly annotated games. Descriptive chess notation. Diagrams. Index. of Players. 227 pages. When I bought the book years ago, it had a mylar book jacket cover installed. The book has neither wear nor defects. The lettering is as bright as the day the book was published. No owners' marks. The book will be sent to you well packed in a box.

8°, OKarton, Broschiert. 320 Seiten Einband mit leichten Lagerspuren, sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 472.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1976 First Edition published by David McKay Company, Inc. (New York). Original dust jacket included. DJ has some ever so slight shelf wear. Book itself is pristine and like new. (BR) Box 69.