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Deadline Grandmaster - A Chess Memoir

English · Paperback / Softback

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This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of the game, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction. It describes how chess and journalism fought for his time for more than 50 years and how he managed to score coups and make blunders in each field. Among his distinctions: He is the only person who has both interviewed Donald Trump and played chess with (and nearly beat!) Bobby Fischer.

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Table of Contents

Preface: Duke and Dukelsky

�Opening Irregular

�Patterns Recognized

�Tempo Accelerated

�Waiting Moves

�Symmetrical Variations

�Boomed

�Book Moves

�Hobbyism

�Repositioning Moves

10-Desperado Time

11-Middlegame Deferred

12-Grand Irony

13-Bearing Up

14-Amateur Professional

15-Continuations Dubious

16-Perpetual Risks

17-Beyond Calculation

18-Dinosaur in a Cyber World

19-Seeking a Favorable Endgame

Chapter Notes

Index of Openings-Traditional Names

Index of Openings-ECO Codes

Index of Opponents

General Index


About the author

Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, eight times champion of the Marshall Chess Club, New York Post editor and Chess Life columnist, is the author of dozens of chess books. He lives in New York City.

Product details

Authors Andrew Soltis
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.08.2024
 
EAN 9781476689982
ISBN 978-1-4766-8998-2
No. of pages 120
Dimensions 178 mm x 254 mm x 6 mm
Weight 706 g
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss
Subjects Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies

Memoirs, Chess, Autobiography: sport, Board games: Chess, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Chess, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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