TOTAL CHESS is your complete guide to chess. It covers everything: rules, strategies, tactics and checkmates. Everything in chess comes in threes. Three simple strategies are presented for the opening, midgame, endgame, etc. Each lesson is brief and covers one concept in simple language that everyone can read and understand. TOTAL CHESS is ideal for children and adults of all . . .
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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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Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn...
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In Chess Exam and Training guide international Chess Master Igor Khmelnitsky is one of the top US Chess players, as well as a very experienced coach and writer. His first book offers a unique approach to self-evaluation and chess training. The target audience - everyone who likes playing chess and wants to improve - from beginners to masters. The book will save reader $1000s and . . .
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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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Chess Secrets: Giants of Innovation
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Chess Secrets is a series which uncovers the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defense, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and studies deeply a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us. . . .
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10 Most Common Chess Mistakes & How To Fix Them--Revis...
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A fascinating collection of more than two hundred typical errors committed by the world’s greatest players challenges you to test your skills by choosing between two moves: the right one, or the one actually played. You will be amazed at how even world champions make errors in critical situations and violate the basic principles of chess. From neglecting development and king . . .
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing th...
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan is a large-format, fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children and adults ranging from those with a basic chess foundation up to the above-average tournament player.
Chess Strategy Workbook teaches you to be observant and take your time to discover the clues in chess positions, . . .
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Chess Exam: Matches against Chess Legends You Verses ...
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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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Understanding Chess Middlegames
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Understanding Chess Middlegames builds on the authors's previous success with Understanding Chess Endgame. In this release John Nunn turns his attention to the middlegame - the phase of the chess battle where most games are decided, yet the one that has received the least systematic treatment from chess writers. With the outstanding clarity for which he is famous, Nunn . . .
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New Ideas In Chess--Newly Revised
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Finally! One if the Most Influential Chess Books ever is back! Five- time U.S Champion Larry Evans shows you the most important concepts that comprise a winning chess game: Space, Time, Force & Pawn Structure. In a book that has been called the "bible" for novice to intermediate player," this newly revised classic use actual game examples to illustrate dozens of . . .
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Totally Puzzled
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TOTALLY PUZZLED is a collection of nearly 1000 old and new puzzles that will entertain you for days. Each puzzle is clearly presented with hints and a detailed solution. The puzzles range from fairly easy to extremely difficult, with sections on space, time, money, games, language, logistics, math, words, questions and enigmas. There is something for everyone. If you really . . .
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Improve Your Chess at Any Age
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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 . . .
Almost twenty years since the first successful edition was published , grandmaster Mihai Suba, a former Romanian champion and Senior World Chess Champion, has updated his groundbreaking work and extended it with even more entertaining and witty lessons.In the battle of chess ideas, the publication in 1991 of Dynamic Chess Strategy was a defining moment. Before Mihai Suba's . . .
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Starting Out: The Dutch Defence
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The Dutch Defence is an ambitious and underrated counter to the queen's pawn opening. With his very first move Black creates an asymmetrical pawn structure, thus unbalancing the position from a very early stage and allowing both White and Black players to fight for the initiative. Black also has many options within the Dutch Defence, from the ultra-solid Stonewall formation . . .
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The Caro-Kann: Move by Move
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This new series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course, Volume 1:Learn Chess in 12...
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Comprehensive Chess Course: Volume 1: is a complete, easy to use program for teaching and self-study.
This is the first book in Lev Alburt's famous Comprehensive Chess Course. Learn everything from the basics of piece movement up to the value of the chess pieces, strategies, tactics, and opening principles. These practical exercises take the reader from . . .
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The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
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Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions.There is something here for everyone, from beginner to experienced players. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate. The endgame . . .
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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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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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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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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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Revolutionize Your Chess: A Brand-new System to Become...
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Most chess players fail to make real progress once they have reached a certain level. They focus on studying openings, classical middlegame tactics, the odd strategic theme and a few rules-of-thumb for the endgame.
But when they sit down at the board and face real chess problems they are often clueless. Why is this?
Viktor Moskalenko argues that . . .
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Chess Explained: The Queen's Gambit Declined
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The Queen's Gambit Declined is one of the most important and popular of chess openings. While an immensely solid and classical choice for Black, it has remained highly topical for more than a century. Both sides have ways to create imbalance and test their opponent's skills and knowledge in a full-blooded struggle. Most of the World Champions have taken both sides of the . . .
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Why We Lose at Chess
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The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
Colin Crouch tackles this vital subject face-to-face. Drawing upon his considerable . . .
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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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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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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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Logical Chess: Move By Move
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Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this much loved classic, Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.Wholesale Chess recommends this book as the best book . . .
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10 Great Ways to Get Better at Chess
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How can you improve at chess?This is the eternal question asked by players of all levels.
