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CHESS GAME COLLECTION BOOKS
How Karpov Wins - 2nd Edition
100 games analyzed simply and clearly, showing exactly how Karpov won. Over 300 chess diagrams.
How Karpov Wins - 2nd Edition
Catalog Code: B0049DV
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The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
The Later Years
This greatly enlarged second edition chronicles the second half (1921-1961) of the Polish grandmaster's life. Dozens of archival photographs, photographs and approximately 40% more material finish off this splendid work, completing the journey begun in volume 1.
The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
Catalog Code: B0055RE
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 112
Chess Informant 112 brings in the main section a thoroughly refined selection of 315 annotated games and 315 accompanying game fragments from May - August 2011. Featuring games are from following tournaments, Kazan (World Championship Candidates), La Habana, Lublin, Danzhou, Leon (rapid), Medias, Paks, New Delhi, Biel, Dortmund, Rostov on Don (Women's Grand Prix), Russia (ch), France (ch), Khanty-Mansiysk (World Cup), etc.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 112
Catalog Code: B0112INF
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Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us.
Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Catalog Code: B0336EM
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Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One
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
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Soviet Chess
This seems to be regarded as the West's answer to "The Soviet School of Chess" by Alexander Kotov ISBN 4871878198 who asserts superiority in the Soviet playing style. However, those who say that are mistaken. This book by a New Zealander who emigrated to England because of the greater opportunities to play chess there, fully concurs with Kotov that the Soviet players were the best in the world.
Soviet Chess
Catalog Code: B0104IS
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - PART 1
1973-1985
1973-1985
The series in itself is a continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess, comprising My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess. Kasparov's historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred both on and off the board.
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - PART 1
1973-1985
Catalog Code: B0335EM
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The Chess-Player's Companion
This is the third in a series of three books by Howard Staunton, who is considered to have been the best player in the world at that time.
The Chess-Player's Companion
Catalog Code: B0098IS
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 111
This single issue offers more than 300 annotated games, a similar amount of game fragments, brilliant combinations, instructive endings, excellent moves, chess problems and studies.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 111
Catalog Code: B0111INF
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Chess Evolution - September 2011
A multinational team of Super-GMs analyse the most important recent games, using their world-class skill and powerful computers. This volume is essential to anyone interested in the most up-to-date and highest quality opening theory.
Chess Evolution - September 2011
Catalog Code: B0001EV
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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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Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings.
Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
Catalog Code: B0100NIC
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Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1986-2010 - VOLUME 2
The Prime Years
The Prime Years
Anatoly Karpov was World Champion from 1975 to 1985 and is universally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Award-winning author Tibor Károlyi explains Karpovs genius with a particular focus on Karpovs unrivalled grasp of strategy. In this second volume, Károlyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1986-2010 when Karpov was battling with his young rival Garry Kasparov for chess supremacy.
Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1986-2010 - VOLUME 2
The Prime Years
Catalog Code: B0047QT
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Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1961-1985 - VOLUME 1
The Making of a Champion
The Making of a Champion
Anatoly Karpov was World Champion from 1975 to 1985 and is universally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Award-winning author Tibor Karolyi explains Karpov's genius with a particular focus on Karpov's unrivaled grasp of strategy. Karolyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1961-1985 as the Russian star proved he was a worthy successor to Bobby Fischer.
Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1961-1985 - VOLUME 1
The Making of a Champion
Catalog Code: B0059QT
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The Best of the Best - The Next Chapter - 1001 - 1100
The book you are holding aims to sustain the tradition, by collecting the hundred best games of volumes 101 - 110, ten of each volume, spanning a period of four years (2007-2011). These games have been methodically selected and strictly evaluated by such esteemed GMs as A. Beliavsky, L. Christiansen, M. Gurevich, M. Marin, A. Mikhalchishin, Z. Ribli, J. Speelman, former women's World Champion Xie Jun and the President of Chess Informant, A. Matanovic.
The Best of the Best - The Next Chapter - 1001 - 1100
Catalog Code: B0005SHV
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Three Hundred Chess Games
English Language Edition
English Language Edition
Grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch, in Three Hundred Chess Games, takes the combinational school of Paul Morphy and combines it with the positional school founded by Wilhelm Steinitz. The result is a powerful system of chess player utilitized by some of the greatest masters since the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Tarrasch's system reflects the entire store of knowledge of chess, up to the hypermodern era.
Three Hundred Chess Games
English Language Edition
Catalog Code: B0007HY
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Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
Chess games played between master and amateur have been chosen, arranged and annotated to help amateurs learn how to avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. The games include detailed commentary by World Chess Champion Max Euwe and by Walter Meiden, a typical amateur player.
Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
Catalog Code: B0035DV
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The Games of Jose Raul Capablanca
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The Games of Jose Raul Capablanca
Catalog Code: CB0039CD
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Gata Kamsky: Chess Genius
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Gata Kamsky: Chess Genius
Catalog Code: CB0058CD
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