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 . . .
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The Most Valuable Skills in Chess
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Assuming no knowledge of chess beyond the rules, Maurice Ashley guides you on an inspirational journey through the world of chess tactics. He brings the pieces to life by examining their fundamental characteristics, and shows how their powers can be put to use to win pieces or give checkmate - the building-blocks upon which all chess skills are based.
Ashley . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Why You Lose At Chess
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Why You Lose at Chess is an updated chess classic that shows how to learn from losses by recognizing the warning signals and by analyzing what went wrong in losing games.
Revised chapters focus on shift from correspondence chess to play based on e-mail and internet; benefits of computer chess, plus analysis of face-off between Kasparov and Deep Blue.
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The King in Jeopardy: The Best Techniques for Attack a...
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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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The Black LionThe Chess Predators Choice Against Both ...
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The Black Lion: The Chess Predators Choice Against Both 1.e4 and 1.d4, is an outstanding book written by two Dutch players who developed this system, Leo Jansen and Jerry van Rekom.
More than 85% of all chess games start with either 1.e4 or 1.d4. The Black Lion presents a flexible, logical and sensible way for Black to meet both of these moves.
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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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The ChessCafe Puzzle Book: Test and Improve Your Tacti...
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This book combines clear discussions of tactical themes with over 600 well-chosen positions to test, challenge and teach. Although the classic combinations are not ignored, the emphasis here is on positions from modern tournament practice of the last decade.
Tactics is a very important part of the game of chess and conscientious study and application of tactical . . .
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Pawn Power in Chess
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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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202 Checkmates for Children
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202 Checkmates for Children is one of our most popular books for children who play chess. Veteran chess teachers and authors, Fred Wilson and Bruce Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun.
Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way . . .
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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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Chess Mazes: A New Kind of Chess Puzzle for Everyone
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A great puzzle book to encourage the development of chess visualization. The planning and visualization skills taught here translate directly to over-the-board chess and have many other applications as well, for players and instructors alike.
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids
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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 in one or two . . .
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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The Complete Chess Workout: Train Your Brain with 1200...
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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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Play 1...b6
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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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Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win
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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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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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Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors
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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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Chess Exam And Training Guide: Tatics
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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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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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The Catalan
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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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Play the Ruy Lopez
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The Ruy Lopez is an incredibly popular opening at all levels of chess; this is perhaps unsurprising given that its recognized by most experts as Whites greatest chance of obtaining a lasting advantage after the moves 1 e4 e5. Also known as the Spanish Opening, the Lopez is steeped in rich tradition, having provided the battleground for countless clashes between World Champions of . . .
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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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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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The Art of Chess Combination
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The Art of Chess Combination presents modern explanations of chess principles, varieties, techniques and the ideas behind them.
It is illustrated with many examples from great players and has 200 diagrams. It is written by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.
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Winning Chess Tactics-- Revised
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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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Advanced Chess Problems and How to Solve Them
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Advanced Chess Problems covers two hundred commonly encountered chess problems. No expert knowledge of the game is necessary. These problems obey explicitly the rules of chess and, if you know the moves of the pieces, solving them will be well within your capabilities. That is not to say they are all easy to solve - they vary. The pleasure of problem chess lies not in the . . .
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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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The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
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As part of the Dover Publication of "The Art of..." series, The The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, uses the experience of Grandmasters to show how to win games by giving up pieces.
It describes games against Reti, Tarrasch, and other masters using 91 diagrams.
It was written by chess-great Rudolf Spielmann. Spielmann was known as "The . . .
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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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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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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 game . . .
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Outrageous Chess Problems
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Outrageous Chess Problems is published by Sterling Publishers. Author Burt Hochberg says this book is enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity--but wow, will they will enjoy the ride!
Outrageous Chess Problems is outrageous--amazing--and irresistible! These brain-busting chess problems are the devilish inventions of the world's greatest puzzle . . .
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The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess
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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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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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Forcing Chess MovesThe Key to Better Calculation
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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 Endgame Quiz
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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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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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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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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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Blunders and How to Avoid Them: Eliminate Mistakes fro...
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No one likes to make mistakes, but all chess players, even those belonging to the worlds elite, are prone to blundering. How can this problem be eradicated or, at the very least, kept to a minimum? Read this book and find out!
Experienced chess player and writer Angus Dunnington takes a look at why the good, the bad and the indifferent all make errors, from small . . .
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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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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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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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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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Dismantling the Sicilian A Complete Repertoire for Wh...
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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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The Budapest Fajarowicz, the Past and Future of the Fa...
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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.
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