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CHESS BOOKS
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
The Official Rules of Chess
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Author: Eric Schiller
Year of Publication: 2003 Pages: 128
Notation Type: None
Book Description This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and Internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you'll learn everything you need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections for students and parents answer all the frequently asked questions about competitive play. These are the rules that apply to every tournament form of chess, from scholastic competitions, to world championship play. About the Author(s) Eric Schiller is a National Master and well-known opening theoretician. He has authored Bozens of monographs and is a Contributing Editor to Chess Life magazine. He holds a Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and has translated Works by the present and former World Champions.
The Official Rules of Chess
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Catalog Code: B0031CZ
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639 Essential Endgame Positions
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
From basic mates to sophisticated double-rook endgames, every important endgame concept is explained. Topics include every key combination of king and pawn endgames, bishops, knights, rooks, and queens, plus tricky endgames with no pawns. The thinking behind every position is explained in words, unlike diagram-only books.
639 Essential Endgame Positions
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
Catalog Code: B0011CZ
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Winning Chess Strategy for Kids
Winning Chess Strategy for Kids is a fun and comprehensive chess course written for children 7 to 13 years old. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's a perfect guide for learning the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too.
Winning Chess Strategy for Kids
Catalog Code: B0024OB
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Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings
Essential Opening Moves
Essential Opening Moves
This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games), based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped win Kasparov and Spassky championships.
Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings
Essential Opening Moves
Catalog Code: B0001CZ
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Whiz Kids Teach Chess
Winning Chess for Young Players
Winning Chess for Young Players
Today's greatest young stars, ranging from ten to seventeen years old, some perhaps to be future world champions, present a fascinating look at the world of chess. Learn from their stories of successes, failures, world travels, and love of the game. They show off their best moves and admit to their most embarrassing blunders. This basic chess primer features diagrams, explanations, and winning ideas written for kids by their prodigal peers.
Whiz Kids Teach Chess
Winning Chess for Young Players
Catalog Code: B0014CZ
Regular Price: $14.95
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Gambit Opening Repertoire for White
Essential Opening Moves
Essential Opening Moves
Chess players who enjoy attacking from the very first move are rewarded here with a powerful repertoire of brilliant gambits. Starting off with 1.e4 or 1.d4 and then using sharp weapons such as the Goring gambit (accepted and declined), Halasz Gambit, Alapin Gambit, Ulysses Gambit, Short Attack and more, you'll learn how to put pressure on opponents.
Gambit Opening Repertoire for White
Essential Opening Moves
Catalog Code: B0040CZ
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Master Checkmate Strategy - OLD EDITION
The Winner's Guide to Essential Checkmates & Attacks
The Winner's Guide to Essential Checkmates & Attacks
Learn the basic combinations as well as the advanced, surprising and unconventional mates, the most effective pieces needed to win, and how to mate opponents with just a pawn advantage. Also, how to work two rooks into an unstoppable attack, wield a queen advantage with deadly intent, coordinate pieces of differing strengths into indefensible mating attacks, and when it's best to have a knight or a bishop to win.
Master Checkmate Strategy - OLD EDITION
The Winner's Guide to Essential Checkmates & Attacks
Catalog Code: B0049CZ
Our Price: $12.95
