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Match/Tournament for the World Chess Championship
On March 24, 1946, the fourth world chess champion, Alexander Alekhine, passed away. He was the first – and still the only – champion to die while holding the title. To select a new champion, a powerful quintuple round-robin was held in The Hague and Moscow. The five strongest players of the era, including one former world champion, two future world champions, and two perennial contenders, took part in a grueling two-month, 25-round tournament
CLEARANCE - The Hague-Moscow 1948
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One of the most remarkable and famous chess tournaments ever took place in New York City in March and April 1924. It had a narrative that is still striking today: Three world champions, undisputed world champions mind you, fulfilling their destiny. The stunning performance of the 55-year-old former world champion Emanuel Lasker. The seemingly invincible reigning world champion Jose Capablanca suffering his first loss in eight years. And all 110 tournament games deeply annotated by future world champion Alexander Alekhine.
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CLEARANCE - New York 1924
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Kasparov versus Deep Blue
This book tells the full story of this historic encounter, from the personalities, hype and controversies to the debates over computer intelligence and the future of chess. Every game is analyzed in detail and the earlier 1989 and 1996 matches between the two contestants are reviewed.
CLEARANCE - Man vs. Machine
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This book is a permanent record of the 1997 Doeberl Cup. It contains over 150 games, many with annotations from Australia's leading players.
CLEARANCE - The 1997 Doeberl Cup
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Australia at the Yerevan Chess Olympiad' is the story of this major chess event from the point of view of the successful Australian team. All games played by the Australians are included, most with annotations, as well as fine games by players from other Olympiad teams.
CLEARANCE - Australia at the Yerevan Chess Olympiad
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This book relates the history of a 200-year-old quest. A quest which culminated in the grand chess match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue.
CLEARANCE - Man v Machine - Kasparov v IBM's Deep Blue
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The Polgar Sisters, the New Oxford Companion to Chess, and other books reviewed.
CLEARANCE - American Chess Journal
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Who Will be the Next World Chess Champion?
Never before in chess history have there been so many young players with genuine world championship potential. Name such as Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Vissily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Judit Polar, Nigel Short, Michael Adams and america’s own Gata Kamsky - all world beaters, but only one will mount the chess Olympus.
CLEARANCE - The Young Pretenders
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Of the Great Chess Masters
These life maps paint a fascinating picture of the players' careers, in time sequence. To illustrate the sort of insights one can obtain from them, let us consider the score between Fischer (1943- ) and Gligoric (1923- ). The totals are 6 wins for Fischer, 6 draws, and 4 wins for Gligoric.
CLEARANCE - Life Maps
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Correspondence Chess Informator Vol. 3
CLEARANCE - Correspondence Chess Informator Vol. 3
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This book charts Nigel Short's astonishing ascent to the chess peaks, through an exciting selection of the most important games in his career. Each game is brought vividly to life by absorbing annotations that provide a valuable insight into the character and playing style of one of the greatest players in the world today. It includes brilliant wins against Kasparov, Karpov, Timman, and other greats of contemporary chess.
CLEARANCE - Nigel Short - World Chess Challenger
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The exciting story of how Nigel Short from Lancashire, after learning chess at the age of six, progressed to play Garry Kasparov in what is possibly the most mentally demanding competitive event - the World Chess Championship. Nigel is the first Western challenger in this Russian dominated game since Bobby Fischer played Spassky in 1972.
CLEARANCE - Nigel Short - Quest for the Crown
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It turned out to be the last ever Interzonal because of the FIDE schism that same year forced by Short and Kasparov (Garry later admitted, it was a misjudgement), splitting the chess world into two parallel chaotic Candidate Cycles for many years. Gelfand won the Interzonal of 1993 (swiss system) in Biel outright.
CLEARANCE - Biel 1993
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This book entails information regarding the New York Open from 1991 including 100 selected games.
CLEARANCE - New York Open 1991
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Five is the number of World Championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990.Yasser Seirawan deeply analyzes each of the 24 games of the 1990 World Chess Championship . played in New York and Lyon. France. He answers all of the big questions, who was belligerent, who blew it and why.The final section gives all 158 tournament games played by Kasparov and Karpov, arguably the two best chess players who have ever lived. The games appear by opening, a far more useful arrangement for the chess student than the ordinary chronological presentation.
