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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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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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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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 . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Giant Chess Puzzle Book
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Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to . . .
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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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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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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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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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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 . . .
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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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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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Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
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Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels..Themed sections include:
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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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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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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids--Volume 1
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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 . . .
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids Volume Two
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids: Volume Two Is a fun and instructive work book for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced thatn Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
The main part of the book . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 . . .
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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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Forcing Chess Moves The 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to Win at Chess Quickly!
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Let's face facts: everyone enjoys winning. And the only thing better than winning is to win quickly!
Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game - at all levels of chess - but a key skill is to recognize these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency.
This is a skill which Grandmaster Simon Williams addresses . . .
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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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Secrets of Spectacular Chess(new second edition)
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In Secrets of Spectacular Chess, the modern chess classic by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood, the authors share their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game.
Moreover, they also show how this fascinating subject can actually be analyzed, and how this can help . . .
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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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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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Elements of Chess Strategy
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Forming a plan is the most important goal of logical chess thought. Without a good plan, we are reduced to tactical opportunism, rather than harnessing the power of our pieces to achieve specific tasks and make methodical progress towards victory.
However, few chess-players - even those fortunate enough to have a trainer - develop a disciplined approach to . . .
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Mastering Chess Strategy
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Grandmaster Johan Hellsten is convinced that mastering chess strategy - just like chess tactics - requires practice, practice and yet more practice!
This outstanding book is a product of his many years' work as a full-time chess teacher, and is specifically designed as part of a structured training program to improve strategic thinking. It focuses on a wide . . .
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The Art of Chess Combination
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Among the most satisfying and successful chess maneuvers, the combination usually involves surprise and sacrifice to achieve a sudden advantage. This essential work explains principles, varieties, and techniques, plus the ideas behind them. Examples from the games of master players provide helpful illustrations. Suitable for players at all levels. 200 diagrams.
English . . .
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Danger In Chess: How To Avoid Making Blunders
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Danger In Chess: How To Avoid Making Blunders, shows you how to develop an early warning system, based on three main sources:Author Amatzia Avni shows you how to identify hazards, plus how detecting these signals can be used both defensively and offensively.
This book has 24 black-and-white figures. It is an unabridged republication of the edition originally . . .
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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.
White Players, taken aback by such early . . .
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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. . . .