The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and Win (McKay Chess Library)

Soltis, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0812922913 / ISBN 13: 9780812922912

Published by Random House, New York, 1994

About this Item

First Edition, 4th Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/stained rear cover intruding into rear endpaper, else Fine and unmarked. xxi, 359pp inc. Index; illustrated in chessboards. 368 p.

Seller Inventory # 036810

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and Win (McKay Chess Library)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812922913
• ISBN 13: 9780812922912
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: About Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Every player has heard the saying, "Chess is 99 percent tactics." It isn't.

It's 99 percent calculation. But until now there has never been a book devoted entirely to this most mysterious and essential chess technique.

This book examines both the technical and practical aspects of how to think ahead -- the selection of candidate moves, the evaluation of end positions, finding the proper move order, and the like.

Special attention is paid to the broad range of calculating mistakes, such as overlooked zwischenzugs and "quiet moves," visualization blunders, and "believing" your opponent.

About the Author

Andrew Soltis is an International Grandmaster, a former U.S. Open Champion, and the author of more than seventy books. He writes an award-winning column for Chess Life magazine.