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Thinking with Chess
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
In Thinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creating, and predicting.
Thinking with Chess
Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Catalog Code: B0090EU
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Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983
This much-await clash between two giants of the chess world attracted vast interest among all chess players.
Garry Kasparov, the 20-year old Grandmaster from Baku, is already the second highest ranked player in the world and has won several top tournaments including the Soviet Championship. 52 year old Victor Korchnoi was a Grandmaster before Kasparov was even born and already had played two matches for the world title.
Garry Kasparov, the 20-year old Grandmaster from Baku, is already the second highest ranked player in the world and has won several top tournaments including the Soviet Championship. 52 year old Victor Korchnoi was a Grandmaster before Kasparov was even born and already had played two matches for the world title.
Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983
Catalog Code: B0012AC
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Sicilian ...e6 and ...d6 Systems
The variations of the Sicilian in which Black sets up a pawn centre with ...e6 and ...d6 have been popularized by such fighting players as Kasparov and Andersson. The play can become extremely sharp and many lines have been analyzed to move 20. This comprehensive work provides everything the modern tournament player needs to know about the Scheveningen and only a Grandmaster of the calibre of Kasparov can provide the strategy explanation necessary for an opening of this complexity.
Sicilian ...e6 and ...d6 Systems
Catalog Code: B0013AC
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Grandmaster at Work
Soviet Grandmaster Alexander Kotov (1913-1981) was both a top ranking player and a world-famous author. Champion of his country, winner of international tournaments, and even a contender for the world chess championship, he is best known to players in the west as the author of the best-selling Think Like a Grandmaster and the sequel Play Like a Grandmaster.
Grandmaster at Work
Catalog Code: B0008AC
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Chess Middlegame Combinations
Chess Middlegame Combinations, a companion volume to Chess Middlegame Planning, forms the second part of Peter Romanovsky's classic Russian textbook on the middlegame. Now available for the first itme in an English language translation, Chess Middlegame Combinations is written with a view to helping the reader acquire a practical understanding of middlegame techniques as well as an appreciation for the beauty and aesthetics of chess.
Chess Middlegame Combinations
Catalog Code: B0005AC
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The Games of Alekhine - PAPERBACK
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
The Games of Alekhine is the first collection of all available chess games played by Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion from 1927-1935 and 1937-1946.
The Games of Alekhine - PAPERBACK
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
Catalog Code: B0006AC
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Positional Ideas In Chess
"The foundation upon which any position is built is the board itself, that apparently simple space of sixty-four squares arranged in alternate light and dark colors..." That is how John Love introduces the sparkling world of positional play in chess.
Positional Ideas In Chess
Catalog Code: B0011AC
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The Best of Chessbase - VOLUME 1
The Best of ChessBase, Volume One contains the most interesting, timely and instructive material from volumes 21-27 of ChessBase Magazine. Now the best and most current material from the world's leading chess information Software is available in convenient printed form!
The Best of Chessbase - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0009AC
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The Games of Alekhine - HARDCOVER
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
The Games of Alekhine is the first collection of all available chess games played by Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion from 1927-1935 and 1937-1946.
The Games of Alekhine - HARDCOVER
World Chess Champion - 1927-1935 & 1937-1946
Catalog Code: B0014AC
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King and Pawn Endings
Now for the first time, the average player can sit down with a strong teacher and study king and pawn endings effectively and completely. GM Fishbein has selected the basic positions essential to any player's chess education, arranged them in a logical ascending order of difficulty and explained them move-by-move in clear language. To make sure that every lesson finds its mark, he has classified every example according to the basic idea or theme it illustrates.
King and Pawn Endings
Catalog Code: B0003AC
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Chess Middlegame Planning
Every chessplayer hopes to make brilliant moves which will overcome the opponent in a blaze of glory. But such combinations come into being only as a result of proper planning, as demonstrated in Chess Middlegame Planning. The lucid and penetrating analysis of the games in this volume demonstrate the imagination and creativity necessary for proper handling of the central stage of the game.
Chess Middlegame Planning
Catalog Code: B0004AC
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Hastings - 7 Christmas Chess Congresses
The Hastings Christmas Congress is the longest traditional of international chess tournaments in which the world's leading players competed. During the pre-war period of 1932-1939, the Annual Hastings tournament was the strongest event on the chess calendar, pitting Britains finest players against a galaxy of chess stars from across the globe.
Hastings - 7 Christmas Chess Congresses
Catalog Code: B0010AC
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The Chess Terrorist's Handbook
The Chess Terrorist's Handbook is a collection of deeply annotated chess games drawn from Leonid Shamkovich's forty years of tournament combat against such players as David Bronstein, Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.
