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CHESS STRATEGY BOOKS
The Art of Positional Play in Chess
Samuel Reshevsky is the ideal person to write a book on positional play because that was exactly the way he played: positionally. Reshevsky preferred to crush his opponents slowly, like a python, rather than to win with a blaze of tactics.
The Art of Positional Play in Chess
Catalog Code: B0110IS
Our Price: $25.95
The Logical Approach to Chess
This has long been one of the standard books on basic chess strategy. It takes the player from the middle game of chess and shows how to take it to a favorable conclusion.
The Logical Approach to Chess
Catalog Code: B0105IS
Our Price: $19.95
Judgement and Planning in Chess
This is a basic book that teaches strategic planning in chess. Written by a former Chess Champion of the world, this book has as its basis an entirely novel idea which will help players over a real difficulty.
Judgement and Planning in Chess
Catalog Code: B0106IS
Our Price: $25.95
Grandmaster Versus Amateur
A multinational array of top grandmasters explain the difference in thinking between professional and amateur chess players, and how the amateur can bridge the gap. It usually takes at least a decade of sustained effort for even the most talented player to reach the grandmaster level - this book cannot guarantee to make the reader a chess grandmaster, but it is certainly a healthy nudge in the right direction.
Grandmaster Versus Amateur
Catalog Code: B0054QT
Our Price: $29.95
Chess Strategy for Advanced Students
The art of strategic planning is not easily acquired from most teaching materials, yet it is one of the most important aspects of practical play. In this book, positional factors have been approached, with examples showing how a certain specific weakness can be exploited by specific means. This book includes complete games where the strategic and positional factors are seen in the complex interplay of the middle game and end game.
Chess Strategy for Advanced Students
Catalog Code: B0086IS
Our Price: $13.95
Saving Lost Positions
It is not always possible to win a game of chess by obtaining an advantage and then logically converting it into a win. In the games of average players the result is often in doubt until the last blunder and the more resourceful player will usually triumph.
Saving Lost Positions
Catalog Code: B0087IS
Our Price: $14.95
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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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.
Excelling at Positional Chess
Catalog Code: B0118EM
Our Price: $24.95
Simple Chess
New Algebraic Edition
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.
Simple Chess
New Algebraic Edition
Catalog Code: B0003DV
Our Price: $9.95
The Tarrasch Formula
One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
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.
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
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.
Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 1
Fundamentals of the Game
Catalog Code: B0010LV
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Chess Strategy in Action
The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
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.
Chess Strategy in Action
The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0011GB
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Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
Beyond the Basics
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.
Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
Beyond the Basics
Catalog Code: B0011LV
Our Price: $19.95
