When Viktor Korchnoi lost by the narrowest of margins to Anatoly Karpov in Baguio City in 1978, many experts thought it would be his last attempt at the World Championship. However, at the age of 50, he again fought his way through several bitter clashed to earn the right to challenge for a crown he has so eagerly sought since defecting from the USSR in 1976. The failure of this attempts to obtain the release of his wife and son would obviously affect his play for this match and yet he has smashed through previous encounters with Petrosian and Poluhayevsky spurred on by this hatred for the soviet regime. Karpov, at 30, becam World Champion when Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title in 1975, and has been one of the most active and successful World Champions ever, winning almost every top level tournament in which he has played. Grandmaster Raymond Keene is uniquely placed to write this gripping account of the "revenge" match in Merano. He was Korchnoi's second at the last World Championship match but his relationship with the challenger soured amid bitter altercations about gurus, and the sinister Soviet parapsychologist Zukhar which caused his subsequent resignation. He now provides the answer to Anti-Chess, Korchnoi's own embittered account of the previous match.

Alexander Alekhine, one of the all-time chess greats (comparable perhaps only with Lasker, Capablanca, Botvinnik and Fischer) has long been known to the chess public from his games, but his personality and life story have rarely been written about. The Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov is an expert on Alekhine, having published five books in the USSR about him. The present work represents a synthesis of all the work Kotov has done.

Queen v rook/Minor Piece Endings is the seventh volume to be translated from Yuri Averbakh's classic series in Russian on the endings and then updated. It deals with endings in which the queen is matched against rook, knight or bishop, with or without pawns. It is by far the most complete work on the subject ever to be published. Yuri Averbakh, international grandmaster, who master-minded the series in the 1950's, is a leading UUSR chess organiser. Ken Neat, who has competed in the last two British championships, has translated three of the earlier volumes and a number of other Batsford chess books.

La mort, une notion, une réalité, éloignée aujourd'hui de la sagesse des anciens. L'auteur nous propose un voyage qui à travers récits, témoignages, expériences nous permet d'approcher de la mort et de découvrir cette source noire, source d'une autre vie.

Trois parties : journal de l'été 40 ; cinquante-deux ans plus tard ; oui, mais alors que faites-vous sur le lac de Tibériade ? Décédé en mars 1996, l'auteur évoque la guerre puis l'horreur de la vieillesse et enfin, la mort approchant, il s'interroge sur lui-mêe, le monde, ses beautés, ses vanités...

Partout, dans les pages de ce journal, se devine la présence de la mort. Mort d'une civilisation, au moment de quitter l'Allemagne en 1933 et l'Europe en 1936. Mort d'une certaine conception de l'art qui brûle dans les autodafés. Mort de la liberté et des amis. Klaus devient un témoin scrupuleux, engagé, révolté.

Les différentes pathologies mentales sont étudiées à travers une sélection d'oeuvres cinématographiques les abordant sans idées reçues ni clichés. Un choix de films destinés à apaiser les tensions, soulager une souffrance ou simplement trouver un message positif est ensuite proposé. ©Electre 2024