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My Chess
(Engels , Paperback, 01-10-2013)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 26,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
During his active chess career, Hans Ree battled with almost all the great chessplayers, including eight world champions, from Max Euwe to Anatoly Karpov. My Chess is not only about them, but also about other players and writers from the past who are admired by Ree.
This book gives a personal vi... Lees verder
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A History Of Chess
From Chaturanga to the Present Day
(Engels , Paperback, 15-12-2012)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 16,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Chess: An Historical Perspective
Chess – the "Royal Game" – is an ancient board game, perhaps fifteen hundred years old. There are many legends about how chess came to be. Most of them are folk tales and are far from reality.
Arguably more books have been written about chess than all the oth... Lees verder
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Chess In The Middle Ages And Early Modern Age
A Fundamental Thought Paradigm Of The Premodern World
(Engels , Gebonden)
| Beschikbaar: | Printing on demand |
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| Prijs: | € 141,75 (onder voorbehoud) |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
More than a mere pastime, chess was an important pedagogical tool and thought paradigm in the Middle Ages. Much like people today who speak in sports metaphors, the people of medieval Europe related life to chess, making comparisons on and off the board to war, politics, love, and the social order. ... Lees verder
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Capablanca
A Compendium Of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illustrations And Other Rare Archival Materials On The Cuban Chess Genius Jose Raul Capablanca, 1888-1942
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | 12 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 45,10 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
This compendium provides an enormous amount of documentary data, usefully organized, much of it unseen since original (and often obscure) publication. Writings are by and about Capablanca; the minute details of his life and games proceed chronologically; the controversies of his career are especiall... Lees verder
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RO-ABC
Romania - A Bibliography of Chess
(Engels , Gebonden)
| Beschikbaar: | Niet meer in voorraad |
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| Prijs: | € 74,50 (onder voorbehoud) |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
After publishing Wolfgang Pauly, Challenge of a Legacy in 2000, I had the sensation, for some time, that I can not write another chess work, at a higher or at least at an even level of historic interest. But the idea of a bibliography of Romanian chess, for which I have been collecting various mater... Lees verder
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The Genius And The Misery Of Chess
(Engels , Paperback, 01-10-2008)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 21,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
We are used to reading about glorious feats by chess masters from the past, but we often are unaware that chess drove some unfortunate ones to nervous breakdowns, asylums and poorhouses. In contrast, the lives of child prodigies, the wunderkinds of chess, typically have overflowed with success - the... Lees verder
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Art Of Learning
An Inner Journey To Optimal Performance
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | 3 tot 4 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 14,05 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Josh Waitzkin knows the road to excellence. Catapulted into a media whirlwind as a child, the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, he has mastered both the rigorous mental game of chess - winning his first National Championship at the age of 9 - and the strenuous physical chall... Lees verder
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Chessmen Art and History
(Engels , Gebonden, 27-01-2017)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 7 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 72,25 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Chessmen Art and History (book + cd) door Mathieu en Ine Kloprogge. Dit boek werd gepresenteerd op dinsdag 23 oktober in boekhandel Van Stockum in Den Haag, waar een van de grootste schaakboekencollectie van West-Europa is gevestigd.
Over the years Mathieu and Ine Kloprogge have spent a great dea... Lees verder
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Secret Notes
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | onbekend |
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| Prijs: | € 25,60 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
David Bronstein describes the chess personalities he has met in various countries over the past decade, and annotates 40 of his best games from this period. He also recalls the most significant events from his earlier career, gives his impressions of contemporaries such as Larsen, Spassky and Korchn... Lees verder
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Chess Results, 1931-1935
A Comprehensive Record With 1,065 Tournament Crosstables And 190 Match Scores
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | onbekend |
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| Prijs: | € 53,15 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. From the famous to the lesser known, both individual and team matches from 1931 through 1935 are remembered here. Entries record location and, when available, the group that sponsored the eve... Lees verder
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Cambridge Handbook Of Expertise And Expert Performance
(Engels , Paperback)
| Beschikbaar: | Printing on demand |
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| Prijs: | € 88,15 (onder voorbehoud) |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
This handbook provides comprehensive information about expert performance. It describes the processes, knowledge, and methods by which people climb to the highest possible levels of human performance. It highlights the research techniques and approaches that investigators use to gain insights about ... Lees verder
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Chess Team (a Novel)
(Engels )
| Beschikbaar: | Printing on demand |
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| Prijs: | € 8,35 (onder voorbehoud) |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
A scholastic chess coach leads his team through impossible barriers and difficult competitions for a chance at the ultimate prize: a state championship title.
