Search:

Results 11 to 20 of 252 | « previous |

Dangerous moves [videorecording] by Arbatt, Alexandre.; Caron, Leslie.; Cohn, Arthur.; Dembo, Richard,1948-; Guillemot, Agnès,1931-; Marignac, Martine.; Piccoli, Michel.; Ullmann, Liv.(CARDINAL)131686; Yared, Gabriel.(CARDINAL)354019; Arthur Cohn Productions.; Home Vision Entertainment (Firm);
Editor, Agnés Guillemot ; music, Gabriel Yared.Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann.A senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized chess tournament. Both become pawns in a much larger game, however.MPAA rating: PG.DVD, region 1, Dolby digital mono., widescreen presentation.Academy Awards, 1985: Best Foreign Language Film.
Subjects: Feature films.; Spy films.; Chess players; Chess; Dissenters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

A partial history of lost causes : a novel / by DuBois, Jennifer,1983-(CARDINAL)396225;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Chess players;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
unAPI

Chess story / by Zweig, Stefan,1881-1942.(CARDINAL)148060; Rotenberg, Joel,translator.(CARDINAL)755766; Gay, Peter,1923-2015,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)124560;
"The art of the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a difficult balancing act. Zweig's major subject was human limitation, above all the ways in which the best of intentions can lead people into the murkiest of emotional and moral cul-de-sacs. And yet Zweig also hoped to illumine those dark places of the heart and mind, to show that it is not, finally, impossible to attain a true perspective on our limitations, even to care for each other. Zweig, much like his contemporary E.M. Forster, was liberal and humanist to the core, gambling on human goodness against the specters of oppression and despair.""In 1938, Nazism forced Zweig into exile. Chess Story, sometimes known as The Royal Game, was the last thing he wrote before he and his wife committed suicide. This novella is a final effort to take the human measure of the inhuman. On a great ocean liner, the world champion of chess confronts a lawyer with a surprising talent for the game in a tense contest of wit and will. How the lawyer acquired his skill and at what terrible cost are the substance of a story, in which, at the same time, quietly but unmistakably, the death knell of the Enlightenment is sounded."--Jacket.
Subjects: Legal fiction (Literature); Fiction.; Chess players; Ocean travel; Chess;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The chess encyclopedia / by Divinsky, N. J.,1925-2012.(CARDINAL)780363;
Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; Encyclopedias.; Chess players; Chess;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The chess players cFrances Parkinson Keyes. by Keyes, Frances Parkinson,1885-1970.(CARDINAL)131473;
Includes bibliography.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Fiction.; Sports stories.; Morphy, Paul Charles, 1837-1884; Chess players;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The queen's gambit [sound recording] / by Tevis, Walter S.,author.(CARDINAL)507180; Landon, Amy,narrator.;
Read by Amy Landon.Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Audiobooks.; Women chess players; Chess; Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Twelve great chess players and their best games / by Chernev, Irving,1900-1981.(CARDINAL)713542;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Biographies.; Chess players; Chess;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Knight moves [videorecording] / by Schenkel, Carlirector.; El Khoury, Ziadproducer.; Defait, Jean-Lucproducer.; Mirman, Bradscreenwriter.; Lambert, Christopheractor.; Lane, Dianeactor.(CARDINAL)345193; Skerritt, Tomactor.(CARDINAL)340731; Dudley, Annecomposer.; Republic Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)784811;
Director of photography, Dietrich Lohmann ; editor, Norbert Herzner ; music, Anne Dudley ; executive producers: Christopher Lambert, Brad Mirman, Guy Collins.Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Charles Bailey-Gates, Ferdinand Mayne, Arthur Brauss.A shocking murder rocks a seaside resort and all evidence points to a visiting chess master.MPAA rating: RDVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.0.
Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Films); Chess players; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

A partial history of lost causes / by DuBois, Jennifer,1983-(CARDINAL)396225;
Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia.
Subjects: Fiction.; Chess players;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The dark horse [videorecording] / by Robertson, James Napier.; Curtis, Cliff,1968-(CARDINAL)848350; Rolleston, James.; Torrance, Kirk.; McDowell, Miriama.; Broad Green Pictures (Firm)(CARDINAL)343353;
Director, James Napier Robertson.Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell, James Napier Robertson.An inspiring true story based on the life of charismatic and brilliant chess champion Genesis Potini. His emotionally charged story is about finding the courage to lead, despite his own struggles, and finding purpose and hope in passing on his gift to the children of his community.MPAA rating: R.DVD, widescreen (2.35).
Subjects: Potini, Genesis; Chess players; Chess for children;
© [2016], Broad Green Pictures,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 11 to 20 of 252 | « previous |