Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990.
The period . . .
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Batsford Book of Chess Records
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A long-overdue book on the records, from the trivial to monumental, set in the chess world. From the most unfortunate players in chess history to the longest queen moves, and from the longest tournaments to the record time for thinking about the next move, everything is included here this amusing, entertaining, and often astounding guide is a must for all chess players. The book . . .
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Chess Handbook for Parents & Coaches
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Parents, do you want to teach your child to play chess, but don't know where to begin? Does your child want to learn to play chess, but you don't play? Does your child want to play in tournaments, but you don't know where they are? Coaches, could you use a solid lesson plan, or information about starting and running a chess club, or tips on preparing players for . . .
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10 Most Common Chess Mistakes & How To Fix Them--Revis...
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A fascinating collection of more than two hundred typical errors committed by the world’s greatest players challenges you to test your skills by choosing between two moves: the right one, or the one actually played. You will be amazed at how even world champions make errors in critical situations and violate the basic principles of chess. From neglecting development and king . . .
Almost twenty years since the first successful edition was published , grandmaster Mihai Suba, a former Romanian champion and Senior World Chess Champion, has updated his groundbreaking work and extended it with even more entertaining and witty lessons.In the battle of chess ideas, the publication in 1991 of Dynamic Chess Strategy was a defining moment. Before Mihai Suba's . . .
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Nunn's Chess Endings: Volume 1
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In this major two-volume work, renowned endgame theoretician John Nunn teaches the skills that are most important to success in practical endgames.
Going beyond standard texts, Dr Nunn shows how to apply knowledge of standard endgames to find the right methods in tricky real-life practical situations - even when they differ greatly from the idealized forms given by . . .
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Winning Chess Strategy for Kids
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Winning Chess Trategy for Kids is a fun and comprehensive workbook written for children ages 7 to 13. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's the ideal study guide for developing skill at the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too. The book begins on square one: covering the rules, basic mates, and elementary tactics. It then leads the . . .
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
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Learn to think the same way Bobby did. This is the secret. You will be put in increasingly complex situations where you will be required to think and move the way Bobby Fischer did during his amazing career in chess. You'll be a better player after you take Bobby Fischer's Chess Course. It works.
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Modern Chess Planning
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Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess planning has evolved considerably since the days of the grand plan, whereby a player might even try to map out the whole course of the game. Nowadays, top-class players appreciate that the . . .
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Play Better Chess Today!
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Play Better Chess Today! is perfect for players who have learned the basics and are ready to take their game to the next level and start winning games. This skill-building manual has more than 100 oversized diagrams that show how to exploit the strengths of each piece and defend against its weaknesses.
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Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
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Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels..Themed sections include:
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Total Chess
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TOTAL CHESS is your complete guide to chess. It covers everything: rules, strategies, tactics and checkmates. Everything in chess comes in threes. Three simple strategies are presented for the opening, midgame, endgame, etc. Each lesson is brief and covers one concept in simple language that everyone can read and understand. TOTAL CHESS is ideal for children and adults of all . . .
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Winning Chess Brilliancies
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This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating excursion of the most brilliant chess game, providing highlights into and explanations . . .
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The Rules of Winning Chess
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Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces. They know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly--whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges--how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own. They make . . .
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Chess 101:Everything a New Chess Player Needs to Know
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In Chess 101, Everything a New Chess Player Needs to Know, author Dave Schloss sets out to make confident chess players from absolute chess beginners. This small, but powerful book covers topics such as:This little gem is written for teens and adults who want to get a basic understanding of the foundation of chess. It would be a great starting point for all players of a start-up . . .
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Chess Exam: Matches against Chess Legends You Verses ...
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Best-selling and award-winning author, International Master Igor Khmelnitsky, gathers examples from Bobby Fischer's games that are educational, entertaining, and can be studied without a board.
In each of the examples you will take the seat of Fischer's opponent and be asked to come up with an assessment and a move. Based on your response you are . . .
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The Ultimate Chess Strategy Book Vol. 1
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The opening is reaching its end, and we must make a pivotal decision: what shall our middlegame strategy be? Do we seek an active plan to profit from our strengths and highlight the opponent's weaknesses? Or do we adopt prophylaxis, attending to our own position's shortcomings and hindering the opponent's plans? Alternatively, are there any ready-made plans that we . . .
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Your Best Move
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Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give ourselves the very best chance of doing so?Per Ostman is convinced that there are three key elements: first and foremost, a structured . . .
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles is a carefully selected, entertaining, and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles.
The authors, who are both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority.
This book is . . .
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NUNN'S CHESS ENDINGS:VOLUME 2
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In this major work, renowned endgame theoretician John Nunn teaches the skills that are most important to success in practical endgames.
Going beyond standard texts, Dr. Nunn shows how to apply knowledge of standard endgames to find the right methods in tricky real-life practical situations - even when they differ greatly from the idealized forms given by . . .
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Teaching Chess in the 21st Century
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Looking for a chess teaching guide for a standards-based math curriculum or school chess club? Teaching Chess in the 21st Century is designed to incorporate chess into a math curriculum for elementary school students. In includes:Written by National Master and acclaimed chess instructor Todd Bardwick.
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Chess For Zebras
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Jonathan Rowson, author of the highly acclaimed Seven Deadly Chess Sins, investigates three questions important to all chess-players: 1) Why is it so difficult, especially for adult players, to improve?
2) What kinds of mental attitudes are needed to find good moves in different phases of the game?
3) Is White's alleged first-move advantage a myth, and does it make a . . .
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500 Master Games of Chess (3 Books in 1 Volume)
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Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 to 1938, with much material nowhere else readily available. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
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Chess (Hardcover)
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Chess (Hardcover) by DK Children books is a chess guide for the 21st century, this book uses computer-generated 3-D illustrations to bring the game to life, teaching readers everything from the strengths and weaknesses of individual pieces to more advanced strategies and techniques. What to become a Grandmaster? From the opeing move to checkmate, this step-by-step guide will help . . .
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Grandmaster Secrets: Counter-Attack!
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Superb defensive technique is a hallmark of all great chess-players. With a few deft counterstrokes, they not only deflect what looked like an overwhelming offensive, but also expose the darker side of their opponent's build-up. Is this sheer black magic, or are these skills that ordinary players can develop?
Grandmaster Secrets: Counter-Attack! answers this . . .
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303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
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A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided . . .
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Checkmate! Ideas For Students
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Checkmate! Ideas For Students is an instructional workbook for students who have mastered basic chess rules, beginning chess play, and the use of chess notation. Checkmate! Ideas For Students is designed with students, coaches, and parents in mind.Checkmate! Ideas For Students uses algebraic notation to record moves, and follows the standard chess conventions of placing black . . .
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Understanding Chess Move by Move
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This new title, the first of its type to explain the dynamic principles that underpin modern chess, uses more than thirty carefully selected games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of the chess struggle.John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and one of the world's most highly regarded chess writers, explains every move using terms and phrases everyone can . . .
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A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames
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Improve your understanding and play of these most important endings with comprehensive but clear explanations by one of the most respected chess instructors of our era.
As most chess players know, rook endgames represents approximately half of all endings reached in master games. Therefore, it is absolutely vital that chess players wishing to improve their skill . . .
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The Chess Instructor 2009 A Compendium for Chess Teach...
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The Chess Instructor 2009, features training methods, information about chess in schools, exercises, explanations from top chess coaches, descriptions of the benefits of learning chess, interviews, tools for chess instructors, reviews and more.
In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth of chess within the educational community. The popularity of chess . . .