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Jim Berzchak has a gift. His capabilities in the game of chess are remarkable and his brain works at levels most people ... Lees verder
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Chess Personalia
A Biobibliography
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | onbekend |
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| Prijs: | € 75,65 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Winner, Chess Notes Book of the Year
"Awe-inspiring..... A brilliant achievement"
(Edward Winter, Chess Notes)
''indispensable''
(Inside Chess)
''A monumental work''
(Arpad E. Elo)
''Gaige is a brilliant sifter of evidence...one of the most useful chess books ever published''
(New in... Lees verder
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Great Chess Books Of The Twentieth Century In English
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | onbekend |
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| Prijs: | € 59,30 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
grahic Among the first books ever published was the 1474 translation of the Game and Playe of the Chesse. Over the next 400 years, significant chess books would appear, but the overwhelming number of titles on the subject appeared in the 20th century, and the flow continues unabated. By 2003, over 3... Lees verder
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Auto Da Fe
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | 3 tot 4 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 21,75 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
ENGELSE REPRINT
Wat heeft dit boek uit 1935 met schaken te maken?
De bijna mystische aankondiging van het acht jaar later (in 1943) geboren fenomeen Robert James Fischer!
Als markant en onvergetelijk bijpersonage in deze roman wordt de narrige, ongemakkelijke dwerg 'Fischerle' ten tonele gevoer... Lees verder
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Chess Bitch
Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport
(Engels , Gebonden)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 25,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
"Chess Bitch is enlightening to read-eloquent, playful, and beautifully written-an in-depth look at how several generations of women have cut their own paths in the world of chess, jennifer Shahade has a gift for incisive portraiture, and her vivid account of chess stars past and present is lit with... Lees verder
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Birth Of The Chess Queen
(Engels , Paperback, 01-05-2005)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 16,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Van Stockum: "Prima paperback-uitgave van het gebonden origineel. Prettig geschreven. Historisch geïnteresseerden lezen het in een ruk uit."
A history of the chess queen's symbolism of Western female power discusses how the game was played prior to the piece's creation one thousand years ago, the... Lees verder
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The Emperor Of Ocean Park
(Engels , Paperback, 01-05-2003)
| Levertijd: | 5 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 16,95 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
REISSUE
In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s... Lees verder
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Queen's Gambit
A Novel
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | 12 tot 15 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 15,35 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
REISSUE
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 comp... Lees verder
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Los Voraces 2019
A Chess Novel
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | onbekend |
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| Prijs: | € 33,60 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
The rules of “The Greatest Tournament in Chess History,” the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls—no outside contact of any kind—as the fourteen greatest chess players in... Lees verder
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Eight
A Novel
(Engels )
| Levertijd: | 3 tot 4 werkdagen |
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| Prijs: | € 10,25 |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pi... Lees verder
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Chess
History Of The Game
(Engels )
| Beschikbaar: | Printing on demand |
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| Prijs: | € 25,60 (onder voorbehoud) |
| Genre: | Belletrie en documentatie |
Not since Murray's classic work of 1913 has there been a seiously researched history of chess which is also readable. Eales' Chess - The History of a Game takes the reader from the origins of chess over one thousand years ago down to modern competitive play where chess may be regarded as a high earn... Lees verder