Author: LOMBARDY, WILLIAM. DANIELS, DAVID
Title: Chess panorama
Description: Radnor. Pa. : Chilton Book Co. 1975. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 196 pages; Description: v. 196 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Chess --Biography --Chess --Collections of games. Notes: Includes indexes. Summary: A Yugoslav grandmaster. befuddled at a simulatenous blindfold exhibition. flees from a crowd of peasants through a bathroom window. A convicted murderer escapes from the police while being taken to a chess tournament. The wife of Grandmaster Reshevsky causes pandemonium when she insists on interjecting herself into a game with Grandmaster Byrne. Here are the colorful personalities. the scandals. and the great blunders of the champions that make up the chess panorama. Light in tone. sometimes humorous. and always entertaining. these stories. illustrated with game diagrams. offer a marvelous introduction to the world of chess. Delightful. kibbitzing. and chock full of marvelous anecdotes. this book. by real insiders. will entertain and instruct simple wood pushers and masters alike. by William Lombardy and David Daniels.ISBN: 0801960789. Weight in Kg appr.:

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