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    Platonov's Chess Academy
    Using Soviet-Era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings

    Publisher: CIRC
    Author: Lev Alburt and Sam Palatnik
    Year of Publication: 2012 Pages: 176
    Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)


    Book Description Two of the most renowned chess trainers in the world, introduce and explain the revolutionary ideas of their old friend and mentor, Igor Platonov. Platonov was one of the most profound thinkers and theoreticians in the old Soviet Union, which held a grip on the world chess championship for decades, as the title passed from one of its stars to another. For intermediate players to grandmasters, Platonov's visionary insights, examined and explained here for the first time, provide you with the keys to understanding the foundational concepts of the game, strengthening your chess understanding and giving you effective methods to help you find the most powerful moves in the game. About the Author(s) International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. champion and former European champion, is one of the most sought-after chess teachers in the world. He lives in New York.Grandmaster Sam Palatnik's students reached the list of 100 best players in the world. He lives and teaches in Bethesda, Maryland.
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    Platonov's Chess Academy

    Using Soviet-Era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings
    Catalog Code: B0020LV
    Our Price: $16.95

    Bronstein - The Mechanic
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
    One of the great former Soviet chess grandmasters.
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    Bronstein - The Mechanic

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
    Catalog Code: B0009TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Horowitz - The Interrogator
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 8
    International Chess Master Al Horowitz was a New Yorker: raconteur, player, and writer-editor of books and magazines as well as chess columns for such as the New York Times and Saturday Review as well as his own Chess Review.
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    Horowitz - The Interrogator

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 8
    Catalog Code: B0008TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Larsen - The Hammer
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 7
    Bent Larsen, chess grandmaster from Denmark, was one of the most formidable foes in chess history, even beating the likes of all world champions including Bobby Fischer.
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    Larsen - The Hammer

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 7
    Catalog Code: B0007TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    A Fresh Look at Chess
    40 Instructive Games, Played and Annotated by Players Like You!
    For this book, Lev has selected 40 of his best columns, arranged them by themes, cut some material — and added much more, all to make A Fresh Look at Chess both truly instructional and fun to read.
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    A Fresh Look at Chess

    40 Instructive Games, Played and Annotated by Players Like You!
    Catalog Code: B0019LV
    Our Price: $17.95

    Chess for the Gifted & Busy
    A Short but Comprehensive Course - From Beginner to Expert
    This right-to-the-point book by one of the game's foremost teacher-writing teams uses a breakthrough approach to teach chess fast!
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    Chess for the Gifted & Busy

    A Short but Comprehensive Course - From Beginner to Expert
    Catalog Code: B0018LV
    Our Price: $19.95

    Petrosian - The Punisher
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 6
    This title includes 75 games, 53 of which are annotated in a lively style to show how flexible and tactical he could really be with many wins under 30 moves.
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    Petrosian - The Punisher

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 6
    Catalog Code: B0006TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Start Playing Chess Today!
    A Quick and Easy Guide to Chess!
    Take large diagrams, straightforward instruction and helpful tips and quizzes—and what do you have? The winning formula for a quick and easy way to play chess today. Perfect for players new to the game, the author explains the basics of chess and each piece's characteristics —how they move, their relative value and how they can be used to checkmate opponents.
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    Start Playing Chess Today!

    A Quick and Easy Guide to Chess!
    Catalog Code: B0054CZ
    Our Price: $8.95

    Play Better Chess Today!
    A Quick Guide to Improving Your Chess!
    Play Better Chess Today is perfect for players who have learned the basics and are ready to take their game to the next level and start winning games. Over 100 diagrams show how to exploit the strengths of each piece, and defend against their weaknesses. You'll also learn tactical moves to capture pieces checkmate opponents.
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    Play Better Chess Today!

    A Quick Guide to Improving Your Chess!
    Catalog Code: B0055CZ
    Our Price: $8.95

    Capablanca - The Mouthpiece
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 5
    Now 52 games are looked at against a variety of opponents and how he dealt with them.
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    Capablanca - The Mouthpiece

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 5
    Catalog Code: B0005TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Pillsbury - The Fencer
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 4
    A genius at chess, he also gave exhibitions of blindfold seances as well as playing checkers and bridge at the same time. He won the first big tournament he entered at age 22.
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    Pillsbury - The Fencer

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 4
    Catalog Code: B0004TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    10 Most Common Chess Mistakes
    And How to Avoid Them!
    A fascinating collection of more than two hundred typical errors committed by the world's greatest players challenges you to test your skills by choosing between two moves: the right one, or the one actually played. You will be amazed at how even world champions make errors in critical situations and violate the basic principles of chess.
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    10 Most Common Chess Mistakes

