epub |eng | | Author:Eleanor Noss Whitney

CHAPTER TWO Offensive Strategy ARRANGEMENT OF THE HAND A skillful player does not arrange his hand. A quick glance is all he needs to tell him what it contains and ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Dvoretsky

1…Kh6 Petrosian prepares …f7-f6 and …g6-g5. The positional defense method (à la Kantorovich), starting with 1…Kf6 had not yet been discovered and still is not widely known. 2 Ke3?! Portisch ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-13 | Author:Greg Costikyan [Costikyan, Greg]

5 Sources of Uncertainty We’re now equipped to examine the sources of uncertainty in games more closely. Performative Uncertainty I’ve restricted the term “performative uncertainty” to mean the uncertainty of ...

epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Moore, Tim [Tim Moore]

CHAPTER 12 The Reds I DIDN’T REMEMBER about Mike’s nine until the following morning; such was my easy familiarity with the board I didn’t need to open it to know ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Tom Whipple

It is, however, a billion billion billion times less complex than chess, a game so complex that even our estimates of its complexity involve guesswork. Unlike chess, checkers seemed to ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:David MacEnulty [MacEnulty, David]

Note that the king, queen, and rooks did not venture out into the field of play. Most of the time, these four important pieces do not like to mix it ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fatsis, Stefan

Lester played in the first New York Scrabble tournament. It was staged in the late 1960s by the proprietor of a new games parlor on 72nd Street between Broadway and ...

mobi |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Lowinger, Daniel [Lowinger, Daniel]

Black’s totally discombobulated army and woefully misplaced king simply cannot handle the coordinated onslaught of White’s remaining three pieces. It is not hard to see at a glance that in ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Pritchard

6 THE MIDDLE GAME Introduction In the opening and the end game the chess player can fall back to a considerable extent on the labour of others. In the middle ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Mary Pilon

• Sometime later, Ralph sat in his study, surrounded by documents and Anti-Monopoly boxes, unsure of where his case was going. Then his son Mark, always the avid reader, burst ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:Georges Renaud & Victor Kahn

The object of the following maneuver is to open the KR file. 1. RxP, KxR Forced. 2. R–R1 ch K–Kt1 3. R–R8 mate. Mate No. 9A White to play and ...