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Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
Author
Publisher
Lorenz Books, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The history, greatest games, famous players, and how to play: terminology, rules of the game, skills, opening strategies and endgames, game plans and tips for success, with over 700 illustrations." -- ONIX annotation.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici�on.
Language
Español
Description
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
Author
Publisher
Cardoza Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
2022 edition, New edition.
Language
English
Description
"This popular and indispensible book, one of the best-selling chess opening books ever, has taught countless players the key concepts of the opening, the most crucial part of every chess game. Beginning and intermediate players learn the best opening moves, from both Black's and White's perspectives, of more than 25 essential openings including crushing powerful attacks like the Ruy Lopez and King's Gambit, sizzling asymmetrical defenses like the...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The queen of chess, Hungarian Judit Polgar, dazzled the world as a prodigy, winning tournaments, gold medals, and defeating eleven world champions, including Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen. At her peak, Judit was rated the eighth best chess player in the world. But before these tremendous successes, Judit burst onto the chess scene as a ferocious, child competitor. Beating adults by five-years-old, and winning international tournaments by age...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chess is one of the most popular and challenging strategy games of all time! This engaging title covers the rules, pieces, moves, and strategies. Step-by-step photos bring matches to life and connect readers to the instructions. Fact boxes highlight fascinating facts and records including the longest match, extreme chess games, and more. --Amazon.
10) Game of the gods
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English
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"In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the prince's pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world championship and humiliating the British colonialists. His skills as a refined strategist eventually drag him into a strange game of...
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex quits playing chess after losing a game to Uncle Hooya; but when other activities fail to satisfy him, he gives his favorite game another try by joining the chess club.
12) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwind adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Language
English
Description
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
14) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
15) Shadow maker
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
When a suicide bomber shatters the peace of a winter afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone--a mysterious figure named The Emissary wants to play. Nick and his covert unit--the Triple Seven Chase team--soon find themselves drawn into battle against an unknown opponent who has resurrected an ancient order of assassins:...
16) Endgame
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Since he was five years old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose finds himself in the spotlight and has the chance to use his skills as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals.
Author
Language
Español
Description
* La edad no es ningún impedimento para aprender a jugar al ajedrez: un juego apasionante que ayuda a desarrollar, incluso en los más pequeños, lógica, estrategia, táctica e intuición. Sin olvidar, naturalmente, las horas de diversión que proporciona.
* A partir de las reglas básicas el manual desvela, mediante innumerables diagramas que explican paso a paso todas las posibles dificultades que pueden aparecer durante una partida, los secretos...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. 80 illustrations.
Author
Language
English
Description
This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank. The first authoritative, English translation from the Russian, this volume was, written by one of the leading competitors. Its perceptive coverage includes games by Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
20) Computer chess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to...
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