The Encyclopedia of Chess

Fülszöveg

TlVis ciicvfloiK fli;! is (lif Tilost ;util)iti()iis atui ;iiitln>rit;itivc available toMicclicssciit lmsiast aiiywlicni in the worUl. Harry (Jolombek, onetime l?ril isli flianipion and the doyen of ehess writers, has headed a formidable team of international exi)erts (which includes the new lirit ish «iraiidmasl er ilaymoiKl Keene) to ])rorhKe a magnificent work t hat covers every as])ect of t he game.
The entries, arranged al|ihabetically, ]irovide biographical, historical and pract ical infonuat ion. The biographies range from the early .Arabian and mcflieval players, through such cla.ssic exponents of the i.Miiie as Kiiy Lope/, and IMiilidor, tot he great nineteenth-century (•hatnj)ions Mf)rphy, Staunton, Steinitz, Lasker and the giants of I lie pre.sent day Alekhine and (!apablanca, Fischer, Tal and Karpov. The hist orical entries not only cover chanipion.ships, tournaments and international titles, but deal with a whole range of general features from anecdotes,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TlVis ciicvfloiK fli;! is (lif Tilost ;util)iti()iis atui ;iiitln>rit;itivc available toMicclicssciit lmsiast aiiywlicni in the worUl. Harry (Jolombek, onetime l?ril isli flianipion and the doyen of ehess writers, has headed a formidable team of international exi)erts (which includes the new lirit ish «iraiidmasl er ilaymoiKl Keene) to ])rorhKe a magnificent work t hat covers every as])ect of t he game.
The entries, arranged al|ihabetically, ]irovide biographical, historical and pract ical infonuat ion. The biographies range from the early .Arabian and mcflieval players, through such cla.ssic exponents of the i.Miiie as Kiiy Lope/, and IMiilidor, tot he great nineteenth-century (•hatnj)ions Mf)rphy, Staunton, Steinitz, Lasker and the giants of I lie pre.sent day Alekhine and (!apablanca, Fischer, Tal and Karpov. The hist orical entries not only cover chanipion.ships, tournaments and international titles, but deal with a whole range of general features from anecdotes, com|»ulcrsand philately, tolawsof thegameand I lindfold chess. Tlif^ ])ra(tica.l part of the book c(mcerns itself with fletails of op(^ning, middle-game and endgame theory. There is also a fcparate section on problems, and an extensive bibliography.
The a|ij»earaiice <)ft he book fully matches its (content; it is (xcej)tionally attra(-ti ve and easy to read. The 500 illustrations include port raits, connneinorative stamps, chess pieces and examples I if chess art as w ell as inimerous positional diagrams. Whether as an unrivalled book of reference or as a book to bc dipped into for pleasure, this is a. work whi<-h will be cherished by all lovers of chess.
352 pages
y)hotographs i'27() diagrams

m Vissza