Which part of the game should you focus on? How often should you play? Should you change your opening repertoire? Whats the best way to learn from your defeats? So many questions ... and yet direct answers are hard to find. Its no wonder aspiring players are left bewildered . . .
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Ruy Lopez Exchange
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The Ruy Lopez Exchange (or Spanish Exchange) is a classical and well-respected opening that is a FAVORITE amongst Grandmasters and club players alike. It has provided the battle scene for many heavyweight clashes between world's elite, including (amongst others) Alexei Shirov, Jan Timman, Nigel Short and Michael Adams. Very early on in the game, a distinctive pawn structure is . . .
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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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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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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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Chess Training for Budding Champions
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Many chessplayers find it difficult to improve their game beyond a certain level. They can see basic tactics, know a little about openings and can calculate a few moves ahead. However, so do their opponents. What is the next level, and how does one get there? This book is aimed at chess-players who have progressed well beyond beginner level and have acquired the basic skills . . .
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How Chess Games Are Won and Lost
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Traditionally, chess games have been divided into three stages - opening, middlegame and endgame - and general principles presented for how to handle each stage. All chess-players will be well aware that these principles all too frequently fail to help in their selection of the best move.
In this important work, Lars Bo Hansen, grandmaster and professional educator, . . .
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English Opening: Classical & Indian
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The English Opening is one of the most flexible and dynamic ways for White to begin the game, and it is no accident that it features in the repertoires of many leading grandmasters, including World Champion Garry Kasparov. The Latvian grandmaster Vladimir Bagirov has worked through an immense amount of practical material to produce a thoroughly professional and up-to-date guide to . . .
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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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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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The Reassess Your Chess Workbook How To Master Chess I...
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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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Chess Openings for Black, Explained: A Complete Repert...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to ...
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The Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to Win at Chess, is written by Eric Schiller. Readers not only learn the basics of chess and how to play it well, they also learn all about the game from world champions and their famous games. It also has all sorts of chess trivia and interesting bits about famous people who just love playing chess.
The Big Book . . .
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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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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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Understanding the Grunfeld
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The Grunfeld has always been a popular choice with players who aim to counterattack with the black pieces. World Champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov head a distinguished cast of grandmasters who swear by its solid and yet dynamic nature. In this original book, Jonathan Rowson delves deeply into the Grunfeld, steering the reader through the mysteries and intricacies of this . . .
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Back to Basics: Openings
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Because of the sheer volume of variations, possible transpositions and ever-changing theory, chess openings can be overwhelming - even intimidating. This book is an introduction to understanding and playing chess openings.
The author, Danish FIDE Master Carsten Hansen, stresses opening play based on comprehending opening principles as well as useful, fundamental . . .
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Back to Basics: Tactics
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This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional materials, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from easy to challenging!
Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun. This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment . . .
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A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames
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Improve your understanding and play of these most important endings with comprehensive but clear explanations by one of the most respected chess instructors of our era.
As most chess players know, rook endgames represents approximately half of all endings reached in master games. Therefore, it is absolutely vital that chess players wishing to improve their skill . . .
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Rapid Chess Improvement
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Rapid Chess Improvement is the ideal book for serious adult players who want to improve. It describes a study plan which came about thanks to a re-evaluation of standard chess teaching and includes several unique components aimed at improving deficiencies in the play of adult players.
This is in sharp contrast to most books aimed at this level which are usually . . .
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Chess Mazes
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A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary skills to take your game to the next level!
If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. To master Chess Mazes, you have to exert better control and command of the full potential of all the pieces and you have to visualize their movements . . .
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Fighting the Anti-King's IndiansHow to Handle Whi...
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Fighting the Anti-King's Indians: How to Handle Whites' tricky ways of avoiding the main lines, is published by Everyman Chess.
If your complaint is that you love playing the Kings Indian, but no one ever allows you to reach your favorite opening! (an all too often complaint!) the answer to the problem lies in Fighting the Anti-King's Indians.
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Back to Basics: Fundamentals
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How about a Nice Game of Chess?
The game of chess has challenged and delighted the world of centuries. In Back to Basics: Fundamentals, the essential building blocks of the royal game are presented simply and in an easy-to understand format.
With the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski, you will learn how the chess pieces move and . . .
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Understanding Chess Move by Move
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This new title, the first of its type to explain the dynamic principles that underpin modern chess, uses more than thirty carefully selected games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of the chess struggle.John Nunn, a top-class grandmaster and one of the world's most highly regarded chess writers, explains every move using terms and phrases everyone can . . .
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Play...
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New To The Game, is another excellent chess book written by Bruce Pandolfini. Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed chess teaching system.
Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to . . .
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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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Better Chess for Average Players
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Better Chess for Average Players is a clear, straightforward guide by noted expert coaches that takes you through the fundamentals of attacking and positional play, as well as how to approach the endgame.
