Mastering the Endgame: Closed games

Author: M. I. Shereshevsky
Publisher: Cadogan Books
ISBN: 9780080377841
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The connection between opening and endgame is a topic that has been hardly covered before in chess literature. By analysing a selection of classic and modern games, the authors explain how to play the typical endings arising from different openings. Volume 2: From the Closed Games covers the plans and playing methods in endings arising from the Queen's Gambit, Indian Defenses, English Opening, and other Closed Games. The material is arranged not by a formal opening classification, but mainly according to the type of pawn formation and the central strategy adopted by Black.

Endgame

Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781282745452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Stalingrad

Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101153563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2

Author: Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429945604
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors' insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure. In Volume 2, the authors have a Change of Heart, bending the rules established in Volume 1 to apply them to games such as Cut-cake and Loopy Hackenbush. From the Table of Contents: - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! - Hot Bottles Followed by Cold Wars - Games Infinite and Indefinite - Games Eternal--Games Entailed - Survival in the Lost World

Endgame, Volume 2

Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1583229744
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution.

Terminator Omnibus Volume 2

Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621154831
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
The Terminators never sleep. They don't need food or water. The heat of the desert gives them no pause. The darkness of night does not halt their deadly gaze. Bullets won't stop them. Their humanity cannot be appealed to-because they have none. Sent from the future, their mission is clear and unrelenting: to erase the lives of any who threaten their future dominance, any who would attempt to deny the rise of the Machine. But that which man has created, man can destroy, and so... the war for the future begins today. Dark Horse Comics is the acknowledged leader of adapting film blockbusters to graphic fiction, and The Terminator is one of the premier examples of what can be done with comics to expand an exciting film mythos. * Featuring work by fan-favorite creators James Robinson, Jackson Guice, Alan Grant, Steve Pugh, Guy Davis and more.

Megatokyo Omnibus Volume 2

Author: Fred Gallagher
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506701884
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 760

Book Description
Fred Gallagher's popular, long-running Megatokyo series celebrates over fifteen years of successful web and print publication with a second massive Megatokyo Omnibus edition and a return to Dark Horse Comics! Featuring the next three volumes of Fred Gallagher's otaku-gamer fantasy epic, Megatokyo Omnibus Volume 2 will also add new content- available only in this omnibus edition! Join obsessed Otaku Piro and his hardcore 133t h4x0rm4573r gamer friend, Largo, on their chaotic adventures in Tokyo from their unique - and dramatically different - points of view. Collects Megatokyo Volumes 4-6! "Megatokyo is a delightful and imaginative work of American manga."-Publisher's Weekly "The real charm of Megatokyo lies in the artwork . . . a style that feels light and airy, and allows for great detail."-Animerica "The pleasure of a story like Megatokyo comes not in its novelistic coherence, but in its loose ranginess . . . as it literally outgrows its borders into a lushly penciled full page, the story maturing into the exuberant, addictive soap operatics of the manga that inspired it."-The New York Times "Unlike many American 'manga' creators, Gallagher understands that creating 'manga' involves more than just aping an art style. Megatokyo is filled with quirky, interesting characters and the kind of loopy humor that makes Love Hina and Slayers so popular."-ICV2.com "Gallagher is the fastest-rising star on the American manga scene."-Library Journal

The Synopticon

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Endgame: The Fugitive Archives Volume 2: The Moscow Meeting

Author: James Frey
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062332740
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
This eighth prequel novella continues an all-new digital original arc in the Endgame world, and follows a forbidden love that threatens Endgame in post-World War II Germany. Humanity rests on the shoulders of twelve Players. But when the lives of a Cahokian Player and a Minoan Player intertwine over the search for an ancient weapon in post-World War II Berlin, the last thing they expect is to let their guard down, and fall in love. Now the fate of the world is threatened, as Boone and Ariadne race against the clock to keep the weapon from falling into the wrong hands. But this is Endgame. And only one can win. This heart-stopping novella arc takes place prior to the events in the New York Times bestseller Endgame: The Calling.

Star Trek Shipyards: The Delta Quadrant Vol. 2 - Ledosian to Zahl

Author: Ian Chaddock
Publisher: Eaglemoss
ISBN: 1858759730
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Profiling more than 50 ships that Voyager encountered in the Delta Quadrant, this is the 2nd of two volumes that profile the ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. Featuring the Lokirrim Warship, the Species 8472 Bioship, and the Vidiian Warships, and many more. Including technical overviews and operational histories, the ships are illustrated with CG artwork, created using the original VFX models made for the STAR TREK: VOYAGER TV series. With previously unseen artwork, the two official volumes form the most comprehensive account of ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER ever produced. Be sure to also look for Volume 1, The Borg and Delta Quadrant: Akritirian to Krenim, which features the ships of the Borg, and includes the Borg Cube and Borg Sphere, Borg Queen's Ship, the Renegade Borg Vessel and the Borg Tactical Cube, in addition to thirty-five ships of the Delta Quadrant species.