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McFarland Publishing - Chess Game Collections
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The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked
by Andrew Soltis
Editorial Rewiew:
How does one determine the “best” chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But “best”? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics; the originality; the level of opposition; the soundness, accuracy, and difficulty of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth.
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The United States Chess Championship, 1845–1996, 2d ed.
by Andy Soltis and Gene H. McCormick
Editorial Rewiew:
This thoroughly updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed 1986 reference work provides a definitive history of all championship events in the United States through 1995. Both the games and the occasions are covered in depth, including biographical details, descriptive settings, anecdotes, tournament drama, unusual games, and grandmaster analysis. Filled with quotations from the winners, losers and many others, this is an authoritative and indispensable volume.
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Chess World Championships
by James H. Gelo
Editorial Rewiew:
With six new chapters, this expanded edition contains every move (standard international algebraic notation) of every game played in world championship competition, including all official such titles since 1886 and all decisive matches by the world’s leading players for the 50 years before that date. A diagram of the critical or most interesting moment accompanies every game. All games are dated, with playing locations noted. All source material discrepancies have been researched and resolved. Charts or crosstables showing overall results precede each match or tournament. A lengthy bibliography and a detailed openings index complete the work.
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Chess Lists, 2d ed.
by Andy Soltis, Gene H. McCormick
Editorial Rewiew:
The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts this second edition of Soltis’s classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser’s delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded or both.
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Soviet Chess 1917–1991
by Andrew Soltis
Editorial Rewiew:
This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the days of the revolution to the devastation of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.
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