Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame...
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date quickly there is a steady supply of new titles." According to Andrew Soltis, "Virtually all the new information about chess since 1930 has been...
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surname include: Andrew Soltis (born 1947), American chess Grandmaster Bob Soltis (1936–2009), American football player Douglas E. Soltis (born 1953), American...
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Chess Digest. p. 39. Andrew Soltis, in Müller 2009, p. 29. Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 27, 76–77, 253, 256. Bisguier & Soltis 1974, p. 214. Jeremy Silman...
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p. 71 Whyld 1967 Soltis 2005, pp. 89–90 Soltis 2005, p. 90 Crouch 2000, pp. 36–37 Soltis 1978, pp. 55–56 Fischer vs. Rossetto Soltis 2003b, p. 34 Giddins...
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2022-11-26. Davies, pp. 196–99 Andrew Soltis, The United States Chess Championship, Second Edition, McFarland, 1997, p. 32. Andrew Soltis, The United States Chess...
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Tarrasch's actual play as not dogmatic. According to American grandmaster Andrew Soltis, Tarrasch's chess was "all about piece mobility". As an example of his...
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traditional attachment of his family to the King's family service. Andrew Soltis writes that Philidor "was the best player in the world for 50 years...
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Bc5 4.0-0 d6 and only now 5.b4). In his monthly Chess Life column, Andrew Soltis commented that Evans was "the first player to be widely honored for...
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Szó, 2003. augusztus 26. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Andrew Soltis, "What's Your Elo?", Chess Life, July 1993, p. 19. "Chess rating developer...
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sacrifices or dangerous attacks that might turn out to be unsound. Andrew Soltis jokingly called "!?" the symbol of the lazy annotator who finds a move...
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2012, p. 818. Monté 2014, p. 146. McGrath, Soltis & López 2020, p. xvi. Monté 2014, pp. 125–127. McGrath, Soltis & López 2020, p. 18. Monté 2014, p. 127...
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Chessgames.com. Burgess, Nunn, and Emms (1998), p. 214. Arthur Bisguier and Andrew Soltis, American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer, Macmillan, 1974, pp...
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The extent of Fischer's involvement in the book has been questioned. Andrew Soltis writes that Fischer "contributed some ideas, but chiefly his name"....
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Grandmaster Andrew Soltis described as "one of the prettiest ever", was the basis for the sty Last Round by Kester Svendsen, which Soltis called "perhaps...
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James Howell, attribute the quote to Tartakower, whereas Dvoretsky, Andrew Soltis, Karsten Müller, and Kaufeld & Kern attribute it to Tarrasch. John Watson...
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grandmasters who have used the Bird's with any regularity include Bent Larsen, Andrew Soltis, Lars Karlsson, Mikhail Gurevich, and Henrik Danielsen. Black's most...
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engines as analysis tools rather than opponents. Chess grandmaster Andrew Soltis stated in 2016 "The computers are just much too good" and that world...
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Arthur Bisguier and Andrew Soltis call Hastings 1895 the "greatest tournament of the nineteenth century". Arthur Bisguier and Andrew Soltis, American Chess...
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the topic of: Baltic Defense Baltic Defense to the Queens Gambit, by Andrew Soltis, Chess Digest, ISBN 0-87568-228-6. Keres Defence, by Giovanni Falchetta...
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Attack (part of B23). White can also keep options open with 3.Nge2. Andrew Soltis has dubbed that the "Chameleon System", since White maintains the option...
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possible, as it often proves troublesome for Black in many openings. Andrew Soltis writes that it has "no other discernible benefit than to get out of...
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vicinity of the Black Pawn." Marshall 1960, p. 61. Soltis agrees with Marshall's aforementioned analysis. Soltis 1994, p. 51. 7-men tablebases confirm Marshall's...
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first Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4). According to GM Andrew Soltis, Evans was "the first player to be widely honored for an opening we...
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detailed narrative of his thinking during the games. American Grandmaster Andrew Soltis reviewed his book on the world championship match as "simply the best...
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transposition from one type of pawn structure into another. According to Andrew Soltis, after a Boleslavsky hole is created, the idea is not to keep the pawn...
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Library, 2008, p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8129-3682-7. Andrew Soltis calls it "a celebrated article". Andrew Soltis, in Karsten Müller, Bobby Fischer: The Career...
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theoretical advantage, but in many of them it is only theoretical." GM Andrew Soltis wrote in 2008 that he hates playing against the symmetrical Petroff's...
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and White must, willy-nilly, eventually throw himself upon the sword. Andrew Soltis has objected to the characterization of this game as "the Immortal Zugzwang...
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bad moves, and most modern writers agree. According to Grandmaster Andrew Soltis and International Master John L. Watson, the features that made his...
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