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How to Play Chess Endgames
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In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Mller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board.Using hundreds of outstanding examples from modern practice, the authors explain not only how to . . .
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Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn...
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In Chess Exam and Training guide international Chess Master Igor Khmelnitsky is one of the top US Chess players, as well as a very experienced coach and writer. His first book offers a unique approach to self-evaluation and chess training. The target audience - everyone who likes playing chess and wants to improve - from beginners to masters. The book will save reader $1000s and . . .
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New Ideas In Chess--Newly Revised
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Finally! One if the Most Influential Chess Books ever is back! Five- time U.S Champion Larry Evans shows you the most important concepts that comprise a winning chess game: Space, Time, Force & Pawn Structure. In a book that has been called the "bible" for novice to intermediate player," this newly revised classic use actual game examples to illustrate dozens of . . .
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Chess For Rookies
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Chess for Rookies is a fun-to-read, leisurely, yet well-paced guide. Assuming no prior knowledge of the game, International Master and author Craig Pritchett takes the beginner on a journey through the crucial basics.
Mixing instruction and good humor, this book is an ideal way to learn how to play and win at chess. And after all that, be ready to play, win and . . .
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The Middlegame - Book I
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Max Euwe was World Chess Champion in the 1930s and he collaborated with International Master Kramer to write this great treatise on how to play chess middlegames.
Book I of the series covers pawn formations and static features of the game of chess. Thousands of satisfied customers have made this one of the most popular books on chess middlegames. This book has . . .
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Master Checkmate Strategy
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Master Checkmate Strategy is easy to read and right to the point. In just one reading you will learn how to checkmate opponents using crushing attacks and brilliant sacrifices.
Basic mates--as well as advanced ones--are revealed in this no-nonsense book. Some of the mates detailed are
Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with . . .
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The Middlegame - Book II
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Max Euwe was World Chess Champion in the 1930s and he collaborated with International Master Kramer to write this great treatise on how to play chess middlegames.
Book II of the series covers the dynamic features of the game of chess. This book also contain a fascinating section on the playing styles of the world's strongest players at the time of it's . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: Book One--Teacher's ...
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Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full . . .
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Improve Your Chess by Learning from the Champions
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In this book Lars Bo Hansen shows how chess understanding has evolved and explains how and why a study of the great champions of the past and present will significantly improve your chess.
Although modern chess is a highly concrete game where calculation is paramount and principles often appear to take a back seat, Hansen argues that the principles have become . . .
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Why Lasker Matters
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Emanuel Lasker held the world chess championship longer than any other player in history (1894 to 1921). He competed against such greats as Capablanca, Rubinstein, and Alekhine at the height of their game, and was consistently successfulyet almost no one studies his games today. International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis now rectifies that oversight with a book that takes the full . . .
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Chess Rules For Students
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Chess Rules For Students is an instructional workbook designed for students learning the game of chess and for beginning students returning to the game after an absence. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. Parents unfamiliar with chess will find this booklet a valuable guide to their child's new interest. Chess Rules For Students is designed with students, coaches, . . .
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Secrets of Pawnless Endings
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After the success of Secrets of Rook Endings, John Nunn turns his attention towards endgames without pawns. These occur surprisingly often in practice and are extremely tactical in nature.
This book unites man and machine in the search for ultimate answers. The computer databases created by Ken Thompson, formerly of Bell Laboratories, can state with certainty the . . .
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606 Puzzles For Chess Nuts
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606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts is written by Fred Wilson & Bruce Alberston. For the true chess nut, the 64 squares of the chessboard represent a world of imaginative possibilities, where a bright idea can make the difference between triumph and destruction, victory and defeat.
Each of these 606 puzzles re-creates that world, putting the reader into a realistic . . .
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Back to Basics: Fundamentals
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How about a Nice Game of Chess?
The game of chess has challenged and delighted the world of centuries. In Back to Basics: Fundamentals, the essential building blocks of the royal game are presented simply and in an easy-to understand format.
With the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski, you will learn how the chess pieces move and . . .
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Start Playing Chess Today
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Start Playing Chess Today! is perfect for players new to the game, chess expert Rosalyn Katz explains the basics of chess and each piece's characteristics—how they move, their relative value, and how they can be used to checkmate opponents. Players also learn the basic concepts of attacking and defending and the mates and attacks that should be in every beginner's . . .
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Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days
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Sharpen Your Tactics in 7 Days is written by Australian chess champion Gary Lane. He introduced his unique training methods in his best selling book, Improve Your Chess in 7 Days. Now he applies the same quick, effective approach to a book focused on tactics.
Packed with tips and tricks, Sharpen Your Tactics in 7 Days is a no-nonsense style book, which makes it . . .
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Chess Rules, Tactics & Checkmate! Ideas For Students--...
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Chess Rules, Tactics & Checkmate! Ideas For Students: Get all three volumes of John Bain's Chess Series for Students! Now is your chance to get some of the best instructional workbooks designed for students learning the game of chess and for beginning students returning to the game after an absence. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. These highly acclaimed, . . .
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202 Surprising Checkmates
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This instructive manual, written by two experienced chess teachers, concentrates on one- and two-move checkmates that encourage players to keep alert to new possibilities. Instructive maneuvers feature queen sacrifices, "smothered" mates, "quiet moves," castling, en passant pawn capture, and other techniques. 202 exercises. Solutions included.
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101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
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In 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures, John Nunn, one of the world's finest writers on chess, presents his selection of brilliant modern games of 25 moves or fewer.
Much can be learned from these sparkling miniatures. Grandmaster John Nunn examines how the loser might have avoided disaster, and explains how the winner managed to punch home his advantage so . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening, Middlegame & Endga...
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Give young chess players a head-start with this set of three books designed particularly for those who want to learn to play chess better.
Each book in the series uses clear language and lots of fun diagrams-- with cartoons to brighten the mixto teach basic chess principles in the three parts of the game.
The books are titled Ten Ways to Succeed . . .
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The Art of Planning in Chess: Move by Move
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A follow-up to Neil McDonald's incredibly successful Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking, this insightful book takes a close look at some of the most outstanding games from the last 6 years, commenting on every single move as the game unfolds. This time, however, the emphasis is on planning, and how the players plan their strategy many moves ahead. The author's detailed . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: Book Two-- Exercises
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This book is designed to be a companion to the teacher's manual, Teaching Chess, Step by Step. It contains a series of exercises deigned to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in class.
The exercises were designed for K-12 beginning chess players. They require a minimum amount of explanation. The solution could be . . .
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Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player
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This book centers on the endgame, though it proposes that a chess game is an organic whole, with every concept related--What happens earlier explains what happens later.
The author explores essentials by mirroring his own workday lessons and treating ideas across phases as they apply. Standard positions, practical techniques, helpful paradigms, memorable . . .
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The Survival Guide to Rook Endings
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The Survival Guide to Rook Endings is an excellent source for this important topic. For all chess-players - from beginners to grandmasters, and whatever their style of play - one thing is certain: rook endings will arise in a great many of their games.Yet it is precisely in this area of the game that many players give away hard-earned points, either through lack of knowledge or . . .
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids--Volume 1
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids is the perfect introduction to basic chess tactics for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, this fun and instructive workbook combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles.
The main part of the book consists of exercise sheets with more than 1,000 positions, covering mates . . .
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Improve Your Chess at Any Age
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In August 2008 Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for any player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an inspired decision. He exceeded all expectations and was rewarded with a FIDE international rating of 2199. This, however, was no overnight success; it was the result of systematic work. How did he achieve such outstanding . . .
The player with a positional advantage has a better chance at a direct attack. Positional Chess Handbook: 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games, shows how to develop a more powerful strategic game.
