Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History - Weeramantry, Sunil; Abrams, Alan; Mclellan, Robert
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Take a wide-ranging journey from ancient India, through the palaces of medieval and Renaissance Europe, to the cafés of the Enlightenment and the dawn of the Industrial Age. Rogues and champions, tragic as well as inspirational human stories, all serve as the backdrop for illustrative games and exercises of increasing complexity highlighting their discoveries and inviting the student to grasp the potential of chess to fascinate.

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Take a wide-ranging journey from ancient India, through the palaces of medieval and Renaissance Europe, to the cafés of the Enlightenment and the dawn of the Industrial Age. Rogues and champions, tragic as well as inspirational human stories, all serve as the backdrop for illustrative games and exercises of increasing complexity highlighting their discoveries and inviting the student to grasp the potential of chess to fascinate.
Autorenporträt
Sunil Weeramantry is a FIDE Master, chess teacher, and Executive Director of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation. A two-time New York State Champion, Sunil is better known these days as the stepfather of GM Hikaru Nakamura, one of the world's elite grandmasters. Sunil is the author, with Ed Eusebi, of Best Lessons of a Chess Coach (Random House, 1993). Following a career as owner of a retail business, Alan Abrams now teaches chess in New York and Connecticut. Leading public-school chess programs at PS291 and MS15 in the South Bronx, he helped underprivileged children become national champions. Robert McLellan was Executive Producer for the award-winning chess documentary film, Brooklyn Castle, and served two years as marketing director for the U.S. Chess Federation before joining the National Scholastic Chess Foundation, where he develops and manages teacher training programs.