Many games are over before they have even started in which case it is important to sit on the right side of the board. In 333 very instructive short games Lubomir Ftacnik shows typical traps and mistakes in the opening phase. With many explaining introduction texts, video clips, middlegame theme keys and training keys and trainings tasks for each games.
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Winning Structures
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Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favorite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favorite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and . . .
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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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Winning Chess Openings from Cardoza Publishing - 2nd E...
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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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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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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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Play Winning Chess
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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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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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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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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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Winning Chess Openings
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The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess . . .
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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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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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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 1:Winning Chess the Easy Way -...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 1:Winning Chess the Easy Way --The Basic Principles of Chess, takes you through 8 easy to follow, highly instructive lessons covering the basic principles of chess.
This will help your understanding of chess and is guaranteed to improve your chess game. Susan will show you how to avoid the most common mistakes made in chess and give your . . .
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Winning With Tactics
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This great CD has 300 traditional problems under the heading "Task", which you can solve by loading random positions.
--Or, you can go through the theme key and work your way through individual tactical themes and motifs.
--Or you can work your way up from the easiest . . .
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 7: Winning Chess The Easy Way ...
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In Susan Polgar's Volume 7:Winning Chess The Easy Way -- The Colle-Zukertort System, Susan will teach you an exciting, dynamic and easy to learn system to play The Colle- Zukertort.
On this DVD Susan brings 20 years of her own experience with this opening, which is perfect for the player who only wants to spend one-tenth the time it normally takes to master . . .
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The Basics of Winning Chess
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The Basics of Winning Chess. Modern chess is a tough relentless game, which demands that all chess players, regardless of strength, keep their command of basic technique in tip-top shape. On this instructive and entertaining DVD, International Master Andrew Martin takes you on a tour of the basics of winning chess, so that you never have to worry about this part of the game again. . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 3: Winning Chess the Easy Way ...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 3: Winning Chess the Easy Way: Essential Chess Tactics and Combinations, proves the old adage that says Chess is 99% tactics.
In this DVD, Grandmaster Susan Polgar will introduce the most common tactical elements in chess. Tactics are maneuvers that take advantage of short-term opportunities, often (but not necessarily) involving . . .
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 2: Winning Chess the Easy Way ...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 2:Winning Chess the Easy Way--Learn How to Create a Plan, demonstrates that planning in chess is essential throughout the entire game.
On this DVD, Susan will teach you the general ideas and concepts for short and long term planning in the opening, middle and endgame. You will come away with a better understanding and insight on all . . .
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Susan Polgar's Winning Chess the Easy Way: Comple...
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In this complete series of DVDs, Susan Polgar's Winning Chess the Easy Way, you will learn everything you will need to know from start to finish about how to become a competitive tournament chess player.
Susan is a most impressive grandmaster chess player, as well as a wonderful teacher. Susan Polgar's Winning Chess the Easy Way includes:
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Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1. e...
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 4: Winning Chess the Easy Way ...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 4: Winning Chess the Easy Way--Learn How to Avoid Opening Traps and Pitfalls, teaches that while it is always nice to win a game quickly--some opening traps are based only on hopes that your opponent will make a serious mistake. If your opponent plays correctly, the trap could backfire!
On this DVD Susan will take you through a number of . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 6: Winning Chess the Easy Way ...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 6: Winning Chess the Easy Way -- How To Think Like A Grandmaster...A Special Edition from the Las Vegas International Chess Festival, is a special 2 DVD set.
On disc 1 Susan shares with you three of her best and highly instructional games on how a grandmaster thinks, reasons and approaches each move. This DVD will help you to take these . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 5: Winning Chess the Easy Way-...
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In Susan Polgar's Volume 5: Winning Chess the Easy Way--Bobby Fischer's Most Brilliant Instructional Games and Combinations, Grandmaster Susan Polgar shares with you her personal knowledge of Bobby Fischer.
Susan answers some of the questions everyone wants to know, like who would have won the Fischer--Karpov match in 1975--the impact Fischer had on . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 8: Learn the Endgame The Easy ...
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Susan Polgar's Volume 8: Learn the Endgame The Easy Way -- Essential Basic Endgames - Part 1, shows you how to play and win your Endgames. Endgames, according to Grandmaster Susan Polgar, are more essential to learn than Openings.
In Lesson 1 of this DVD, Susan will cover all the most important basic endgames for the novice player. She will teach how to . . .
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A World Champion's Guide to Chess: Step-by-step I...
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Susan Polgar, 4-time World Chess Champion, became a living legend by following the methods taught by her father, Laszlo Polgar, the famous Hungarian chess coach. In A World Champion's Guide to Chess, Susan reveals these masterful tactics and techniques to players of all ages. With coauthor Paul Truong, an 11-time National Champion, she begins with the basics of . . .
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Learn to Play Chess with Fritz & Chesster 1
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Be King for a day with Fritz and Chesster Learn to Play Chess! Fritz is in charge of the castle when his parents go on vacation. It's every kid's dream until the dastardly King Black challenges the young stand-in king to a duel! Explore the kingdom and discover 7 arcade-style games that explain everything from chess basics to master strategies. Exercise your brain and put . . .
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Learn to Play Chess with Fritz & Chesster
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Use your wits, learn to think ahead, have fun and excitement AND learn a whole lot about chess: this great chess adventure has all of this and more in store for you! Together with Prince Fritz and his cousin Bianca learn how to play chess, then test and increase your knowledge in a whole range of exciting games and situations. How do you set up the board? Whats stalemate? When do . . .
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Learn to Play Chess with Fritz & Chesster Part 3
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Fritz and Chesster is one of the best-selling chess programs in the world. It is aimed at young beginners (and their parents!) and involves inserting a CD into a drive and showing the very young child how to use a mouse if that is at all necessary. Then step back and watch a new chess player emerge. Within a week or two the child will challenge you to a game and you better keep . . .
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Learn to Play Chess with Fritz & Chesster Part 2
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Jump into chess action, move by move, to rescue Chesster from deep within King Blacks castle. Join Fritz and Bianca in a thrilling chess adventure as they enter rooms of the castle, where each challenge will help you sharpen skills and prepare for the ultimate showdown.
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Getting the Edge in the Middle Game Series of Four Rom...
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You can save money with this four-volume series of Roman's Lab: Getting the Winning Edge in the Middle Game. The series features some of Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili' best advice for advancing and winning through the middle game.
MSRP for this combo is $99.96. The Wholesale Chess price for the four volumes is $67.96. You will save even more by . . .