NEW IN CHESS: THE FIRST 25 YEARS

 

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Steve Giddins (Ed)
This collection of articles, tournament reports and great games is taken from New in Chess Magazines published between 1984 and 2009. It covers many of the greatest chess stories of this period such as Fischer's final days, the death of Tal, Kasparov's domination and retirement, Karpov's Linares 1994 triumph and the rise of Kramnik and Anand. With tournament reports, interviews, historical articles and more this book offers something for every chess lover.
Pub. 2009, softback, 398 pages.
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GENIUS IN THE BACKGROUND

 

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Tibor Karolyi & Nick Aplin
Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous - they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov may be famous names to chess fans, but they did not become World Champions without great help - two of their coaches are profiled in this book and provide insights into the education of a chess champion. A broad range of chess is covered by the twelve profiles - from openings to endgames, puzzles to training. The common thread is beauty and brilliance that deserves to be better known.
Tibor Karolyi is an International Master of chess from Budapest, Hungary. He was Hungarian Chess Champion in 1984 and is also an award-winning author and renowned chess coach. One of his previous books won the Guardian’s chess Book of the Year prize in 2007. Karolyi coached Peter Leko, a former World Championship challenger, during Leko’s teenage years when in the space of four years Leko improved from promising junior to grandmaster. Nick Aplin is a university professor and respected chess author from Singapore.
Pub. 2009, softback, 382 pages.
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BULLET CHESS

 

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Hikaru Nakamura & Bruce Harper
Bullet Chess is internet chess played with one to three minutes on the clock. The strategy and tactics required to succeed are entirely different to those needed in "slow" chess. In this book US Grandmaster and leading speed chess player Hikaru Nakamura, together with Canadian IM Bruce Harper, shows how to maximise your success at Bullet Chess. Using illustrative games and positions the authors discuss topics such as time, bullet openings, pre-moving, the initiative, tactics, bullet endings and mental errors. They also ecplore the psychological side of Bullet Chess explaining the most common causes of blunders. Many Bullet Chess techniques can be applied to blitz finishes and time scrambles in ordinary chess.
Hikaru Makamura is an American Grandmaster and winner of the 2005 and 2009 US Chess championships. Bruce Harper is a Canadian Master and author of the three volume series on Grandmaster Duncan Suttles.
Pub. 2009, softback, 247 pages.
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CHESS METAPHORS

 

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Diego Rasskin Gutman
Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo (or allow us to depart from) the attitudes we take in our daily lives. Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional organization of the brain.
Rasskin-Gutman focuses on the cognitive task of problem solving, exploring it from the perspectives of both biology and AI. He examines concept after concept, move after move, delving into the varied mental mechanisms and the cognitive processes underlying the actions of playing chess. Bringing the game of chess into a larger framework, he analyzes its collateral influences that spread along the frontiers of games, art, and science. Finally, he investigates AI's effort to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win a world chess championship) and how the results fall short when compared to the truly creative nature of the human mind.
About the Author
Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Ramón y Cajal Research Associate and Head of the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. He is the coeditor (with Werner Callebaut) of Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (MIT Press, 2009).
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RUSSIAN SILHOUETTES (NEW ED)

 

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Genna Sosonko
Gennady Sosonko lived the first twenty nine years of his life as a trainer of Soviet players in St Petersburg. He later moved to the Netherlands and followed a career as a leading chess Grandmaster. In this book he reminisces about the great players he knew and coached during his time in the Soviet Union writing about many episodes and incidents which offer unique insights into the personalities and lives of these greats. Sosonko has created marvellous pen portraits of Tal, Botvinnik, Vitolins, Zak, Geller, Furman and others. As he says "Each time after one of those, whom this book is about, passed away I wanted to read about them .. What I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Hence this book." A fascinating and enjoyable read.
Pub. 2009, softback, 224 pages.
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