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The history of chess in 50 moves / by Price, Bill.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Chess; Chess players;
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Endgame [videorecording] / by Avila, Sandra,film producer.; Brennan, Cassie,actor.; Bulgarelli, Francisco.; Cobb, Jamie.; Coll, Ivonne,1947-actor.; Delara, Youssef.; Gonzalez, Xavier,actor.; Gries, Jon,1957-actor.; Herrera, Alina,actor.; Machado, Justina,1972-actor.; Marron, Carmen.; Ramirez, Efren,1973-actor.; Rodriguez, Rico,1998-actor.; Rodriguez, Valente,actor.; Salinas, Hector,screenwriter.; Standefer, Brian,composer.; Avila Entertainment,production company.; Late Bloomer Productions,presenter.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.; Sparkhope Productions,production company.;
Music, Brian Standefer ; editors, Jamie Cobb, Youssef Delara ; director of photography, Francisco Bulgarelli.Rico Rodriguez, Ivonne Coll, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Justina Machado, Valente Rodriguez, Cassie Brennan, Xavier Gonzalez, Alina Herrera.Since he was five years old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose finds himself in the spotlight and has the chance to use his skills as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals.G.DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; NTSC, region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Chess players; Students;
For private home use only.
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The Queen's gambit / by Tevis, Walter S.,author.;
Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become national champion and to play the world grandmasters.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Chess; Chess; Competition (Psychology); Orphans; Women chess players;
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Rebel Queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster / by Polgár, Zsuzsa,1969-author.; Seirawan, Yasser,1960-writer of foreword.;
A real life 'Queens Gambit', 'Rebel Queen' is the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, who took on a sexist establishment, standing up to an authoritarian empire, and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969-; Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969-; Chess; Women chess players;
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The queen of Katwe : a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's rise from an African slum / by Crothers, Tim.;
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Subjects: Mutesi, Phiona.; Women chess players; Poor girls;
© c2012., Random House Canada,
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Intermezzo / by Rooney, Sally,author.;
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Brothers; Chess players; Families; Fathers and sons; Grief; Lawyers; Love; Man-woman relationships;
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Chess : from first moves to checkmate / by King, Daniel.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 60) and index.Introduces the rules and strategies of chess, as well as its history and some of the great players and matches.
Subjects: Chess;
© 2000., Kingfisher,
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A gamble at sunset / by Riley, Vanessa,author.;
Vanessa Riley turns all convention on its head for the first in an enchanting diverse new Regency romance trilogy featuring a duke, three sisters, and a tantalizing bet with a most desirable reward. When a duke discovers the woman he loves was tricked into marrying another, the master chess player makes the now-widowed Baroness the highest-stakes wager of his life: he will find husbands for her two reluctant-to-marry sisters -- or depart forever.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Composers; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Sisters;
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Become a chess champion : learn the basics from a pro / by Canty, James,III.; Lambert, Brian(Illustrator); St. Martin's Press.;
Kids will learn how to master the basics of the classic board game in this fun beginner's guide from professional chess player James Canty III. Become a Chess Champion is structured like a chess course, with knowledge carefully introduced as readers turn the pages -- assisted by hilarious chess pieces illustrated by Brian Lambert. The emphasis is on fun: James Canty III uses mini games and chess puzzles to teach important concepts and avoid overwhelming beginners. Kids will learn key skills like how to play the perfect opening and trick their opponents to bring about checkmate. By the end of the book readers should be able to confidently take on their parents, guardians or grandparents in a competitive game of chess! Become a Chess Champion also introduces kids to the wonderful world of chess. They'll meet the chess player who didn't lose a game for 30 years, the priest who invented the folding chess board, and the astronauts on the International Space station who had a chess match with people back on Earth! As well as being great fun, chess also helps kids develop key skills such as strategising, patience, and logic, and helps them excel in school subjects such as mathematics.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Chess;
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Beyond reasonable doubt / by Dugoni, Robert,author.;
"When Jenna Bernstein, disgraced wunderkind CEO of a controversial biotech company, is accused of murdering her former partner and lover, she turns to Seattle attorney Keera Duggan to defend her. Keera is more than a master chess player who brings her intuitive moves into court-she's Jenna's childhood friend. But considering their history, Keera knows that where Jenna goes, trouble follows. Five years earlier, Keera's father successfully defended Jenna when she was tried for the killing of her company's chief scientist who threatened to go public with allegations of corporate fraud. Keera knows Jenna too well. When she was a kid, Keera saw Jenna for what she was: a manipulative and frighteningly controlling sociopath. Now, with only circumstantial evidence against Jenna, Keera is willing to bury any trepidation she might have to defend a woman she believes, this time, to be innocent. As the investigation gets underway and disturbing questions arise, Keera puts her trust in a client who swears that this time she's telling nothing but the truth. If this is all just another devious game, Keera might be working to set a murderer free"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Businessmen; Chief executive officers; Lawyers; Psychopaths; Trials (Murder); Vindication; Women lawyers;
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