| Description |
223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Intro -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Explanation of symbols -- Introduction -- Part I: 20th century champions I have known -- Chapter 1: Pre-World War II masters -- Chapter 2: Bobby Fischer -- Chapter 3: The 1972 U.S. Championship -- Chapter 4: Bent Larsen -- Chapter 5: Svetozar Gligoric -- Chapter 6: Steve Brandwein -- Chapter 7: Finding Beth Harmon -- Chapter 8: Roman Dzindzichashvili -- Chapter 9: Viktor Kortchnoi -- Chapter 10: Walter Browne -- Chapter 11: Boris Spassky -- Chapter 12: Garry Kasparov -- Chapter 13: Ken Rogoff, Mark Diesen, and Eugene Meyer |
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Part II: My non-chess career: options, shogi, and other games -- Chapter 14: Chess Options -- Chapter 15: Shogi -- Chapter 16: Other games -- Part III: My chess career and my students -- Chapter 17: Memorable games -- Chapter 18: The Baltimore versus Cuba match -- Chapter 19: Three World Seniors -- Chapter 20: My three students who became IMs -- Chapter 21: Raymond Kaufman -- Part IV: Computer chess -- Chapter 22: 54 years with the chess engines -- Chapter 23: Man vs Machine, 2020 -- Chapter 24: NNUE -- Part V: Various chess-related topics -- Chapter 25: Chess ratings -- Chapter 26: Openings |
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Chapter 27: Material values -- Chapter 28: What are the odds? -- Chapter 29: What is a won game? -- Chapter 30: A new Armageddon chess -- Chapter 31: Reforms -- Chapter 32: The future -- Index of names |
| Summary |
Stories and anecdotes on famous and not-so-famous chess players, and memorable, little-known chess games.weapons. |
| Subject |
Kaufman, Larry, 1947-
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Chess players -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9789056919337 (paperback) |
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