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The Thinker's Game: Decoding the Chess Universe
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $39.00
ISBN13: 9789083488226
Publisher: Thinkers Publishing
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
It covers the technical
aspects of chess: the use of algebraic notation (Chapter 3), chess evaluation (Chapter 4), the opening phase (Chapter 5), the middle game (Chapter 6), the endgame (Chapter 7), and the chess rating system (Chapter 8). It introduces a number of chess problems, formulated with a chess board and chess pieces and presupposing a working knowledge of chess (Chapter 9).It offers
an account of variants of chess such as Fischer random chess (Chapter 10). It also covers the cultural aspects of chess: its history (Chapter 2) and status as an immortal game that might enable it to play a role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Chapter 11). Wherever possible, chess diagrams are provided to help chess beginners make sense of certain points about chess. Algebraic notation will also guide them in understanding certain chess-based lines of reasoning.Whenever you are ready, let us begin this odyssey of
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