Chess Lists, Second Edition

001 Preface
003 I. How We Play the Game
003 Ten Botched Brilliancies
010 The Eight Most Misunderstood Chess Rules
012 Nine Unusual Venues
015 How Chess Games End
015 Thirteen Radical Ideas
019 The Fifteen Richest Prizes
021 Six Peaceful Events
022 The Eight Youngest-Ever Grandmasters
024 Nineteen Master Games with Illegal Moves
033 II. The Best (and Some Worst)
033 Elo's Highest Rated
034 The 18 Peak Ratings
035 The Polls
035 Informant Favorites
036 Bobby Fischer's "Best" List
039 The Great Match Players
042 Five Memorable Streaks
044 The World Championship Box Score
045 Eleven Long "Thinks"
050 Their Worst Games
060 III. Masters at Play
060 Ten Cases of Suspected or Confirmed Cheating
065 Eleven World Class Players Who Got Mated
068 Eleven Non-Theoretical Innovations
073 The Sixteen Shortest Games Ever Played
076 The Ten Longest Games Ever Played
077 Seven Tournament Collapses
081 Perfect Scores
083 Eleven Costliest Blunders
087 The Eight Longest Running International Tournaments
089 IV. Fakes, Myths and Real Jobs
089 Eleven Games That (Probably) Never Happened
096 Alekhine's Fifteen "Improvements"
100 Four Faked Games
102 Fourteen Remarkable Exhibitions
106 Five Chess Myths
108 The Real Jobs of 30 Noted Players
116 V. Life, Death and the World Championship
116 Eight Games of Living Chess
120 The Reigns of World Champions
121 Nine Other World Championships
124 Sixteen Long-Reigning National Champions
127 Great Skittles
130 The Eleven Longest World Championship Matches
131 The Odd Deaths of Nine Masters
132 Nine Masters Who Died in Poverty
135 Eight Cases of Rapid Progress
138 The Nine Worst World Championship Games
144 Seven Famous Losers
148 VI. The Great, the Most and the Tragic
148 The Great Rivalries
150 Ten Most Mispronounced Names
152 Ten Famous Patrons
155 "Difficult" Opponents
158 The Three Who Really Knew "How to Beat Bobby Fischer"
159 "Fischer's Fish"
160 Fischer's Ten Best Games
161 Ten Geriatric Achievements
165 Tragic Losses
169 Seventeen Nicknames
174 Ten Last Games
177 The Greatest Correspondence Games
184 Thirteen Masters Who Gave Up the Game
188 VII. Openings and Endings and What's in Between
188 The Greatest King Pawn Players of All Time
190 Ten Dubious Debuts
193 The Greatest Queen Pawn Players of All Time
195 Ten Opening Theme Events
200 The Greatest English-Opening Players
201 Six Remarkable Games with Bizarre Openings
205 The Twelve Most Popular Openings Today
207 Informant Innovators
207 Steinitz's 22 Technical Terms
208 Four Cases of Middlegame Zugzwang
209 Lasker's Exchange Values
210 The Nine Greatest Endgame Players
213 The Five Notorious Endgames
217 Twenty Composer-Players
221 The Ten Greatest Problems
226 VIII. Last Words
226 The Twelve Finest Chess Books
229 Eighteen Novels with Chess Themes
231 Nobel Prize for Literature Players
233 Twelve Books That Haven't Been Translated into English- But Should Be
234 Five Eagerly Awaited Books
235 Chess Themes and Scenes in Movies
239 Index of Openings (Descriptive)
240 Index of Openings (ECO)
241 General Index