CHESS BOOKS

    Secrets of Practical Chess
    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.
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    Secrets of Practical Chess
    A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
    Catalog Code: B0017GB
    Our Price: $24.95

    How to Defend in Chess
    Learn from the World Champions
    Many books discuss how to attack in chess, but good, resourceful defensive play is also a vital ingredient in competitive success. However, this is an area largely neglected in the literature of the game. This book fills the gap admirably, by explaining the basics of defending against direct offensives, and taking an in-depth look at how the all-time greats have fended off their opponents' attacks.
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    How to Defend in Chess
    Learn from the World Champions
    Catalog Code: B0003GB
    Our Price: $24.95

    Perfect Your Chess
    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.
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    Perfect Your Chess
    World-Class Training from a Super-Grandmaster and his Coach
    Catalog Code: B0005GB
    Our Price: $28.95

    Transpo Tricks in Chess
    In chess, a transposition is a known position reached by a different move order than usual - a less obvious way of getting to somewhere you want to go, leading to confusion for your opponent. Every chess player has a number of them in his arsenal, and they are used most often in openings.
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    Transpo Tricks in Chess
    Catalog Code: B0007BT
    Our Price: $21.95

    Grandmaster Secrets - The Caro-Kann
    The Inside Story on a Popular and Rich Opening Complex
    Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games.
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    Grandmaster Secrets - The Caro-Kann
    The Inside Story on a Popular and Rich Opening Complex
    Catalog Code: B0018GB
    Our Price: $29.95

    Chess Explained - The c3 Sicilian
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games.
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    Chess Explained - The c3 Sicilian
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Catalog Code: B0063GB
    Our Price: $19.95

    Chess Explained - The Meran Semi-Slav
    A Dynamic Opening Explained with Words and Examples
    Chess Explained books provide an understanding of an opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
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    Chess Explained - The Meran Semi-Slav
    A Dynamic Opening Explained with Words and Examples
    Catalog Code: B0064GB
    Our Price: $23.95

    Modern Chess Planning
    A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
    Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess planning has evolved considerably since the days of the "grand plan", whereby a player might even try to map out the whole course of the game.
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    Modern Chess Planning
    A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
    Catalog Code: B0073GB

    Regular Price: $14.95

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    Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 2
    Unlock the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
    For most chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is hard to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit. John Watson seeks to help chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. In his previous books on chess strategy, he explained vital concepts that had previously been the domain only of top-class players.
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    Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 2
    Unlock the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
    Catalog Code: B0076GB
    Our Price: $29.95

    Chess Explained - The Modern Benoni
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
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    Chess Explained - The Modern Benoni
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Catalog Code: B0091GB
    Our Price: $23.95

    The Ruy Lopez - a Guide for Black
    A Reliable Defense with more than a Spark of Aggression
    The Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Opening) is one of the critical chess battlegrounds. It has long been recommended as an excellent chess opening for training purposes, as it leads to a wide variety of structures and strategies. This book is a complete guide to handling the black side of the Lopez, based principally around the Zaitsev Variation, upon which Anatoly Karpov relied during much of his career. This line leads to sharp play, often in open battles where Black gains active counterplay and challenges White to seize the initiative on the kingside.
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    The Ruy Lopez - a Guide for Black
    A Reliable Defense with more than a Spark of Aggression
    Catalog Code: B0095GB
    Our Price: $14.95

    50 Ways to Win at Chess
    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.
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    50 Ways to Win at Chess
    Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
    Catalog Code: B0106GB
    Our Price: $14.95

    Chess Explained - The Queen's Gambit Declined
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Books are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
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    Chess Explained - The Queen's Gambit Declined
    A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
    Catalog Code: B0126GB
    Our Price: $23.95

    How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
    Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
    This is not just a book for kids - for 'Dad' read any opponent who beats you regularly! This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates - basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards. Each mating motif is carefully and simply explained, and several illustrative examples are given. A final test enables the reader to grade his pattern recognition abilities, and the last chapter explains what to do if your Dad is Garry Kasparov. Fun, instructive - and guaranteed to improve your game.
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    How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
    Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
    Catalog Code: B0056GB
    Our Price: $16.95

    101 Chess Opening Traps
    A Collection of Deadly Traps, New and Old, to Catch Opponents of All Standards
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    101 Chess Opening Traps
    A Collection of Deadly Traps, New and Old, to Catch Opponents of All Standards
    Catalog Code: B0127GB
    Our Price: $14.95

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