It is a complete guide by grandmaster Israel Gelfer. Key squares, bad bishops, pawn structures, other examples appear in ascending difficulty, with . . .
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PawnSacrifice! Winning at Chess the Adventurous Way
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In the Everyman Chess book Pawn Sacrifice! Winning at Chess the Adventurous Way, author Timothy Taylor carries out an in-depth study of this major subject. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet they have been neglected in literature... until now.
Using an abundance of instructive examples, Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, . . .
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Chess Tactics For Students
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An instructional workbook containing 434 carefully selected problems presented in worksheet format. Chess Tactics For Students has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period. A versatile design makes this book ideal for independent seat work and homework as well as for chess club and classroom instruction. The . . .
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Common Sense in Chess
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Dr. Laskers original text on opening play, attack, defense, endgame, with analyses of games by Morphy, Steinitz, Tarrasch, Dr. Lasker.
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Chess Secrets: Giants of Innovation
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Chess Secrets is a series which uncovers the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defense, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and studies deeply a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us. . . .
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Judit Polgar: The Princess of Chess
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An in-depth look at a very special chess player. Everyone in chess acknowledges the uniqueness of Judit Polgar, a woman who has competed on equal terms with the world's best men, even defeating Garry Kasparov. Tibor Karyoli, the international chess master who has trained Polgar's sisters and experienced their parents' innovative methods first-hand, analyzes a large . . .
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From Middlegame Into Endgame
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Should I simplify to an ending or not? This is one of the hardest practical questions that chess players have to answer in their own games. Grandmaster Mednis, one of the world's leading endgame experts, explains the key positional and psychological factors involved in this decision and how to proceed once a simplification has been carried out. This book will help win your . . .
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Winning Chess Endings
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Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. Winning Chess Endings is a great one - a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with . . .
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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces (new edition)
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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces--the new enlarged edition by Igor Stohl--has 62 brilliant games involving the best players in the world, with notes by one of the top annotators.
Igor Stohl has selected these 62 outstanding games from recent years and analyzed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: Book Three--Activities
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The activities in third book in the series are the fun way to reinforce the rules and principles of good chess. Full color cartoon characters, are combined with pages that the young student can color, all designed to help the student understand the rules, principles and even the etiquette of the game of chess.
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country is one of the most delightful and helpful chess teaching books that has come along in quite some time.
Your favorite child will love both the bright illustrations and clear explanations that are featured in this 152 page hardcover book.
Written by Igor Sukhin with an introduction by Susan Polgar, this book . . .
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John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book (New Enlarged Editi...
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John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book is a new and enlarged edition published by Gambit.
Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other . . .
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The Art of Attacking in Chess
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All chess-players love to play a smooth attacking game, flowing from start to finish, and sprinkled with spectacular ideas and sacrifices. However, few can do so regularly, and for most players, their collection of brilliancies missed far outweighs their creative successes.Innate talent plays an important role, but many of the skills needed for attacking chess can be learnt by . . .
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Chess Workbook for Children
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Chess Workbook for Children is a fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children (and adults) who are new to chess or who are in the beginning stages of learning to play the royal game. Ten basic chess lessons and chess rules are presented in detail. Chess Workbook for Children can be used in conjunction with the book, Teaching Chess in the 21st Century (see . . .
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Secrets of Pawn Endings
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Secrets of Pawn Endings provides a thorough course in endings with just kings and pawns, from the simple to the highly complex.
Armed with this knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgames with greater confidence and certainty. Many interesting and beautiful positions are included, and there are test positions for the reader to solve. . . .
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing th...
Item #: OT6213
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan is a large-format, fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children and adults ranging from those with a basic chess foundation up to the above-average tournament player.
Chess Strategy Workbook teaches you to be observant and take your time to discover the clues in chess positions, . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: All Three Books
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Get all three books in the Teaching Chess, Step by Step series at a great savings. Book One is the Teacher's Manual, Book Two is the book of Exercises, and Book Three is the Activities book.
See each title for an individual description of each of these outstanding teaching books.
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Chess in Action: From First Attack to Checkmate
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This is not your typical beginners chess book. Chess in Action explains how to play the game as if you were a general leading your troops into combat!
Written by longtime children's book author Paul Mantell, and International Master of Chess Dean Ippolito, Chess in Action effectively captures the excitement of the battle and helps you discover the thrill of . . .
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids Volume Two
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids: Volume Two Is a fun and instructive work book for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced thatn Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
The main part of the book . . .
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An Introduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Expl...
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Chess Moves And Tactics Simply Explained provides an informal, intermediate introduction which is quite strong in explaining the reasons for moves.
It covers basic material, tactics, important openings, traps, positional play in middle game, end game. It also attempts to isolate patterns and recurrent configurations. This book contains 58 figures and is written by . . .
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The Right Way To Play Chess
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The beginners chess book, The Right Way to Play Chess written by D. Brine Pritchard and published by Globe Pequot, explains with remarkable ease and clarity the modern and internationally approved method of chess to the beginning chess player.
In this, the tenth revised edition of the standard work on the subject, Pritchard draws new inspiration from the latest . . .
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How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
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Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these . . .
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Winning the Won Game
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All players who aspire to chess mastery need to learn the techniques for winning a won game: that means they must better recognize the positional advantages they already have and know how to use them to get closer to victory. The examples laid out here will help them do exactly that. Each one comes from the most brilliantly played games at the Women's and Men's United . . .
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Totally Puzzled
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TOTALLY PUZZLED is a collection of nearly 1000 old and new puzzles that will entertain you for days. Each puzzle is clearly presented with hints and a detailed solution. The puzzles range from fairly easy to extremely difficult, with sections on space, time, money, games, language, logistics, math, words, questions and enigmas. There is something for everyone. If you really . . .
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The Art of Defense In Chess
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The Art of Defense In Chess helps chess players train for a part of chess that is often overlooked. Most players would rather attack than defend, with the result that defensive technique is often the weakest part of their game.
The Art of Defense In Chess, translated by Ken Neat, explains the basics of defensive play and contains many tests for readers to practice . . .
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365 Ways to Checkmate
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365 Ways To Checkmate is a 160 page paperback chess book written by Grandmaster Joe Gallagher and comes from Gambit Publication.
Joe Gallagher provides 365 checkmate puzzles to help readers sharpen their skills. In each position, the task is to find a way to force a clear-cut win. The theme is always checkmate--either the enemy king perishes, or can only be saved . . .
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Chess Openings for Kids
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For chess-players of all ages and abilities, it is vital to get off to a good start. This simple guide provides all the tips and ideas needed to play purposefully from move one. That's because these 50 Mighty Openings are the very ones used by chess masters and grandmasters to outwit opponents time and again.This book teaches the names and starting moves of all the main chess . . .
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Secrets of Rook Endings
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Secrets of Rook Endings is written by Grandmaster and renowned chess author John Nunn and published by Gambit Publications.
The first edition of Secrets of Rook Endings ushered in a new era in chess publishing. It was the first book based on computer-generated position databases that are guaranteed to provide the actual result of a position.
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The Reassess Your Chess Workbook How To Master Chess I...
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In The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How To Master Chess Imbalances, International Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, tactical and positional middle-games, and endgames.
Unique among books that present problems and their solutions, (but offer little of actual instruction), The Reassess Your . . .
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Chess for Kids (Paperback)
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In Chess for Kids international Master Michael Basman invites you into the challenging and exciting world of chess. His simple and accessible text presents the beginner with the rules, skills, and techniques of the game. Every aspect is illustrated with clear step-by-step photography, from setting up the board and basic moves, to more advanced tactics and strategy. A must for any . . .
