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Questo libro nasce dall'idea di fornire sia ai lettori appassionati di storia degli scacchi sia agli studiosi specialisti uno strumento di consultazione rapido ed efficace, vale a dire un indice bio-bibliografico degli scacchisti attivi in Sicilia dal 1500 fino al 1978.La chiave che ho privilegiato è l'attività scacchistica documentata in tale ambito geografico a prescindere dal luogo di nascita dello scacchista. Per questo criterio si spiega la presenza di scacchisti sia siciliani, sia italiani ma non siciliani, sia stranieri ma residenti per un certo arco di tempo o in modo permanente in Sicilia.

The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer - Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this match, with in-depth analysis of the legendary Reykjavik match and the controversial Fischer - Spassky 1992 rematch.

Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, who confounded his opponents and dazzled chess fans around the world. Seemingly breaking every rule in the book, Tal truly was The Chess Alchemist. Oleg Stetsko has compiled 80 of Tal's most interesting games, as annotated by the Magician himself in a variety of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the very first time.

Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how. With world-class chess skills and advanced professional qualifications in psychology, GM Boris Gulko and Dr Joel Sneed are the ideal authors to write about chess psychology.

This book analyses an important opening that has not been well represented in chess theory.

The Black Lion is a thoroughly modern counterattacking system that is a nightmare to face. This wild and aggressive line attempts to take away White's initiative from a very early stage and is guaranteed to throw your opponents off balance.

The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more - losing a winning position. This book studies how and why we misplay winning endgames, explaining the technical and practical areas of chess endgames plainly, simply and deeply.

In this book, International Grandmaster and senior FIDE trainer Thomas Luther offers something for all chess fans at amateur level. The ambitious tournament player can use it to improve his playing strength. However, not all chess fans have enough time for an extensive study of their game in general and tactics in particular. In this case, it is sufficient if the reader solves a few exercises every day, because even then he will learn a lot about this topic in the long term. Meanwhile, the pure "chess gourmet" is offered many interesting and entertaining examples and comments to enjoy the diversity of his favorite game.The author takes the reader on a journey from the beginnings of chess many centuries ago to the present day. Throughout history, smart players have found clever moves and techniques that are still used today. In detailed texts, the author explains the developments in the respective epochs and shows corresponding interesting examples. In addition, the book contains chapters on tactics in the endgame and on all the subtleties related to the topic of stalemate. But don't worry, all this is not boring, but extremely instructive and entertaining on top of that!In two longer series of tests, the reader can show how strong a tactician he already is - and what progress he has made after working with this book. A large number of diagrams in the text ensure that the reader is always able to find his or her way around and can largely get by without using a chessboard.

This book provides tremendously useful information for chess enthusiasts who want to improve their defensive technique.

The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier chess defense to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff's Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. A decade later, Schandorff is back with a completely new repertoire which improves on his previous work in every way. With cutting-edge analysis, thorough explanations of positional motifs and instructively annotated illustrative games, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Caro-Kann.

Welcome to Tiger's Den! Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex strategic positions was legendary. Now, for the first time, Russian international master Igor Yanvarjov has put together a superb collection of virtually all the known games played by Petrosian - with both colors - in the King's Indian Defense and other closely related Indian structures. The author's objective was, first of all, to reveal the richness of Petrosian's chess world and to follow the strategic development of the King's Indian Defense through the prism of Petrosian's creative work. He does this with the presentation of almost 300 deeply annotated, complete games. Contents include: Preface by Levon Aronian; Foreword by Igor Zaitsev; The Classical Variation; The Samisch System; The Fianchetto Variation; The Benoni; Other Systems; Portrait of a Chess Player; Lessons from Petrosian; The Problem of the Exchange; "Furman's Bishop"; "Pawns are the soul of chess"; Playing by Analogy; Maneuvering Battle; Experiments; Realist or Romantic?; The King's Indian with Colors - and Flanks - Reversed; Appendix; Index of Tabiyas; ECO/Opening/Tabiya Indexes. This splendid collection of annotated games will not only have enormous appeal to King's Indian aficionados, but to all chessplayers who wish to expand their understanding of the strategic concepts underpinning the royal game as a whole.

Do you want to improve your chess opening skills by avoiding common mistakes? This collection of games is a good book to start. You'll find numerous games of different openings with mistakes from actual games. By the end of the book, you'll have good knowledge of common opening mistakes. There are more than sixty games to help you learn various tactics as well as make sure you understand important concepts. This book is ideal for regular chess players of all levels. It is simple and clear with diagrams and analysis of plans, threats, etc.