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CHESS BOOKS
Saving Lost Positions
It is not always possible to win a game of chess by obtaining an advantage and then logically converting it into a win. In the games of average players the result is often in doubt until the last blunder and the more resourceful player will usually triumph.
Saving Lost Positions
Catalog Code: B0087IS
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Spanish Gambits - UPDATED
Updated in 2011 with New, Improved Lines of Play
Updated in 2011 with New, Improved Lines of Play
The Spanish Chess Opening, also known as the Ruy Lopez, named a Spanish clergyman who made it popular, is one of the oldest and most heavily analyzed of openings, with many variations having been analyzed up to move 20. Yet, there are still new things being discovered about it. This book covers early attempts by either side to wrest the initiative from the other by means of an early pawn sacrifice.
Spanish Gambits - UPDATED
Updated in 2011 with New, Improved Lines of Play
Catalog Code: B0084IS
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Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 13
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Secrets of Opening Surprises brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at first sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable. An SOS deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six!
Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 13
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Catalog Code: B0013SOS
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The Modern Scandinavian
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
The Modern Scandinavian is an updated and expanded translation of "Modernes Skandinavisch 2", which appeared in 2006 and also became a bestseller. This second book focuses not on theoretical lines but on the structural ideas after the moves 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5.
The Modern Scandinavian
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
Catalog Code: B0098NIC
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Improve Your Chess Tactics
700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
Instruction + exercises according to the old Soviet Chess School. The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills.
Improve Your Chess Tactics
700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
Catalog Code: B0099NIC
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Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings.
Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
Catalog Code: B0100NIC
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Queen's Gambit Accepted - Smyslov Variation
The Smyslov Variation was developed by World Chess Champion Vasily Smyslov and used in top level competitions by him and by other World Champions. One advantage is that it can be used frequently. If White plays 1. d4 and Black responds with 1. ...d5, White will almost always play 2. c4. Then after the natural moves 2. ...dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3, Black can play 4. ...g6 which is the Smyslov Variation. The Smyslov Variation is a form of the Queen's Gambit Accepted.
Queen's Gambit Accepted - Smyslov Variation
Catalog Code: B0083IS
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Sicilian Attacks
Powerful Charges & Topical Tactics
Powerful Charges & Topical Tactics
Against most Sicilian variations, White's sharpest and often best weapon is queenside castling, a strategy that frequently leads to spectacular fireworks. Regrettably, these powerful charges have never been properly categorized. Until this book.In Sicilian Attacks, Grandmaster Yuri Yakovich, who has more than thirty years of experience with complex Sicilian systems, analyses the Najdorf, the Scheveningen, the Dragon, the Taimanov and the Richter-Rauzer Variations.
Sicilian Attacks
Powerful Charges & Topical Tactics
Catalog Code: B0093NIC
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NIC Yearbook 97 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory.
NIC Yearbook 97 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
Catalog Code: B0097HYB
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NIC Yearbook 97 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 97 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Alexey Shirov's 8. g4 in the Caro-Kann - A Trifle Too Sharp, Amigo?
Catalog Code: B0097PYB
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Secrets of a Grandpatzer
How to Beat Most People and Computers at Chess
How to Beat Most People and Computers at Chess
Secrets of a Grandpatzer is the outstanding work by world renowned psychiatrist Kenneth Mark Colby. Mr Colby began this project by trying to help himself become a better player and to raise his United States Chess Federation rating.
Secrets of a Grandpatzer
How to Beat Most People and Computers at Chess
Catalog Code: B0082IS
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Adventures of a Chess Master
This is the autobiography of George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory, Koltanowski would often give exhibitions, playing several games blindfold simultaneously.
Adventures of a Chess Master
Catalog Code: B0081IS
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The Blue Book of Charts to Winning Chess
This is THE book that first introduced a concept that has revolutionized tournament chess for most players. The concept is simply to create a database of chess games, sorted by openings, and then see which opening moves produce the best results. This book concludes that the overall winning percentage for White is 59%.
The Blue Book of Charts to Winning Chess
Catalog Code: B0030IS
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The Tactical Grob
The Tactical Grob This book is on the chess opening known as Grob's Attack. This chess opening starts with 1. g2-g4 or, in Descriptive Notation, 1. P-KN4. Once thought of as a joke, the Grob Opening is a very dangerous opening to both the white and black sides in chess.
The Tactical Grob
Catalog Code: B0020IS
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Grob's Angriff - GERMAN EDITION
This is Henry Grob's groundbreaking work written in German on the move 1. g2-g4. The Grob opening is a very dangerous opening to both the white and black sides in chess.
Grob's Angriff - GERMAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0023IS
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The ABC of Chess
This book was first published in the mighty Soviet Union in 1972. It is NOT a basic book to learn how to play chess or how to improve your game. It is a story book with the chess pieces as a background. It is suitable to be read to children who are interested in the game.
The ABC of Chess
Catalog Code: B0036IS
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The Wonderful Winawer
Strategic Ideas & Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Chess Players
Strategic Ideas & Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Chess Players
The widely-played Winawer Variation has been called 'the jewel in the crown of the French Defence'. It is easy to see why. This is an opening for players who love a real fight. Black immediately attacks White's centre and the resulting positional dynamics offer chances to both sides.
The Wonderful Winawer
Strategic Ideas & Surprise Weapons for Dynamic Chess Players
Catalog Code: B0094NIC
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Dynamic Chess Strategy
Expanded and Updated
Expanded and Updated
In the battle of chess ideas, the publication in 1991 of Dynamic Chess Strategy was a defining moment. Before Mihai Suba's exceptional book, chess writers had neglected one of the most important factors of a chess position: its dynamic potential. Suba demonstrated that the traditional concept of improving the position was often static and irrelevant, and that classical strategy, if applied dogmatically, can prevent you from finding the right plan and its subsequent moves.