The Chess Terrorist's Handbook
Catalog Code: B0007AC
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
The book's story begins when Gary, a young boy, finds himself at home with his babysitter one boring afternoon. His day picks up when a young girl named Cassie comes to take him away to Chess Country, a world where everything is related to the royal game. Along the way, Gary meets many of the residents of Chess Country, including Riddles -- who provides Gary and the reader with numerous chess puzzles -- and Zug, another young boy who will become Gary's chess rival.
Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
Catalog Code: B0003EU
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The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 1
The Hedgehog is a thoroughly modern defense where flexibility and understanding trump rote memorization. Using deeply annotated critical games from international practice, GM Sergey Shipov traces the Hedgehog's development - from its origins as a way to avoid well-trodden paths to its current status as a respected weapon in Black's armory.
The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0042EU
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The Improving Chess Thinker
he Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level.
The Improving Chess Thinker
Catalog Code: B0043EU
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Diary of a Chess Queen
Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.
Diary of a Chess Queen
Catalog Code: B0044EU
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The Gambit File
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
In The Gambit Files, the author surveys the common tactical motifs for each variation, and then invites you to hone your cut-and-thrust skills with thematic puzzles. Whether you're looking to breathe new life into your current openings or to overhaul your repertoire, The Gambit Files will help you to slay your opponents faster and with confidence.
The Gambit File
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
Catalog Code: B0063EU
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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 1
Winning with White
Winning with White
The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, known as "Wojo" to his fans and followers, was one of the most feared players of the White pieces in the U.S. tournament circuit. Using his dynamic, Catalan-based opening repertoire, the "Polish Magician" won hundreds of tournaments from the 1990's until his untimely death in 2006. Now, Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton have joined forces to produce the definitive "how-to" manual for learning Wojo's repertoire with White after 1.Nf3 d5.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 1
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0049EU
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Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks - the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to little-known gems of Russian chess, the author challenges you to form your own impression and then see how the masters honed in on the key elements to achieve victory, or neglected them and went down to defeat.
Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
Catalog Code: B0054EU
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Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But "The Chess Machine" was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablanca's record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play advocated by the unequaled teacher, C.J.S. Purdy.
Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Catalog Code: B0055EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
Move, Attack and Capture
is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
Catalog Code: B0056EU
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Play Like a Girl
Tactics by 9Queens
Tactics by 9Queens
Play Like A Girl!, the first book of its kind, is a collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. Profiled players range from Hungary's Judit Polgar, the best woman chessplayer in history, to Abby Marshall, the teenager who became the first American girl to win the Denker High School Tournament of Champions.
Play Like a Girl
Tactics by 9Queens
Catalog Code: B0064EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
Simple Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0057EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chess players, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Catalog Code: B0058EU
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The Improving Annotator
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess. By examining the choices you made during the game - and how they turned out - you can pinpoint the flaws in your thinking process so that you can work on them. Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman shows you the whys and the hows of annotating your games.
The Improving Annotator
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
Catalog Code: B0065EU
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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Winning with White
IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton team up again to continue their coverage of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz's winning repertoire with the White pieces, designed to grind down weaker players while challenging his peers. In this second volume, Ippolito and Hilton examine Wojo's handling of the popular King's Indian Defense, focusing on the positional Fianchetto Variation.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0067EU
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The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
The Hedgehog lives! GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental investigation of this counterattacking system for Black with in-depth coverage of formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4. Sparing no effort to discover best play for both sides, he presents White's most promising plans and breathes new life into variations that - according to theory - had turned the Hedgehog into an endangered species.
The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0068EU
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No Passion For Chess Fashion
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings. They have time to think about innovations in the Sicilian Najdorf, the Marshall Attack, or the Semi-Slav. It's part of their job. But club players can rarely afford such luxury, and an excellent way for them to beat their busy schedules is to play good, solid opening lines that happen to be out of style.
No Passion For Chess Fashion
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0072EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
Elementary Endgames
In this fourth volume, Elementary Endgames, the student will: 1) learn how to deliver fundamental checkmates such as a king and a rook against a lone king; 2) discover how to avoid stalemating the opposing king, and how to induce stalemate when threatened with checkmate; and 3) develop not only an understanding of concepts such as passed pawns and king opposition, but also a sense of confidence in the final phase of the game.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
Catalog Code: B0076EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
Two-Move Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0077EU
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Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!
Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Catalog Code: B0087EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Catalog Code: B0085EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Opening Tactics
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Catalog Code: B0086EU
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The Russian Endgame Handbook
Rabinovich raises the beginner’s understanding of the endgame to a sophisticated level, starting with elementary checkmates and then moving on to the principles for handling complex endgames and advanced concepts in king-and-pawn endings, such as the theory of corresponding squares.
The Russian Endgame Handbook
Catalog Code: B0091EU
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Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
These pages reveal the secrets of his notebooks for the first time. IM Hawkins presents special material aimed to help you become a much better practical player, one armed with a deeper understanding of key aspects of chess.
Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Catalog Code: B0089EU
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