The 1000 Best Short Games of chess: A treasury of masterpiece in miniature
by Irving Chernev (1900-1981)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671538012
- ISBN 13
- 9780671538019
- Seller
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
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- Title
- The 1000 Best Short Games of chess: A treasury of masterpiece in miniature
- Author
- Irving Chernev (1900-1981)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671538012
- ISBN 13
- 9780671538019
- Publisher
- Fireside Book Published by Simon and Schust
- Place of Publication
- xii+563 pages with diagrams and index
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- xii+563 pages with diagrams and index
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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- Octavo
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