The Art of Chess Combination / A Guide for all Players of the Game, AND A SECOND TRADE PAPERBACK, Easy Endgame Strategies / Learn How to Mate Your Opponent and Win!

Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene; English translation with an introduction by Philip W. Sergeant, AND A SECOIND BOOK, by Bill Robertie

ISBN 10: 0486205835 / ISBN 13: 9780486205830

Published by Dover Publications, Inc. / Cardoza Publishing, New York, 1959

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We list the ISBN of "The Art of Chess Combination," a lovely unread trade paperback with glossy green wraps identified as the 1959 edition "With new introduction to the Dover Edition by Fred Reinfeld," though that 10 digit ISBN and bar code to rear cover indicate this is a much more recent printing. "Combinations must be inspired by an idea. Otherwise they become lost in a labyrinth of variations." 212 pp. followed by a 14-page catalog of Dover Books. Reduced from $25. OUR SECOND OFFERING, "Easy Endgame Strategies," ISBN 1-58042-110-5, is an as-new, unread, first-edition 2003 trade paperback of 317 pp. Two trade paperbacks on chess combined into a lot to consolidate shipping charge, the pair now reduced from $20.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of Chess Combination / A Guide for all Players of the Game, AND A SECOND TRADE PAPERBACK, Easy Endgame Strategies / Learn How to Mate Your Opponent and Win!
• Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc. / Cardoza Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486205835
• ISBN 13: 9780486205830
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: With 200 diagrams
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

What, really, is a chess combination? It is a maneuver generally employing surprise and a sacrifice, in which pieces work together to bring about a sudden advantage. It is perhaps the most aesthetically satisfying and successful technique in the game. Some players believe that the combination is a spontaneous creation with no guiding laws; the possibility springs up in the mind like a flash of genius. In this classic work, however, Znosko-Borovsky proves that combinations can be studied. He demonstrates conclusively that they need not be a haphazard occurrence, but may be prepared for as an integral part of a player's game.
The great modern teacher begins by examining the games of master players, including Capablanca, Alekhine, Rubinstein, Nimzovich, Tarrasch, Reti, Mason, Morphy, Bird, Euwe, Emanuel Lasker, etc. The games are grouped according to common features, and perceptively analyzed to determine what conclusions may be drawn. Znosko-Borovsky shows that every combination, however complicated, begins in a simple idea, such as an undefended piece, the bad position of the hostile king, the promotion of a pawn, or a discovered check.
The Art of Chess Combination will improve the game of anyone who knows how to move individual pieces but finds it hard to plan many moves ahead to make the pieces work together. The exposition is easily understood; technical terms are almost completely avoided but clarity and precision remain.
"In the teaching of chess he may claim to have no superior." — Philip W. Sergeant.