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Achieving the Aim

By: Botvinnik, M. M.

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: Oxford, Pergamon Press: (1981)

Seller ID: 22338

ISBN: 0080241204

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued

One leaf (pp.175-6) has diagonal creasing and an 80mm tear, without loss of text. Otherwise very good. ; vii, [1], 226, [2 (blank)] pages + plates. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 208 x 144mm. Text in English, translated from Russian. Series: Pergamon Russian Chess Series. "In this fascinating an absorbing autobiography Mikhail Botvinnik, former world champion and one of the strongest players of the century, talks frankly about the life of a chess player in the USSR." - from blurb on rear cover.
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Bob Wade - Tribute to a Chess Master

By: Cannon, Ray (editor)

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: [U.K.?], Impala Film Division: 2006

Seller ID: 22337

ISBN: 0955535522

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

350 pages. "Wade three times won the national championship of his native New Zealand and after winning the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1948, Wade travelled to Europe to further his chess career." - from the Introduction by Grandmaster Ray Keene. Includes lists of moves of 240 games. "Bob Wade OBE is the doyen of British Chess [ . . .] Wade went on to earn the FIDE International Master title, the Commonwealth Grandmaster title, compete and in the World Championship Interzonal, twice win the British Championship [. . .]" - from blurb on rear cover.
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Fischer World Champion! -The Acclaimed Classic about the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match

By: Euwe, Max & Jan Timman

Price: NZ$47.00

Publisher: Alkmaar, The Netherlands, New In Chess: (2009)

Seller ID: 22333

ISBN: 9056912631

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

Third English edition. The original edition was in Dutch, published in 1972. This third English edition has a new Foreword by Jan Timman, dated 2008, and a 4 page Introduction by Garry Kasparov. 175, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 218 x 144mm. Illustrated. With lists of moves of 21 games, with commentary.
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Rook Endings

By: Levenfish, Grigory & Vasily Smyslov

Price: NZ$101.25

Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford: (1962)

Seller ID: 22127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First edition in English. 224 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. Illustrated with numerous chess diagrams. Text in English, translated from the Russian by Philip J. Booth.
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'Mr Chess' - The Ortvin Sarapu Story

By: Sarapu, Ortvin

Price: NZ$43.00

Publisher: Wainuiomata, New Zealand, New Zealand Chess Supplies: (1993)

Seller ID: 22328

ISBN: 0473016079

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

No signatures. ; 180, [2] pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 148mm. Includes lists of moves of 68 chess games. "The remarkably career of New Zealand's best known chess player Ortvin Sarapu has spanned more then five decades and given us hundreds of memorable games. [. . .] FIDE, the world chess body, awared Sarapu an International Master title in 1966." - from dust-jacket blurb.
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David Bronstein - Chess Improviser

By: Vainstein, B. S.

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: Oxford, Pergamon Press: (1983)

Seller ID: 22336

ISBN: 0080297234

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

[6], 194 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 249 x 168mm. Text in English, translated from Russian. Series: Pergamon Russian Chess Series.
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The World Chess Championship 1963 - M. M. Botvinnik v. Tigran Petrosian

By: Wade, R. G. (editor)

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: London, Neville Spearman: 1963

Seller ID: 22331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

No signatures. No tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 218, [2 (blank)] pages + plates. Red boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 134mm. Illustrated. Includes lists of moves in games, with comments by the editor.
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Category: Chess

Achieving the Aim

Bob Wade - Tribute to a Chess Master

Fischer World Champion! -The Acclaimed Classic about the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match

Rook Endings

'Mr Chess' - The Ortvin Sarapu Story

David Bronstein - Chess Improviser

The World Chess Championship 1963 - M. M. Botvinnik v. Tigran Petrosian