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  • 4th Candidates’ Tournament, 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade September 7th - October 29th
    Harry Golombek
    The Candidates’ Tournament of 1959 was one of the most dramatic and exciting of all tournaments, launching the flamboyant Grandmaster Mikhail Tal on his road to become the youngest-ever World Champion. Keres played possibly the best chess of his career at this event, restraining his natural attacking flair in the service of a more universal style, able to turn out finely honed ...
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    29,92 €

  • Reti’s Best Games of Chess
    Harry Golombek / Richard Reti
    Richard Réti (1889-1929) was both a master player and a superb endgame composer. He was also a prominent member of the hyper-modern school and author of two of the greatest chess books ever written, Masters of the Chessboard and Modern Ideas in Chess. His games, which greatly influenced chess strat­egy, are known for their many innovations, beautifully developed combinations, a...
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    28,07 €

  • Reykjavik 1972
    George Steiner / Harry Golombek
    The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and eagerly analysed beforehand of any chess match to date.It seized the attention of the world’s press and media in general in unprecedented fashion and inspired more books and column inches than any chess contest before or since. Hardinge Simpole now comme...
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    28,01 €

  • Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games of Chess
    Harry Golombek
    Jose Capablanca was a phenomenon who burst onto the chess world and took top prize in the first ever elite tournament in which he participated. This was at San Sebastian - otherwise known as Donostia - in the Basque country of Spain in 1911. Capablanca’s style was serene - no position seemed to trouble him, and he crushed most of the established European grandmasters with seemi...
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    29,96 €

  • Modern Opening Chess Strategy
    Harry Golombek
    All too often chess openings books consist of reams of variations and sub-variations and bracketed sub-sub-variations, with no apparent explanation for why a move is chosen or why one path deserves precedence over another. Golombek fought tenaciously against this denigration of his art, for he considered chess an art form. The Grandmaster Emeritus always sought to explain the i...
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    31,03 €

  • Mikhail Tal
    Harry Golombek
    Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer... the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars who burn briefly across the chess firmament, only to vanish without trace. The parabolic career of the Latvian genius Mikhail Tal conforms all too well to this astonishing pattern. As a virtually unknown student in 1957 Tal swept aside the revered phalanxes of Soviet Grandmasters and ...
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    27,02 €

  • Petrosian v Spassky
    Harry Golombek / Peter Clarke
    In 1966 and 1969 Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky contested two epic battles for the world crown. In the first of these Petrosian became the only world champion to actually win a title defence for 32 years when his inspired defensive technique thwarted all of Spassky’s aggressive intentions. In the second of these two ferocious fights Spassky eventually broke through to seize...
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    24,96 €

  • Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess
    Harry Golombek
    A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960s, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is arranged chronologically and reaches the period of the Second World War. The games by such immortals as Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein are annotate...
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    22,88 €

  • World Chess Championship 1957 and 1958
    Harry Golombek
    This book combines the account and eye witness analysis by Golombek of the second and third of the three titanic world title clashes between Botvinnik and Smyslov, unquestionably the dominant players of the 1950s, with the games and notes to the 1958 match. ...
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    27,97 €

  • Chess and Chess Masters
    Gideon Stahlberg / Harry Golombek
    A first hand account of the strengths and weaknesses, of the genius and foibles, of the world’s elite, graced by the most elegant prose, courtesy of Stahlberg , improved, if anything, by Harry Golombek’s superb translation. The book is full of telling and memorable phrases. ...
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    25,97 €

  • World Chess Championship 1948, The
    Harry Golombek
    Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament. Why for example was the Polish grandmaster Miguel Najdorf not invited when US Grandmaster Reuben Fine dropped out? ...
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    29,01 €