{"product_id":"combinations-the-heart-of-chess-dover-chess-0486217442","title":"Combinations: The Heart of Chess (Dover Chess)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0486217442\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chernev, Irving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving Chernev's outstanding chess books earn him a high rank among the world's top chess authors. In this well-annotated text, Mr. Chernev guides his readers to an understanding of the subtleties of combinative play.Step-by-step from the simplest combinations to the most complex, the book explains the intricacies of pins and counter-pins, Knight forks, smothered mates, and other elements of combination play. There is a discussion in chapter five of combinations lurking in roads not taken - alternate lines of play show up in Chernev's notes to the game, while the sixth chapter, \"Convincing the Kibitzers,\" shows the second-guessers what would have happened had the masters done the obvious. (Some disastrous combinations show up here.) A host of boomerangs follow - cases where the player didn't look far enough ahead and his combination, instead of bringing about the opponent's ruin, paved the way to his defeat. Chapters 8-21 take up combinations used by such great players as Tarrasch, Botvinnik, Nimzovich, Steinitz, Rubinstein, and Pillsbury; the sacrificial combinations of Anderssen and Spielmann; the dazzling brilliancies of Morphy, Keres, and Alekhine; the deadly attacks of Marshall; the almost unfathomable ideas of Lasker; and the matchless creations of Capablanca. Mr. Chernev's thoughtful annotations unravel the secrets of each of these plans. A diagram accompanies each combination; an index, by player, leads the reader to the combination he is looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51929667141920,"sku":"NEW0486217442","price":11.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/combinations-the-heart-of-chess-dover-chess-0486217442","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}