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Startling Correspondence Chess Minitatures
HARDING, Tim
Condition: As New
Publisher: Chess Mail
Publication year: 2000
Number of pages: 128
Dust jacket: No Jacket
Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Summary
This collection of 100 entertaining and instructive short games contains a wealth of opening tricks and middle-game tactics played by email or post. All the games in the book end within 25 moves, the standard definition for a miniature game. Some games speak for themselves and have light notes, while the critical moments of other games are analyzed in-depth. The notes to the games include numerous explanations of opening theory, with many little-known sidelines and traps. As well as the 100 main annotated games, there are 20 complete games in the notes and 12 further games presented as tactical exercises for the reader to solve.
About the author
Timothy David Harding was born in London in 1948, and began playing competitive chess at school. After reading Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, he was caught up in the Bobby Fischer boom and started writing technical articles and instructional books on chess (under the byline T. D. Harding). From 1996-2005, Tim edited the magazine Chess Mail and became increasingly interested in the history of the game, the subject of his latest books. In 2009, Trinity College Dublin awarded him a PhD for his dissertation on chess history.
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