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Correspondence Chess in America - Avery
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Soviet Chess 1917-1991 - Soltis
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The US Chess Championships 1845-1996 2nd Ed softcover - Soltis
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This is an historical overview and detailed analysis of American correspondence chess from the 1840s to the present.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dominated the chess world for decades. They had, as R.G. Wade observed, the most successful sports machine the world has seen.
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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. This is the softcover edition of product #6052.
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William Steinitz, Chess Champion - Landsberger
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Chess World Championships (in 2 Volumes) Gelo, 3rd Edition
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The United States Chess Championships 1845-1996 2nd Ed - Soltis
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From Steinitz’s own writings and the fruits of extensive first-time-ever research by the author, a fascinating portrayal emerges of the life and genius of a man widely known as the “Bohemian Caesar” quite apart from his chess dominance.
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With six new chapters, this expanded edition contains every move (standard international algebraic notation) of every game played in world championship competition.
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For more than a century and a half, people have been defining themselves by way of the United States Chess Championship.
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Chess World Championships 1834-1998 2nd Ed - Gelo
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The Turk, Chess Automaton - Levitt
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Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps - Berkovich
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Revised edition of an acclaimed work by James H. Gelo, specializing in symbolic logic and set theory.
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With all-new research and facts unknown for two centuries, this is a richly detailed and comprehensive account of The Turk.
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Both chess and Judaica are popular topics for stamp collectors. Here is a work that combines the two topics into one beautiful collection: the world of Jewish chess champions, their tournaments and their triumphs, as depicted on postage stamps from around the world.
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Reuben Fine - Woodger
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Alekhine's Anguish - Yaffe
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Amos Burn - Forester
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American Grandmaster Reuben Fine grew up in the East Bronx in an impoverished Russian-Jewish family, learning to play chess from an uncle at the age of eight.
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This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.
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Amos Burn was one of the leading players of the late nineteenth century. This work accords him the recognition he deserves, painstakingly assembling and analyzing all available games and biographical material about him.
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Alexander Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius - Moran
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Alexander Alekhines Chess Games - Skinner
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Frank Marshall, U.S. Chess Champion - Soltis
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From the Introduction: A. Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius tries to encompass his last period, from October 1943 to March 1946.
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This book contains 2543 games of the former world champion, many annotated by Alekhine himself, with 1868 diagrams, and fully indexed.
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From the Preface: My first serious contact with chess began when, as a high school sophomore, I took a board in a simultaneous exhibition at the Marshall Chess Club. With some difficulty I managed to locate the club's ivy-covered Greenwich Village brownstone and, after getting past the front door, climbed for the first time the ancient staircase....
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Capablanca: Rare Archival Material - Winter
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Chess Facts and Fables - Winter
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Los Voraces 2019, A Chess Novel - Soltis
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This compendium provides an enormous amount of documentary data, usefully organized, much of it unseen since original (and often obscure) publication.
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Chess Facts and Fables by Edward Winter features in-depth research into chess lore, corrections of popular misconceptions, biographical notes on famous players, and authenticated quotations.
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This fabulous chess novel is full of game scores and diagrams—some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It’s all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect.
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Chess Lists, 2nd edition - Soltis
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Walter Penn Shipley, Philadelphia's Friend of Chess - Hilbert
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Chess Results, 1747–1900 - Di Felice
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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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This work is a complete biography and games collection of Walter Penn Shipley.
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A comprehensive record with 465 tournament crosstables and 590 match scores. Here, in one volume, are the results of the main chess competitions—both tournaments and matches—that took place around the world from 1747 to 1900.
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