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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 3
Winning with White
Winning with White
The Grunfeld is one of the most topical openings in modern chess practice. Many club players fear it, and top GMs often struggle to get an advantage when facing it as White. But is it really a theoretically sound defense? In this third and final volume of the acclaimed Wojo's Weapons series, IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton claim to have found a sure route to an advantage against this opening.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 3
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0095EU
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World's Most Instructive Amateur Game Book
Renowned chess instructor and writer Dan Heisman presents thirty games by intermediate-level players, each one offering a rich variety of lessons in practical competitive play for all chess enthusiasts.
World's Most Instructive Amateur Game Book
Catalog Code: B0093EU
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Simple Attacking Plans
Novice players and amateurs of intermediate strength will benefit from the explanations of ideas and tips for practical play, all presented in an easy, conversational style. More experienced competitors will appreciate this book as a game collection featuring masterpieces of enterprising play – some of them never before published.
Simple Attacking Plans
Catalog Code: B0094EU
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The Russian Endgame Handbook
Rabinovich raises the beginner’s understanding of the endgame to a sophisticated level, starting with elementary checkmates and then moving on to the principles for handling complex endgames and advanced concepts in king-and-pawn endings, such as the theory of corresponding squares.
The Russian Endgame Handbook
Catalog Code: B0091EU
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Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
These pages reveal the secrets of his notebooks for the first time. IM Hawkins presents special material aimed to help you become a much better practical player, one armed with a deeper understanding of key aspects of chess.
Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Catalog Code: B0089EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Opening Tactics
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Catalog Code: B0086EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Catalog Code: B0085EU
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Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!
Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Catalog Code: B0087EU
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Endgame - PAPERBACK
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
ENDGAME is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady's decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent--and confounding descent--of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some of his most dramatic triumphs, could have written this book, which has much to say about the nature of American celebrity and the distorting effect.of fame
Endgame - PAPERBACK
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Catalog Code: B0022RH
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
Two-Move Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0077EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
Elementary Endgames
In this fourth volume, Elementary Endgames, the student will: 1) learn how to deliver fundamental checkmates such as a king and a rook against a lone king; 2) discover how to avoid stalemating the opposing king, and how to induce stalemate when threatened with checkmate; and 3) develop not only an understanding of concepts such as passed pawns and king opposition, but also a sense of confidence in the final phase of the game.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
Catalog Code: B0076EU
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No Passion For Chess Fashion
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings. They have time to think about innovations in the Sicilian Najdorf, the Marshall Attack, or the Semi-Slav. It's part of their job. But club players can rarely afford such luxury, and an excellent way for them to beat their busy schedules is to play good, solid opening lines that happen to be out of style.
No Passion For Chess Fashion
Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0072EU
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Bobby Fischer
A Pictorial History of the 1972 World Chess Championship
A Pictorial History of the 1972 World Chess Championship
Harry Benson's rare, exclusive photos of the elusive and controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Championship chess match in Iceland in 1972 in which Fischer solidly defeated reining champ, Russian Boris Spassky, are collected here for the first time, in Bobby Fischer.
Bobby Fischer
A Pictorial History of the 1972 World Chess Championship
Catalog Code: B0021RH
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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Winning with White
IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton team up again to continue their coverage of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz's winning repertoire with the White pieces, designed to grind down weaker players while challenging his peers. In this second volume, Ippolito and Hilton examine Wojo's handling of the popular King's Indian Defense, focusing on the positional Fianchetto Variation.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0067EU
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The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
The Hedgehog lives! GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental investigation of this counterattacking system for Black with in-depth coverage of formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4. Sparing no effort to discover best play for both sides, he presents White's most promising plans and breathes new life into variations that - according to theory - had turned the Hedgehog into an endangered species.
The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0068EU
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The Improving Annotator
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess. By examining the choices you made during the game - and how they turned out - you can pinpoint the flaws in your thinking process so that you can work on them. Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman shows you the whys and the hows of annotating your games.
