CHESS STRATEGY BOOKS

    Starting Out - Attacking Play
    How to Set Up And Executive Decisive Attacks
    Attacking the opponent's king is one of the most exhilarating aspects of chess, but also one of the most difficult to master. Everyone loves a good old-fashioned king hunt, especially when it leads to checkmate, but often the pressure is very much on the aggressor-one false move and the attack can often fizzle out into less than nothing, leaving the attacker with an empty shell of a position.
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    Starting Out - Attacking Play
    How to Set Up And Executive Decisive Attacks
    Catalog Code: B0005EM
    Our Price: $18.95

    Improve Your Attacking Chess
    250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
    Checkmating the enemy king is the ultimate goal in chess. In this book Simon Williams helps readers to practice and improve their skills in this vital area of practical chess. A mating attack typically involves a build-up of forces, followed by an opening of lines, often involving a sacrifice
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    Improve Your Attacking Chess
    250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
    Catalog Code: B0030GB
    Our Price: $14.95

    Winning Chess Exercises for Kids
    This wonderfully entertaining book also happens to be quite effective. Everything any child will need to know about chess strategy and more is here in this book, which is well laid out and easy to follow. Part of the fun factor for kids is that the book is replete with cartoon images of chess characters to help make the learning experience more exciting.
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    Winning Chess Exercises for Kids
    Catalog Code: B0025OB
    Our Price: $29.95

    Excelling at Positional Chess
    Positional chess remains a mystery to many and yet an understanding of the finer points of the game so often makes the difference between two equally matched players. Improve your positional play and you will see chess in a totally new dimension! In this unique book, International Master Jacob Aagaard selects many original examples of positional chess, the creme de la creme of those that he uses for training and study.
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    Excelling at Positional Chess
    Catalog Code: B0118EM
    Our Price: $24.95

    Simple Chess
    New Algebraic Edition
    Written by a young Grand Master, this introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at players for whom a game plan is utterly enigmatic. By isolating the basic elements and illustrating them through a selection of Master and Grand Master games, Simple Chess breaks down the mystique of strategy into plain, easy-to-understand ideas.
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    Simple Chess
    New Algebraic Edition
    Catalog Code: B0003DV
    Our Price: $9.95

    The Tarrasch Formula
    One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
    Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch was the first to formula and express the rule that 'If one piece is badly placed, your whole game is bad.' The genius of this phrase ties in its simplicity as well as it's correctness.
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    The Tarrasch Formula
    One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
    Catalog Code: B0003OB
    Our Price: $19.95

    Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 1
    Fundamentals of the Game
    Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can learn tactics and strategies that improve their play.
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    Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 1
    Fundamentals of the Game
    Catalog Code: B0010LV
    Our Price: $19.95

    Chess Strategy in Action
    The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
    John Watson fleshes out the theory presented to enormous acclaim in Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy and extends it into new areas. He illustrates the modern practice of chess with many examples from imaginative players such as Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk and tempestuous innovators such as Shirov and Morozevich.
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    Chess Strategy in Action
    The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
    Catalog Code: B0011GB
    Our Price: $29.95

    Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
    Beyond the Basics
    Quite simply, the quickest way to learn chess the right way. Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can learn tactics and strategies that improve their play.
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    Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
    Beyond the Basics
    Catalog Code: B0011LV
    Our Price: $19.95

    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

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