Bøker av John Holden

Memorize Your Openings Perfectly with a Memory Palace Chess players spend hours and hours trying to memorize openings, but even Grandmasters forget their preparation. Meanwhile, memory competitors routinely memorize thousands of facts and random digits, using special techniques that anyone can learn. This book explains how to use these memory techniques for chess.Teaches advanced memory techniques from scratchContains full worked examples in the Ruy Lopez Exchange and Schliemann GambitIdeal for tournament players who want to recall their opening repertoire perfectlyCONTENTS: Introduction1. Picture Notation2. Essential Memory Techniques3. Memory Palace Architecture4. Example Palace: The Schliemann Transit Line5. Example Palace: The Spanish Exchange Airport6. Bonus: Memorising Endgames7. MiscellaneaNotesAppendix: Picture Words for all 64 Squares

The first biography of Ralph Dutton, one of the leading taste-makers of his generation, a crucial figure in our understanding of heritage today.

This book focuses on the genetic resources of plants which form part of the world's biological diversity. This diversity is diminishing as the result of human activity and the book describes the need for the management of these resources to sustain the many and varied human uses of plants.