The Improving Annotator
From Beginner to Master - Revised & Expanded Edition
Catalog Code: B0065EU
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Endgame - HARDCOVER
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
ENDGAME is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady's decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent--and confounding descent--of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some of his most dramatic triumphs, could have written this book, which has much to say about the nature of American celebrity and the distorting effects of fame
Endgame - HARDCOVER
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Catalog Code: B0020RH
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chess players, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Catalog Code: B0058EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
Simple Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0057EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
Move, Attack and Capture
is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
Catalog Code: B0056EU
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Play Like a Girl
Tactics by 9Queens
Tactics by 9Queens
Play Like A Girl!, the first book of its kind, is a collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. Profiled players range from Hungary's Judit Polgar, the best woman chessplayer in history, to Abby Marshall, the teenager who became the first American girl to win the Denker High School Tournament of Champions.
Play Like a Girl
Tactics by 9Queens
Catalog Code: B0064EU
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Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks - the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to little-known gems of Russian chess, the author challenges you to form your own impression and then see how the masters honed in on the key elements to achieve victory, or neglected them and went down to defeat.
Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
Catalog Code: B0054EU
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Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But "The Chess Machine" was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablanca's record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play advocated by the unequaled teacher, C.J.S. Purdy.
Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Catalog Code: B0055EU
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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 1
Winning with White
Winning with White
The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, known as "Wojo" to his fans and followers, was one of the most feared players of the White pieces in the U.S. tournament circuit. Using his dynamic, Catalan-based opening repertoire, the "Polish Magician" won hundreds of tournaments from the 1990's until his untimely death in 2006. Now, Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton have joined forces to produce the definitive "how-to" manual for learning Wojo's repertoire with White after 1.Nf3 d5.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 1
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0049EU
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The Gambit File
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
In The Gambit Files, the author surveys the common tactical motifs for each variation, and then invites you to hone your cut-and-thrust skills with thematic puzzles. Whether you're looking to breathe new life into your current openings or to overhaul your repertoire, The Gambit Files will help you to slay your opponents faster and with confidence.
The Gambit File
Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play
Catalog Code: B0063EU
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Diary of a Chess Queen
Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.
Diary of a Chess Queen
Catalog Code: B0044EU
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The Improving Chess Thinker
he Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level.
The Improving Chess Thinker
Catalog Code: B0043EU
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The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 1
The Hedgehog is a thoroughly modern defense where flexibility and understanding trump rote memorization. Using deeply annotated critical games from international practice, GM Sergey Shipov traces the Hedgehog's development - from its origins as a way to avoid well-trodden paths to its current status as a respected weapon in Black's armory.
The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0042EU
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
The book's story begins when Gary, a young boy, finds himself at home with his babysitter one boring afternoon. His day picks up when a young girl named Cassie comes to take him away to Chess Country, a world where everything is related to the royal game. Along the way, Gary meets many of the residents of Chess Country, including Riddles -- who provides Gary and the reader with numerous chess puzzles -- and Zug, another young boy who will become Gary's chess rival.
Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
Catalog Code: B0003EU
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Modern Chess Openings - 15TH EDITION
Completed Revised and Updated
Completed Revised and Updated
Modern Chess Openings is the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. First published over a half-century ago, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the book that has been the standard English language reference on chess openings.
Modern Chess Openings - 15TH EDITION
Completed Revised and Updated
Catalog Code: B0013RH
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Pandolfini's Chess Challenges
111 Winning Endgames
111 Winning Endgames
Here are 111 quirky, surprising and fun tactical chess problems to improve anyone's games. Designed to promote creativity and imaginative play, all of the problems are endgame miniatures, with seven or fewer pieces on the chessboard.
Pandolfini's Chess Challenges
111 Winning Endgames
Catalog Code: B0014RH
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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
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Chess Exam And Training Guide - Rate Yourself
Rate Yourself and Learn How to Improve!
Rate Yourself and Learn How to Improve!
Would you like to know how good you really are at chess? Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned master, this book will help you to evaluate your current level, identify your weaknesses and get training advice.
Chess Exam And Training Guide - Rate Yourself
Rate Yourself and Learn How to Improve!
Catalog Code: B0001IK
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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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How to Play Good Opening Moves
This brand-new revision, in modern algebraic notation, is sure to become a classic of chess instruction. It was written for the chess player who needs to understand, not memorize, the chess openings. The three basic principles of the opening are well established and will not change in the foreseeable future.
How to Play Good Opening Moves
Catalog Code: B0001RH-OOP
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Learn to think the same way Bobby Fischer did. This is the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable book on chess ever compiled. As the student, you start at the beginning and progressively develop your skills as you apply Bobby Fischer's principles and learn how to play Chess the Bobby way.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Catalog Code: B0011RH
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