Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess

Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess

Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess

Harry Golombek

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Hardinge Simpole
Año de edición:
2003
Materia
Juegos de mesa
ISBN:
9781843820673
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A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960s, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is arranged chronologically and reaches the period of the Second World War. The games by such immortals as Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein are annotated with the customary lucidity, authority and elegance synonymous with Golombek.

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