How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

Humor & Entertainment

Silman, Jeremy

Puzzles & Games

Siles Pr

For writers wanting to attract readers a bit more sophisticated than the average viewer of television crime shows, provides information on murder motives, methods, and types; criminal profiles; police investigation, crime lab, medical examiner, and criminal court procedures; and other aspects of the profession. A highlight is a Los Angeles law enforcement agency's complete records of a case from the first report of the murder to the arrest of a suspect. The information can be used for crime writing in any media. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Strictly Murder!: A Writer's Guide to Criminal Homicide

Roth, Martin

Movies

Pay or Play, now in its first paperback edition, is a wickedly funny satire of the Hollywood film industry and its peculiar marriage of vision and ambition that breeds great accomplishment-and humiliating catastrophe. Screenwriter Elmo Zwalt, his psyche "like a clenched fist," was living on peanut butter and bananas atop the Hollywood Freeway when he finally finished his Very Good Script, The Agonizer. Better than Shakespeare, or even Ben Hecht, it grabbed you by the throat and hauled you panting and screaming through ninety minutes of sex and violence. Elmo wanted to direct it, but so did every director who wanted to gross a hundred million domestic, including Chris Parrott, the lauded auteur of the sorts of films that critics called "wrenching." Then the movie is made-and Elmo finds himself in bizarre company as his script goes from concept to reality. Led by his agent, Jack Doberman, formerly the night man in the mailroom at Consolidated Creativity, Elmo pinwheels through the Hollywood firmament of silky studio execs; conniving agents; desperate producers; control-freak stars; a documentary director snatched from his teaching post at a Vermont junior college, whose documentary about plywood, through believable twists and turns, wins an Oscar; and a host of other unforgettable Tinseltown characters. Hollywood insiders like to say that making the movie deal is harder than making the movie. But, as Elmo learns, there are always exceptions.

Pay or Play

Literature & Fiction

Boorstin, Jon

Contemporary

Following the death of one of their children, David Bell and his wife's marriage fell apart. They decided to divorce amicably, but as the divorce process progressed, it slowly took on a life of its own and spiraled out of control. During this period, David sought out and read most of the books currently available on divorce. After this study, he realized that there was no one unbiased book of simple, sound, practical advice on the process and its many legal and mental pitfalls and the healing period that must follow. In researching Divorce, David compiled through consensus the best advice of legal, mental health, and child-rearing experts whose books he had read. He put this information together with many divorce sagas -- good and bad -- that he gathered from divorced acquaintances and wrote the book of advice that he wished he had been privy to before he began his own lengthy, costly, and mentally trying divorce. Divorce: Making the Break carefully and compassionately tours the divorce process from the very first considerations one has when contemplating divorce through getting back on one's feet once the divorce is completed. Along the way, the reader is advised about ways of controlling anger and not demonizing the divorcing partner; putting the concerns of children first; avoiding destructive, warring attitudes; equitably dealing with child custody matters; choosing a divorce forum (mediation or litigation); finding good, honorable legal representation; working with judges and accountants; and putting personal lives back together after the trauma of divorce. A thorough yet tidy handbook made up of many small sections that can be easily digested during a time a crisis, when one's mental attention may not be at its most acute, Divorce will guide both husbands and wives to a dissolution of marriage that is as peaceable and constructive as possible.

Divorce: Making the Break

Politics & Social Sciences

Bell, David A.

Social Sciences

From his early years in war-torn Hungary to his legendary chess competitions, this autobiography and game collection features details on the Grandmaster's myriad openings, middlegame positions, and strength in the endgame. Photos &amp; game diagrams.

Pal Benko: My Life, Games, and Compositions

Benko, Pal

Watson, John L.

Through interviews with and observations of young women chess players, Shahade, the 2004 US Women's Chess Champion, offers a look at the gender bias in the extremely competitive world of chess. She also introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters, including the Polgar sisters, who refused to play in separate women's tournaments, and the current Women's World Champion, Antoaneta Stefanova. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chess Bitch: Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport

Biographies & Memoirs

Shahade, Jennifer

Community & Culture

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

How to Reassess Your Chess: Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances

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