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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 for Tigers - 1ST EDITION
Do you want to win more games? Then become a Tiger. 'Chess for Tigers' tells you how to make the most of your playing strength, how to play upon your opponent's weaknesses, how to steer the game into a position which suits you and not your opponent, how to get results against strong opposition and how to avoid silly mistakes.
Chess for Tigers - 1ST EDITION
Catalog Code: B0005BT
Our Price: $21.95
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - BOOK A
The fourth thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Volume A, brings an additional 104 pages of brand new material.
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - BOOK A
Catalog Code: B0001ECO
Our Price: $39.95
Chess Fundamentals - Revised
J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters.
Chess Fundamentals - Revised
Catalog Code: B0001RH
Our Price: $15.95
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - BOOK C
The fifth thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Volume C, brings an additional 104 pages of brand new material with games up to 2006.
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - BOOK C
Catalog Code: B0003ECO
Our Price: $39.95
Secrets of Chess Training
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
The world's top trainer, Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov, present a five-volume series based on courses given to talented young players throughout the world. The books contain contributions by other leading trainers and grandmasters, as well as games by pupils who have attended the courses.
Secrets of Chess Training
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0006OE
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Practical Chess Defence
Chess is developing faster now than ever before in history, and the appearance of strong chess computers has changed the way players think. In the past many positions would have been rejected on principle as impossible to defend, and even the best players would shy away from capturing material if it meant that they would have to face a difficult defence.
Practical Chess Defence
Catalog Code: B0012QT
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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
Catalog Code: B0031GB
Our Price: $24.95
Devious Chess
How to Bend the Rules and Win
How to Bend the Rules and Win
Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni knows every trick in the book - and several more you'll find only in his book. Unlearn everything you've learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude toward the game. Take your opponent into virgin territory. Raise the tension to the boiling point. Master the ruses of the coffeehouse players. Discover the magic of peculiar moves. Has your opponent just made a blunder - or is it a trap? Here's a reliable way to answer that question and turn the tables. All the rule-bending strategies and devious tactics are illustrated with fully analyzed examples from real games.
Devious Chess
How to Bend the Rules and Win
Catalog Code: B0099BT
Our Price: $9.95
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
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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
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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
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
Regular Price: $19.95
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