Chess has been played for more than 1,500 years and is played in every country in the world. Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of its enduring appeal. What, he asks,
Chess is played on every continent and by several hundred million people. It’s the most popular board game in the world, and people of all ages love to play! InChess: Be the King!, you’ll start by lea
Learn to take the king like a pro!Whether you've played a few matches or are completely new to the game, How to Beat Anyone at Chess helps you master leading strategies for one of the hardest games ou
Whether your chess career culminated in grandmaster status, or ended (repeatedly) in your or your brother’s hurling the board and pieces across the living room, nearly all of us learned to play the ga
"This is a continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works listing the results of men's chess competitions all over the world, this book covers 1971 through 1974. Compiled from
"This continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. The present volume covers 1978 through 1980. This work c
"This continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. The present volume covers 1975 through 1977. This work c
This comprehensive rulebook is the only guide sanctioned and compiled by the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF), the governing body for chess in the United States. It is designed to be a useful reference fo
"This is a continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works listing the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. The present volume covers 1968 through 1970. Entr
"Emil Kemeny appeared on the American chess scene in 1890, a Hungarian chess player on the Lower East Side who had difficulty with English. Within a decade he was considered one of the country's fines
"This is a continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works listing the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. The present volume covers 1964 through 1967. Entr
"This is a continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. The present volume covers 1961 through 1963. Entries
This collection of the games, most of them annotated, features the United States Chess Federation's premiere invitational tournament--the Absolute Championship. Features include statistical results of
Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a te
Charting a middle course between breadth and depth, historians and literature scholars present some of the wide chronological, geographical, cultural, and institutional parameters within which chess o
Chess is 99% tactics! This well-known maxim may sound strange but is really just an exaggerated basic truth: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. Solving man
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more c
