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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Includes All 3 Books
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Catalog Code: B0000RE1
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Modern Ideas in Chess
Modern Ideas in Chess is one of the Great Classics of chess literature. Originally published in German in 1923 as Die neuen Ideen im Schachspiel, it created an immediate sensation. This was a period of the emergence of new theories and new ways of thinking about chess.
Modern Ideas in Chess
Catalog Code: B0014IS
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Teacher's Manual - BOOK 1
The most thorough and complete curriculum for teaching chess!
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Teacher's Manual - BOOK 1
Catalog Code: B0047RE
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step Teacher's Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the board.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Activities - BOOK 3
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.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Activities - BOOK 3
Catalog Code: B0049RE
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Golden Treasury of Chess
The Golden Treasury of Chess is one of the most popular and most often reprinted and revised chess books ever created. It is filled with hundreds of the most thrilling, exciting and surprising chess games ever played. It also includes articles about chess history and stories about how these great games came to be played. It has also become one of the most controversial chess books ever written.
Golden Treasury of Chess
Catalog Code: B0053IS
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NIC Yearbook 90 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 90 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: B0090HYB
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NIC Yearbook 90 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 90 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Leinier Dominguez - Perfect Preparation to Crush Aronian in the Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: B0090PYB
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Fighting The Ruy Lopez
The Ruy Lopez is incredibly common at all levels of chess, and everyone who plays 1. e4 e5 as Black needs to have a reliable antidote to this powerful opening. In this book, Milos Pavlovic provides the answer, devising a sound and yet ambitious repertoire for Black, the basis of which is provided by the legendary and ever-popular Marshall Attack.
Fighting The Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: B0262EM
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Dangerous Weapons - Pirc and Modern
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Do you need a well-deserved break from your normal chess openings? Are you tired of constantly having to keep up with modern chess theory? Or perhaps you simply wish to try out something new and inspiring, but cannot decide amongst the numerous choices available? Look no further for the answer! In "Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc and Modern", prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at two popular and closely related openings.
Dangerous Weapons - Pirc and Modern
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Catalog Code: B0263EM
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Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
One of the main reasons the Sicilian is the most popular opening is that is it promotes such bold and aggressive chess. But as White it's not enough just to attack; you must do so in the right way, using the appropriate weapons. In this book Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello introduce, categorize and analyse the "Seven Deadly Sacrifices" White has at his disposal.
Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
Catalog Code: B0264EM
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SHOPWORN - Fighting The Ruy Lopez
The Ruy Lopez is incredibly common at all levels of chess, and everyone who plays 1. e4 e5 as Black needs to have a reliable antidote to this powerful opening. In this book, Milos Pavlovic provides the answer, devising a sound and yet ambitious repertoire for Black, the basis of which is provided by the legendary and ever-popular Marshall Attack.
SHOPWORN - Fighting The Ruy Lopez
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EBOOK - Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
One of the main reasons the Sicilian is the most popular opening is that is it promotes such bold and aggressive chess. But as White it's not enough just to attack; you must do so in the right way, using the appropriate weapons. In this book Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello introduce, categorize and analyse the "Seven Deadly Sacrifices" White has at his disposal.
EBOOK - Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
Catalog Code: E-B0264EM
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EBOOK - Dangerous Weapons - Pirc and Modern
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Do you need a well-deserved break from your normal chess openings? Are you tired of constantly having to keep up with modern chess theory? Or perhaps you simply wish to try out something new and inspiring, but cannot decide amongst the numerous choices available? Look no further for the answer! In "Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc and Modern", prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at two popular and closely related openings.
EBOOK - Dangerous Weapons - Pirc and Modern
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Catalog Code: E-B0263EM
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EBOOK - Fighting The Ruy Lopez
The Ruy Lopez is incredibly common at all levels of chess, and everyone who plays 1. e4 e5 as Black needs to have a reliable antidote to this powerful opening. In this book, Milos Pavlovic provides the answer, devising a sound and yet ambitious repertoire for Black, the basis of which is provided by the legendary and ever-popular Marshall Attack.
EBOOK - Fighting The Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: E-B0262EM
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The King's Indian
A Complete Black Repertoire
A Complete Black Repertoire
The King's Indian Defence is probably the most romantic response to 1.d4. It has survived the test of time and has been played at the highest level even to the present day. Black gives his opponent complete freedom of choice in how to control the center and just develops quietly within his King's Indian household, relying on his powerful fianchettoed bishop.