Crucial processes of assessing positions and choosing moves are examined in depth. It also helps you know how to cope with difficult positions and . . .
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Chess Tactics For Students
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An instructional workbook containing 434 carefully selected problems presented in worksheet format. Chess Tactics For Students has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period. A versatile design makes this book ideal for independent seat work and homework as well as for chess club and classroom instruction. The . . .
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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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Common Sense in Chess
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Dr. Laskers original text on opening play, attack, defense, endgame, with analyses of games by Morphy, Steinitz, Tarrasch, Dr. Lasker.
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How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition
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How to Reassess Your Chess has long been considered a modern classic. Now this fourth, and final edition completely rewritten and featuring all new example stakes Silman's groundbreaking concept of imbalances to a whole new level. Designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 rating range and for teachers looking for a ready-made chess curriculum, the author shares a mind expanding . . .
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner t...
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master, is an excellent book for the endgame.
For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels.
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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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United States Chess Federation's Official Rules o...
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The U.S. Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess is the only official rulebook for chess. Serious players at every level as well as chess club teachers, directors, and tournament sponsors should have it on hand during every match.
This new edition features the latest rules, including guidelines for the popular game of speed chess, an updated quick rating . . .
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101 Chess Questions Answered
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Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the . . .
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How to Play against 1 e4
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How to Play against 1 e4 (published by Everyman Chess and written by Neil McDonald) is a book for any chess player who wants to find a good opening to play against 1 e4. It is an especially good chess book if - like the majority of chess players - you don't have endless time available to study the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable chess openings, . . .
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Dismantling the Sicilian: A Complete Repertoire for Wh...
Item #: NEW912949
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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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Play the Sicilian Kan: A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoi...
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Play the Sicilian Kan: A dynamic and flexible repertoire for Black, is a chess openings book written by Johan Hellsten and published by Everyman Chess. This excellent chess book demonstrates that the Kan is an ideal choice as an opening weapon against 1 e4--as it is one of the easiest variations of the Sicilian to learn and play.
Play the Sicilian Kan shows . . .
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Play the Queen's Indian
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Play the Queen's Indian is written by openings expert Andrew Greet and published by Everyman Chess.
The Queen's Indian is a dynamic and flexible way to meet 1 d4. Using Nimzowitschs principles, Black adopts the hypermodern plan of controlling the center with pieces rather than the traditional idea of pawn occupation. This approach often leads to complex . . .
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The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
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Reveals the secrets of how to maximize potential and improve results in competitive play. Drawing upon years of his own experience, Emms tackles the all-important practical aspects of chess playing: studying ones own strengths and weaknesses, and those of prospective opponents; concentration and manner at the chessboard; handling time trouble; tackling cheats; playing for a win or . . .
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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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Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess (2nd Ed)
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This popular book, now in its second edition, is based upon using a series of comprehensive tests to allow the student to learn and improve.We quote from the introduction: "There are many books which specifically test tactical motifs, in which you have to find all kinds of mates, and which test your ability to find forcing solutions to endgame positions or studies, but few . . .
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Chess Explained: The Modern Benoni
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The Modern Benoni is from a series from Gambit Publications called Chess Explained, which is a series of books about chess openings.
They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegame to . . .
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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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Simple Chess New Algebraic Edition
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Written by Grandmaster Michael Stean, Simple Chess isolates basic elements and illustrates them through master and grand Master games. It breaks down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas. Simple Chess concentrates on the simple positional ideas and strategies that present themselves in popular openings and shows how they might be developed with the aid of sample . . .
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Starting Out: The English
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This book is ideal for those wanting to understand the basics of the English Opening. The English is a sophisticated and popular opening system that is suitable for all types of players and can lead to both positional and tactical middlegames. Many of the world's top players, including Kasparov and Kramnik, include the English in their openings weaponry.
In . . .
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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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7 Steps to Better Chess
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This book is designed to immediately improve your game. Eric Schiller, a legendary teacher of bright young stars and champions, shows you—in seven lessons that cover every aspect of the game—how to rethink the moves you make and become a winning player.The book includes more than 55 key game situations, and is packed with diagrams and insightful callouts so that . . .
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Play the Alekhine
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The Alekhine is arguably the most forcing and aggressive reply to 1 e4. Black immediately forces the pace and drags the game onto his own favored territory. This strategy is not without risk, but those who specialize in the Alekhine find that the opening has a real practical sting and quick-strike potential.
This book describes the main positional and tactical . . .
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A Course In Chess Tactics
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The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! But there is often little useful guidance as to how this is best done. By solving puzzle positions? Or endgame studies? By dissecting the games of great tacticians?
Few books present a structured approach to tactics, so this book fills a valuable niche in . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume 2: From Beginner to ...
