History of Chess in 50 Moves
(By Bill Price)
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The History of Chess in Fifty Moves recounts the 1,500-year history of the game of royals, from its ancient beginnings to Deep Blue, Kasparov and internet chess.
As stand-alone stories or in sequence, the 50 chapters explain how chess has changed, adapted, and thrived through the centuries. It reveals the sublime players, the controversies, the great tournaments and upsets, the victories... nothing is overlooked.
Entertaining and faithful text descriptions, artwork reproductions, archival photographs, callout boxes, quotations of interest, and chessboard diagrams bring chess's colorful history to life.
The stories cover the globe's chessboards and the game's generations of players, including:
The Turk, the automaton hoax that fooled royalty
Theories on the origin of chess
The longest match
The Polgar sisters
The decline of Boris Spassky
The Bobby Fischer phenomenon
The Soviet invasion
Chess, codebreaking and Bletchley Park
The female Soviet, Vera Menchik
The first official chess Olympiad
Phillip Stamma notates chess
The Da Vinci connection
Capablanca versus Alekhine
The Internet changes everything.
For chess players at all levels, The History of Chess in Fifty Moves is an exciting treat they will return to again and again.”
