London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1963.
First English Edition. Hardcover. Tactical motifs in end-games systematically arranged and analysed, featuring hundreds of ways to snatch draws from lost positions and wins from equality or worse. 5-3/4 x 8", quarter black cloth, green pictorial printed paper boards, 214pp, index, illus.....
The Criterion Collection, 2009.
First Printing. Blu-Ray Disc. Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, The Seventh Seal.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing.
The life of chess champion Bobby Fischer from his early beginnings as a childhood chess prodigy to his reign as world Champion and his eventual plummet to disturbed recluse. Material drawn from Fischer family archives, FBI files, and.....
Zurich: Edition Olms, 1985.
Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, xii, 463p, illus. In addition to detailing the 67 games and 53 problems that made up the First American Chess Congress, Fiske explores the history and literature of chess in the US through 1859. Acclaimed chess phenom Paul Morphy (1837-1884) won the.....
London: Everyman Chess / Gloucester Publishers, 2005.
Hardcover. The fourth in Kasparov’s series on the definitive history of the World Chess Championship and its participants. In this volume, he focuses on Bobby Fischer (1972-1975) and the other outstanding Western stars of Fischer’s era – Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf and Brent.....
Glen Cove, New York: R.H.M. Press, 1976.
Hardcover. Chronicle of the 1975 37th annual Hoogovens Chess Tournament held in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The annual tournament was begun in 1938 by Hoogovens Steelworks and moved to Wijk aan Zee in 1968. The steelworks has changed ownership twice since and.....
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1985.
First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs by Daniel Keats and Adrian Pope.
Chess set design reflects changing styles in art and historical contexts including topical controversies, battles, propaganda and mythology. This comprehensive overview charts the development of chess sets chronologically and geographically and provides a tool.....
Penguin Press, 2021.
Paperback. How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the gameIt's true.....
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1951.
First Edition. Hardcover. Chess champion Edward Lasker describes how the hints given to him by his intimate friends, world chess champions Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca, and Alexander Alekhine, helped him to achieve chess mastery and attain the title of chess master himself, including.....
Milford, CT: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2009.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #340 of a Limited Edition of 500 hardcover copies. Foreword by Larry Evans; Opening Survey by Andy Soltis. The book was released at the end of October 2009 in both softcover and hardcover editions. The hardcover edition was limited to 500.....
New York: Pitman Publishing, 1975.
Hardcover. Translated by A. S. Russell. This is an enlarged and updated edition of Pachman's Entscheidungspartien, published in 1972 by Walter Rau Verlag, Dusseldorf.
An analysis of the most important chess tournaments and matches from Baden-Baden 1870 to the 1972 World Championship between Spasski and Fischer.....
Penguin Press, 2020.
Hardcover. A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history by a brilliant young writer Almost as soon as it appeared, the crossword puzzle had already become indispensable to our lives. Invented practically by accident in 1913, when a newspaper editor at.....
Alkmaar, The Netherlands: New In Chess / Interchess BV, 2008.
Hardcover. The Yearbook contains news in chess openings for 2008. This issue features an article on Bobby Fischer - "Fischer's Legacy" (very American, very efficient) in Sosonko's Corner.
The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News. Chess opening ideas - novelties.....
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1986.
Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the original edition (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852). Facsimile title page with original title of The Chess Tournament: A Collection of The Games Played at this Celebrated Assemblage, Illustrated by Copious Diagrams, and Notes, Ciritical and Explanatory.
London 1851 was the first international.....
Vintage, 2003.
Paperback. Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now an acclaimed Netflix series.
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until.....
New York: Random House, 1983.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is a quiet and seemingly unremarkable girl until she plays her first game of chess. A coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction that ends in a satisfying checkmate. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2”, half.....
New York: Viking Studio / Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000.
First Printing. Hardcover. An examination of the pieces that make up the chess set and a study of the historical development, miniature artistry, and design of chess pieces. The book considers the function and role of each piece, the symbolism hidden.....