The King's Indian
A Complete Black Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0075EU
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Play the Catalan
The Catalan is a sophisticated and wide-ranging opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players - on occasion making it look like a forced win for White!
Play the Catalan
Catalog Code: B0270EM
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The New Sicilian Dragon
Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this famous opening. Concentrating on his favorite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black, one which is perfect for the modern Dragon player who wishes to cause his opponents maximum problems in the opening.
The New Sicilian Dragon
Catalog Code: B0271EM
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EBOOK - The New Sicilian Dragon
Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this famous opening. Concentrating on his favorite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black, one which is perfect for the modern Dragon player who wishes to cause his opponents maximum problems in the opening.
EBOOK - The New Sicilian Dragon
Catalog Code: E-B0271EM
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EBOOK - Play the Catalan
The Catalan is a sophisticated and wide-ranging opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players - on occasion making it look like a forced win for White!
EBOOK - Play the Catalan
Catalog Code: E-B0270EM
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Chess Strategy for Club Players
The Road to Positional Advantage
The Road to Positional Advantage
In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding, including pawn structures, piece placement, lead in development, open files, weaknesses, space advantage and king safety. You will master the art of converting a temporary plus into other, more permanent advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions.
Chess Strategy for Club Players
The Road to Positional Advantage
Catalog Code: B0065NIC
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Chess Fundamentals
This is the masterpiece by World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca who is regarded as the strongest chess player who ever lived, prior to the arrival of Bobby Fischer.World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik regarded Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals as the best chess book ever written.
Chess Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0017IS
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The Psychology of the Chess Player
This is Dr. Reuben Fine, one of the great chess players of this century (he has played on equal terms with Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Smyslov, and others) and a qualified psychoanalyst. Dr. Fine has called upon his own understanding of chess processes and his unrivaled contacts in the chess world in this attempt to analyze both the game of chess itself and its peculiar appeals, particularly to male players as opposed to females, to isolate its inner meaning, and to categorize and understand the special combination of characteristics that make tip a chess champion.
The Psychology of the Chess Player
Catalog Code: B0028IS
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Catalog Code: B0288EM
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EBOOK - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
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EBOOK - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Catalog Code: E-B0288EM
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Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
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
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
Catalog Code: B0136GB
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
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.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Catalog Code: B0272EM
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SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
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.
SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Catalog Code: SWB0272EM
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EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
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
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The Best of Lone Pine
The Louis D. Statham Chess Tournaments - 1971-1980
The Louis D. Statham Chess Tournaments - 1971-1980
The Lone Pine tournaments were the strongest and most prestigious Swiss System tournaments in the world during the ten year period from 1971 to 1980. This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried (born 22 June 1919 - died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.
The Best of Lone Pine
The Louis D. Statham Chess Tournaments - 1971-1980
Catalog Code: B0051IS
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Understanding Chess Endgames
Featuring the 100 Most Important Endgame Ideas
Featuring the 100 Most Important Endgame Ideas
One of the world's foremost chess writers provides everything you need to know about chess endgames!
Assuming no specialized endgame knowledge, John Nunn presents 100 key endgame concepts, and explains how they are used to win games or save difficult positions. He covers all the main types of endgames and typical thinking methods, and so equips readers with all the skills needed to excel in this vital phase of the game up to good club level and beyond.
Assuming no specialized endgame knowledge, John Nunn presents 100 key endgame concepts, and explains how they are used to win games or save difficult positions. He covers all the main types of endgames and typical thinking methods, and so equips readers with all the skills needed to excel in this vital phase of the game up to good club level and beyond.
Understanding Chess Endgames
Featuring the 100 Most Important Endgame Ideas
Catalog Code: B0171GB
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Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
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Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Catalog Code: B0279EM
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The Classical King's Indian Uncovered
Most experts agree that the Classical Variation is the critical test of the King's Indian. Pulling no punches, White questions Black's entire strategy and seeks nothing less than a direct refutation; it could be said that the reputation of the King's Indian rests entirely on the assessments of this hotly debated subject.
The Classical King's Indian Uncovered
Catalog Code: B0282EM
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SHOPWORN - Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
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SHOPWORN - Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Catalog Code: SWB0279EM
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The Budapest Gambit
The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class Grandmasters.
The Budapest Gambit
Catalog Code: B0281EM
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EBOOK - The Budapest Gambit
The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class Grandmasters.
EBOOK - The Budapest Gambit
Catalog Code: E-B0281EM
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