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Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. He is also a world-renowned chess player. He was born in 1911, and by 1935 had become a Grandmaster of Soviet chess. In 1948 he won the world chess championship and held the title until 1963 (except for a two-year break). His chess style has been characterized as deep, objective, serious, and courageous. In this book, the quality of his thinking is revealed in his study of the basic thought processes of master chess players, and his reduction of these processes to mathematical form. This formalization of thought processes is a contribution to science at three levels: at the immediate level, it provides a basis for a computer program that seems likely to succeed in playing chess; at the middle level, game-playing
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1000 tasks and examples for junior chess players Author:
Kostrov 17.50 $ -
Handmade wooden chess 45.00 $
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Chess tactics for future champions Author:
Polgar 37.50 $ -
French defense. Repertoire for blacks. Author:
Vitiugov 50.00 $ -
Chigorin International Chess Tournament 25.00 $
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Old Indian Protection. From the Averbakh system to the Petrosyan system Author:
Polugaevsky 25.00 $ -
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Fisher 15.00 $ -
Wooden travel chess with a non-folding board 72.50 $
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My Great Predecessors Vol. 3: From Petrosyan to Spassky (Also available with colorless traces of moisture for half price) Author:
Kasparov 33.11 $ -
Attack and defense strategy Author:
Slavin 25.00 $