Botvinnik-Petrosian

Botvinnik-Petrosian

World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik writes the story of the 1963 match in which he lost his title to fellow Russian Tigran Petrosian. Botvinnik, one of the greatest chess players of all time, analyses the games, reveals his match strategy and comments on the strategic choices of his opponent. Botvinnik?s revealing essay: ?Why In lost the match? is counterbalanced by Petrosian?s analysis of his win, which is also included in this important historical document. A fascinating and highly instructive report.

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Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian (miękka okładka)

Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Okładka - miękka. Tigran Petrosian is a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defence and sacrifice, but didnt he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared, leaving only brilliance and profound chess understanding. As Garry Kasparov said: My games with the 9th World Champion broadened my understanding of chess. Had it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not

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Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian (twarda okładka)

Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Okładka - twarda. Tigran Petrosian is a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defence and sacrifice, but didnt he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared, leaving only brilliance and profound chess understanding. As Garry Kasparov said: My games with the 9th World Champion broadened my understanding of chess. Had it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not

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Tal - Botvinnik 1960: Revised and expanded 6th edition.

Tal - Botvinnik 1960: Revised and expanded 6th edition.

One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. In 1960 Mikhail Botvinnik was the pillar of 'scientific' chess and the ironwilled champion of the world. The young attacking genius Mihail Tal, the 'Wizard of Riga', put the magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik with spectacular tactics in one of the most dramatic and celebrated world championship matches of all time. This is Tal's own classic work on the contest. In it he sets the stage and explains every one of the 21 g

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Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian

Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Okładka - miękka. Tigran Petrosianis a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defence and sacrifice, but didnt he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared, leaving only brilliance and profound chess understanding. As Garry Kasparov said: My games with the 9th World Champion broadened my understanding of chess. Had it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not h

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Python Strategy (hardcover) by Tigran Petrosian

Python Strategy (hardcover) by Tigran Petrosian

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Okładka - twarda. Tigran Petrosianis a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defence and sacrifice, but didnt he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared, leaving only brilliance and profound chess understanding. As Garry Kasparov said: My games with the 9th World Champion broadened my understanding of chess. Had it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not h

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The World Champions I Knew: With a foreword by Garry Kasparov

The World Champions I Knew: With a foreword by Garry Kasparov

At the time Botvinnik was the personification of chess in the Soviet Union – river: Volga,  poet: Mayakovsky, goalkeeper: Yashin, chess player: Botvinnik. And suddenly – a kid with a name as short as a gunshot: Tal!   Genna Sosonkos riveting portrait of Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga who to this day mesmerizes chess fans all over the world, bears all the hallmarks of the authors inimitable writing. Few – if any – knew Misha as well as his good friend and training partner. Here you see the real

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José Raúl Capablanca: 3rd World Champion

José Raúl Capablanca: 3rd World Champion

The World Chess Champion Series The name of José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942), the third world champion, is indelibly inscribed in the annals of chess history.  Capablancas technique, intuition, remarkably quick calculation, and sense for elegant combinations made him the paragon of grandmasters during his lifetime.  At the peak of his career Capablanca was almost invincible; each of his losses was regarded as a sensation. His books, articles, and lucid annotations became instant classics. As a sta

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The Hague-Moscow 1948: Match/Tournament for the World Chess Championship

The Hague-Moscow 1948: Match/Tournament for the World Chess Championship

At the Crossroads of Chess History   On March 24, 1946, the fourth world chess champion, Alexander Alekhine, passed away. He was the first – and still the only – champion to die while holding the title. To select a new champion, a powerful quintuple round-robin was held in The Hague and Moscow. The five strongest players of the era, including one former world champion, two future world champions, and two perennial contenders, took part in a grueling two-month, 25-round tournament.  From the Foreword b

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Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion by Tibor Karolyi

Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion by Tibor Karolyi

Wersja w miękkiej okładce. Książka wydana w jęz. angielskim In this, the second of three volumes, award-winning author Tibor Károlyi continues his groundbreaking exploration of Tals sparkling career. Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated chess players of all time, and in 1960 he demolished Botvinnik to become the youngest ever World Champion at the time, at the age of twenty-three. This book examines some of the golden years of Tals career, from 1960 to 1971. Despite losing his world title in a retu

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Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion by Tibor Karolyi (miękka okładka)

Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion by Tibor Karolyi (miękka okładka)

Wersja w miękkiej okładce. Książka wydana w jęz. angielskim In this, the second of three volumes, award-winning author Tibor Károlyi continues his groundbreaking exploration of Tals sparkling career. Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated chess players of all time, and in 1960 he demolished Botvinnik to become the youngest ever World Champion at the time, at the age of twenty-three. This book examines some of the golden years of Tals career, from 1960 to 1971. Despite losing his world title in a retu

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New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine

In issue 2018#2 you will find 108 pages of the best in chess with Carlsen, Kasparov, Aronian, Kramnik, Fischer and many others Carlsen sets record with 6th win The 80th Tata Steel Chess ­Tournament in Wijk aan Zee ended with a blitz playoff between Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri. The World Champion tends to win playoffs. Always. And this one was no exception.   Levon Aronian wins Gibraltar In his first appearance in an Open in more than a decade, Levon Aronian won the play-offs of the Tradewise Gibral

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Questions of Modern Chess Theory by Isaac Lipnitsky (miękka okładka)

Questions of Modern Chess Theory by Isaac Lipnitsky (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a 2-time Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it is one of the most influential chess books of the 20th century, yet it was never published in English. Isaac Lipnitsky was a major player on the Soviet chess scene just after World War Two, strong enough to take the scalps of Keres, Smyslov and Petrosian. He would no

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Russian Silhouettes: New Enlarged Edition

Russian Silhouettes: New Enlarged Edition

The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end of a unique chapter in the history of chess. With hindsight we can only marvel at the pivotal place the royal game occupied in the biggest country in the world. Originally embraced by Lenin as gymnastics of the mind, chess developed into an ideological weapon during the Cold War. Supported by the Soviet leadership, chess champions, from Mikhail Botvinnik on, grew into symbols of socialist excellence. As a respected trainer who became a world-class grand

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Bobby Fischer PAPERBACK

Bobby Fischer PAPERBACK

CHESS Magazine: One of the Best Books of 2009  The Ultimate Fischer Collection! 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 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 Soviet hegemony. Then, in the mid-1950s, a lo

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The Chess Alchemist by Mikhail Tal (twarda okładka)

The Chess Alchemist by Mikhail Tal (twarda okładka)

Książka w angielskiej wersji językowej, twarda okładka.   Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, who confounded his opponents and dazzled chess fans around the world. Seemingly breaking every rule in the book, yet also breaking records with his accomplishments, Tal truly was The Chess Alchemist. In this unique book, Oleg Stetsko has compiled 80 of Tals most interesting games, as annotated by the Magician himself in a variety of sources, many of which have been tra

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