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This second book in the Comprehensive Chess Course focuses on taking beginning chess players through deeper opening ideas, sharp tactics, and mating combinations. Lev Alburt's highly acclaimed teaching methods are in display as he shares his insights and favorite positions.
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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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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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Play Chess Like the PROs
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What separates the greatest chess players from mere mortals? Grandmaster Danny Gormally believes that understanding, preparation and will to win are three crucial factors.
In Play Chess Like the Pros he examines these key aspects and attempts to bridge the gap between the best and the rest. He believes that a player's capacity to improve is limitless, and in . . .
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Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player
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This book centers on the endgame, though it proposes that a chess game is an organic whole, with every concept related--What happens earlier explains what happens later.
The author explores essentials by mirroring his own workday lessons and treating ideas across phases as they apply. Standard positions, practical techniques, helpful paradigms, memorable . . .
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Secrets of Chess Transformations
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One of the most important skills in chess is the ability to transform one type of advantage into another. The great champions effortlessly convert an initiative into an attack, an attack into a material gain, and move into an endgame where this advantage can be exploited smoothly. Readers know from their own games that this is not as simple as it looks. It is all too easy to miss . . .
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Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons
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Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons is a unique and comprehensive chess course for tournament players which will help to develop an understanding of every aspect of the game.
The course is rounded off by a chapter offering practical tournament tips and general advice. Whatever your standard of play Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons will help you increase . . .
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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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Teaching Chess Step by Step: Book Two-- Exercises
Item #: RU941819
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This book is designed to be a companion to the teacher's manual, Teaching Chess, Step by Step. It contains a series of exercises deigned to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in class.
The exercises were designed for K-12 beginning chess players. They require a minimum amount of explanation. The solution could be . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: Book Three--Activities
Item #: RU690705
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The activities in third book in the series are the fun way to reinforce the rules and principles of good chess. Full color cartoon characters, are combined with pages that the young student can color, all designed to help the student understand the rules, principles and even the etiquette of the game of chess.
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
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Learn to think the same way Bobby did. This is the secret. You will be put in increasingly complex situations where you will be required to think and move the way Bobby Fischer did during his amazing career in chess. You'll be a better player after you take Bobby Fischer's Chess Course. It works.
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How To Play Dynamic Chess
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Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. The scope and value of pieces can change radically during the course of a game. The current generation of supergrandmasters play unrelentingly dynamic chess, but a great deal of chess literature still deals with chess as if it were a predominantly static game. Much of our . . .
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Teaching Chess Step by Step: All Three Books
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Get all three books in the Teaching Chess, Step by Step series at a great savings. Book One is the Teacher's Manual, Book Two is the book of Exercises, and Book Three is the Activities book.
See each title for an individual description of each of these outstanding teaching books.
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Studying Chess Made Easy
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It is a fact of life that if you want to win, you have to put in a bit of study. But study doesn't have to be dull. This indispensible book contains foolproof ways to help the information go inand stay in. Acclaimed chess author Andrew Soltis reveals the key techniques in his trademark witty, accessible style.
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Your Best Move
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Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give ourselves the very best chance of doing so?Per Ostman is convinced that there are three key elements: first and foremost, a structured . . .
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Chess Words of Wisdom
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Chess Words of Wisdom is made up of the crucial information mined from over 400 chess books (plus hundreds of magazine articles, vides, DVDs, web sites and various other sources) all condensed into this one remarkably complete, and one-of-a-kind, chess book.
Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teachings of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs . . .
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The Triangle System
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Grandmaster Ruslan Scherbakov presents an opening system for Black based on the Semi-Slav Triangle –an ambitious way to fight the ever-popular Queen’s Gambit.Black’s weapons include the Noteboom Variation – a dynamic counterattack which takes White out of his comfort zone and offers Black the chance to dictate the game from the outset. Scherbakov also . . .
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Killer Chess
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Set up your game with three brilliant books and a compact plastic chess set that will make "checkmate" a regular part of your vocabulary.Killer Chess has three books: Why You Loose at Chess, How Good is Your Chess and Danger in Chess in this one box combination. It also has a travel chess set with a 7 x 7 inch board and magnetic pieces included to get you going with a . . .
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The Middle Game in Chess
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This is a superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. This book has over 80 . . .
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Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion
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This new expanded edition of the award-winning Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess (New Edition) features 30 extra games from the period of Anand's greatest successes.Anand has been one of the world's top players for more than two decades, and cemented his place in the all-time hall of fame by winning the unified World Championship in 2007, and successfully defending his . . .
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A Rock-Solid Chess Opening Repertoire for Black
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Playing as Black in a game of chess can be difficult. Do you simply try to neutralize White's initiative, or go all-out to complicate the game? Either way, there are many pitfalls, and a lot of study may be needed.In this book, Grandmaster Eingorn shows that it is possible both to play solidly, and to take White out of his comfort zone. He recommends ideas and move-orders that . . .