The Chess Mind

The Chess Mind

PublisherPenguin Books
Publisher SeriesPenquin Handbook
Copyright HolderGerald Abrahams
Cover/Jacket Design byKeith Burns
First Published byEnglish Universities Press
Printed byThe Whitefriars Press Ltd
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationUnited Kingdom
This Edition Published1964
Copyright1951
Pages / Font346 pages / Monotype Times
Catalog NumberPH46
Other6'-
ChaptersPreface to the First Edition . . . 7 Preface to the Penquin Edition . . . 7 Introduction . . . 9 PART ONE: Varieties of Mental Activity in Chess 1. Vision in Chess . . . 15 . . .Notes Chess, Mathematics and Inference . . . 27 2. Common Sense and the Intrusion of Ideas . . . 30 3. Imagination: It's Use and Abuse . . . 52 4. General Thinking . . . 93 5. How Battles are Won and Lost . . . 121 6. Varieties of Error . . . 138 7. Empirical Chess . . . 165 8. Memory, Experience, and Technique . . . 187 PART TWO: The Chess Mind in Action . . . Illustrative Games 1. Rubinstein - Capablanca . . . 221 2. Rubinstein - Lasker . . . 224 3. Capablanca - Spielman . . . 226 4. Kashdan - Reshevesky . . . 229 5. Yates - Takacs . . . 231 6. Reshevesky - Botvinnik . . . 234 7. Dake - Reshevesky . . . 235 8. Nimzovitch - Capablanca . . . 238 9. Canal - Capablanca . . . 241 10. Réti - Lasker . . . 245 11. Lasker - Capablanca . . . 248 12. Rauser - Botvinnik . . . 253 13. Botvinnik - Lisitzin . . . 257 14. Pillsbury - Lasker . . . 259 15. Bird - Mason . . . 261 16. Alekhine - Rubinstein . . . 263 17. Tarrasch - Bogoljubov . . . 265 18. Capablanca - Alekhine . . . 266 19. Euwe - Eliskases . . . 268 20. Keres - Eliskases . . . 272 21. Alekhine - Euwe . . . 274 22. Euwe - Alekhine . . . 276 23. Alekhine - Euwe . . . 278 24. Breyer - Esser . . . 280 25. Euwe - Réti . . . 282 26. Anderssen - Kieseritsky . . . 283 27. Morphy - Maurian . . . 283 28. Reshevesky - Beaumont . . . 284 29. Pillsbury - Tchigorin . . . 285 30. Botvinnik - Szabo . . . 286 31. Keres - Kotov . . . 287 32. Zagorowski - Mezhgailis . . . 288 33. Kotov - Geller . . . 289 34. Abrahams - Zuckerman . . . 290 35. Kondratiev - Orlov . . . 293 36. Reshevesky - Bronstein . . . 294 37. Geller - Euwe . . . 298 38. Botvinnik - Bronstein . . . 299 39. Botvinnik - Bronstein . . . 303 40. Geller - Smyslov . . . 307 41. Botvinnik - Smyslov . . . 311 42. Botvinnik - Smyslov . . . 313 43. Botvinnik - Smyslov . . . 318 44. Smyslov - Botvinnik . . . 323 45. Keres - Unzicker . . . 327 46. Keres - Tal . . . 330 47. Byrne - Fischer . . . 332 . . . INDEX . . . 337
NotesPublished in Penguin Handbooks 1960 Second Edition 1964
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