CHESS STRATEGY BOOKS

    Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack
    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?
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    Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack
    A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
    Catalog Code: B0136GB
    Our Price: $14.95

    Chess Strategy for Club Players
    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.
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    Chess Strategy for Club Players
    The Road to Positional Advantage
    Catalog Code: B0065NIC
    Our Price: $29.95

    Winning Chess Middlegames
    An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures
    Study of this important book, with dozens of highly instructive and clearly explained games from the greats of chess, will enhance your middlegame skills and will let you understand why pawns are considered to be 'the souls of chess'.
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    Winning Chess Middlegames
    An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures
    Catalog Code: B0072NIC
    Our Price: $29.95

    Strategic Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
    This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding.
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    Strategic Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
    Catalog Code: B0003OE
    Our Price: $34.95

    Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
    Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
    Valeri Beim, an experienced trainer and grandmaster, explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess. His 'recipes' include: tactical ideas in the middlegame; liquidation to the endgame; the technique of analyzing variations; inverted thinking in chess. Readers are presented with new ways of looking at chessboard issues that will help them develop a deeper understanding of the game.
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    Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
    Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
    Catalog Code: B0054GB
    Our Price: $17.95

    Positional Chess Handbook
    495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
    This complete guide, written by a grandmaster, can assist all players at every level in developing a more powerful strategic game. Spanning more than a century of chess, it presents examples on such themes as key squares, bad bishops, and pawn structures in ascending difficulty, with ample cross-references.
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    Positional Chess Handbook
    495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
    Catalog Code: B0040DV
    Our Price: $11.95

    Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
    How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
    This book tackles fundamental questions such as: 'How should pawns be used to fight for the centre?' and 'How does the central pawn formation affect planning for both sides?' These issues are central to understanding chess. Marovic discusses central pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the centre and on the wings.
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    Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
    How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
    Catalog Code: B0066GB
    Our Price: $27.95

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