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Although he considered Sarratt's Treatise on the Game of Chess (1808) [3] a "poorly written book", in 1822 Lewis published a second edition of it three years after Sarratt's death in direct competition with Sarratt's own superior revision published posthumously in 1821 by Sarratt's poverty-stricken widow. In 1843, many players contributed to a ...
Boris Franzevich Gulko (Russian: Борис Францевич Гулько, IPA: [bɐˈrʲiz ɡʊlʲˈko]; born February 9, 1947) is a Soviet-American Grandmaster in chess. Notably, he is the only person to win both the Soviet Chess Championship and the U.S. Chess Championship , and one of the few players with a plus score against Garry Kasparov .
This is a list of chess books that are used as references in articles related to chess.The list is organized by alphabetical order of the author's surname, then the author's first name, then the year of publication, then the alphabetical order of title.
They have published books together and even established a chess school in the 1990s, turning out many of today's top-flight grandmasters. Dvoretsky and Yusupov's students have included Peter Svidler , Sergei Movsesian , Alexey Alexandrov , Vasily Yemelin , Inna Gaponenko , Ilakha Kadymova , Ela Pitem , Vadim Zviagintsev , Vladimir Baklan , and ...
His first-place finishes in New York international tournaments in 1977 and 1980 resulted in his being awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1980 (which is commonly referred to as "Grandmaster"). Soltis won the championship of the prestigious Marshall Chess Club a record nine times: in 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1986, and ...
Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966) is a Jamaican and American chess player, author, and commentator. [1] [2] In 1999, he earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).[3]Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events. [4]
He has since converted his books into a website, ChessOpeningsExplained.com, in which he shares his knowledge of the Hyper-Accelerated Sicilian Dragon. In August 2015, Perelshteyn also collaborated with programmer Peter Pashkov [ 8 ] to develop the Android application Chess Genie , which offers tactical exercises to its users.
In October 2015, Kasparov published a book titled Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. The title is a reference to the HBO television series Game of Thrones. In the book, Kasparov writes about the need for an organisation composed solely of democratic countries to replace the United Nations.