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Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positio...
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The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and renowned three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions an average player should understand and remember to become a chess expert. These most crucial and instructive . . .
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Giant Chess Puzzle Book
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Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to . . .
The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching . . .
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Why We Lose at Chess
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The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
Colin Crouch tackles this vital subject face-to-face. Drawing upon his considerable . . .
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Understanding Chess Middlegames
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Understanding Chess Middlegames builds on the authors's previous success with Understanding Chess Endgame. In this release John Nunn turns his attention to the middlegame - the phase of the chess battle where most games are decided, yet the one that has received the least systematic treatment from chess writers. With the outstanding clarity for which he is famous, Nunn . . .
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner t...
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master, is an excellent book for the endgame.
For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels.
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The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
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This outdtanding chess book from Everyman Chess--The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps by Gary Lane--shows you that there is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap.
Similarly, there's nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the . . .
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Chess Tactics for Scholastic Players
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Chess Tactics for Scholastic Players is a valuable chess workbook designed to improve the scholastic chess game in a rapid, effective manner. It is authored by International Master and world renowned Chess Coach Dean Ippolito.
Dean's chess teaching skills are highly regarded. He has taught three of the youngest National Champions in history and has taught . . .
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Modern Chess: Move by Move
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Leading chess author Colin Crouch selects and explains over 30 sensational games, all from the new millennium. By studying battles between the worlds best players, Crouch examines in detail all the key areas of modern chess.
Powerful attacking and resourceful defending, bloodthirsty tactical battles, profound positional mastery, deep
opening preparation and . . .
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The Art of the Checkmate
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The Art of the Checkmate, by Georges Renaud and Victor KahnIs, is a Dover Publication which takes you thorough the classification of 23 mating situations, including Legal's pseudo-sacrifice, the double check, smothered mate, Greco's mate, the Corridor mate, and many others.
Learn from 127 games by Tartakower, Janowski, Rubinstein, Blackburne and others, . . .
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Chess Mazes
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A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary skills to take your game to the next level!
If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. To master Chess Mazes, you have to exert better control and command of the full potential of all the pieces and you have to visualize their movements . . .
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Chess for Children
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Chess For Children, a 112 page hardcover chess book by Murray Chandler and Helen Milligan, is a charming way for children to learn chess.
With Chess For Children, kids will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. . . .
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The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techn...
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The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, by Jeremy Silman is published by Silman-James Press. An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy--conceptual planning--is finally here.
This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each . . .
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Survival Guide for Chess Parents
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In "Survival Guide for Chess Parents, Tanya Jones concentrates on the numerous aspects of being a "chess parent" and answers the many questions facing those with chess-playing children. There's certainly more to this than meets the eye. Problems are as diverse as 'How can I help in the very early stages?', 'How do I find suitable clubs and . . .
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Modern Chess Strategy
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You will find that Modern Chess Strategy offers a thorough, systematic analysis of the use of the queen, active king, exchanges, seven different uses of pawns, minority attack, dynamic elements, much more.
In it, author Ludek Pachman analyses 129 great games featuring those of Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, and . . .
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Revolutionize Your Chess: A Brand-new System to Become...
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Most chess players fail to make real progress once they have reached a certain level. They focus on studying openings, classical middlegame tactics, the odd strategic theme and a few rules-of-thumb for the endgame.
But when they sit down at the board and face real chess problems they are often clueless. Why is this?
Viktor Moskalenko argues that . . .
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Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
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Here... at long last... we have it. A new type of endgame book. A book which explains how to handle those positions that frequently occur in practical play but, curiously, are hardly ever the subject of theoretical works.Most endgame books rely upon recycling established theory on basic positions, or concentrate on fantastical studies. This one is different. Well known Grandmaster . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course, Volume 1:Learn Chess in 12...
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Comprehensive Chess Course: Volume 1: is a complete, easy to use program for teaching and self-study.
This is the first book in Lev Alburt's famous Comprehensive Chess Course. Learn everything from the basics of piece movement up to the value of the chess pieces, strategies, tactics, and opening principles. These practical exercises take the reader from . . .
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How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition
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How to Reassess Your Chess has long been considered a modern classic. Now this fourth, and final edition completely rewritten and featuring all new example stakes Silman's groundbreaking concept of imbalances to a whole new level. Designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 rating range and for teachers looking for a ready-made chess curriculum, the author shares a mind expanding . . .
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Checkmate for Children
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Checkmate for Children, by Kevin Stark, helps childrenor--any beginning chess player for that matter--master the most important skill in chess.
This book presents a systematic course on the most important and most exciting subject in chess: giving mate! Stark demonstrates how to use the queen, rook, bishop and knight, as well as pawns to checkmate your opponent. . . .
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How To Choose A Chess Move
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There are more than 30 moves to choose from in a typical chess position. Yet masters regularly manage to select the best one--and they do it faster, more confidently, and with less calculation than other players. The reason: masters know shortcuts that enable them to think more efficiently. International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis explains these techniques, including how to use . . .
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Winning Chess Explained
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Winning Chess Explained: Zenon Franco has regularly annotated top-level games for more than a quarter of a century. He has drawn upon this vast experience to present 50 hugely instructive games illustrating a wide variety of chess ideas. Key themes are illustrated by several games, so that we gain a well-rounded appreciation of the relevant ideas, and develop foresight that will . . .
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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge
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By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game.
The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the . . .
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Chess Strategy by classic chess-great, Edward Lasker
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Chess Strategy is written by chess-icon Edward Lasker. It is one of those must-have books for anyone collecting classic chess instruction books for their chess library, as well as for anyone who wants to improve their chess skills.
Chess Strategy is one of a half-dozen great theoretical works in chess. It shows principles of action above and beyond moves. Is has . . .
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
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How To Beat Your Dad At Chess is not just a book for kids who want to beat thier dads! It will help any young chess player against any opponent who beats them regularly!
This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates--basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards.
Each mating motif is carefully and simply . . .
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7 Steps to Better Chess
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This book is designed to immediately improve your game. Eric Schiller, a legendary teacher of bright young stars and champions, shows you—in seven lessons that cover every aspect of the game—how to rethink the moves you make and become a winning player.The book includes more than 55 key game situations, and is packed with diagrams and insightful callouts so that . . .
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The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
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Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions.There is something here for everyone, from beginner to experienced players. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate. The endgame . . .
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Winning Chess Exercises for Kids
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Winning Chess Excercises for Kids is a fun and comprehensive workbook written for children ages 7 to 13. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's the ideal study guide for developing skill at the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too. The main part of the book consists of 100 excercise sheets with nine diagrams each. The positions include . . .
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Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
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In Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur, 25 chess games between master and amateur were chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs learn how to avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves and improve their games.
Selected, by World Chess Champion Max Euwe and by Walter Meiden, a typical amateur player, the games point out graphically how the chess master . . .
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Chess Tactics for Kids
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Chess Tactics for Kids, written by Murray Chandler, is a great way for kids to learn the art of tactics in chess. In fact, chess enthusiasts of all ages and levels will find this book an instructive delight.
In a simple, easy-to-understand format it explains how to bamboozle your chess opponents using commonly occurring tactical motifs. The illustrative positions, . . .
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Starting Out: The Dutch Defence
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The Dutch Defence is an ambitious and underrated counter to the queen's pawn opening. With his very first move Black creates an asymmetrical pawn structure, thus unbalancing the position from a very early stage and allowing both White and Black players to fight for the initiative. Black also has many options within the Dutch Defence, from the ultra-solid Stonewall formation . . .
