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CHESS BOOKS
Chess Life Magazine - March 2013 Issue
Slugfest in Seattle-GM Varuzhan Akobian Leades sluggers to USCL Championship
Chess Life Magazine - March 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0313
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Chess Life Magazine - April 2013 Issue
The Resolute GM- He is now one of the world's elite players, but has Hikaru Nakamura topped out?
2012 was a tumultuous year for the current U.S. Champion. Competing in 11 major events all over the world, Hikaru logged more air miles than most people earn in a lifetime. Macauley Peterson followed him to eight tournaments in six countries for Chess Life's profile.
Chess Life Magazine - April 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0413
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Chess Life Magazine - May 2013 Issue
The U.S. Amateur Teams- We travel North, South, East and West to cover the most popular event on the USCF Calendar.
Princeton University takes top honors in New Jersey.
Chess Life Magazine - May 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0513
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Chess Life Magazine - June 2013 Issue
Supernational V-5,335 play in the largest USCF Tournament Ever
Atulya Shetty-K-12 Section Champion
Candidates' Tournament: GM Ian Rogers on GM Magnus Carsen's win in an epic tournament
Chess Life Magazine - June 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0613
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Chess Life Magazine - February 2013 Issue
GOLD! Samuel Sevian and Kayden Troff win big in Slovenia
Chess Life Magazine - February 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0213
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Chess Life Magazine - January 2013 Issue
2861! Magnus Carlsen wins his second Grand Slam Final then later breaks Kasparov's record for the highest rating.
Chess Life Magazine - January 2013 Issue
Catalog Code: CL0113
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Chess Life Magazine - November 2012 Issue
The Queen of Katwe - A Virginia Ministry uses chess to reveal the potential of the poorest of the poor.
Chess Life Magazine - November 2012 Issue
Catalog Code: CL1112
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Chess Life Magazine - October 2012 Issue
GM Ivan Sokolov of the Netherlands wins 2012 World Open in Armageddon playoff over GM Alex Shabalov.
Chess Life Magazine - October 2012 Issue
Catalog Code: CL1012
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Start Playing Chess Today!
A Quick and Easy Guide to Chess!
A Quick and Easy Guide to Chess!
Take large diagrams, straightforward instruction and helpful tips and quizzes—and what do you have? The winning formula for a quick and easy way to play chess today. Perfect for players new to the game, the author explains the basics of chess and each piece's characteristics —how they move, their relative value and how they can be used to checkmate opponents.
Start Playing Chess Today!
A Quick and Easy Guide to Chess!
Catalog Code: B0054CZ
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Play Better Chess Today!
A Quick Guide to Improving Your Chess!
A Quick Guide to Improving Your Chess!
Play Better Chess Today is perfect for players who have learned the basics and are ready to take their game to the next level and start winning games. Over 100 diagrams show how to exploit the strengths of each piece, and defend against their weaknesses. You'll also learn tactical moves to capture pieces checkmate opponents.
Play Better Chess Today!
A Quick Guide to Improving Your Chess!
Catalog Code: B0055CZ
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10 Most Common Chess Mistakes
And How to Avoid Them!
And How to Avoid Them!
A fascinating collection of more than two hundred typical errors committed by the world's greatest players challenges you to test your skills by choosing between two moves: the right one, or the one actually played. You will be amazed at how even world champions make errors in critical situations and violate the basic principles of chess.
10 Most Common Chess Mistakes
And How to Avoid Them!
Catalog Code: B0003CZ
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New Ideas in Chess
How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
Finally One if the Most Influential Chess Books ever is back! Five- time U.S Champion Larry Evans shows you the most important concepts that comprise a winning chess game: Space, Time, Force & Pawn Structure.In a book that has been called the "bible" for novice to intermediate player," this newly revised classic use actual game examples to illustrate dozens of chess themes.
