How Purdy Won: The correspondence chess career of a world champion

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Purdy, C. J. S.

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Horwitz Grahame

Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points

Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points (Purdy Series)

Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco

The Search for Chess Perfection (Purdy Series)

How Purdy Won recounts the journey of the world's first correspondence chess champion, Cecil Purdy. Included are the hardest games of Purdy's life. Through 6 years of correspondence play, Purdy was constantly learning. Now, he is sharing the secrets he learned with you.

How Purdy Won: 1st World Champion of Correspondence Chess (Purdy Series)

Hutchings, Frank

Harrison, Kevin

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EXTREME CHESS World Championships 1935 1937 1972

A handbook on chess for beginners, this fully revised edition teaches the moves of the pieces, the rules of the game, simple openings, middle-game developments and the excitement of end-game strategies.

Chess Made Easy

Camp Press

Studying the endgame is the surest road to winning, and quick improvement, when playing those protracted or strategic struggles. Purdy shows his wisdom on the endgame from articles collected from his chess publications Australasian Chess Review, Check, and his legendary Chess World, and offers anecdotal stories and great examples on one of the most pleasant ways to learn the last phase of chess, the endgame. 
Topics include: The Horwitz Bishop, Bridge Building, and an original contribution by Purdy (A Fascinating Battle Between Rook and Bishop, singled out by endgame expert Karsten Muller in his foreword) are only a sampling of the 19 chapters which are loaded with expert advice.

Purdy on the Endgame

Purdy, John

Purdy fills you in on the details, explains the whys, and makes it easier for you to improve—to be a very good player without large amounts of memorization. Even the elementary principles which begin this book have points not seen in other works of this type. His language is a bit unusual, making it easier to remember such things as "biffing the Bishop." He covers all three phases of a game: the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. Lastly, a complete game is dissected for the purpose of showing how Purdy's Rules are used effectively. The best beginner's book on chess you will ever read.

Guide to Good Chess

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