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100 Endgames You Must Know
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Most players tend to neglect the Endgame. Many even dodge the Endgame by taking extreme risks in the Middlegame, simply because they feel uncertain about the final phase. But time limits have shortened, and the Endgame has to be played fast. A solid basic knowledge is vital.
There are, contrary to what most amateurs believe, relatively few endgames one must know. . . .
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The Art of the Middle Game
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The Art of the Middle Game by Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov is a superb guide to this often neglected area of chess.
These two formidable grandmasters cover attacking the king, defense, importance of pawn structure, analysis, much more.
The Art of the Middle Game has an authoritative introduction by Harry Golombek. It also has Indexes of players . . .
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United States Chess Federation's Official Rules o...
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The U.S. Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess is the only official rulebook for chess. Serious players at every level as well as chess club teachers, directors, and tournament sponsors should have it on hand during every match.
This new edition features the latest rules, including guidelines for the popular game of speed chess, an updated quick rating . . .
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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played 62 Mas...
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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy, offers 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning.
It features games by the greatest chess masters such as Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker and others.
Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best . . .
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The Caro-Kann: Move by Move
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This new series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively . . .
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Better Chess for Average Players
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Better Chess for Average Players is a clear, straightforward guide by noted expert coaches that takes you through the fundamentals of attacking and positional play, as well as how to approach the endgame.
Crucial processes of assessing positions and choosing moves are examined in depth. It also helps you know how to cope with difficult positions and . . .
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Secrets of Practical Chess (Enlarged Edition)
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What is the best way to improve your chess results? Memorizing an opening encyclopaedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions ... there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent? In a new and enlarged edition of a highly popular work, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that. Drawing upon more than three decades of experience, he provides . . .
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Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
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There are 60 complete games in Capablanca's Best Chess Endings --annotated throughout-- that emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, and Reti,--the best in chess.
These are real games from match and tournament play, with endings that seem like long-contemplated works of . . .
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Winning Chess Combinations
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Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a . . .
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Forcing Chess Moves The Key to Better Calculation
Item #: NEW912437
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Forcing Chess Moves: The Key to Better Calculation, asks the question, Why is it that your brain so often refuses to consider winning chess tactics?
Every chess fan marvels at the wonderful combinations used by famous masters to win games. How do they find those fantastic moves? Do they have a special vision? And why do computers outwit us tactically?
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Chess For Beginners
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In Chess For Beginners, Israel A. Horowitz, Chess Editor of the New York Times and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from 35 years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game.
He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the game--how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and . . .
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Starting Out: Rook Endgames
Item #: EV443745
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Endgames with kings, rooks and pawns are by far the most common type it is estimated that rook endgames are reached in nearly one in five of all chess games. It is clear that a firm understanding of them is required in order to become self-assured in this typical phase of the game. And yet it is exactly this area in which many players drop precious points or half-points through a . . .
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Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
Item #: GA3315
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Chess owes its extraordinary strategic depth to pawns. These humble pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers, battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks of royalty. This book elucidates the pawn's multi-faceted nature. The author, an experienced grandmaster and trainer, tackles a fundamental chess topic, and . . .
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10 Great Ways to Get Better at Chess
Item #: EV446333
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How can you improve at chess?This is the eternal question asked by players of all levels.
Which part of the game should you focus on? How often should you play? Should you change your opening repertoire? Whats the best way to learn from your defeats? So many questions ... and yet direct answers are hard to find. Its no wonder aspiring players are left bewildered . . .
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Chess Endgame Quiz
Item #: CA0745
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Chess Endgame Quiz features 200 challenges in a multiple choice format that will help you learn to finish off your opponents!
These instructive and challenging positions are not only fun and entertaining, but will teach you how to improve your endgame! The Chess Endgame Quiz book is written by Grandmaster Larry Evans, the Dean of American Chess.
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Chess Success: Planning After the Opening
Item #: BA490718
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Chess Success: Planning After the Opening is written by International Grandmaster Neil McDonald, who says it is a fact that you can win some chess games just by playing one solid-looking move after another.
But at the higher levels of competition, its not enough to play move by move. You need a plan. Chess Success: Planning After the Opening is about making that . . .
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The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess
Item #: BA388003
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The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess is written by Andrew Soltis and published by Batsford Chess. As a professional journalist and popular chess author, International Master Andrew Soltis is perhaps the best qualified to collect and edit this treasury of chess wisdom through the ages.
With quotations running the gamut from timeless irony (The winner of the game . . .
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Chess Is Child's Play
Item #: OT277315
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Chess is Child's Play is a fantastic chess book with a new step-by-step approach to help parents (or teachers and coaches) teach children to play chess. It is written by Laura Sherman, an avid chess coach and writer from Florida, and Bill Kilpatrick, a specialist in advanced educational techniques from Southern California.You can download a free preview of this book by . . .
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50 Essential Chess Lessons
Item #: GA0417
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Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learnt from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older works of this type. Topics include: Attacking the King, . . .
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The Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to ...
Item #: CA1334
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The Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to Win at Chess, is written by Eric Schiller. Readers not only learn the basics of chess and how to play it well, they also learn all about the game from world champions and their famous games. It also has all sorts of chess trivia and interesting bits about famous people who just love playing chess.
The Big Book . . .
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Checkmate Tactics
Item #: EV446265
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If so, then Checkmate Tactics is the book for you.
Tactical play is the nitty-gritty of chess. It's the stuff that players are trying to work out when they say to themselves, "If I go there and he goes there ... and then I check him with the knight ... now, what can he do ... etc." At a social or weak club level, virtually 100% of games are . . .
Price: $14.95
The King in Jeopardy: The Best Techniques for Attack a...
Item #: WW3136
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The King in Jeopardy is a classic chess book with 251 pages that has been praised by players and teachers alike.
Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the attack and defense of the king, with hundreds of game illustrations, dozens of problems and exercises, and instructive explanations and solutions.
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Chess Explained: The Queen's Gambit Declined
Item #: GA00800
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The Queen's Gambit Declined is one of the most important and popular of chess openings. While an immensely solid and classical choice for Black, it has remained highly topical for more than a century. Both sides have ways to create imbalance and test their opponent's skills and knowledge in a full-blooded struggle. Most of the World Champions have taken both sides of the . . .
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Tips for Young Players
Item #: EV2318
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Britain's No.3 ranked player Grandmaster Matthew Sadler answers key questions: Which openings should I play? How do I learn to spot tactics? What do I need to know about the endgame? This guide is written by one of the world's leading players, Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and is aimed at young players looking to improve their play and practical results. It is packed with . . .
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American Grandmaster
Item #: EV45527
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Joel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen years of age he broke Bobby Fischers record as the youngest ever national master, and this was followed by countless tournament successes. Perhaps most famously, in 1997 he hit the headlines when he became the chess consultant for IBMs Deep Blue computer, which made history by beating World . . .
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Chess Words of Wisdom
Item #: RU741108
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Chess Words of Wisdom is made up of the crucial information mined from over 400 chess books (plus hundreds of magazine articles, vides, DVDs, web sites and various other sources) all condensed into this one remarkably complete, and one-of-a-kind, chess book.
Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teachings of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs . . .
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Pawn Power in Chess
Item #: DO4866
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Author Hans Kmoch provides a profoundly original discussion of pawn play in his book, Pawn Power in Chess.
He isolates its elements and elaborates on various aspects, and demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute a winning strategy.
Pawn Power in Chess has a multitude of examples that demonstrate the paramount . . .
