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Bosks by Irving ‘Chernev Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings The Chess Compariion Cheis 21 an Hour (with Frank J. Marshall) Gombinations: The Heart of Chess ‘The Fireside Bonk of Chess ith Fred Reinfeld) Enaiation ta Chews twith Kerineth Harkness) Logical Chas: Move by Move The TOO Best Short faames of Chess Practical Chass Endings Warning Chew Traps Wonders at Curiosities if Chets ‘A Teeasury ‘of Masterpissés in:Minintire™ By IRVING. CHERNEV. Introduction end Openings Index by Brivce Pandolfint A Fireside Book ~: Pablished by. Simon & Schiaster, Ine, *: New York corvarcirs © 1W87 py snisa ciavaney covymagHt © RENEWED 1983 fy SELIA GuAARLY ‘COPYINGHT © 165 BY IRVING GuLKsEY sits RestDe £ut10N, 1987 1280 avaNUR OF THE aunERuCAY Neve SORK, EW YORE 10020 ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 18 1955, FIRESIDE anb CoLortion axe aLGrtins. 1000 aust SHORT Can9r9 OF CHESS 1 ctness -CouLECTION® OF Games. TIF ove 1887 TBAT 8 Regie ander the Autry of President Dees No. 235, sm amend hy PA) Nas. 1 oy RATIONAL. BOOK SLORY, IME DL Rial avenue, Cor Suter Su. Mail Te No, S86 1 OS S09 s7Le 54 For Stan and Jeane Introduction. by Bruce Pandolfini ravines CHRRNEY (JERMI- L987} was one of America’s most prolific and valuable chess writers. He knew how 10 write Sasirwelional books Usa weve car, sclevant, and lively. His lest wotks mere a weaviang wyether of games and scores, ancedowes and examples, hich encertained as well as aught, at hoe ta inguin tails, Tes The 300% Best Short Gums of Chass, Chere gave us a volusi dmelessly satisiying to all ebessplagers, a storehouse of brian lictice ancl combictiuns. Few ater chess books soe close 1 oberg s0 tues exciting Creausity, se coun ppaclly. Newcomers antl suudems especially appreciate is ferve, direet ceaching, Each gune ilustres how a player violating principle can be punished by the oppeuemt ‘Thac’s poten instruction, for oue daesa't have lo wail fly moves ta see the: effect Gach aoe oF these cme Ukousund yunnes is miiiauave Jes son: immediate, cogent, unorgettables the lawer une more so because of the author's pithy prefaces andl insightfial eout- ‘ments. Yeti’ an easy veading book. Ten irinates whenever convenient is all one neuds o derive benelit, And tle lessons areshore enenigh for children to use, eo: Game |. for cxaaple, shows White losing ia only four owes because he mavse fap many piavms. Blick brings oat bis Queen premarnrely in game 26 and ques down io eight moves. {n game 44 a famoits grand master gee mated in a mere eleven moves herase nf heedless greed. And on move nine in game 42, Cheenes himsef apples an oppanent. wha thas noglecced to eae, You dan't necessarily have to start the book ar the begie~ ning. You could play through blocks of games an a parncolar opening variation, ay Luuyself zequive many oP my students x Inaneduction 1a do, or follow the author's suggestions in the foreseord about going dircetly @ specific concep. ‘One theme offers ftecn games where grear masters were wiped ave. Another supplies inscaners af winning by only aving pawns. The 1600 tet Short Games of Chas cok hase bbeen concocted for a chess heaven. It's nectar and alnticsia, and if you're like me, srw play aver some examples ist fully on vere that one aceasion, Foreword ‘Turse anu the short stories of the chessboard —the quickest ‘Wins sooted by master and amateur, vittaavo ond diettate ‘With the exception of x few happy lstaninute discoveries, the games we ancanged in order of length, stating with 3 crackling win in four moves {ftom tournament play!) 20d ruuning to the maimu pemstted iu bei enovunter— rwentyfour moves. “The games extend over the entire feld of chess Wterature, which i to say they include 2 miniature from a Word's Clanplouship match iu 1575, specimens of Greco's skill in 1619, the gueat Philidor’s in 1789 (aud aso of fis teacher's), 2 hont of brian brevities from the eighteen hundreds, and all the recent beauties ofthe last hal century ‘The grand nas tee wliote Muse always sonms to be ot hand has bit games in this collection, x8 does the neighborhued expert with his onco- inaiftinie inspiration, ‘Here tou are wondrous games ly prodigies who wielded the pieces Uke masters before they reached theit teens, and gems fashioned hy the antists of the board—diamonds hy Morphy and rabies by Alekhine. And in Festive mood there are offhand, altangous, blindfold, and oddegiving encounters of every description, Surprises there are of every imaginable sort and checkmates ‘tp match, [fee you vill find such bizare devices for whuuug as mate hy Coiling, mate by eaphiring en passant, mate Bf undecpromotion, and mate by a ringed pioce. In and among these are other piquant conccits, such 2s smothered enates, a Feruord epailete mates, and picturesque longrange mates, Loads of dezzing sacrifices of Quoens and Rooks that astonished the recipients and a myriad of Knights, Bithops, aod Pans that were gift wapped and thet upon innocent vets make up 4 gooily past of tit anthology. Tn sum, there are enizapes of every manner of winning known, “the dagger and the howl—sudden death and pio- Jonged agony.” Th Eis wondestul world of chess you wil nd sch mare vena: 1. Quick Knockouts of Great Masters 2) Fine it Foees a B} Dake io 9 36 1) Tavakover io 10 4“ 2) Ravrein 1D ” (2) Ades in 12 ” 1) Keves in 12 104 Bg) Siriano i 12 rr 1) Morphy in 32 18 8) Tehignrin 13 18 i) Tamas in 13 15 2) Capablanca in 13 1 1) Berniten 15 2 sm} Mahal 1 26 ‘o) Lasker i 14 m8 0) Rabintein ia 1S: a 2, Games Won by Cleats 42) Heng/T. Buckle * 2B) Napaleon Bovaparte 197,559 ©) Bows: Law 269 by Pope Leo XT eu f) fean Jacques Rossese “eo 1) Count Le» Tolstoy co Fersoed i 3. Games Won by Prodigies 2) Saunoy Reshessy at 8 419,488 1) Elaine Saundew at 10 added sm rel Mugpy at 12 ‘indotded) ne 6) Bers Spaky at 12 oo fe) Arta Ponar ab 13 $6 1) Wiens Napor a 1 cy 2) Arvold Deakee at 15 396 1) Lay keane 15 70 4. Games Won by Moving Pewas Only 2) AnatourBrocning 6 2) BowochowFine rd 4) Koja Rainghawer 2 2) Mahal again, a 5. Mate by Prediction 2) Mate sonoarced ia 7 moves, Oey Dever 05 by Mate angounced i 8, TaylorAmateut 3 6) Mate ancouneed io 8, Revonky Mita 3 2) Mate sanouncel in 9, Ponersamrteae 5 4) Mate announced in 9, ‘Natschege Faber om 2) Mate soseuneed in 1, ‘Alstine Pat a0 6. Mate by Suffocation 4) Bid Anatear ur B) FocHodger rr 6) Seeds Corhasand my 4) Meephy Amster mm.