The Absolute Correspondence Championship of the United States Chess Federation
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ISBN: 0786472944 / Publisher: McFarland Publishing, November 2012
"This collection of the games features the United States Chess Federation's premiere invitational tournament. Biographical details of the participants, opening statistics and yearly crosstables offer insight to the games. Features include statistical results, results of many opening variations, biographies of all winners and information on all participants, and indexes of players, opening variations and ECO codes"--Provided by publisher.
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Dunne, director of the United States Chess Federation's correspondence chess program, gathers annotated correspondence chess games from the Federation's Absolute Correspondence Championship, highlighting the variety of styles of the players. Tournaments are arranged in chronological order. While some annotations are by the winners of the games, most annotations are by the author. Chapters include the winner's game plus other high ranking games of that year's tournament. The book also presents statistics on the competition from 1976 to 2010 and profiles of winners, plus basic info on all players in the Absolute Correspondence Championship over the period. The book includes b&w chess board diagrams, plus indexes of players and opening moves. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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