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Play the Grunfeld
Item #: EV521X
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The Grunfeld is an exciting and dynamic answer to 1 d4, and has become very popular at all levels of chess. A major reason for this is that it has been a long-time favorite of the worlds strongest-ever chess player, Garry Kasparov, who used it many times in his numerous World Championship battles. The Grunfeld very much relies on the principles of the hyper-modern school of chess: . . .
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Win with the London System
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The London System is a perennial favourite of club players, as it is a very sound and solid system with a real practical sting. The authors of this new book seek to maximize this sting in two principal ways. Firstly, by explaining in detail the typical plans for White, they help readers to make the most of their chances, whether they are based on a kingside attack, queenside . . .
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101 Questions on How to Play Chess
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What is the object of the game of Chess? What is chess notation? How does the King move and capture? These and a host of other chess questions are answered simply and clearly in this indispensable guide for beginning players.Chess expert Fred Wilson has distilled an enormous amount of information into an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format that not only explains the most . . .
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Logical Chess: Move By Move
Item #: BA4640
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Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this much loved classic, Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.Wholesale Chess recommends this book as the best book . . .
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Chess Strategy For Club Players
Item #: NEW912680
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Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow!
With Chess Strategy For Club Players, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions and how to make use of those . . .
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Simple Chess New Algebraic Edition
Item #: DO424200
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Written by Grandmaster Michael Stean, Simple Chess isolates basic elements and illustrates them through master and grand Master games. It breaks down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas. Simple Chess concentrates on the simple positional ideas and strategies that present themselves in popular openings and shows how they might be developed with the aid of sample . . .
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Let's Play Chess: 2'nd Edition A Step by Ste...
Item #: RU690521
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In this updated and revised second edition of Let's Play Chess, you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history, and the basic principles of good chess play.
Chess author, and renowned chess master and instructor, Bruce Pandolfini, says the following about his book.
"Chess is by far the most popular board game in the . . .
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Secrets of Chess Defence
Item #: GA3919
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Good defensive abilities earn players a great many half-points and full-points. The climax of the defense is the launching of a devastating counter-attack, a skill at which all the great chess champions have been adept. Of particular interest to club players is Marin's discussion of how to defend against unsound attacks, and the problem of how to parry the attack while . . .
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Ruy Lopez Exchange
Item #: EV3896
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The Ruy Lopez Exchange (or Spanish Exchange) is a classical and well-respected opening that is a FAVORITE amongst Grandmasters and club players alike. It has provided the battle scene for many heavyweight clashes between world's elite, including (amongst others) Alexei Shirov, Jan Timman, Nigel Short and Michael Adams. Very early on in the game, a distinctive pawn structure is . . .
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Chess Fundamentals--Algebraic
Item #: EV0730
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J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters. Capablanca explains: Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening
Item #: OT162444
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Have you ever looked at the start position of a chess game and wondered what on earth to do? Or do you get bored playing the same moves game after game?
This book has been written for young players who would like to play the opening better. As well as explaining the key principles, it also introduced a couple of exciting openings for junior players.
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Combinations: The Heart of Chess
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In Combinations: The Heart of Chess, author Irving Chernev gives explanations for the famous and less well-known combinations of: This book has 356 diagrams.
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Middlegame
Item #: OT162451
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This easy to read and understand book tells young players about the heart of chess--the Middlegame. It is written in a format designed specifically for young players and is illustrated throughout with many great diagrams and cartoons to keep interest high.
Young players will learn how to think about their position, how to spot tactics and work out combination of . . .
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Award-Winning Chess Problems
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Award-Winning Chess Problems by Burt Hochberg presents challenging chess problems that have won top prize in one of the many chess competitions held around the world. The problems in Award-Winning Chess Problems will help hone players' skills so that even beginners can learn to become winners too.
As with all orthodox chess conundrums, the ones collected here . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Endgame
Item #: OT162468
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This easy to read and understand book tells young players how to play the Endgame better. It is written in a format designed specifically for young players and is illustrated throughout with many great diagrams and cartoons to keep interest high.
Young players will learn how to make the most of the few pieces left and how to get an extra queen. They need to . . .
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Chess Exam And Training Guide: Tatics
Item #: OT6116
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The original best-selling Chess Exam and Training Guide scored rave reviews from readers and experts alike. It won the very prestigious Cramer Best Book award from CJA (Chess Journalists of America) and has been translated into French and Russian. In this sequel, the focus is exclusively on Tactics. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned master, this book will help you to . . .
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Play 1...b6
Item #: EV4108
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Fed up with getting difficult positions with the black pieces? Tired of always having to keep up with all the latest developments. Take a break from the mountains of opening theory and play 1...b6! With the move, preparing a bishop fianchetto, Black immediately directs the game into relatively uncharted territory, one where White players are not able to sit back and rely on their . . .
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101 Chess Opening Traps
Item #: GA3137
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101 chess opening traps, a 112 page paperback chess book, is written by Steve Giddins and published by Gambit Publications.
The only thing more humiliating than losing a game quickly is to lose a game quickly to a known opening trap. On the other hand, the easy point scored by the trapper is a great confidence booster, and allows the winner a good rest before the . . .
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Chess Training for Budding Champions
Item #: GA3471
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Many chessplayers find it difficult to improve their game beyond a certain level. They can see basic tactics, know a little about openings and can calculate a few moves ahead. However, so do their opponents. What is the next level, and how does one get there? This book is aimed at chess-players who have progressed well beyond beginner level and have acquired the basic skills . . .
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Beginning Chess Play2nd Edition
Item #: CA0443
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Beginning Chess Play--2nd Edition, promises to help you learn how to play and win at chess in just one reading!
The step-by-step approach uses 113 chess diagrams to teach players the following:
Beginning Chess Play is written by Bill Robertie, chess master and former U.S. speed chess champion. He has authored multiple readable books for chess players.
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Whiz Kids Teach Chess: Chess for 16-Under Players by T...
Item #: CA0079
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Today's most promising young chess players present a fascinating look at learning chess--complete with a step-by-step primer on basic chess play, large diagrams, and easy-to-understand explanations targeted toward novices under age sixteen.
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Morphy's Games of Chess
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Morphy's Games of Chess features 300 games by arguably the greatest player of all time, Paul Morphy.
It has:
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The Complete Chess Workout: Train Your Brain with 1200...
Item #: EV45329
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Could you use over 1200 cehss puzzles to help your brain become and stay strong and competitive? The Complete Chess Workout: Train Your Brain with 1200 Puzzles! by Richard Palliser, is the perfect way to keep your mind sharp for any chess match.
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and . . .
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How Chess Games Are Won and Lost
Item #: GA4012
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Traditionally, chess games have been divided into three stages - opening, middlegame and endgame - and general principles presented for how to handle each stage. All chess-players will be well aware that these principles all too frequently fail to help in their selection of the best move.
In this important work, Lars Bo Hansen, grandmaster and professional educator, . . .
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DISC Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors
Item #: HAY3932
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This book is an easier version of Combination Challenge!, also by Lou Hays. It contains 535 one- two- and three-move combinations to solve and teaches a study method for learning to play combinative chess. This is the quickest and easiest way to improve your chess rapidly.
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100 Easy Checkmates
Item #: CA1210
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100 Easy Checkmates is perfect for beginning players from adults to children. It offers an accessible, fun guide to winning at chess. You'll have a great time reading all 144 pages of this paperback chess book.
Designed to help players learn without frustration or tedious chess notation, 100 Easy Checkmates presents easy one-and-two-move checkmates that . . .
