Chess Traps: Pitfalls And Swindles

by I. A. Horowitz, Fred Reinfeld

Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Chess Traps is I.A. Horowitz's exploration of chess' pitfalls and swindes—both how to set them and how to avoid them.

This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671210410
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	04/15/1971
Series:	Chess Library Series
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	684,306
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Israel Albert Horowitz was an American International Master of chess. In 1989 he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.

Fred Reinfeld was a writer on chess and many other subjects. He was also a strong chess master, often among the top ten players from the early 1930s to the early 1940s, as well as a college chess instructor