Keres, Paul:Practical Chess Endings
- signiertes Exemplar 2005, ISBN: 9780890580288
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Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing, Wentworth Press, 6, 56 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound… Mehr…
Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing, Wentworth Press, 6, 56 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's back and red checkered stapled wrappers. (Betts 25 - 254) First edition. Following the decision of the FIDE Congress in Göteborg in 1955, the IIIrd of the already popular student chess tournaments was held in the historic Swedish University centre of Uppsala from April 515th, 1956. Owing to the great number of teams that had applied, it had become necessary to divide the participants into four preliminary groups. Altogether 8 teams advanced into the winning group where competitions were going on for the title of world champion. In the final group the struggle for the first place, and thereby for the title of world champion was practically decided during the first three rounds. The Soviet team won in the first round against the Bulgarian 4-0, in the second beat Spain 3-1 and in the third, they beat their most serious opponent, Yugoslavia 4-0. In the rounds to come they only strengthened their advance position. Their victory is fully deserved and hence the title of world champion goes to those whose merits are the highest. Second place was taken by the student team from the Hungarian People's Republic. The next places went to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, who each attained an equal number of points, i. e. 15. In the end third place was taken by the Yugoslav team, for it had scored a higher number of points for matches won in accordance with the regulations of the tournament. Condition: Corners bumped some edge wear else a very good copy., International Union of Students, 1956, 3, 200 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.In the spring of 1954, after the USSR Championship in January but before the FIDE congress in July, an international chess tournament was held in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. The players in attendance included four Soviet masters, Viktor Korchnoi, Ratmir Kholmov, Semion Furman, and Rashid Nezmetdinov; 1 Swedish grandmaster Gideon Stahlberg; 2 two Czechoslovakian international masters, Miroslav Filip and Ludek Pachman; 3 Belgian international master Alberic O'Kelly de Galway; 4 Polish international master Bogdan Sliwa; 5 Italian international master Enrico Paoli; 6 three Hungarian masters, Bela Sandor, Stefan Szabo, and Gyula Kluger; 7 New Zealand international master Robert Wade; 8 and four players representing Romania: international master Octav Troianescu, Victor Ciocaltea, Ion Balanel, and Paul Voiculescu. 9 The four Soviet masters were practically unknown outside their own country at this time, but were allowed to compete internationally for the first time as a result of loosening travel restrictions due to Nikita Khrushchev's policy of "Destalinization". 10 In addition, the All-Union section of the Russian Chess Federation wanted to answer criticism that they only sent their top grandmasters to international tournaments because they were afraid their masters wouldn't show very good results against tough western players. 11 Before the tournament, the Russian Chess Federation paid for the four Soviet masters to go to Moscow for a special preparation and training course under the direction of grandmasters Isaac Boleslavsky and David Bronstein. Nezhmetdinov won the tournament first brilliancy prize with his astounding win against Paoli in the fifth round. Just before the round, Nezhmetdinov was informed that his son, Iskander, had been born. He later reported that "At the end of the round, I sent a telegram to my wife: 'I congratulate you on the birth of our son, and I dedicate my game with Paoli to him'." 1, 12 And a fine dedication it was! It soon became clear that Korchnoi and Nezhmetdinov would fight neck and neck for the top honors. As Korchnoi recalls, "Nezhmetdinov ... was at his best. In the first round I miraculously managed to draw against him the exchange and a pawn down". After the penultimate round, Korchnoi and Nezhmetdinov were deadlocked at 12½ points. Nezhmetdinov then lost to Furman, and Korchnoi drew O'Kelly to win the tournament, making his entrance into international chess entirely memorable. Due to their impressive results at Bucharest, the four Soviet masters (as well as Kluger and Balanel) were awarded international master titles at the July 1954 FIDE Congress.Condition:Corners bumped, edge wear, hinges rubbed, age toning to pages else a very good copy., Editura Tineretului Cultura Fizika si Sport, 1955, 3, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First Paperback Edition [stated]. Seventh Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [10], 421, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Appendix (Mediation Guide and Bibliotherapy). Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page wear and discoloration. Signed by the author on half title. Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist, who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She is listed in Who's Who in America. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation", which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works "to make women visible and powerful in the media". Steinem currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and is a media spokeswoman on issues of equality. Derived from a Kirkus review: Steinem's inwardly turned examination of how men and women sabotage themselves by suppressing the ``child within'' is insightful. Her reflections on her own and others' spiritual struggles may give a new generation of activists pause for further reflection. In the wake of Ms. magazine's sale and her own resignation as its editor, Steinem found herself, she says, with the time and inspiration to write a book she'd had in mind for years--a study of the psychological and societal factors that negatively influence self-esteem. Recounting her own early life as the daughter of a factory worker who divorced his mentally ill wife when Gloria was only ten, Steinem details the natural progression from a co-dependent relationship with her mother to an unconscious adult sense of being ``co-dependent with the world.'' Forced by her need to wall off her past, she led a life of outer-world confrontations until, through therapy undertaken as research for her book, she began to master her ``inner child.'' By including others' tales of self- actualization through a ``revolution from within''--the creation of a winning chess team in Spanish Harlem, the transformation of a housewife into an entrepreneur, etc.--Steinem illustrates how others' psychic journeys may lead in much different directions than her own. Still, much of what is recommended here will strike many as old hat--and, in the end, more interesting as an update on the feminist's life than as a practical aid to others. A piquant counterpoint to recently revitalized, outer-directed feminism., Little, Brown and Company, 1992, 2.5, 182 pages with tables, diagrams and index. Folio (11 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original stapled wrappers. Volume 40, 12 numbers in 7. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6066) First edition.Ceskoslovensky sach is the official organization magazine for Czechoslovakia. It was founded in 1906 as the successor of Ceskych listu sachovych and Sachovych listu. Since 1920, it has been published under the title Casopis ceskoslovenskych sachistu (Czechoslovak Chess) and since 1927 he has been published under the present name (under the Fascist Occupation in the years 1939-1945 he was called Sach). The name was not changed even after the split up of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The first publications were edited by Jan Dobrusky, Oldrich Duras and Vaclav Kautsky. The magazine is published once a month and serves both practical, correspondence and chess compositions. (in this area the magazine's level was also appreciated abroad). Currently it is edited by international master Ivan Hausner.Condition:Edge wear corners bumped, some tears at spine ends else a very good set., Czechoslovakia Chess Association, 1946, 3, paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5<
