Why did he did so?

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Why would White win after Qa3+ in:
[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "4bk1r/Q4ppp/1p2q3/8/4B3/8/P4PPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1"] 1. Qa3+ *

[Roger de Coverly]

Why would White win after Qa3+ in:

There are only three legal moves, one of which, Qd6 puts the Queen en prise. Look at the other two, .. Kh7 allows Bxh7 check, winning the Queen by a discovery. On .. Qe7, as a minimum there's Qxe7, Kxe7 again followed by Bxh7 check although this time it's only a pawn. There might be a more convincing discovery.

[LawrenceCooper]

Why would White win after Qa3+ in:

There are only three legal moves, one of which, Qd6 puts the Queen en prise. Look at the other two, .. Kh7 allows Bxh7 check, winning the Queen by a discovery. On .. Qe7, as a minimum there's Qxe7, Kxe7 again followed by Bxh7 check although this time it's only a pawn. There might be a more convincing discovery.

Bc6 isn't a bad response to Qe7 either

[Leonard Barden]

Evans-Bisguier, US championship 1959.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

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[soheil_hooshdaran]

Evans-Bisguier, US championship 1959.

The first book I read was a translation of your Chess Theory. Happy to cross-post.

[Leonard Barden]

Evans-Bisguier, US championship 1959.

The first book I read was a translation of your Chess Theory. Happy to cross-post.

None of my books was entitled Chess Theory.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Evans-Bisguier, US championship 1959.

The first book I read was a translation of your Chess Theory. Happy to cross-post.

None of my books was entitled Chess Theory.

It is still amongst the best sellers, selling for less than a pound over the internet.
The title of the translation reads تئوري شطرنج (literally The Theory of Chess). I remember it contained 10 opening traps, etc.

[Michael Flatt]

The first book I read was a translation of your Chess Theory. Happy to cross-post.

None of my books was entitled Chess Theory.

It is still amongst the best sellers, selling for less than a pound over the internet.
The title of the translation reads تئوري شطرنج (literally The Theory of Chess). I remember it contained 10 opening traps, etc.

Are you really prepared to argue with an author over the title of his own book?
Unbelievable!

[soheil_hooshdaran]

None of my books was entitled Chess Theory.

It is still amongst the best sellers, selling for less than a pound over the internet.
The title of the translation reads تئوري شطرنج (literally The Theory of Chess). I remember it contained 10 opening traps, etc.

Are you really prepared to argue with an author over the title of his own book?
Unbelievable!

No, I just said the title of the translation, and what the book's content was.

[Leonard Barden]

It is still amongst the best sellers, selling for less than a pound over the internet.
The title of the translation reads تئوري شطرنج (literally The Theory of Chess). I remember it contained 10 opening traps, etc.

Are you really prepared to argue with an author over the title of his own book?
Unbelievable!

No, I just said the title of the translation, and what the book's content was.

It sounds like Play Better Chess, which I wrote in the early 1980s. That was a large coffee table size volume which included an opening repertoire, general advice on improvement, mini-biographies of leading masters etc and was my best book. Korchnoi contributed a foreword. Unfortunately the publishers Octopus insisted on marketing it through WH Smith rather than normal chess outlets, with the result that most copies were remaindered. It is indeed still available cheaply on the internet from Amazon.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Are you really prepared to argue with an author over the title of his own book?
Unbelievable!

No, I just said the title of the translation, and what the book's content was.

It sounds like Play Better Chess, which I wrote in the early 1980s. That was a large coffee table size volume which included an opening repertoire, general advice on improvement, mini-biographies of leading masters etc and was my best book. Korchnoi contributed a foreword. Unfortunately the publishers Octopus insisted on marketing it through WH Smith rather than normal chess outlets, with the result that most copies were remaindered. It is indeed still available cheaply on the internet from Amazon.

Yes, it's a translation and abridgement of Play Chess Better.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Could someone please explain to me this comination? What does White gain?
[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "2kr1r2/pbqnn1bp/1pp3p1/3pp3/2N1PP2/1QP1B1P1/PP2N1BP/3RK2R w - - 0 1"] 1. Qa3 dxc4 2. Qxe7 *

[soheil_hooshdaran]

And this:
[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "r3k2r/1bq1b1pp/p3p3/2p2pB1/Np2RP2/5Q2/PPP3PP/1K1R1B2 w kq - 0 1"] 1. Rxe6 Bxf3 2. gxf3 O-O 3. Bxe7 Rf7 4. Bxc5 *

[Roger de Coverly]

In both cases, Black looks to be completely tied down. Try finding decent moves for Black in the resulting positions.