
Chess Board Options
A Memoir of Players, Games and Engines
Larry Kaufman(Author)
New in Chess (Publisher)
Published on 15. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-90-5691-933-7 (ISBN)
Description
Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster. Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty. Yet his victories in the chess arena are considerable. Over a career span of nearly sixty years Kaufman won the state championships of Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, D.C. and Pennsylvania. He was an American Open Champion and won the U.S. Senior Championship as well as the World Senior Championship. Never a great chess player himself (his words), he met or played chess greats such as Bobby Fischer, Bent Larsen, Walter Browne, Boris Spassky, Viktor Kortchnoi and many others. He worked as a second to legendary grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili, and coached three talented youngsters to become International Master, one of them his son Raymond. This engrossing memoir is rife with stories and anecdotes about dozens of famous and not-so-famous chess players. In one of the most remarkable chapters Larry Kaufman reveals that the American woman chess player that inspired Walter Tevis to create the Beth Harmon character of Netflixs The Queens Gambit fame, is his former girlfriend. You will learn about neural networks, material values and how being a chess master helps when trading options. And find lots of memorable but little-known annotated games.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
427 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5691-933-7 (9789056919337)
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E-Book
05/2021
Simon + Schuster LLC
€19.77
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Person
Larry Kaufman is an American Grandmaster. He has been involved in computer chess since 1967, when he worked on MacHack, the first computer that competed in tournaments with human players. More recently he has been working on the programs Rybka and Komodo.