Product Description: Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), the first great Russian chess master, belongs to that select group of exceptionally strong players who did not quite succeed in winning the world championship.The defining moment for Chigorin came when he blundered away a completely winning position in the decisive final game of his second title match against Steinitz...read more

Product Description: Enzymes perform the executive role in growth, energy conversion, and repair of a living organism. Their activity is adjusted to their en­ vironment within the cell, being turned off, switched on, or finely tuned by specific metabolites according to demands at the physiologi­ cal level...read more

Product Description: As one of the contestants in the first official World Championship match in 1886, Johannes Hermann Zukertort (1842-1888), is undeniably one of the great players of chess history. Despite a commanding lead in the early stages of that match, Zukertort ultimately had to bow for Steinitz, plagued by health problems that would cause his untimely death only two years later...read more

Product Description: The great Anatoly Karpov, considered the best positional player in chess history, has been a major force in the chess world through the greater part of three decades. Now he shares his profound opening knowledge in an indispensable pair of authoritative books devoted to the Caro Kann...read more