    And How to Avoid Them!
    Catalog Code: B0003CZ
    Our Price: $14.95

    New Ideas in Chess
    How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
    Finally One if the Most Influential Chess Books ever is back! Five- time U.S Champion Larry Evans shows you the most important concepts that comprise a winning chess game: Space, Time, Force & Pawn Structure.In a book that has been called the "bible" for novice to intermediate player," this newly revised classic use actual game examples to illustrate dozens of chess themes.
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    New Ideas in Chess

    How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
    Catalog Code: B0051CZ
    Our Price: $14.95

    The Sicilian Dragon
    The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
    Play the Exciting Dragon! Inside this book are the secrets of one of the most exciting and powerful openings in all of chess - the Sicilian Dragon! Used by amateurs and champons alike, the dragon features brilliant combinations, no-holds-barred assasults, wild sacrifices, and uncompromising positions. This new edition features bigger diagrams, the latest moves and developements, and 30 new game examples.
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    The Sicilian Dragon

    The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
    Catalog Code: B0052CZ
    Our Price: $14.95

    Alekhine - The Executioner
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 3
    This book contains lesser, but not unimportant games, many of them from simultaneous displays where he made short work of his opponent. 59 annotated games.
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    Alekhine - The Executioner

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 3
    Catalog Code: B0003TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Blackburne - The Black Death in Spades
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 2
    Joseph Henry Blackburne mowed his opponents down as if chess were bowling due to his great skill.
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    Blackburne - The Black Death in Spades

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 2
    Catalog Code: B0002TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Lasker - The Ultimate Streetfighter
    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 1
    This monograph examines Lasker's wins in his early years plus a number of simultaneous and exhibition games taken from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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    Lasker - The Ultimate Streetfighter

    The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 1
    Catalog Code: B0001TP
    Our Price: $12.95

    Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2
    Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids Volume 2 is a fun and instructive workbook for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced than Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
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    Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2

    Catalog Code: B0043OB
    Our Price: $31.95

    Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player
    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 5
    Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player is the fifth volume in Grandmaster Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course series. Endorsed by world champion Gary Kasparov as revealing "the once-secret Russian method of chess training," this new edition has material on the 2006 Absolute World Championship match between Kramnick and Topalov.
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    Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player

    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 5
    Catalog Code: B0005LV
    Our Price: $24.95

    Chess Training Pocket Book
    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
    This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions.
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    Chess Training Pocket Book

    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
    Catalog Code: B0006LV
    Our Price: $17.95

    Comprehensive Chess Course - The Complete Collection
    Includes All 7 Books
    In Comprehensive Chess Course, GM Lev Alburt, a highly successful chess coach, offers for the first time the once-secret Russian method of chess training. It is the complete, easy-to-use program for teaching and self-study where Soviet Union and European chess styles are concerned. It features carefully planned repetition and sequences. that will allow the reader to quickly grasp and retain the skills that are critical to being successful in Chess. With GM Alburt's instruction, you will be able to learn chess the correct way and realize your full Chess potential.
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    Comprehensive Chess Course - The Complete Collection

    Includes All 7 Books
    Catalog Code: B00CPLV
    Our Price: $124.95

    The Chess Gospel According to John*
    As modern day Chess Handbooks go, this must be up there with the best ever. Borrowed from Purdy's Guide to Good Chess and three sections of the Search for Chess Perfection II (included are: "How to advance in Chess," "A System to Reduce Errors," and "A Method of Thinking in Chess") it contains the best tools to start and to advance.

    Many students and teachers of the game consider CJS Purdy to be the greatest explainer of what's important in chess who ever lived.
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    The Chess Gospel According to John*

    Catalog Code: B0040OB
    Our Price: $24.95

    Chess Openings for White Explained
    Winning with 1. e4 - 2nd Edition
    Legendary World Champion Bobby Fischer describing the opening move 1. e4. Three-time US Champion Champion Lev Alburt, famous for his ability to turn aspiring players into masters, teams up with two-time U.S. Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili and young international star Eugene Perelshteyn to give you a complete repertoire of opening play-as well as a review of all openings and an explanation of the principles of playing this crucial stage of the game.
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    Chess Openings for White Explained

