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Winning Chess Manoeuvres by Sarhan Guliev
epub |eng | | Author:Sarhan Guliev

Black has a solid, but passive position. Konstantinopolsky decided to do nothing: 19…Rd7 20.c3 Qc7 21.Qg5 Qd8 22.Qh5 Qf6 23.a4 b6 24.Rde1 Red8 25.f4 Rb7 26.Qf3 Rc7 27.g4 g6 28.Re5 ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 16,2017 )
Chess With a Dragon by David Gerrold
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:David Gerrold [Gerrold, David]

The rest of the evening’s entertainment proved equally successful: Of course, the temperature songs and the orchard dances were a delight. They always were. As they wound to their inevitable ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 15,2017 )
Chess Training for Post-beginners: A Basic Course in Positional Understanding by Srokovski Yaroslav
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Srokovski, Yaroslav [Srokovski, Yaroslav]

Slowly but surely, White prepares a4-a5. The rook pawn is the greatest danger for Black. 30...Bd6 It was worth considering 30...Nd6!? in order to prevent a4-a5 temporarily. 31.a5 Nxa5 A ...
( Category: other October 3,2017 )
Callsign: Rook - Book 1 (A Stan Tremblay - Chess Team Novella) by Robinson Jeremy & Talbot Edward G
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Robinson, Jeremy & Talbot, Edward G. [Jeremy, Robinson, & G., Talbot, Edward]

10 Most of the way up the road to Peder’s house, Rook heard a gun shot. The right front tire of the car blew out at the same time, and ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 25,2017 )
How to Beat Anyone At Chess by Ethan Moore
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Ethan Moore

White sets up a double check that is most efficient. If Black takes the bait with 15. ... Nxf4, we get 16. Nf6#. This is a checkmate even though both ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 24,2017 )
[Anthology] A Friend in Need by Chess Desalls
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Chess Desalls [Desalls, Chess]

“Far out.” Bear hesitated. “Jane Carmichael is agreeable to your proposition,” LX told him. “Marvelous.” He started walking, beckoning them to join him. “There is a room in back,” he ...
( Category: other September 24,2017 )
Chess for Kids by Richard James
epub |eng | | Author:Richard James

“Correct. Would you rather have a QUEEN, or a ROOK, a KNIGHT and a PAWN?” “That’s difficult. A ROOK is 5, a KNIGHT is 3 and a PAWN is 1. ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 16,2017 )
How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Garry Kasparov [Kasparov, Garry]

All Change Comes at a Cost When measuring imbalances, you should consider the elements of your operation not just in relation to your rivals’, but also in relation to one ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 12,2017 )
The Chess Player by Andrew Parker
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Andrew Parker [Parker, Andrew]

Chapter 14. It was Friday 12th December and there was an early morning mist across the open expanse of land on which Church of St. David was located. Crows squawked ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment September 9,2017 )
Chess for Hawks by Cyrus Lakdawala
epub |eng | | Author:Cyrus Lakdawala

Black’s bad bishop is a strategic liability. 13…♕b6 14.♕d2 ♖ac8 15.♖fc1 The goal is to swap down to an ending where Black gets stuck with his clunker bishop. 15…♖fd8 16.h3 ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 3,2017 )
Chess by Jonathan Arnott
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Arnott

• When you’re winning, swap off pieces – an extra piece or pawn matters more in the endgame, when there are fewer pieces on the board. Just make sure that ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment September 2,2017 )
Chess Metaphors by Diego Rasskin-Gutman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Diego Rasskin-Gutman

Chess: An Art? An Aesthetic Problem Chess as a purely intellectual activity appeals to the aesthetic sense of players at all skill levels, as Richard Reti explains in his Modern ...
( Category: Engineering September 1,2017 )
The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by Graham Burgess & John Emms
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Graham Burgess & John Emms [Graham Burgess, John Nunn & Emms, John]

Black to play 4a31) 20...Rc8?! is probably bad after 21 f5 Qxa2 22 Qf6 Rc7 23 fxg6 Qa1+ 24 Kd2 Qa5+ 25 c3 Qa2 (otherwise 26 Qf7+ wins) 26 c4 ...
( Category: other August 29,2017 )
Chess 2-Middle Game by Sean Michael
epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Sean Michael [Michael, Sean]

Chapter Seven Knight slept for days. Days. And when he woke up, Bish was there to touch him, love him, and put him back to sleep. Occasionally there was something ...
( Category: other August 24,2017 )
Callsign: King - Book 3 - Blackout (A Jack Sigler - Chess Team Novella) by Ellis Sean; Robinson Jeremy
mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Ellis, Sean; Robinson, Jeremy [Ellis, Sean; Robinson, Jeremy]

27. Paris—2028 UTC/Local King guided the Zodiac north, up the channel separating the two islands, and scanned the banks looking for a place to land the boat. He had just ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 21,2017 )

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