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CHESS BOOKS
The Ragozin Complex
A Guide for White and Black
A Guide for White and Black
The Ragozin Complex is a flexible and versatile chess opening system that, despite its popularity, rarely has been a subject of serious study in chess literature. A hybrid of the Queen's Gambit and the Nimzo-Indian Defence, the Ragozin featured in a famous book by Soviet theoretician Lipnitsky in the 1950s. Bobby Fischer decided to learn Russian to be able to read that work and immediately afterwards started playing the Ragozin.
The Ragozin Complex
A Guide for White and Black
Catalog Code: B0106NIC
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1.d4 - Beat the Guerrillas!
A Powerful Opening Repertoire Against Annoying Black Sidelines
A Powerful Opening Repertoire Against Annoying Black Sidelines
This manual fills a big gap in chess literature. After 1.d4, probably the most widely played opening move in the world, Black can avoid main line theory by deviating into a whole variety of irritating unorthodox sidelines. White players often stumble into unknown and dangerous territory where their tricky opponent awaits them, fully prepared.
1.d4 - Beat the Guerrillas!
A Powerful Opening Repertoire Against Annoying Black Sidelines
Catalog Code: B0107NIC
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The Four Knights Game
A New Adventure in an Old Chess Opening
A New Adventure in an Old Chess Opening
The Four Knights variation is one of the oldest chess openings, dating back to the 16th century. In recent years it has been injected with numerous fresh ideas and has shaken off the reputation of being a peaceful choice. White has quite a few ways to create tension and play for the attack.
The Four Knights Game
A New Adventure in an Old Chess Opening
Catalog Code: B0108NIC
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NIC Yearbook 100 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
A brand-new 248 page regular edition of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News with, FREE of charge, 56 pages with a wide range of high-voltage Anniversary extras:
NIC Yearbook 100 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: B0100PYB
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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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Power Chess for Kids
Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1,5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so.
Power Chess for Kids
Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
Catalog Code: B0104NIC
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NIC Yearbook 99 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
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 99 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
Catalog Code: B0099HYB
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NIC Yearbook 99 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
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 99 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Amber Winner Levon Aronian - Fireworks in the QGD
Catalog Code: B0099PYB
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Invisible Chess Moves
Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins
Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins
Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind? Even strong grandmasters suffer from blind spots that obscure some of the best ideas during a game. What is more: often both players fail to see the opportunity that is right in front of their eyes.
Invisible Chess Moves
Discover Your Blind Spots and Stop Overlooking Simple Wins
Catalog Code: B0105NIC
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Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes
The Personal Memoir of a Soviet Chess Legend
The Personal Memoir of a Soviet Chess Legend
A unique, revealing and well-told story, essential reading for everybody interested in the history of chess and the Soviet Union.
Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes
The Personal Memoir of a Soviet Chess Legend
Catalog Code: B0119NIC
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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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The Rossolimo Sicilian
A Powerful Anti-Sicilian that Avoids Tons of Theory
A Powerful Anti-Sicilian that Avoids Tons of Theory
Play real chess instead of trying to memorize endless database lines! That is what the Rossolimo Sicilian offers and why this opening has become so popular with chess players all over the world. If you play 3.Bb5 in the Sicilian, you do not need to keep up-to-date with the dazzling theoretical developments in all kinds of Open Sicilians.
The Rossolimo Sicilian
A Powerful Anti-Sicilian that Avoids Tons of Theory
Catalog Code: B0103NIC
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NIC Yearbook 98 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
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 98 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
Catalog Code: B0098HYB
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NIC Yearbook 98 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
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 98 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Anish Giri - Killer in the Grunfeld with Both Colours
Catalog Code: B0098PYB
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The Joys of Chess
Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies
Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies
The Joys of Chess is an unforgettable intellectual expedition to the remotest corners of the Royal Game. En route, intriguing thought experiments, strange insights and hilarious jokes will offer vistas you have never seen before. The beauty, the struggle, the culture, the fun, the art and the heroism of chess – you will find them all in this sparkling book that will give you many hours of intense joy.
The Joys of Chess
Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies
Catalog Code: B0102NIC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Our Price: $19.95