CLEARANCE - Five Crowns
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - TOURNAMENT CHESS - Volume 33
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - TOURNAMENT CHESS - Volume 31
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In "How to Defeat a Superior Opponent", Grandmaster Edmar Mednis presents the reader with a systematic approach for competing against stronger opponents.
CLEARANCE - How to Defeat a Superior Opponent
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - TOURNAMENT CHESS - Volume 30
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - TOURNAMENT CHESS - Volume 29
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - Tournament Chess - Volume 28
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.
CLEARANCE - Tournament Chess - Volume 26
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This book is on the Game of the Round; hosting the 27th Chess Olympiad held in Dubai in 1986.
CLEARANCE - Game of the Round
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The 1986 World Chess Championship - Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov
CLEARANCE - The 1986 World Chess Championship - Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov
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Not since the great chess tournament of 1924 has New York City been privileged to host a chess event such as this. Players from more than twenty countries came together to participate in the strongest chess tournament held in Manhattan in sixty years. The result was 278 games of superb fighting chess.
CLEARANCE - New York International Chess Tournament - 1984
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A brilliant gathering of chess stars, including GM Viktor Korchnoi, who became available when the Soviet Union forfeited the match by Kasparov, scheduled to be played during the Open. A choice selection of 159 games provides the flavor of the intense competition, with the colorful story, round-by-round, complimented with photographs and the complete final results table.
CLEARANCE - 1983 U.S. Open
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Fourteen of the highest rated players in the United States gathered in July 1983 to compose in a Round Robin tournament to determine the United States Chess Champion. This is a round-by-round account of the event, with the scores of all of the games an annotations to the decisive games by the 1983 Co-Champion.
CLEARANCE - The U.S. Championship, 1983
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A colorful account of all the activities, with more than one hundred selected games to illustrate the tide of events leading to the championship. IM John L. Watson has contributed deep notes to fifteen critical games. Photographs help capture the scene of the reader. This year's Open returned to Minnesota, birth place of the U.S. Open in 1900. A complete list of participants, winners, openings and players index complete this record. Algebraic Notation. 83 pages.
CLEARANCE - The U.S. Open - St. Paul, 1982
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Steinitz vs Zukertort 1886
Agreement made this 25th day of December, 1885, by and between William Steinitz of New York and J. H. Zukertort of London, to play a match at chess for the Championship of the World and a stake of $2,000 a side.
CLEARANCE - First Match for the Chess Championship of the World
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This book entails the chess tournament held by Phillips & Drew Kings and Knights Chess Tournaments in London in 1982.
CLEARANCE - Phillips & Drew Kings Chess Tournament - London 1982
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In February 1976 England obtained her long-awaited first Grandmaster Tony Miles. Since then the combination of careful training, weekend tournaments and sponsorship has brought England to the brink of challenging the Soviet Union for the chess supremacy of the world. The record of success over the last five years has been both consistent and remarkable.
CLEARANCE - English Chess Explosion - From Miles to Short
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This book entails information on the 1981 U.S. Open Championship in Palo Alto, CA with annotated games.
CLEARANCE - The Annotated Open - 1981 U.S. Open Palo Alto
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Volume 1 of The New Chess Player book.
CLEARANCE - New Chess Player - V. 1
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The Inside Story of the Match
After bitter altercations about flags and threatened walkouts, the needle match of the World Chess Championship, between Anatoly Karpov and Victor Korchnoi, began in Baguio City in the Philippines on 18 July 1978.
CLEARANCE - Karpov-Korchnoi 1978
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With this in mind we commissioned Lubosh Kavalek to write a tournament book for us on one of the very strongest events in 1975, the Grandmaster tournament held in the little Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee. What Kavalek has written will undoubtedly be one of the greatest tournament books of all time. He has not only contributed penetrating analysis to many of the most interesting games played in Wijk aan Zee, he has also written something about every game, giving the reader an insight to the international tournament arena and helping him to understand what makes a chess master tick.
CLEARANCE - Wijk aan Zee Grandmaster Chess tournament 1975
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A Complete Record of FIDE Events
A complete documentation of all these events and much much more (273 selected games and positions from all FIDE competitions and details about related fields such as correspondence chess and chess competitions) is found in International Championship Chess. Moreover lists of grandmasters, masters, presidents, vice presidents, etc.
CLEARANCE - International Championship Chess
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