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1000 Best Short Games of Chess: A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature by Chernev, Irving (1900-1981) - 1955
by Chernev, Irving (1900-1981)
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1000 Best Short Games of Chess: A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature
by Chernev, Irving (1900-1981)
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xiv+555 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with red label to spine in gilt lettering over grey boards with blind-stamped pictorial knight to cover in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 24-76) First edition
Compiled by Irving Chernev in 1954. The games are arranged by length (from 4 to 24 moves). Chernev does abbreviate a few favorites to squeeze them in within the limit, and there are all the usual apocryphal games. This is a collection for fun, and who knows? You might even learn something.
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Corners bumped, some light shelf wear. Jacket edge tears and chips, spine toned, spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.
Compiled by Irving Chernev in 1954. The games are arranged by length (from 4 to 24 moves). Chernev does abbreviate a few favorites to squeeze them in within the limit, and there are all the usual apocryphal games. This is a collection for fun, and who knows? You might even learn something.
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Corners bumped, some light shelf wear. Jacket edge tears and chips, spine toned, spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.
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- Date Published 1955
- Keywords Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size Octavo
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xii+563 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Eight printing. Here, each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary, are 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. For the chess scholar, there is the delight of savoring the finest short games from the vast storehouse of chess history. The surprise and satisfaction of discovering that even the greatest masters have suffered the ignominy of a quick knockout: Morphy mated in 12 moves, Capablanca in 13 and the great Emanuel Lasker in 14. Condition: Corners gently bumped, light edge wear, some marginalia to the pack end paper else very good.
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The 1000 best short games of chess: A trasury of masterpiece in miniature [One thousand best short games of chess]
by Chernev, Irving, 1900-1981
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New York : Simon and Schuster, Fireside, 1955, 1955. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. [1st editoin], 10th printing ; 563 pages illustrations 22 cm ; LCCN: 55-5949 ; LC: GV1452; Dewey: 794.1 ; ISBN: 0671538012 ((pbk.)); 9780671538019 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 55-5949 ; OCLC: 55893364 ; pictorial black, lavender, gold stiff paper wrappers ; cover illustration by Seltzer ; "Chess brevities have always excercised a strange fascination for lovers of the royal game. Here, each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary, are 1000 of the sweetest suger-coated pills in all chess literature. For the chess scholar, there is the delight of savoring the finest short games from the vast storehouse of chess history. For most of us, there is the surprise and satisfaction of discovering that even the greatest masters have suffered the ignominy of a quick knockout: Morphy mated in 12 moves, Capablanca in 13, and the great Emanuel Lasker in 14!. Irving Chernev has replayed nearly every game of chess on record. He…
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