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English Opening: Classical & Indian
Item #: EV40331
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The English Opening is one of the most flexible and dynamic ways for White to begin the game, and it is no accident that it features in the repertoires of many leading grandmasters, including World Champion Garry Kasparov. The Latvian grandmaster Vladimir Bagirov has worked through an immense amount of practical material to produce a thoroughly professional and up-to-date guide to . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume 2: From Beginner to ...
Item #: WW3012
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This second book in the Comprehensive Chess Course focuses on taking beginning chess players through deeper opening ideas, sharp tactics, and mating combinations. Lev Alburt's highly acclaimed teaching methods are in display as he shares his insights and favorite positions.
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Concise Chess Endings
Item #: EV3136
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This is a great buy from our discontinued stash of classic books. Only one is left stock. When this is gone, the book will no longer be available.
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Winning Chess Strategies--Revised
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Strategy - it's the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you'll enter each game with . . .
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Winning Chess Openings from Cardoza Publishing - 2nd E...
Item #: CA0516
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Winning Chess Openings will help you learn crushing, powerful attacks like the Ruy Lopez--sizzling asymmetrical defenses like the Sicilian Defense--stunning openings like the Kings Indian and the Slave Defense--and so much more!
This popular book has taught tens of thousands of beginning players the key concepts of the opening, which is the most crucial part of . . .
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The Catalan
Item #: EV3462
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The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favorite of many of the world's leading players. Its rich tactical and positional subtleties provide an excellent platform for players wishing to improve their overall understanding of the game. Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik provide a comprehensive coverage of this opening, outlining the most common plans and . . .
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Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion
Item #: GA454326
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This new expanded edition of the award-winning Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess (New Edition) features 30 extra games from the period of Anand's greatest successes.Anand has been one of the world's top players for more than two decades, and cemented his place in the all-time hall of fame by winning the unified World Championship in 2007, and successfully defending his . . .
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The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames
Item #: EV446944
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Chess players are known to be obsessed by openings. However, world champions have recommended that up-and-coming players should actually begin by studying the endgame first. This is because only by studying simplified positions can one fully develop an understanding of how chess pieces work – both in isolation and with each other.It is also the endgame where the true depth . . .
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Chess Openings for Black, Explained: A Complete Repert...
Item #: WW3128
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Three-time US Champion Champion Lev Alburt, famous for his ability to turn aspiring players into masters, teams up with two-time U.S. Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili and young international star Eugene Perelshteyn to give you a complete repertoire of opening play-as well as a review of all openings and an explanation of the principles of playing this crucial stage of the game. And . . .
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Winning Chess Tactics-- Revised
Item #: EV3861
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Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why play in a fog, only hoping that your opponent will blunder when International . . .
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Checkmate! My First Chess Book
Item #: EV3586
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Learn to play the great game of chess with none other than Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as your teacher. Discover all the various pieces - the king, the queen, the knights, the bishops and the pawns. Find out how the pieces move, the values of the chessmen, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, how to employ special . . .
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Boy Scout Chess Merit Badge Book
Item #: BSA357003
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Boy Scouts of America intorduced a new merit badge in 2011 for Chess lovers. This book includes the requirements to earn the badge and covers the history of chess. It also covers the opening, middle games, and end games. · Great for any Boy . . .
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Play Winning Chess
Item #: EV3314
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Play Winning Chess is an enthusiastic introduction to chess that will transform you into a veritable gladiator of the chessboard. Seirawan begins by explaining piece movement, chess notation, the rules of play and basic tactics. His examples, question-and-answer sections, psychological hints, and lively sample games help you learn strategies and play aggressively while having fun. . . .
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Art of Attack in Chess--Revised Algebraic Edition
Item #: EV4000
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One of the finest chess books ever written, the Art of Attack has been transcribed into algebraic notation for the first time. In this revised edition of the great classic, the author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add power and brilliance to any chess enthusiast's play.
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Back to Basics: Openings
Item #: RU690446
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Because of the sheer volume of variations, possible transpositions and ever-changing theory, chess openings can be overwhelming - even intimidating. This book is an introduction to understanding and playing chess openings.
The author, Danish FIDE Master Carsten Hansen, stresses opening play based on comprehending opening principles as well as useful, fundamental . . .
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Understanding the Grunfeld
Item #: GA3099
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The Grunfeld has always been a popular choice with players who aim to counterattack with the black pieces. World Champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov head a distinguished cast of grandmasters who swear by its solid and yet dynamic nature. In this original book, Jonathan Rowson delves deeply into the Grunfeld, steering the reader through the mysteries and intricacies of this . . .
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Back to Basics: Tactics
Item #: RU690332
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This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional materials, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from easy to challenging!
Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun. This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment . . .
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Rapid Chess Improvement
Item #: EV2695
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Rapid Chess Improvement is the ideal book for serious adult players who want to improve. It describes a study plan which came about thanks to a re-evaluation of standard chess teaching and includes several unique components aimed at improving deficiencies in the play of adult players.
This is in sharp contrast to most books aimed at this level which are usually . . .
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A Course In Chess Tactics
Item #: GA454142
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The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! But there is often little useful guidance as to how this is best done. By solving puzzle positions? Or endgame studies? By dissecting the games of great tacticians?
Few books present a structured approach to tactics, so this book fills a valuable niche in . . .
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Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win
Item #: DO5783
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As noted British chess author T. D. Harding explains in the preface to Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win, the aim of this book is to show you how to win games with Black.
The method? Calculated aggression, right from move one! To offset the distinct advantage White is thought to have because it moves first, Black can engage in dynamic counterplay to avoid . . .
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Play...
Item #: FI5015
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New To The Game, is another excellent chess book written by Bruce Pandolfini. Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed chess teaching system.
Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to . . .
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Dismantling the Sicilian: A Complete Repertoire for Wh...
Item #: NEW912949
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The Sicilian Defense is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level and among top grandmasters. Since Black gets dynamic play in almost all variations, black players of all levels will probably continue to play the Sicilian for a long time to come.
It has been difficult for White to obtain any advantage in Sicilian sidelines, and this book therefore . . .
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Fighting the Anti-King's IndiansHow to Handle Whi...
Item #: EV445756
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Fighting the Anti-King's Indians: How to Handle Whites' tricky ways of avoiding the main lines, is published by Everyman Chess.
If your complaint is that you love playing the Kings Indian, but no one ever allows you to reach your favorite opening! (an all too often complaint!) the answer to the problem lies in Fighting the Anti-King's Indians.
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How to Win at Chess Quickly!
Item #: EV446319
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Let's face facts: everyone enjoys winning. And the only thing better than winning is to win quickly!
Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game - at all levels of chess - but a key skill is to recognize these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency.
This is a skill which Grandmaster Simon Williams addresses . . .
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Portable Chess Coach
Item #: CA1857
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In The Portable Chess Coach, Judith Shipman presents a fun but thorough primer to chess. Packed with diagrams and valuable instruction, this is the ideal book for beginners, who want a clear and concise introduction that will keep them interested and entertained. Judith Shipman has been playing tournament chess for over 25 years. She has taught many after-school programs, as well . . .
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Play Chess Like the PROs
Item #: EV446272
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What separates the greatest chess players from mere mortals? Grandmaster Danny Gormally believes that understanding, preparation and will to win are three crucial factors.
In Play Chess Like the Pros he examines these key aspects and attempts to bridge the gap between the best and the rest. He believes that a player's capacity to improve is limitless, and in . . .
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101 Chess Questions Answered
Item #: GA4005
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Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the . . .
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Secrets of Spectacular Chess(new second edition)
Item #: EV445510
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In Secrets of Spectacular Chess, the modern chess classic by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood, the authors share their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game.
