The Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 - Volume 1

The Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 - Volume 1The detailed account of the chess career of the prominent world known artist Marcel Duchamp in the period 1887 1925. This volume covers his stays and chess playing in Argentine (1919), USA (1920 1922), Belgium (1923) and France (1924 1925). It is also detailed account of local chess history in the USA, Belgium and France where M. Duchamp was chess active, and book contains 261 games including all known Duchamp's games.

The book is intended for chess players who aspire to raise the level of positional play in this particular field of expertise

The Exchange Variation is suitable for all levels of player

GM Damian Lemos has produced “Dominant Defense”

Most of the public commentary about this book has been concerned with the title to Chapter 8: "It only takes two weeks to have a man killed"

Alexander Aljekhine ranks one of the four or five greatest players in chess history

It is a quiet opening that can quickly turn deadly for your opponent

Ivan has been part of the world's chess elite for all of his adult life

the amount of variations you need to be familiar with is really quite small

position the pieces for attack

then pawn structure

became world champion of chess in the 1930's by defeating the great Alekhine in a match

You have begun to play chess