A selection of games from the volumes for 1908-1914 of The Year-Book of Chess, London, edited &amp; introduced by Fred Wilson.

Classical chess matches, 1907-1913

Humor & Entertainment

WILSON, FRED

Puzzles & Games

Dover Publications

Shelf wear, creasing to cover. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Picture History of Chess

Dover Pubns

Lesser-Known Chess Masterpieces: 1906-1915

What is the object of the game of chess? What is chess notation? How does the King move and capture? These and a host of other chess questions are answered simply and clearly in this indispensable guide for beginning players. Chess expert Fred Wilson has distilled an enormous amount of information into an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format that not only explains the most basic rules and essentials of play, but also offers expert advice on openings, combinations, middle and endgame strategies, notation, castling, and other topics. Over 100 carefully chosen diagrams and illustrations demonstrate moves, positions, and strategy. With this inexpensive manual, would-be players can quickly and easily familiarize themselves with the fundamentals and begin enjoying the challenge and stimulation of one of the world's most fascinating and popular games. A noted chess writer, historian, and teacher, Fred Wilson has owned and operated Fred Wilson Chess Books in New York City's Greenwich Village since 1979. He is the author of A Picture History of Chess.

101 Questions on How to Play Chess (Dover Chess)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

This instructive manual, written by two experienced chess teachers, concentrates on one- and two-move checkmates that encourage players to keep alert to new possibilities. Instructive maneuvers feature queen sacrifices, "smothered" mates, "quiet moves," castling, en passant pawn capture, and other techniques. 202 exercises. Solutions included.

202 Surprising Checkmates

Alberston, Bruce

The Scottish Philosopher David Hume (1711-76) Has Long Been Considered a sceptic on the subject of induction or causal inference. Bertrand Russell went so far as to suggest that Hume was thus responsible for the development of all subsequent irrationalism. In this book, Fred Wilson convincingly reconstructs the Humean position, showing that Hume was in fact able to defend causal inference as a reasonable practice by using an alternative set of cognitive standards.Wilson demonstrates the workability of Hume's approach to causal reasoning by relating it to more recent discussions, for example, to Bayesian views of scientific inference and to Kuhn's account of scientific rationality. He also presents a variety of intriguing related topics, including a detailed discussion of Hume's treatment of miracles. As a whole, this work successfully argues that insofar as Hume presented philosophy with the problem of induction, it is also true that he solved it.The subtly constructed arguments presented here combine,a wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of Hume's texts, sophisticated insight into the problems of causal reasoning that occupied Hume, and meticulous historical scholarship concerning the context of Hume's writings on these problems. This rare combination makes for a unique contribution both to our understanding of Hume and to the philosophical issues concerning causation and scientific method that he addresses.

Hume's Defense of Causal Inference (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Univ of Toronto Pr

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Aristotelian notions of logic and causation came under serious attack. Traditional philosophy speaks of this period as marking a revolution in scientific thought. In this book Fred Wilson reinstates and extends the traditional conception of the scientific revolution and its significance, and explores the goals and directions of the new science according to the differing interpretations of rationalist and empiricist thinkers.
Wilson argues for an empiricist approach to scientific method and explanation, and defends an empiricist as opposed to an Aristotelian account of logic. Calling on an impressive range of intellectual history, he gives a sympathetic account of the earlier Aristotelian philosophy, including such topics as the role of God in explanations, and then proceeds to examine the evolution of the empiricist account of science through a number of early modern figures: Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Berkeley, and Hume. He shows that the new science was characterized not just by its methodology and the kinds of explanations it engendered, but also by a new epistemology and a new understanding of being.
A skilled and widely published author in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of science, Wilson brings persuasive new argument and detail to his re-evaluation of this important subject.

The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

University of Toronto Press

David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century sense, a period in which the term was used to describe the epistemological and ontological theories of such philosophers as Roy Wood Sellars and Bertrand Russell.Carefully situating Hume in his historical context, that is, relative to Aristotelian and rationalist traditions, Fred Wilson makes important and unique insights into Humean philosophy. Analyzing key sections of the Treatise, the Enquiry, and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Wilson offers a deeper understanding of Hume by taking into account the philosopher's theories of the external world. Such a reading, the author explains, is not only more faithful to the texts, but also reinforces the view of Hume as a critical realist in light of twentieth-century discussions between externalism and internalism, and between coherentists and foundationalists.Complete with original observations and ideas, this study is sure to generate debates about Humean philosophy, critical realism, and the limits of perceptual knowledge.

The External World and Our Knowledge of It: Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

It's the mental gymnasium where you can do a winning chess workout! Based on the authors' belief that the only way to improve is to study tactics, each intriguing example hones your skills so you can move up to the next level. Organized into beginners, Intermediate, and Tournament levels of play, each gets 100 puzzles, with additional material on defense and defeating computer chess machines.

303 Tactical Chess Puzzles [Mensa]

Sterling

Artwork by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Fred Wilson. Edited by Lynn Herbert. Contributions by Rick Lowe, Dana Friis-Hansen. Text by Paola Morsiani, Marti Mayo.

Outbound: Passages From The 90'S

Arts & Photography

Gober, Robert

Mayo, Marti

Morsiani, Paola

Neshat, Shirin

Kentridge, William

Hamilton, Ann

BARNEY, Matthew

Antoni, Janine

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

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