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Coffeehouse Chess Tactics
An astonishing trip into the world of competitive
135 Seiten, kartoniert, New in Chess, 1. Auflage 2010
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COFFEEHOUSE CHESS TACTICS
AN ASTONISHING TRIP INTO THE WORLD OF COMPETITIVE CHESS
With refreshing simplicity, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics shows how to turn bad, even seemingly hopeless positions to our advantage. How to distinguish the essential from the trivial. How to adapt according to the situation on the board.
Each game sparkles with some unusual tactical or defensive motif. Along with the games the author describes in eloquent but brutal language the beautiful, sometimes terrible, world of chess 'where sport, art and science merge. Where adrenalin gives such a high. Where hours pass, many, many of them so that we do not know what time it is any more!'
Fascinating and compelling, Coffeehouse Chess Tacticstakes the reader on an astonishing trip into the world of competitive chess.
The Grass Arena catapulted John Healy to worldwide literary fame. That classic memoir described how Healy, by discovering chess, escaped a life of alcoholism, violence, vagrancy and crime. But what of his chess? As an outsider he exerted a powerful allure, especially when his bad reputation was accompanied by skill and glory. He won many tournaments.
AN ASTONISHING TRIP INTO THE WORLD OF COMPETITIVE CHESS
With refreshing simplicity, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics shows how to turn bad, even seemingly hopeless positions to our advantage. How to distinguish the essential from the trivial. How to adapt according to the situation on the board.
Each game sparkles with some unusual tactical or defensive motif. Along with the games the author describes in eloquent but brutal language the beautiful, sometimes terrible, world of chess 'where sport, art and science merge. Where adrenalin gives such a high. Where hours pass, many, many of them so that we do not know what time it is any more!'
Fascinating and compelling, Coffeehouse Chess Tacticstakes the reader on an astonishing trip into the world of competitive chess.
The Grass Arena catapulted John Healy to worldwide literary fame. That classic memoir described how Healy, by discovering chess, escaped a life of alcoholism, violence, vagrancy and crime. But what of his chess? As an outsider he exerted a powerful allure, especially when his bad reputation was accompanied by skill and glory. He won many tournaments.
| EAN | 9789056913281 |
|---|---|
| Gewicht | 200 g |
| Hersteller | New in Chess |
| Breite | 14,5 cm |
| Höhe | 22 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2010 |
| Autor | John Healy |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789056913281 |
| Seiten | 135 |
| Einband | kartoniert |
007 Blood Sport
027 Check and Checkmate
031 The Openings
037 Tactical Weapons
- Trapped piece
- Removing the guard
- Overworked piece
- Decoy
053 Double Attack
- The mighty queen
- Knight fork
- Power of the pawn
- Discovered attack
- Discovered check
065 Pin
- Absolute pin
- Breaking the pin
- When the pin did not win
071 Pawn Promotion
- The skewer
- Interception
- Controlling the queening square
- Connected passed pawns
077 Attacking the King
- Checkmating the exposed king
- Corridor mate
- Smothered mate
- Queen and pawn mate
- Queen and bishop mate
- Two knights mate
- Demolishing the castled king's fortress
- Defence
- King in the centre
105 Endgame Play
131 Solutions to Exercises
027 Check and Checkmate
031 The Openings
037 Tactical Weapons
- Trapped piece
- Removing the guard
- Overworked piece
- Decoy
053 Double Attack
- The mighty queen
- Knight fork
- Power of the pawn
- Discovered attack
- Discovered check
065 Pin
- Absolute pin
- Breaking the pin
- When the pin did not win
071 Pawn Promotion
- The skewer
- Interception
- Controlling the queening square
- Connected passed pawns
077 Attacking the King
- Checkmating the exposed king
- Corridor mate
- Smothered mate
- Queen and pawn mate
- Queen and bishop mate
- Two knights mate
- Demolishing the castled king's fortress
- Defence
- King in the centre
105 Endgame Play
131 Solutions to Exercises