One Move Chess By The Champions

by Bruce Pandolfini

Now you can match wits with world chess champions using this ​guide to key chess strategies—from America’s leading chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.

Since 1886, the world chess champion has been determined every few years in dramatic head-to-head competitions. From Steinetz to Karpov, the twelve men who have held the title have shared a desire to succeed and a stunning ability to translate this desire into that most definitive and triumphant of moves—checkmate!

You'll discover suspenseful, one-move problems that capture an average of ten games per player in the moment just before the victory-forcing play. Presented in an easy-to-use, interactive format that includes over 100 individual diagrams, the moves are arranged in order of difficulty—from beginning to advanced.

Champions Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Steinetz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik

Invaluable commentary, analysis, and historical information on each champion make this a book that will provide hours of stimulating and enjoyable entertainment for years to come!

132 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 1985

About the author

Bruce Pandolfini (born September 17, 1947) is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is generally considered to be America’s most experienced chess teacher. As a coach and trainer, Pandolfini has possibly conducted more chess sessions than anyone in the world. By the summer of 2015 he had given an estimated 25,000 private and group lessons.

(Wikipedia)