Three Days with Bobby Fischer & Other Chess Essays: How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
Language: English
Published by Chess Information and Research Center, New York, 2003
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- Title
- Three Days with Bobby Fischer & Other Chess Essays: How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
- Author
- Lawrence, Al, Alburt, Lev
- Publisher
- Chess Information and Research Center, New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1889323098
- ISBN 13
- 9781889323091
- What were the great champions like?
- How can I choose opening moves that give me a good game?
- Steinitz, who codified the rules of good playbefore going berserk
- Lasker, the chessboard Freudian who wielded psychological weapons
- Capablanca, dashingly handsome and to whom everything came easy
- Alekhine, a dsiplaced person who gave up drink to win
- Under-rated Euwe, the last amateur to become world champion
- Botvinnik, who refrained from sex to preserve his phosphorus
- Smyslov, an amateur opera singer who brought chess and artist' touch
- Tal, whose gaze and red-hot sacrifices wilted even the toughest wills
- Petrosian, who through chess became a paradoxa Soviet bourgeois
- Spassky, irreverent attacker who bowed to enigmatic Bobby Fischer
- Karpov, the positional boa constrictor of the board
- Kasparov, the char8smatic boxer-chess-player who's still at the top.
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About the Author
New Yorker Al Lawrence is one of the most popular modern chess authors. A former high school and college teacher with advanced degrees in instructional techniques, he specializes in applying modern teaching theory to chess. He is also a recipient of the Chess Journalist of the Year award.
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