Puzzles & Games
epub |eng | 2004-09-16 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow [Edmonds, David & Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1984-10-24 | Author:Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman [Weis, Margaret]

20 The Highbulp’s map. The spellbook of Fistandantilus I don't trust that little bastard any farther than I can stand the smell of him," Caramon growled. "I agree," Tanis said ...
( Category: Fantasy October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:John Healy

Black has achieved the main aims of opening play – to mobilise the army, castle the king into safety and keep control over the centre of the board, where the ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Neil McDonald McDonald [McDonald, Neil]

A club player might be distracted here by the possibility of 34 … xa4 planning 35 … a8 with an attack along the open a-file. But the weakest point in ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jakov Neishstadt

209 After 1…Re2! White had to resign. After 2.Qxc5 there follows 2…Rgxg2+ 3.Kh1 Rh2+ 4.Kg1 Reg2# (Bannik-Cherepkov, USSR 1961). Back 210 1.0-0-0! wins, since after 1…Rxe3 White plays 2.Rxd6+ Ke7 ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Gary Belsky & Neil Fine

Do an Ollie Named for its originator, Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, this move is a rite of passage for anyone who wants to look like he knows what he’s doing on ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

If the drive from the airport had been lacking in postcard moments, the short boat ride to the hotel resort more than made up the difference. To Semyon’s surprise, the ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:J. K. Rowling [Rowling, J.K.]

Fig. E The modern Quaffle is twelve inches in diameter and seamless. It was first coloured scarlet in the winter of 1711, after a game when heavy rain had made ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 21,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-13 | Author:Mike Wild [Wild, Mike]

XII Turn-Based Combat The lack of food began to bite the next morning. Which was more than they did. Their canteens still held plentiful water, but so far as solids ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 19,2017 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

As a young man in London in 1914, Ho Chi Minh worked for Escoffier as a trainee pastry chef. The South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar was, at various times, president ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-17 | Author:Richard A. Knaak [Knaak, Richard]

THIRTEEN “Do you sense that?" Kalec asked Krasus. "Something is going on just beyond the mount...." The dragon mage did not answer, his attention, as earlier, on the entrance to ...
( Category: Fantasy October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Parnell Hall

Chapter 33 Cora was not surprised to see Mrs. Cushman smiling. Mrs. Cushman was always smiling. The owner of Cushman’s Bake Shop was a plump, doughy-faced woman who gave the ...
( Category: Mystery October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Sean Marsh

Kasparov resigned in this hopeless position. The black kingside pawns will sail down the board unopposed and there will soon be a winning promotion. 0–1 1996 brought another sensation, with ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Moret

1.e4 c5 2.♘c3 d6 Anand is not an unbridled fan of the Grand Prix Attack like Nigel Short, but the Indian World Champion’s move order conceals a subtlety on which ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Hertan

3…Bc5 The other major option for Black is the Two Knights Defense, 3…Nf6: Two Knights Defense Now to continue the plan of Quick and Easy Development, it’s important that you ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 16,2017 )