Moreover, they also show how this fascinating subject can actually be analyzed, and how this can help . . .
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Elements of Chess Strategy
Item #: GA454241
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Forming a plan is the most important goal of logical chess thought. Without a good plan, we are reduced to tactical opportunism, rather than harnessing the power of our pieces to achieve specific tasks and make methodical progress towards victory.
However, few chess-players - even those fortunate enough to have a trainer - develop a disciplined approach to . . .
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Mastering Chess Strategy
Item #: EV446487
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Grandmaster Johan Hellsten is convinced that mastering chess strategy - just like chess tactics - requires practice, practice and yet more practice!
This outstanding book is a product of his many years' work as a full-time chess teacher, and is specifically designed as part of a structured training program to improve strategic thinking. It focuses on a wide . . .
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Tarrasch: The Game of Chess--Algebraic Edition
Item #: HAY3940
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Dr. Tarrasch begins with the endgamebecause its easier for a novice to deal with a few men than the entire thirty-two. An important and extensive discussion of the middle game follows. Finally, the author deals with openings and offers enlightening comments on many historically important variations. Over 340 diagrams and 12 complete games.A famous chess manual for 75 years, now . . .
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The Art of Chess Combination
Item #: DO205835
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Among the most satisfying and successful chess maneuvers, the combination usually involves surprise and sacrifice to achieve a sudden advantage. This essential work explains principles, varieties, and techniques, plus the ideas behind them. Examples from the games of master players provide helpful illustrations. Suitable for players at all levels. 200 diagrams.
English . . .
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Danger In Chess: How To Avoid Making Blunders
Item #: DO424219
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Danger In Chess: How To Avoid Making Blunders, shows you how to develop an early warning system, based on three main sources:Author Amatzia Avni shows you how to identify hazards, plus how detecting these signals can be used both defensively and offensively.
This book has 24 black-and-white figures. It is an unabridged republication of the edition originally . . .
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How to Play against 1 e4
Item #: EV445862
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How to Play against 1 e4 (published by Everyman Chess and written by Neil McDonald) is a book for any chess player who wants to find a good opening to play against 1 e4. It is an especially good chess book if - like the majority of chess players - you don't have endless time available to study the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable chess openings, . . .
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Killer Chess
Item #: DO446131
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Set up your game with three brilliant books and a compact plastic chess set that will make "checkmate" a regular part of your vocabulary.Killer Chess has three books: Why You Loose at Chess, How Good is Your Chess and Danger in Chess in this one box combination. It also has a travel chess set with a 7 x 7 inch board and magnetic pieces included to get you going with a . . .
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Play the Sicilian Kan: A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoi...
Item #: EV445817
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Play the Sicilian Kan: A dynamic and flexible repertoire for Black, is a chess openings book written by Johan Hellsten and published by Everyman Chess. This excellent chess book demonstrates that the Kan is an ideal choice as an opening weapon against 1 e4--as it is one of the easiest variations of the Sicilian to learn and play.
Play the Sicilian Kan shows . . .
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Play the Queen's Indian
Item #: EV445800
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Play the Queen's Indian is written by openings expert Andrew Greet and published by Everyman Chess.
The Queen's Indian is a dynamic and flexible way to meet 1 d4. Using Nimzowitschs principles, Black adopts the hypermodern plan of controlling the center with pieces rather than the traditional idea of pawn occupation. This approach often leads to complex . . .
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The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
Item #: EV4124
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Reveals the secrets of how to maximize potential and improve results in competitive play. Drawing upon years of his own experience, Emms tackles the all-important practical aspects of chess playing: studying ones own strengths and weaknesses, and those of prospective opponents; concentration and manner at the chessboard; handling time trouble; tackling cheats; playing for a win or . . .
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Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess (2nd Ed)
Item #: DK5214
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This popular book, now in its second edition, is based upon using a series of comprehensive tests to allow the student to learn and improve.We quote from the introduction: "There are many books which specifically test tactical motifs, in which you have to find all kinds of mates, and which test your ability to find forcing solutions to endgame positions or studies, but few . . .
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Chess Explained: The Modern Benoni
Item #: GA00770
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The Modern Benoni is from a series from Gambit Publications called Chess Explained, which is a series of books about chess openings.
They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegame to . . .
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Starting Out: The English
Item #: EV3225
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This book is ideal for those wanting to understand the basics of the English Opening. The English is a sophisticated and popular opening system that is suitable for all types of players and can lead to both positional and tactical middlegames. Many of the world's top players, including Kasparov and Kramnik, include the English in their openings weaponry.
In . . .
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The Budapest Fajarowicz, the Past and Future of the Fa...
Item #: BA7089
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The Fajarowicz (1d4Nf6 2c4 e5 3 dxe5 NE4!? Is a remarkable stand-alone defense to White's Queen Pawn opening. Unlike its better-know relative, the Budapest Gambit (3Ng4), Black is not always so concerned about recovering the gambit pawn, but concentrates rather on rapid development and dynamic piece play.
White Players, taken aback by such early . . .
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The Middle Game in Chess
Item #: DO239316
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This is a superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. This book has over 80 . . .
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New Ideas in Chess
Item #: CA422741
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In one of the most influential chess books written, readers will learn the most important strategy, tactics and themes that comprise a successful chess game: space, time, force and pawn structure. In a book that has been called the "bible for novice to intermediate players," Evans uses actual game examples to illustrate dozens of chess themes. Each is a mini-lesson . . .
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Studying Chess Made Easy
Item #: BA388676
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It is a fact of life that if you want to win, you have to put in a bit of study. But study doesn't have to be dull. This indispensible book contains foolproof ways to help the information go inand stay in. Acclaimed chess author Andrew Soltis reveals the key techniques in his trademark witty, accessible style.
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Play the Alekhine
Item #: GA454159
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The Alekhine is arguably the most forcing and aggressive reply to 1 e4. Black immediately forces the pace and drags the game onto his own favored territory. This strategy is not without risk, but those who specialize in the Alekhine find that the opening has a real practical sting and quick-strike potential.
This book describes the main positional and tactical . . .
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Secrets of Chess Transformations
Item #: GA014X
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One of the most important skills in chess is the ability to transform one type of advantage into another. The great champions effortlessly convert an initiative into an attack, an attack into a material gain, and move into an endgame where this advantage can be exploited smoothly. Readers know from their own games that this is not as simple as it looks. It is all too easy to miss . . .
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Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons
Item #: DO0619
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Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons is a unique and comprehensive chess course for tournament players which will help to develop an understanding of every aspect of the game.
The course is rounded off by a chapter offering practical tournament tips and general advice. Whatever your standard of play Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons will help you increase . . .
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How To Play Dynamic Chess
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Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. The scope and value of pieces can change radically during the course of a game. The current generation of supergrandmasters play unrelentingly dynamic chess, but a great deal of chess literature still deals with chess as if it were a predominantly static game. Much of our . . .
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The Triangle System
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Grandmaster Ruslan Scherbakov presents an opening system for Black based on the Semi-Slav Triangle –an ambitious way to fight the ever-popular Queen’s Gambit.Black’s weapons include the Noteboom Variation – a dynamic counterattack which takes White out of his comfort zone and offers Black the chance to dictate the game from the outset. Scherbakov also . . .
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A Rock-Solid Chess Opening Repertoire for Black
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Playing as Black in a game of chess can be difficult. Do you simply try to neutralize White's initiative, or go all-out to complicate the game? Either way, there are many pitfalls, and a lot of study may be needed.In this book, Grandmaster Eingorn shows that it is possible both to play solidly, and to take White out of his comfort zone. He recommends ideas and move-orders that . . .
