Deadline Grandmaster - A Chess Memoir

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.

List of contents

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