The Chess Companion: A Merry Collection of Tales of Chess and Its Players, Together with a Cornucopia of Games, Problems, Epigrams & Advice, Topped Off with the Greatest Game of Chess Ever PlayedIrving Chernev America's foremost author of chess instruction books and a veritable encyclopedia of chess lore, Irving Chernev has culled his favorite and funniest anecdotes...to delight players of eveyr taste and talent. The second half of the book is devoted to action on the board".--Page 4 of cover. |
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