All you need to know about chess. The book has 6 chapters. Playing the Game, Notating the Game, Tactics, Strategy, Basic Openings, The Endgame + About the book.
Sun Tzu's classic military thesis, The Art of War, illustrated in chess strategy and tactics. For beginner to intermediate players. Includes famous games exploring principles, tactical exercises to... More > refine your fighting ability, openings and endgames addressed in easy to understand terms. Test yourself at the end of each section.< Less
Sun Tzu's classic military thesis, The Art of War, illustrated in chess strategy and tactics. For beginner to intermediate players. Includes famous games exploring principles, tactical exercises to... More > refine your fighting ability, openings and endgames addressed in easy to understand terms. Test yourself at the end of each section.< Less
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as the artificial duck... More > that ate, drank and quacked; the tax on bachelors; early attempts at ballooning; the clever cat; horse-racing by machinery; leeches; powdering the hair; early steam carriages. And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.
If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book. Read more at http://lulu.wikidot.com/and-the-baboon-played-chess-with-the-emperor< Less
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as
the artificial duck... More > that ate, drank and quacked;
the tax on bachelors;
early attempts at ballooning;
the clever cat;
horse-racing by machinery;
leeches;
powdering the hair;
early steam carriages.
And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.
If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book.
Read more at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/and-the-baboon-played-chess-with-the-emperor
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A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as the artificial duck... More > that ate, drank and quacked; the tax on bachelors; early attempts at ballooning; the clever cat; horse-racing by machinery; leeches; powdering the hair; early steam carriages. And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.
If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book. Read more at http://lulu.wikidot.com/and-the-baboon-played-chess-with-the-emperor< Less
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as
the artificial duck... More > that ate, drank and quacked;
the tax on bachelors;
early attempts at ballooning;
the clever cat;
horse-racing by machinery;
leeches;
powdering the hair;
early steam carriages.
And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more.
If you enjoy loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love this book.
Read more at
http://lulu.wikidot.com/and-the-baboon-played-chess-with-the-emperor< Less
The Anti-Christ is coming to power, only he doesn't know he's the Anti-Christ. What if our lives have just been pawns in a game of Chess by warring Gods? This book takes you through real government... More > and secret society conspiracies exposed for the reader. A breathtaking international suspense/thriller taking you from the rise of the most powerful man that the world has ever known-Don Marcu. Witness technological innovations that are about to come on the world scene and watch the world destroyed by one man, a pawn of the devil, over the loss of his sensual Russian princess that captivated the world with her beauty. The Gods have come to Earth to fight. There is no good or evil, only the game. While the characters are fictional, the innovations and knowledge of these conspiracies are not. Gods Playing Chess is the book the government doesn’t want you to read, the government wants to use it. This book my become a book for survival if it becomes a reality. Controversial and epic up until the end.< Less
The Anti-Christ is coming to power, only he doesn't know he's the Anti-Christ. What if our lives have just been pawns in a game of Chess by warring Gods? This book takes you through real government... More > and secret society conspiracies exposed for the reader. A breathtaking international suspense/thriller taking you from the rise of the most powerful man that the world has ever known-Don Marcu. Witness technological innovations that are about to come on the world scene and watch the world destroyed by one man, a pawn of the devil, over the loss of his sensual Russian princess that captivated the world with her beauty. The Gods have come to Earth to fight. There is no good or evil, only the game. While the characters are fictional, the innovations and knowledge of these conspiracies are not. Gods Playing Chess is the book the government doesn’t want you to read, the government wants to use it. This book my become a book for survival if it becomes a reality. Controversial and epic up until the end.< Less
The Anti-Christ is coming to power, only he doesn't know he's the Anti-Christ. What if our lives have just been pawns in a game of Chess by warring Gods? This book takes you through real government... More > and secret society conspiracies exposed for the reader. A breathtaking international suspense/thriller taking you from the rise of the most powerful man that the world has ever known-Don Marcu. Witness technological innovations that are about to come on the world scene and watch the world destroyed by one man, a pawn of the devil, over the loss of his sensual Russian princess that captivated the world with her beauty. The Gods have come to Earth to fight. There is no good or evil, only the game. While the characters are fictional, the innovations and knowledge of these conspiracies are not. Gods Playing Chess is the book the government doesn’t want you to read, the government wants to use it. This book my become a book for survival if it becomes a reality. Controversial and epic up until the end.< Less
