Mate Studies is a new interactive training course which includes over 5000 best mate studies classified by a number of moves to achieve mate, a number of pieces on the board and authors. Visual hints to help a student find the solution Embedded chess playing program Crafty to learn with or play against Multiple user profiles possible with independent ratings and all other . . .
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Kopec: Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate - A Chessplayer&#...
Item #: DK0107
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This monumental DVD covers a subject that is certainly not for beginners How pawns should be used in the middlegame to develop an attack on the opposing King. It includes 27 examples comprised of 7 complete games and 20 game fragments divided into three distinct Parts: King(s) Caught in the Center, Kings Castled on Opposite Wings, and Kings Castled on the Same Side. Material is . . .
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The Art of the Checkmate
Item #: DO1066
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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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202 Surprising Checkmates
Item #: DO1677
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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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Checkmate! My First Chess Book
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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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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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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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Master Chess 6000: Ultimate Game Collection 7 (Nalimov...
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This is software that is designed to be easy to use. With choices like Playing a game against the built-in engine "Ruffian"; searching the included database of over 1.4 Million Master level and higher games; and haveing a game analyzed. Games up
Nalimov Table Base. Using the Master 6000 Chess Engine Ruffian this 7GB database of endgames allows you to . . .
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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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100 Easy Checkmates
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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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Ultimate Cabinet Chessboard 1 3/4" Squares
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This cabinet chessboard is made of the finest woods. Inlaid Maple, Walnut, Mahogany & Briarwood. Brass Piano Hinges open the storage compartment, which has a lock & key. Size 16 3/4 inches square by 2 3/4 inches high. Squares: 1 3/4". Hand made in Italy
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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 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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Ultimate Chess Software For PC
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Become the ultimate chess champion! Master this ancient game of logic and strategy as you play against the computer, a friend, or even yourself! Choose your favorite board, game piece set and background, then select from eight difficulty levels to customize your playing experience. In-game suggestions and comprehensive move history can help you improve your overall strategy while . . .
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Roman's Lab Vol 68: Qd6 Scandinavian, The #1 Unde...
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Roman's Lab Vol 68: Qd6 Scandinavian, The #1 Underestimated Weapon for Black Against 1.e4, is from the Roman and Rybka: Perfecting the Opening Series, by Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili.
Roman, along with Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn and Rybka, have reinvented the Qd6 Scandinavian. This opening is the best unexplored and underestimated weapon available . . .
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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 for Beginners: Elementary Checkmates I
Item #: CK0224
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If you are a beginner, you cant afford to miss mate in one if you want to improve. This course addresses that problem. This huge number of exercises also makes it an excellent tool for speed training, even for stronger players. This program includes 40,000 exercises taken from practical games with few pieces left on the board. It is intended for players with USCF rating of 300 or . . .
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Chess for Beginners: Elementary Checkmates II
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This training course contains 77,000 mate in one exercises taken from practical games with many pieces on the board. An excellent follow-up to CD Elementary Checkmates I. The huge number of exercises also makes this course an excellent tool for speed training, even for stronger players. It is intended for players with USCF rating of 500 or higher. Even if you only study and solve . . .
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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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Checkmate Tactics
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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 . . .
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Chess in Action: From First Attack to Checkmate
Item #: ST760464
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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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1001 Deadly Checkmates
Item #: GA454258
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For all chess-players, from beginners to world champions, from kids to seniors, delivering checkmate is the greatest thrill the game has to offer. The ability to spot checkmates is a vital skill - and this easy-to-use book shows you how it is done. With the help of Grandmaster John Nunn, you will be ready to shock your next opponent with a deadly checkmate, whether in a school . . .