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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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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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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Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking
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Grand master and prolific chess author Neil McDonald explains every single move made in 30 striking tactical or strategical games played over the last quarter century. Each of these games has been carefully chosen for its consistent logical thread, so that the reader will get prime instruction in the art of conceiving appropriate plans and attacks and carrying them out to their . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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50 Essential Chess Lessons
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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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50 Ways to Win at Chess
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50 Ways to Win at Chess, published by Gambit, is a sequel to the hugely successful 50 Essential Chess Lessons, Author Steve Giddins now presents 50 games that each illustrate an important winning method.
50 Ways to Win at Chess is an engaging and highly readable book and is a painless way to build your personal arsenal of techniques and ideas. The games are . . .
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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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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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Solitaire Chess
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Solitaire Chess comes from world-renowned chess teacher Bruce Pandolfini. It hosts a collection of the 50 best games from his popular "Solitaire Chess" column in Chess Life Magazine.
You can use Solitaire Chess to test yourself understand the strategies and tactics of serious chess, including development, king safety, the center, the opening, and more . . .
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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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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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Chess Exam: Matches against Chess Legends You vs Bobby...
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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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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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Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess
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Humorous--a little tongue in cheek--with a grin the authors say this book is a "unique reaction to a unique collection of creative works."
In his best-selling series, My Great Predecessors, Gary Kasparovg deeply analyzed the styles of twelve previous world champions and praised their important contributions to chess.
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