My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486249417 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Learn Chess from One of the Greats Brian A. Powell This is a wonderful collection of games from the legendary world champion. Aleknine sheds light on all phases of the game: opening, middlegame, and endgame. His unsurpassed combinative ability is on display together with the positional thinking and combative attitude that made him a winner with an attacking style.I am a hobby type player and found the annotations far easier to understand than any other game collection. This book really helped me improve by showing that one can recover from poor moves in the opening or even m. Great Book Blaze Jericho First to warn the frail minded about the notation in this book If you can't deal with descriptive notation than beware of this :) Still even if you can't figure out what the moves mean Just reading the book is rather interesting, also its 2 books in 1 The price is rather affordable for just about anyone The writing style is rather easy to follow and at times give the reader insight into what his thoughts were I know many say he had ties to certain people and all this This book is about his chess and mostly what he did at the. David J. Friedlander said Essential For Chess Lovers. Much has already been said about how indespensible this book is - actually two volumes in one. The price is amazingconsider how much a movie costs for a couple of hours of entertainment. This book can do that for you 150 times! Each game will take you on a journey of chess learning and possibilites. Alekhine's annotations are unsurpassed in his lifetime. I like to play the games on Fritz and watch the evaluations and rarely does anyone always pick the best move once they have the advantage. Always a "Essential For Chess Lovers" according to David J. Friedlander. Much has already been said about how indespensible this book is - actually two volumes in one. The price is amazingconsider how much a movie costs for a couple of hours of entertainment. This book can do that for you 150 times! Each game will take you on a journey of chess learning and possibilites. Alekhine's annotations are unsurpassed in his lifetime. I like to play the games on Fritz and watch the evaluations and rarely does anyone always pick the best move once they have the advantage. Always a 2nd or Essential For Chess Lovers Much has already been said about how indespensible this book is - actually two volumes in one. The price is amazingconsider how much a movie costs for a couple of hours of entertainment. This book can do that for you 150 times! Each game will take you on a journey of chess learning and possibilites. Alekhine's annotations are unsurpassed in his lifetime. I like to play the games on Fritz and watch the evaluations and rarely does anyone always pick the best move once they have the advantage. Always a 2nd or 3rd best move will. rd best move will. nd or Essential For Chess Lovers Much has already been said about how indespensible this book is - actually two volumes in one. The price is amazingconsider how much a movie costs for a couple of hours of entertainment. This book can do that for you 150 times! Each game will take you on a journey of chess learning and possibilites. Alekhine's annotations are unsurpassed in his lifetime. I like to play the games on Fritz and watch the evaluations and rarely does anyone always pick the best move once they have the advantage. Always a 2nd or 3rd best move will. rd best move will
This volume belongs in the library of every serious student of the game.. World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or five greatest players in chess history. As Bobby Fischer observes in his writings, “He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.”This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine’s 220 best games, his own personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. At San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931, in competitions that featured many of the world’s greatest players, Alekhine so outdistanced the field that he was indisputably in a class by himself. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe, and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his brilliant ascent to world
As a chess writer, his books included the tournament books of New York 1924 and Nottingham 1936, both considered classics. He briefly lost the title to the Dutchman Max Euwe in 1935, but won it back in 1937. . He became world champion in 1927, defeating Jose Capablanca in a match in Buenos Aires. He rose
He briefly lost the title to the Dutchman Max Euwe in 1935, but won it back in 1937. As a chess writer, his books included the tournament books of New York 1924 and Nottingham 1936, both considered classics. He died in Portugal in 1946 while still holding the title. . He became world champion in 1927, defeating Jose Capablanca in a match in Buenos Aires. He rose quickly through the ranks of the chess world and by 1922 he ranked among the top three or four in the world. About the Author Alexander Alekhine, the 4th world chess champion, was born in Moscow in 1892