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  • Mikhail Botvinnik
    Andy Soltis
    The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Jos...
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    73,35 €

  • The United States Chess Championship, 1845-2011, 3d ed.
    Andy Soltis
    This thoroughly updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed 1986 reference work provides a definitive history of all championship events in the United States through April, 2011. Both the games and the occasions are covered in depth, including biographical details, descriptive settings, anecdotes, tournament drama, unusual games, and grandmaster analysis. Included in th...
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    51,54 €

  • Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense
    Andy Soltis / Edmar Mednis / Raymond Keene
    Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov. Even Kasparov has been known to use the Caro Kann on occasion, for example in one case to defeat Mikhail Tal. ...
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    27,06 €

  • Los Voraces 2019
    Andy Soltis
    The rules of ''The Greatest Tournament in Chess History,'' the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls--no outside contact of any kind--as the fourteen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money and fame. These geniuses of the game ...
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    28,16 €

  • Chess Lists, 2D Ed. (Revised)
    Andy Soltis
    The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest--of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts--this second edition of Soltis’s classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser’s del...
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    36,84 €