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EBOOK - Rules of Winning Chess
Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own - they make it look all too easy!
EBOOK - Rules of Winning Chess
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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique.
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
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True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board, International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
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SHOPWORN - True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board, International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
SHOPWORN - True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
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101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the answers also address highly sophisticated concepts, providing insights gleaned from many years of experience and discussions with players and trainers of the highest level.
101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
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Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Friedgood shared their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game. Moreover, they demonstrated how this fascinating subject could be analysed, and how it could help players to improve both their understanding and practical play.
Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
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SHOPWORN - Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Friedgood shared their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game. Moreover, they demonstrated how this fascinating subject could be analysed, and how it could help players to improve both their understanding and practical play.
SHOPWORN - Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
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Grandmaster Secrets - Winning Quickly at Chess
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Grandmaster Secrets - Winning Quickly at Chess
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
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Secrets of Practical Chess
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
What is the best way to improve your chess results? Memorizing an opening encyclopedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions ... there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent? In a new and enlarged edition of a highly popular work, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that.
Secrets of Practical Chess
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
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Perfect Your Chess
World-Class Training from a Super-Grandmaster and his Coach
World-Class Training from a Super-Grandmaster and his Coach
Andrei Volokitin is one of a rare breed of players: he achieved a ranking in the world's top 20 while still a teenager, playing dynamic and often brilliant chess. Although we cannot all aspire to emulate his achievements, there is much that we can learn from his training methods, his games and his general approach to chess. These topics are the subject of this book, written in collaboration with his trainer.
Perfect Your Chess
World-Class Training from a Super-Grandmaster and his Coach
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50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
In a sequel to the hugely successful 50 Essential Chess Lessons, Steve Giddins now presents 50 games that each illustrate an important winning method. This engaging and highly readable book is a painless way to build your personal arsenal of techniques and ideas.
50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
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Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
Improve Your Results Now!
Improve Your Results Now!
Are you making the most of your chess talent? Do you always perform to the best of your ability? Do your results match up with your understanding of the game? If the answer to any of these questions is 'no' then read on! In The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess, Grandmaster and experienced tournament player John Emms reveals the secrets of how to maximize your potential and improve your results.
Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
Improve Your Results Now!
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50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games - some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learned from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older works of this type.
50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
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Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A collection of John Nunn's best games from 1994 to the present day, annotated in detail in the same style as the best-selling Understanding Chess Move by Move. Throughout, the emphasis is on what the reader can learn from each game, so the book is ideal study material for those seeking to progress to a higher level of chess understanding. There is also entertainment in abundance: Nunn has a direct aggressive style, and many of his opponents in these games are ambitious young grandmasters from the generation inspired by Kasparov's dynamic chess.
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
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Chess for Zebras
Making the Most of White and Black
Making the Most of White and Black
In a strikingly original work, Rowson makes use of his academic background in philosophy and psychology to answer these questions in an entertaining and instructive way. This book assists all players in their efforts to improve, and provides fresh insights into the opening and early middlegame.
Chess for Zebras
Making the Most of White and Black
Catalog Code: B0108GB
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Modern Chess Analysis
Techniques that have Revolutionized Chess Analysis
Techniques that have Revolutionized Chess Analysis
Chess analysis is nearly as old as the game itself, with many of the pioneering works by the giants of chess history being devoted to the analysis of positions, openings and endings. Personal computers and powerful chess software are having a profound effect on chess analysis and theory - most grandmasters use them extensively. However, this book does far more than explain methods for computer-assisted analysis. Readers will develop a deeper understanding of the strengths and limitations of the human mind, and a greater understanding of many areas of chess while working through the examples that Robin Smith presents.
Modern Chess Analysis
Techniques that have Revolutionized Chess Analysis
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Understanding Your Chess
Learning from Your Games and Improve Your Results
Learning from Your Games and Improve Your Results
Rizzitano presents lessons from his own experiences that will be most relevant to club and tournament players. He shows how by analyzing their own games, players can gain a greater understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, and he explains they can shape their approach to chess to make the most of their abilities. Major topics include: Developing a reliable and coherent opening repertoire; The importance of understanding opening theory rather than simply memorizing it.
Understanding Your Chess
Learning from Your Games and Improve Your Results
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How to Play Dynamic Chess
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. No piece is ever identically as valuable as any other, and their scope changes from move to move. The current generation of supergrandmasters plays unrelentingly dynamic chess, but a great deal of chess literature still deals with chess as if it were a predominantly static game. Much traditional chess teaching is based around rules of thumb that might work well 'on average' or in 'typical' situations, but these rules may not equip players for the specific and sometimes exceptional situations that they face in their games.
How to Play Dynamic Chess
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
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Chess Rules of Thumb
Backed up with diagrams and illustrations to help you remember key principles, a glossary of essential chess terms and a rundown on all major openings, Chess Rules of Thumb will improve your chess play. And it's great fun to read!
