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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Reassess Your Chess Workbook--How To Master Chess ...
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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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Secrets of Chess Defence
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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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Chess Fundamentals--Algebraic
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
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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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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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My System: 21st Century Edition
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A veritable bible for chess players from beginners to grandmasters - here is an easy to understand edition of a classic. This new algebraic version is packed with 419 diagrams for complete understanding.
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How to Crush Your Chess Opponent
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Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess-players, has selected his favorite attacking games from the modern era, and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that indicate . . .
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Play the Grunfeld
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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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Secrets of Positional Chess
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How can one determine if a piece is weak or strong? Or if a square is weak or strong? These are the principal questions that grandmaster and trainer Drazen Marovic addresses in this important book. By discussing carefully chosen games and positions, Marovic explains how to recognize good and bad features of positions, and how to make use of one's advantages and exploit the . . .
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Chess Praxis
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This book is Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch's companion volume to MY SYSTEM. This classic is one of the best selling and most instructive chess books of all time. Thousands of satisfied customers have used this book to improve their understanding of positional chess play.
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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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Tarrasch: The Game of Chess--Algebraic Edition
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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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Art of Attack in Chess--Revised Algebraic Edition
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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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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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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 . . .
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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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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Chess Success: Planning After the Opening
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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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Winning Chess MiddlegamesAn Essential Guide to Pawn St...
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Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures, a 260 page paperback chess book by Ivan Sokolov, is published by New In Chess.
Have you ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It's all about structures, as GM Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking chess book.
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Chess Strategy For Club Players
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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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True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board
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International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
This book is awash with invaluable advice and helpful tips on all stages of the game - opening, middlegame and endgame. Taylor emphasizes the . . .
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