New Ideas in Chess
How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
Catalog Code: B0051CZ
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The Sicilian Dragon
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
Play the Exciting Dragon! Inside this book are the secrets of one of the most exciting and powerful openings in all of chess - the Sicilian Dragon! Used by amateurs and champons alike, the dragon features brilliant combinations, no-holds-barred assasults, wild sacrifices, and uncompromising positions. This new edition features bigger diagrams, the latest moves and developements, and 30 new game examples.
The Sicilian Dragon
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
Catalog Code: B0052CZ
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51 Chess Openings for Beginners
What the Chess Openings Look Like
What the Chess Openings Look Like
Chess openings are the most important part of every novice's journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves.
51 Chess Openings for Beginners
What the Chess Openings Look Like
Catalog Code: B0027CZ
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This Crazy World of Chess
After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
The most controversial chess book ever written exposes the intrigues, scandals, conspiracies, dirty dealings and fascinating tidbits, not just with famous players and corrupt chess federations, but also killers, bloodthirsty tyrants, 12-year-old grandmasters and even legendary movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart.
This Crazy World of Chess
After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
Catalog Code: B0032CZ
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Chess Opening Trap of the Day
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Great for beginners who want to improve their game and intermediate players who love challenges, this powerful collection of opening traps will immediately improve your play and have your opponents fearing you. You'll learn how to spot the everyday opening mistakes made by opponents and how to take advantage of these mistakes by setting opening traps.
Chess Opening Trap of the Day
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Catalog Code: B0034CZ
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Portable Chess Coach
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
This entertaining guide for beginners of all ages is like a human chess coach. It clearly explains the basic rules and moves, opening strategies, middle game and endgame, plus the basic tactics and combinations to give you the winning edge. As you glide through the text, Judee helps you along with review questions, practice puzzles, and instructive games, and shows you the ten most common beginner's mistakes.
Portable Chess Coach
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
Catalog Code: B0004CZ
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303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors, both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the original 303 typical situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles.
303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
Catalog Code: B0037CZ
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1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
This great book for beginning players covers the most basic of all mates - the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where you must find the move that instantly wins the game. You'll learn how to make the final move with all the pieces - knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This great training tool is perfect for players new to the game of chess!
1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
Catalog Code: B0033CZ
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Learn From Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
Before his recent retirement, Garry Kasparov held the number one position in chess for nearly twenty years. He is considered the greatest player of all time. Now, beginning and intermediate players, ninety percent of the chess playing audience, can benefit from his wisdom.
Learn From Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
Catalog Code: B0009CZ
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First Chess Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
This great beginning book shows players how to confidently start out a chess game with solid near-foolproof openings. Easy-to-read and targeted to novice and new chess player, the oversized format is filled with large diagrams, clear explanations, and ideas and concepts that are easy for new players.
First Chess Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
Catalog Code: B0018CZ
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Catalog Code: B0043CZ
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202 Checkmates For Children
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids!
202 Checkmates For Children
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
Catalog Code: B0042CZ
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How Good Is Your Chess?
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Grandmaster and Hall of Fame chess legend Larry Evans draws upon his vast experience as five-time U.S. champion to present a fun and challenging new approach for chess players. You can test your skills against one hundred fascinating positions from actual games and choose the best move among three choices.
How Good Is Your Chess?
Rate Yourself in 100 Positions
Catalog Code: B0030CZ
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100 Easy Checkmates
One and Two Move Checkmates to Test Your Skills!
One and Two Move Checkmates to Test Your Skills!
Perfect for beginning players--including children--100 Easy Checkmates offers an accessible, fun guide to winning at chess. Designed to help players learn without frustration or tedious chess notation, 100 Easy Checkmates presents easy one- and two-move checkmates that everyone can understand.
100 Easy Checkmates
One and Two Move Checkmates to Test Your Skills!
