USCF Sales - The Classic Series Chess Set - 3.75" King

The House of Staunton is proud to offer the Classic Series Chess set. It features a 3.75" King with a 1.5" diameter base. The Chess pieces are hand carved by our master artisans and crafted out of the highest grade woods. The Chess pieces are heavily weighted with luxurious billiard cloth base pads and a beautiful finish. These Chessmen have been designed for those players looking for exceptionally well-crafted wooden Chessmen at a very reasonable price. Designed by the Maestro, it is without a doubt the most attractive yet durable set available on the market at this price point. We at the House of Staunton understand that not everyone can afford one of our luxury Chess sets, so we proudly offer the Classic Series Chessmen for your consideration — a high-quality wooden Chessmen at a reasonable price!

As with all of our Chess sets, the Classic Series Chessmen exemplifies a perfect combination of distinct beauty and functionality. It has been designed to withstand the rigors of practical play while maintaining an elegance which has become the hallmark of a House of Staunton chess set. The design, quality and craftsmanship of this set is UNMATCHED by any set of Chessmen in its price range. Nothing even comes close!

The Chessmen are new and each set consists of 34 Chessmen, including four Queens, a standard that was introduced by The House of Staunton over 10 years ago.

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME III
Petrosian and Spassky

The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of the chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators.

This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play from this era to a rigorous analysis, the examination being enhanced by the use of the latest chess software.

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME III

Petrosian and Spassky

Catalog Code: B0134EM

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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik - One Hundred Selected Games

Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games is a direct translation in Descriptive Notation of a book in Russian published in Leningrad in 1949. Unlike most other cases where the translator takes some liberties, we have not been able to find any differences in the text between this translation and the original in Russian. Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was born on August 17, 1911. In 1931 at the age of 20 he won his first of six Soviet championships. He won the World Chess Championship in 1948 and held the title with two breaks until 1963. This book covers the most important period of his career from the time he played in his first serious chess event until just before his winning the World Chess Championship in 1948.

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik - One Hundred Selected Games

Catalog Code: B0217IS

Our Price: $25.95
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1923

This is the book that every chess master and grandmaster has read and studied, and every aspiring chess master should be reading. The author, a World Chess Champion, clearly explains the most complex and difficult concepts. Grandmaster Reuben Fine wrote that Alekhine's collection of best games was one of the three most beautiful that he knew.

Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1923

Catalog Code: B0010IS

Our Price: $19.95
Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?

This is a book in Descriptive Chess Notation of great importance not only because of the question it addresses, but because of who asks and then answers that question. Dr. Max Euwe, who was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937, compares and contrasts Bobby Fischer with the three greatest players before him, world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.

Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?

Catalog Code: B0108IS

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EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the participants who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long matches for the World Championship. This 3rd volume of the 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.

EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III

Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987

Catalog Code: E-B0272EM

Our Price: $29.95
Botvinnik Selected Games - RUSSIAN EDITION
1926-1946

M. M. Botvinnik - Selected Games Due to the interest of a wide range of players to be creative strongest chess player of the USSR, and later the first Soviet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik periodically came out of his best books, and commented on them in detail parties. T

Botvinnik Selected Games - RUSSIAN EDITION

1926-1946

Catalog Code: B0209IS

Our Price: $25.95
Checkmate My First Chess Book

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 moves such as castling, how to write the moves down and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.

Checkmate My First Chess Book

Catalog Code: B0140EM

Our Price: $12.95
EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME II
Kasparov vs. Karpov - 1975-1985

This volume concentrates on the first two of those matches. The epic 1984/85 contest which was lasted six months before being controversially halted "without result" by the then President of FIDE Florencio Campomanes. The 1985 match when Kasparov brilliantly won the final game to take the title and become - at the age of 22 - the youngest ever world champion. Great chess contests have often had resonances extending beyond the 64 squares. The Fischer v Spassky match was played during the Cold War with both champions being perceived as the finest products of their respective ideologies.

EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME II

Kasparov vs. Karpov - 1975-1985

Catalog Code: E-B0138EM

Our Price: $29.95
107 Great Chess Battles - 1939-1945

One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving such masters as Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Kashdan, Reshevsky, Tartakower, Keres and others, including many of Alekhine's own games. Includes delightfully candid views on fellow masters and rivals for the world title. Edited and translated by E. G. Winter. Preface. Index.

107 Great Chess Battles - 1939-1945

Catalog Code: B0012DV

Our Price: $9.95
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One

This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine's 220 best games, his own personal acounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his briliant ascent to world mastery, his surprising defeat in 1935, and his dramatic return two years later - the first deposed champion to regain his crown.

Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937

Two Volumes Bound as One

Catalog Code: B0045DV

Our Price: $19.95

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