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Great Encounters in Contemporary Chess
The moment of death has the power to stress in a single move the achievement or the futility of a life.
The death of Alekhine contains a paradox. If he had sought happiness, he found something different; if he had wanted fame, his name will live as long as chess is played.
CLEARANCE - The World Chess Championship
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Invitation Chess Tournament of the City of the London Chess Club
Invitation Chess Tournament of the City of the London Chess Club
This book includes all 120 games, numerous diagrams, photos, crosstables, indices, etc., plus a fascinating behind the scenes essay by Tournament Coordinator George Koltanowski, and a warm personal look at the players just being themselves by Sherry Rittenhouse.
CLEARANCE - San Antonio 1972 - 1st International Chess Tournament
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The suggestion that the British Postal Chess Federation should organize an international tournament was put forward in July 1970 by the Friends of Chess, who offered to sponsor the event with a prize fund of 100 euro.
CLEARANCE - The Potter Memorial
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Volume 1 of The New Chess Player book.
CLEARANCE - New Chess Player - V. 1
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All 210 games from the greatest tournament since World War II. Smyslov, Bronstein, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, 10 others; perceptive annotations by Bronstein.
Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953
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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Milan Vidmar was the instigator of the major chess tournament that became Bled 1931. His idea was well received in both Ljubljana ( his birthplace ) and the nearby health resort of Bled. An organizing committee was set up and at the end of July 1931, following the Chess Olympiad in Prague this committee commissioned Hans Kmoch to conduct the negotiations with the competitors for a double round tournament to be held at Lake Bled.
Bled 1931 International Chess Tournament
The present book is a hugely expanded second edition of that published in 1987. Over two hundred extra games have been included, annotated by Chigorin and his contemporaries in addition to more modern grandmasters. The biographical part has been extended with hundreds of pages of material depicting Chigorin's turbulent life.
Mikhail Chigorin - The Creative Chess Genius
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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The third Moscow international chess tournament in 1936 had an impressive field of participants, including two former world champions (Jose Raul Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker) and one future world champion (Mikhail Botvinnik). The tournament took place at the Hall of Columns in Moscow, Russia from May 14th to June 8th, 1936. The solid mix of Western and Soviet competitors were to play a double round-robin, consisting of eighteen total games.
Moscow 1936 International Chess Tournament
Translated by Jimmy Adams & Sarah Hurst from the original Russian book by Rabinovich, Euwe, Botvinnik, and leading Soviet players. Full notes to the 190 games. Botvinnik and Flohr tied for first ahead of Lasker, Capablanca, Spielmann, Kan and fourteen other famous players. One of the very best tournament books ever published in English. Includes a long review of the strongest previous tournaments held in the Soviet Union along with a survey of the tournament, its development, and its opening theory.
Moscow 1935 International Chess Tournament
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 5
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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 10
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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 15
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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 21
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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 51
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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 3
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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 8
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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 13
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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 19
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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 25
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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 54
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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 1
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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 6
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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 11
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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 16
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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 22
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