Chess Rules of Thumb
Catalog Code: B0008LV
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How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days.
How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
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Decision Making at the Chessboard
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
Chess is a game of decisions. As well as deciding about which move to play and which plan to adopt, players must also make practical decisions about how to use their clock time and whether to use intuition rather than trying to calculate every line to a finish.
Decision Making at the Chessboard
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
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Building Up Your Chess
Building Up Your Chess makes use of colorful graphs and a new, more logical method of expressing the evaluation of a chess position to teach the critical skill of assessing how you stand. Lev Alburt's unique experience as both a top-level champion and a world-renowned teacher allow him to explain in a clear, logical way how to master chess.
Building Up Your Chess
Catalog Code: B0012LV
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Excelling at Chess
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. He includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position.
Excelling at Chess
Catalog Code: B0117EM
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Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
Rapid Chess Improvement
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SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
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EBOOK - Excelling at Chess
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. He includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position.
EBOOK - Excelling at Chess
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Understanding Chess Move by Move
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
Publisher: Gambit
Author: John Nunn
Year of Publication: 2008 Pages: 240
Notation Type: Figurine (FN)
Book Description John Nunn is one of the most highly regarded chess writers in the world. He has carefully selected thirty modern games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of chess and to illustrate modern chess principles in action. Virtually every move is explained using words that everyone can understand. Jargon is avoided as far as possible. Almost all the examples are taken from the 1990s and show how key ideas are handled by the grandmasters of today. The emphasis is on general principles that readers will be able to use in their own games, and detailed analysis is only given where it is necessary. Each game contains many lessons, but to guide the reader through the most important ideas in each phase of the game, the thirty games are grouped thematically into those highlighting opening, middlegame and endgame themes. About the Author(s) John Nunn is a grandmaster from England. He has won four individual gold medals and three team silver medals at Chess Olympiads. In the Chess World Cup of 1988/9, he finished sixth overall, ahead of several former World Champions. He is arguably the most highly acclaimed chess writer in the world, with two of his books receiving the prestigious British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.
Understanding Chess Move by Move
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
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Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
Chess owes its extraordinary depth to pawns. These humble pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers, battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks of royalty. On the other hand, if mishandled, they can be weak and provide targets for enemy attack.
Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
Catalog Code: B0002GB
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The System
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
Hans Berliner is one of the most successful correspondence chess players of all time, and was utterly dominant in the 5th World Championship. Here, for the first time, he explains the set of principles - The System - that he used to guide him to the right moves. Readers will be astonished by the simplicity and power of Berliner's methods as he takes several major openings and subjects them to System principles, and finds radically new approaches to them.
The System
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
Catalog Code: B0098GB
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Tips for Young Players
In the first half of this book, Sadler concentrates on establishing general principles for the opening, middlegame, and endgame. For instance, the section on the opening discusses the principles of good development, king safety, center occupation, and the initiative. Each section concludes with a summary of the important points and selection of exercises to help you see how much you've internalized before you go on.
Tips for Young Players
Catalog Code: B0259EM
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S.T.A.R. Chess
Strategy - Tactics - Attack - Reaction
Strategy - Tactics - Attack - Reaction
This book is packed with instructive model examples starting from a wide spectrum of opening systems, presenting a treasure trove of ideas to surprise even the most experienced of opponents. Interspersed with the instruction are test positions and puzzles to improve your skills in reasoning -- necessary if you are to become a brighter chess S.T.A.R. yourself!
S.T.A.R. Chess
Strategy - Tactics - Attack - Reaction
Catalog Code: B0007GB
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Learn Chess in 12 Lessons
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 1
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 1
This is the first book in Lev Alburt's famous Comprehensive Chess Course. Learn everything from the basics of piece movement up to the value of the chess pieces, strategies, tactics, and opening principles. These practical exercises take the reader from beginner to tournament-strength chess player. This chess classic has been praised by players and teachers alike.
Learn Chess in 12 Lessons
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 1
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From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 2
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 2
This is the Second Volume in the Comprehensive Chess Course. It is aimed at those students who have completed and mastered the lessons in Volume I. Students in this category have mastered the basics and are now ready to not just play Chess, but to play WINNING CHESS!
From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0002LV
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Chess Fundamentals
This is a reprint of the original "Chess Fundamentals" by Capablanca, as first published in 1921 and only a preface added by Capablanca in 1934. The reader here can feel confident that this reprint contains the exact, complete words of Capablanca. Unlike other reprints, not one word has been changed or omitted.
Chess Fundamentals
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EBOOK - Chess Fundamentals
This is a reprint of the original "Chess Fundamentals" by Capablanca, as first published in 1921 and only a preface added by Capablanca in 1934. The reader here can feel confident that this reprint contains the exact, complete words of Capablanca. Unlike other reprints, not one word has been changed or omitted.
EBOOK - Chess Fundamentals
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