Catalog Code: B0002CZ
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Killer Chess Tactics
Use the Strategies of World Champions to Impress Your Friends and Pummel Your Enemies
Use the Strategies of World Champions to Impress Your Friends and Pummel Your Enemies
This is a book for players who want to play killer chess using the insights, concepts, tactics and combinations used by the greatest players who ever lived. This fascinating book teaches you how to learn from the incredible combinations and sacrifices of fourteen World Champions, how the champions used these brilliant stratagems to bring opponents to their knees, and how they themselves fell prey to these deadly surprise attacks.
Killer Chess Tactics
Use the Strategies of World Champions to Impress Your Friends and Pummel Your Enemies
Catalog Code: B0006CZ
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Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Based on the powerful Caro-Kann, a favorite weapon of great players, you'll learn how to come right out of the gate and defend against 1.e4, the most popular first move in chess. This is a great beginner's book because readers need to learn just one strong opening system, and it can be used to combat all of White's 1.e4 openings.
Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Catalog Code: B0008CZ
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Complete Book of Beginning Chess
Learn How to Play Chess and Obtain a Deeper Understanding of the Game with this Comprehensive Step-By-Step Course
Learn How to Play Chess and Obtain a Deeper Understanding of the Game with this Comprehensive Step-By-Step Course
In just ten easy lessons, beginning and novice players learn everything they need to know to play and win at chess. From setting up a chess board and moving the pieces to basic concepts and winning strategies, and even how to get rated and play on the internet, this is a great book for players looking to learn and improve their game.
Complete Book of Beginning Chess
Learn How to Play Chess and Obtain a Deeper Understanding of the Game with this Comprehensive Step-By-Step Course
Catalog Code: B0013CZ
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Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom
The Golden Nuggets of Chess Knowledge
The Golden Nuggets of Chess Knowledge
From opening, middlegame, and endgame strategy, to psychological warfare and tournament tactics, you are taken through the thinking behind each essential concept. Examples, discussions, and diagrams show the full impact on the game's direction. Tons of diagrams, examples, sidebars, and sample games illustrate the concepts, making this book easy-to-read and a joy for players looking to delve deeper into the mysteries of chess and become a better player.
Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom
The Golden Nuggets of Chess Knowledge
Catalog Code: B0019CZ
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Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
This exciting guide to all the major unorthodox openings used by chess players, contains more than 1,500 contentious, unconventional, arrogant, and outright strange opening strategies. From their tricky tactical surprises to their bizarre names, these openings fly in the face of tradition. You'll meet such openings as the Orangutang, Halloween Gambit, Frankenstein-Dracula Variation, Double Duck, and even the Drunken King.
Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
Catalog Code: B0022CZ
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Winning Chess Openings
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
This popular book has taught tens of thousands of beginning players the key concepts of the opening, the most crucial part of every chess game. You'll learn the best opening moves from both Black's and White's perspectives. More than twenty-five essential openings are shown: King's Gambit, Center Game, Scotch Game, Giucco Piano, Vienna Game, Bishop's Opening, Ruy Lopez, French, Caro-Kann, Sicilian, Alekhine, Pirc, Modern, Queen's Gambit, Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Dutch, King's Indian, Benoni, English, Bird's, Reti's, and King's Indian Attack.
Winning Chess Openings
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Catalog Code: B0024CZ
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303 Tricky Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two, three and four move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions.
303 Tricky Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0017CZ
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The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Nine information-packed chapters and twenty-two diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. You'll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation.
The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Catalog Code: B0020CZ
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Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! This book contains every important gambit opening and variation ever played - more than two thousand opening strategies in all!
Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Catalog Code: B0023CZ
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Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Newly formatted and updated! Fourteen chapters illustrate the explanations and thinking behind every tactical concept. Learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threats and other crushing tactics to gain an immediate edge. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with diagrams, examples and game situations so you understand the thinking and game plan behind every moves.
Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Catalog Code: B0025CZ
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Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Can you Find the Best Move?
This challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers. These instructive, elegant and entertaining positions will not only challenge and entertain you, but will also teach you how to improve your endgame while trying to find the best move of the three choices presented.
Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Catalog Code: B0035CZ
Our Price: $14.95
