Tim Harding Bernard Cafferty (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Cadogan Chess Cadogan Chess Play the Evans Gambit (VG+) Manufacturer: Cadogan Chess Product Line: Cadogan Chess Type: Softcover Copyright Date: 1997 Author: Tim Harding, Bernard Cafferty Page Count: 240 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: In 1995 Garry Kasparov unleashed a daring new weapon, the Evans Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 b4). Although this gambit has always been popular with club and tournament players, it was hardly ever seen in modern top-level chess - until Kasparov used it to beat Anand and Piket in crushing style. Neither of these grandmasters managed to survive even 30 moves! Soon afterwards, the Latvian grandmaster Alexei Shirov used it to defeat Jan Timman in a brilliant 28-move victory. The Evans Gambit was back! In this fully revised edition of their 1976 work, Tim Harding and Bernard Cafferty provide a complete survey of the current state of theory and offer numerous new suggestions for analysis and experimentation. Tim Harding is an expert on correspondence chess, and a well-known journalist who now specializes in chess on the Internet. Bernard Cafferty is chess correspondent of The Sunday Times and was editor of the British Chess Magazine from 1981 to 1992.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's label & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling/foxing).…

Paperback. Condition: New.

First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, original bookseller's label to the foot of the front free endpaper. Illustrations of table positions set in the text throughout. Some fading to the jacket spine, else very good.