Filter By
Books (12)
- Title
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
World Chess Championship Candidates' Tournament - Budapest 1950 E G R Cordingley 9781843821748
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.99The World Championship Candidates' Tournament of 1950 marked a fresh phase in the history of the world title. Hitherto, the champion had chosen his challenger, of course bearing in mind such... -
The World Chess Championship 1963 by R.G. Wade
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.99From 1948 until 1963 Mikhail Botvinnik, the iron man of soviet chess and chess board devotee of Josef Stalin, had maintained his grip on the supreme title. Tigran Petrosian was a super subtle... -
Tony Miles - England's Chess Gladiator by Raymond, D Keene
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Tony Miles was a phenomenon in English chess. From an early age it was apparent that he had no respect whatsoever for the vaunted Soviet School of chess and held their grandmasters in scant esteem... -
Manoeuvres in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II by Raymond Keene, OBE
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.24In early 1985 Florencio Campomanes - the now disgraced former president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation - halted the World Title challenge from Garry Kasparov "without result", thus forcing a... -
Grand International Masters' Chess Tournament St. Petersburg, 1914 by Emanuel Lasker
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.49The St. Petersburg Grand International Masters' Tournament of 1914 was undoubtedly the most important tournament since the first San Sebastian Tournament, when Capablanca won his spurs, or, as some... -
Grandmaster Tactics by Raymond D. Keene
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.49Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (Nice Olympiad, 1974). He has the rare distinction of having achieved the UK grand slam, winning the... -
Showdown in Seville: Karpov-Kasparov II by Raymond Keene
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.24This book recounts the fourth and penultimate chapter in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised the clash... -
The World Chess Championship 1948 by H. Golombek
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament. Why for example was the Polish grandmaster Miguel Najdorf not invited when US Grandmaster Reuben Fine dropped out?Book... -
Rueben Fine's Best Games by Reuben Fine
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99During the 1930s, it appeared that the USA, not the USSR, would inevitably become the dominant force in the chess world. During that time the USA team won four consecutive gold medals in the Chess... -
Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess by Harry Golombek
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.49A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is... -
The Centenary Match: Karpov-Kasparov II by Raymond Keene, OBE
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.24This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised the clash... -
Spassky's 100 Best Games by Bernard Cafferty
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky through where he conquers Petrosian, on to the celebrated match of the century...