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MISCELLANEOUS CHESS BOOKS
The Turk, Chess Automaton
This work contains a detailed discussion of the literature surrounding the Turk along with an analysis of its hidden operation. The complete collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included.
The Turk, Chess Automaton
Catalog Code: B0010MF
Our Price: $44.95
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
Our Price: $19.95
Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess
A Knowledge Based Approach
A Knowledge Based Approach
Through a revolutionary testing system, Dr. Kopec is able to quantify their overall chess strength, specific deficiencies and definite abilities, allowing him to pinpoint which aspects need the most work. This book, developed with the US Chess Federation, represents the sum of Dr. Kopec's knowledge and efforts to help chess players understand and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve chess mastery.
Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess
A Knowledge Based Approach
Catalog Code: B0009OB
Our Price: $9.95
US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - FIFTH EDITION
The U.S. Chess Federation Official Rules of Chess is the only official rulebook for chess. Serious players at every level as well as chess club teachers, directors, and tournament sponsors should have it on hand during every match. This new edition features the latest rules, including guidelines for the popular game of speed chess, an updated quick rating system, and the latest conventions of governing tournaments.
US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - FIFTH EDITION
Catalog Code: B0012RH
Our Price: $18.95
Three Days with Bobby Fischer
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
Three Days with Bobby Fischer and Other Chess Essays: How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings is a chess book you can sit back comfortably in your armchair and just read. Or, when you feel like getting the pieces out of the box and learning from some great games, tactics and strategies - that's all here as well.
Three Days with Bobby Fischer
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
Catalog Code: B0014LV
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Chess Under the Microscope
Magnify Your Chess Strength
Magnify Your Chess Strength
In this major work, Paul Motwani, the author of the critically acclaimed H.O.T. Chess and C.O.O.L. Chess, looks in-deph at key aspects of chess. His witty style will not only amuse but will instruct the reader by providing memorable insights into chess secrets.
Chess Under the Microscope
Magnify Your Chess Strength
Catalog Code: B0039BT
Our Price: $9.95
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
Catalog Code: B0061GB
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Logical Chess - Move By Move
Once you have learned the basic moves, how exactly should you improve? In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. When you play through these games and explanations you will get a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.
Logical Chess - Move By Move
Catalog Code: B0079BT
Our Price: $21.95
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
Catalog Code: B0118GB
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Chess Psychology
219 Historic Games from the Masters
What do we understand by brilliancy in chess? The author delves back into history to examine how this concept has developed, before presenting a dazzling array of brilliant games from the past few decades - the prize-winners as selected by grandmaster panels for each issue of Yugoslav 'Chess Informator' between 1968 and 1998. Apart from providing hours of pleasure, a study of these masterpieces will also surely help to add sparkle to your own play!
What do we understand by brilliancy in chess? The author delves back into history to examine how this concept has developed, before presenting a dazzling array of brilliant games from the past few decades - the prize-winners as selected by grandmaster panels for each issue of Yugoslav 'Chess Informator' between 1968 and 1998. Apart from providing hours of pleasure, a study of these masterpieces will also surely help to add sparkle to your own play!
Chess Psychology
Catalog Code: B0128EM
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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
Catalog Code: B0001LV
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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
Our Price: $28.95
Hypermodern Strategy
Hypermodern Strategy
Hypermodern Strategy
Catalog Code: CB0100CD
Our Price: $4.95
