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How to Play Chess!: Tactics, Traps, and Tips for Beginners
Michael RohdeOffers an introduction to the basics of chess, with a description of the board, the chess pieces, and the particular moves each chess piece is allowed to make.
Prepare with Chess Strategy
Alexey W. RootMerit badge counselors, chess coaches, and teachers will find this book a valuable resource for their own lessons and workshops. Prepare With Chess Strategy to achieve your chess goals!"
Chess
More editionsThe chief controller was YMCA secretary Mike Wills, who has already established himself as a major organiser and promoter of London chess. And not to forget Richard James of Richmond Chess Club who did a small amount of controlling ...
Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Alexey W. RootOffers information to teachers, librarians, chess coaches, counselors, and parents on teaching chess to groups of children.
The Mysterious Origin and Strange Descent of Chess
Gilbert MooreThe author explores a fascinating and provocative thesis he calls the mancala hypothesis: While early Chinese chess (Liubo and Xiangxi) played a pivotal role in the evolution of chess, its role was intermediate and secondary.
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English ...
Simone ChessAlong the same lines, a year later L.O.A. Fradenburg and Carla Freccero expand this ideas with intervention against this Foucauldian distinction between sexual acts and identities in Premodern Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1996).
People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess
Alexey W. RootFifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4-8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. * 25 reproducibles, such as letters ...
Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Prof. Robert R. DesjarlaisJesse Kraai quoted in an interview with Jennifer Shahade, “IM Jesse Kraai Joins the Elite,” Chess Life (July 2007): 25. 29. Rusudan Goletiani, notes on a 2005 U.S. Women's Chess Championship game, New in Chess (2005, no. 1): 28. 30.
Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport
Jennifer ShahadeIn a game where the chess board's strongest piece "the Queen" is often referred to as a "bitch," and where being female has been long considered a major disadvantage, this eye-opening account shows how young female chess players are ...
Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
Bruce PandolfiniThis book is an invaluable reference tool and is bound to prove a source of endless inspiration to chess aficionados of every stripe.
Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry ...
Alexey W. RootThis book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy
Frank BradyRevealing biography of the controversial chess champion, written by a chess player who knew Fischer since the latter was 11.
Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators
Alexey W. RootThis book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
A Chess Story
Stefan Zweig'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you.
Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
Alexey W. RootThis book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. * Serves to prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle competitions
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
Claudia CardA convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.
Nina Simone
Kerry AckerTraces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
101 Questions on How to Play Chess
Fred WilsonA chess expert has distilled an enormous amount of information into an easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format that not only explains the most basic rules and essentials of play, but also offers advice on opening, combinations, middle- ...
Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games
Akiba RubinsteinHere are 100 of Rubenstein's best games against such opponents as Euwe, Janowski, Kashdan, Marshall, Tarrasch, and many others. His highly original contributions to chess theory cannot be overlooked by any serious player.
Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...
PreviewChapter 15 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society Mark Kremer Introduction No book embodies the postwar ideals of democratic progress more than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second ...
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques ...
More editionsThis book makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength.
Sounds Australian Update
More editionsInlcrnaiionally acclaimed conductor Simone Young has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Opera Australia, succeeding Moffatt Oxenbould who will be leaving at theend of the year 2001. From 2001, Simone will divide her time ...
Simone Martini Complete Edition
Andrew MartindaleA study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) whoas well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered lessmportant than Giotto and his followers.
Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...
Anne M. FrançoisTwo other essays in the collection analyze metaphors of exile in Simone Schwarz -Bart's Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979). ... Writing from Guadeloupe (2000); Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women ( 2001); ...
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir
Karen VintgesPhilosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.
First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition
Simone WrightAnd, according to Simone Wright, we often forget or don’t understand how to use the best tool available: our intuition, which is our “first intelligence” that can cut through the chatter to inherent wisdom.
A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton
Thomas MiddletonIn writing "A Game at Chess," Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play.
Chess Variants
Preview... 303, 318, 332 Queen Mother of the West, 295 Queen regnant, 279 R, 230 Race game, 299 Race games, 293 Radha, ... 282 R. Wayne Schmittberger, 114 Rybka, 30, 37, 43, 260 Ryu-oh, 394, 406, 411, 414 Sacrifice (chess), 40, 113 Saint ...
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration
Karen C. Pinto... Guggenheim fellowship announcement for Simone Pinet's forthcoming research and book The Task of the Cleric: Three Studies on the “Libro de Alexandre”(in progress) (http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/simone-pinet/, accessed May 22, ...
A Selection of Games at Chess Actually Played in London by ...
ReadNewman, R. esq. Stivelly, Professor Villiers Ryan, William, esq. Adelbert, D. Orsy, esq. Montgomery, James, esq. Ward, 'Ihomas esq. Bristol Chess Club. L. Bruton, esq. J. W. Ryland, esq. E. Williams, esq. John Withers, esq. The Club, One copy ...
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