Pandolfini’s Ultimate Guide to Chess

by Bruce Pandolfini

  interest in chess, 348

  queen symbolism and, 132

  won game, defined, 353

  world champions, 358, 360

  attention brought by, 347, 349

  future characteristics of, 347

  World Wide Web

  chess play on, 349-350

  chess sites on, 357, 360

  and chess theory, 349-350

  x-ray tactic, 54-56, 354

  zugzwang, 288, 354

  Zweig, Stefan, 364

  zwischenzug, 184-185, 198, 260, 264, 267-268, 354

  In writing this book, I had valuable help from members of the Carolina Chess Academy: I would like to acknowledge American Master Matthew Noble and Professor Ralf Thiede for creating the chess diagrams. Ralf also prepared the manuscript for submission. I am especially grateful to editorial consultant Dr. Barbara Thiede for her dedicated fine-tuning and creative energy; they made the book complete. We also had a chessic test reader, the Thiede’s son Erik, who had a knack for asking the very questions I did not realize I had left open.