{"product_id":"chess-board-options-by-larry-kaufman","title":"Chess Board Options by Larry Kaufman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChess Board Options by Larry Kaufman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA Memoir of Players, Games and Engines\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-blue-500 hover:text-blue-600\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newinchess.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/product_pdf\/9092.pdf\"\u003eSample Pages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 Netflix’s \u003cem\u003eThe Queen’s Gambit\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the best-selling opening manual \u003cem\u003eKaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kaufman’s book is a pleasure to read.” -- Miguel Ararat, \u003cem\u003eFlorida Chess Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Kaufman does an outstanding job.” -- IM Gary Lane, \u003cem\u003eChess Moves Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ChessBase India Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42228723810327,"sku":"B695","price":1199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/7334\/1975\/files\/3181459207.jpg?v=1744203184","url":"https:\/\/shop.chessbase.in\/zh\/products\/chess-board-options-by-larry-kaufman","provider":"ChessBase India Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}