Dynamic Chess Strategy
Expanded and Updated
Catalog Code: B0095NIC
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NIC Yearbook 96 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 96 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
Catalog Code: B0096HYB
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NIC Yearbook 96 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 96 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Yakovenko Gets There First in the Exchange Spanish
Catalog Code: B0096PYB
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The Complete c3 Sicilian
The Alapin Variation by it's Greatest Expert
The Alapin Variation by it's Greatest Expert
It is not difficult to understand why the Alapin Sicilian is such a popular opening with amateur and professional chess players all over the world. Against Black’s most dangerous reply to 1.e4 it simply offers everything you need if you are looking for a reliable scheme that does not take much time to learn.
The Complete c3 Sicilian
The Alapin Variation by it's Greatest Expert
Catalog Code: B0096NIC
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CoffeeHouse Chess Tactics
An Astonishing Trip into the World of Competitive Chess
An Astonishing Trip into the World of Competitive Chess
With refreshing simplicity, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics shows how to turn bad, even seemingly hopeless positions to our advantage. How to distinguish the essential from the trivial. How to adapt according to the situation on the board. Each game sparkles with some unusual tactical or defensive motif. Along with the games the author describes in eloquent but brutal language the beautiful, sometimes terrible, world of chess "where sport, art and science merge.
CoffeeHouse Chess Tactics
An Astonishing Trip into the World of Competitive Chess
Catalog Code: B0097NIC
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London 1980
Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
Phillips and Drew/GLC Kings 1980 was one of the great chess events. London was a desert for international tournament chess from 1948-1973. In 1975 there was the Evening Standard London Chess Fortnight. Although these were fine events and very valuable to English chess; they could not be compared with the events in Hastings and Teesside.
London 1980
Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
Catalog Code: B0079IS
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NIC Yearbook 95 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 95 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
Catalog Code: B0095HYB
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NIC Yearbook 95 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 95 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Alexander Grischuk - Gimme Your Poisoned Pawn, Baby!
Catalog Code: B0095PYB
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Botvinnik - Petrosian
The 1963 World Chess Championship Match
The 1963 World Chess Championship Match
This book marks the end of an era: the mighty Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995) loses his world title fifteen years after he conquered the highest crown for the first time. It is a gripping account of a heroic battle. The ageing Botvinnik desperately tries to bounce back after his Armenian opponent Tigran Petrosian has taken an early lead, but ultimately fails.
Botvinnik - Petrosian
The 1963 World Chess Championship Match
Catalog Code: B0126NIC
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Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 12
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Readers of this series can ignore large areas of the ever expanding chess opening theory. They can concentrate on these surprising ideas, because SOS variations deviate very early from the regular lines in mainstream openings. Ideal for players who don't have enough time to keep abreast with main line theory. Appears twice a year. Ready-to-go chess opening ideas.
Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 12
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Catalog Code: B0012SOS
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Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 4
1. c4 / 1. Nf3 / Other First Moves
1. c4 / 1. Nf3 / Other First Moves
Chess Opening Essentials is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavor of how every opening works and explains the similarities with other openings as well as the differences. In addition, it also points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening has ended.
Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 4
1. c4 / 1. Nf3 / Other First Moves
Catalog Code: B0089NIC
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Bobby Fischer for Beginners
The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
Bobby Fischer's lone fight against the Soviet chess powerhouse made him a global hero, also for people who did not play chess at all. The Russians trembled before him, the Americans and the rest of the world cheered him on. Fischer's chess prowess and his will to win were unparalleled. But so were his eccentric behaviour and his paranoia. After he won the world title, Bobby Fischer vanished and the former prodigy became a mystery. The memories of his successwere clouded by his anti-American and anti-Semite rants.
Bobby Fischer for Beginners
The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
Catalog Code: B0090NIC
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NIC Yearbook 94 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 94 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
Catalog Code: B0094HYB
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NIC Yearbook 94 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 94 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Magnus Carlsen's Midas Touch in the Scotch
Catalog Code: B0094PYB
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Alekhine's Best Games of Chess - 1938-1945
This is a reprint of the original third book, with all of the games converted into Algebraic Figurine PGN Notation with diagrams in the back. Alekhine died in 1946, so this third volume was edited by International Master and British Chess Champion Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, based in part on the notes left by Alekhine to some of the games.
Alekhine's Best Games of Chess - 1938-1945
Catalog Code: B0016IS
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Trophy Chess
An Account of the Lessing Rosenwald Tournament - NY 1954-1955
An Account of the Lessing Rosenwald Tournament - NY 1954-1955
Trophy Chess was one of Bobby Fischer's favorite books. He studied it with great care during his sudden appearance right after this tournament and his rapid rise to the top, culminating in his winning his first of eight US Chess Championships in 1957/58. It is nicely laid out and designed and is easy to read. In his famous "My 60 Memorable Games" Fischer later collaborated with Evans, who served as his second during his rise to the world championship and became one of America's best-selling chess authors with over 20 books to his credit.
Trophy Chess
An Account of the Lessing Rosenwald Tournament - NY 1954-1955
Catalog Code: B0056IS
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Mastering Positional Chess
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Mastering Positional Chess is a serious, but entertaining chess instruction book. Daniel started writing it when he realized that his lack of positional understanding was causing him to lose many games.
Mastering Positional Chess
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Catalog Code: B0088NIC
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NIC Yearbook 93 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons. A must-have publication for serious chess students.
NIC Yearbook 93 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
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NIC Yearbook 93 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons.
NIC Yearbook 93 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Short Shrift to the Caro-Kann
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