Masters of the Chessboard 9781936490424, 1936490420
Reti’s “Other" Classic Ask most chessplayers about the works by Richard Reti, and most will quickly reply Modern Id
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English Pages 338 Year 2013
Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword by Andy Soltis
Author's Preface
Part I: The Older Masters
Adolf Anderssen
Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steinitz
Siegbert Tarrasch
The Queen's Gambit
Emanuel Lasker
The Steinitz Defense of the Ruy Lopez
The Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation
Carl Schlechter
Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Examples of the Breakthrough on the Grand Scale
Part II: Masters of Today
Foreword
Geza Maróczy
Frank Marshall
Akiba Rubinstein
The Rubinstein Defense of the Four Knights Game
Rudolf Spielmann
Aron Nimzowitsch
The Hanham Variation
The Indian Defense. Milan VidmarSavielly Tartakower
José Raúl Capablanca
The Theory of the Caro-Kann Defense
The Cambridge Springs and the Westphalia Defenses of the Queen's Gambit
Rook Endgames
Efim Bogoljubow
My System of Opening
The Center Pawn as an Obstruction to Its Own Pieces
Alexander Alekhine
The Blumenfeld Gambit and Related Systems
Declining the Cambridge Springs Variation
The Technique of Chess Combinations
The Alekhine Defense
Player Index
Opening Index.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword by Andy Soltis
Author's Preface
Part I: The Older Masters
Adolf Anderssen
Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steinitz
Siegbert Tarrasch
The Queen's Gambit
Emanuel Lasker
The Steinitz Defense of the Ruy Lopez
The Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation
Carl Schlechter
Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Examples of the Breakthrough on the Grand Scale
Part II: Masters of Today
Foreword
Geza Maróczy
Frank Marshall
Akiba Rubinstein
The Rubinstein Defense of the Four Knights Game
Rudolf Spielmann
Aron Nimzowitsch
The Hanham Variation
The Indian Defense. Milan VidmarSavielly Tartakower
José Raúl Capablanca
The Theory of the Caro-Kann Defense
The Cambridge Springs and the Westphalia Defenses of the Queen's Gambit
Rook Endgames
Efim Bogoljubow
My System of Opening
The Center Pawn as an Obstruction to Its Own Pieces
Alexander Alekhine
The Blumenfeld Gambit and Related Systems
Declining the Cambridge Springs Variation
The Technique of Chess Combinations
The Alekhine Defense
Player Index
Opening Index.
