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Looking for trouble : recognizing and meeting threats in chess
This book is written to address an underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats. For beginning and intermediate level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost every book on tactics takes the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate, or draw. However Looking for Trouble - now in a revised and enlarged second edition - takes a different tack. It helps you to recognize threats by providing over 300 problems in which you focus on identifying and meeting threats in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The author's clear explanations are presented in a madder that should greatly benefit players of all levels.
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Counterplay
\"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug,\" writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new \"anthropology of passion.\" Immersing us directly in chess's intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.
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Chess strategy for the tournament player
Offers practical, game-winning strategic techniques, with each idea explained and illustrated using games chosen for their instructive clarity.
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Across the Board
Across the Boardis the definitive work on chessboard problems. It is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself--that simple grid of squares so common to games around the world. And, more importantly, the fascinating mathematics behind it. From the Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination to their many variations, John Watkins surveys all the well-known problems in this surprisingly fertile area of recreational mathematics. Can a knight follow a path that covers every square once, ending on the starting square? How many queens are needed so that every square is targeted or occupied by one of the queens?
Each main topic is treated in depth from its historical conception through to its status today. Many beautiful solutions have emerged for basic chessboard problems since mathematicians first began working on them in earnest over three centuries ago, but such problems, including those involving polyominoes, have now been extended to three-dimensional chessboards and even chessboards on unusual surfaces such as toruses (the equivalent of playing chess on a doughnut) and cylinders. Using the highly visual language of graph theory, Watkins gently guides the reader to the forefront of current research in mathematics. By solving some of the many exercises sprinkled throughout, the reader can share fully in the excitement of discovery.
Showing that chess puzzles are the starting point for important mathematical ideas that have resonated for centuries,Across the Boardwill captivate students and instructors, mathematicians, chess enthusiasts, and puzzle devotees.
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Thought and choice in chess
No detailed description available for \"Thought and Choice in Chess\".
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