    Winning with 1. e4 - 2nd Edition
    Catalog Code: B0013LV
    Our Price: $29.95

    Pirc Alert - 2ND EDITION
    A Complete Repertoire Against 1. e4
    Does a fine job at being thematic while offering enough analysis to satisfy anyone - Andy Soltis, Chess Grandmaster and legendary Chess Author. Win more games and enjoy chess more as you play and understand it better! Packed with surprise-weapons, Pirc Alert! gives you everything you need to know to defend against White's most popular way of starting the game. Alburt and Chernin explain both the winning ideas as well as the moves of the Pirc Defense, a dynamic system used by the world's chess elite.
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    Pirc Alert - 2ND EDITION

    A Complete Repertoire Against 1. e4
    Catalog Code: B0016LV
    Our Price: $34.95

    Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games
    Instructive Masterpieces of America's Greatest Chessplayer
    This is the first book about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer that is written for novice and beginning players, ninety percent of the chess playing audience, and is focused on the lessons one can learn from his games.
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    Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games

    Instructive Masterpieces of America's Greatest Chessplayer
    Catalog Code: B0010CZ

    Regular Price: $14.95

    Special Price: $5.98


    Chess Openings for Black Explained
    A Complete Repertoire
    Chess Openings for Black, Explained gives you a complete repertoire of carefully selected, interrelated openings. Three-time U.S. champion and master teacher Lev Alburt, along with his grandmaster co-authors, provides everything you need to know to defend with confidence against each and every one of White's first moves.
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    Chess Openings for Black Explained

    A Complete Repertoire
    Catalog Code: B0009LV
    Our Price: $29.95

    Chess Training Pocket Book II
    320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
    This book sharpens your game through examining 320 of the most important chess positions taken from games over the last 120 years. Organized by difficulty to aid players in preparing for their own competitive games, the book features instructive explanations, solutions, and tips conveniently displayed on facing pages.
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    Chess Training Pocket Book II

    320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
    Catalog Code: B0015LV
    Our Price: $18.95

    51 Chess Openings for Beginners
    What the Chess Openings Look Like
    Chess openings are the most important part of every novice's journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves.
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    51 Chess Openings for Beginners

    What the Chess Openings Look Like
    Catalog Code: B0027CZ
    Our Price: $12.95

    This Crazy World of Chess
    After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
    The most controversial chess book ever written exposes the intrigues, scandals, conspiracies, dirty dealings and fascinating tidbits, not just with famous players and corrupt chess federations, but also killers, bloodthirsty tyrants, 12-year-old grandmasters and even legendary movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart.
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    This Crazy World of Chess

    After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
    Catalog Code: B0032CZ
    Our Price: $9.95

    Chess Opening Trap of the Day
    Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
    Great for beginners who want to improve their game and intermediate players who love challenges, this powerful collection of opening traps will immediately improve your play and have your opponents fearing you. You'll learn how to spot the everyday opening mistakes made by opponents and how to take advantage of these mistakes by setting opening traps.
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    Chess Opening Trap of the Day

    Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
    Catalog Code: B0034CZ
    Our Price: $14.95

    Portable Chess Coach
    Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
    This entertaining guide for beginners of all ages is like a human chess coach. It clearly explains the basic rules and moves, opening strategies, middle game and endgame, plus the basic tactics and combinations to give you the winning edge. As you glide through the text, Judee helps you along with review questions, practice puzzles, and instructive games, and shows you the ten most common beginner's mistakes.
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    Portable Chess Coach

    Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
    Catalog Code: B0004CZ
    Our Price: $9.95

    Big Book of Chess
    Everything You've Wanted to Know About Chess
    This book tells you all about the game of chess from the elementary rules to sophisticated strategies. You?ll learn how to attack and defend, set devious traps, win material, and checkmate the opponent. Schiller shows you how to plan moves in advance, anticipate your opponent's moves, and get the most out of your pieces.
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    Big Book of Chess

    Everything You've Wanted to Know About Chess
    Catalog Code: B0016CZ

    Regular Price: $17.95

    Special Price: $7.18


    303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
    303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
    A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors, both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the original 303 typical situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles.
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    303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles

    303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
    Catalog Code: B0037CZ
    Our Price: $12.95

    Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids
    Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids is the perfect introduction to basic chess tactics for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, this fun and instructive workbook combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles.
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    Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids

    Catalog Code: B0026OB
    Our Price: $31.95

    Just The Facts
    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 7
    Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. For most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race. This revised, updated edition of Just the Facts! brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. Winning Chess Endgames can take you from beginner to master.
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    Just The Facts

    Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 7
    Catalog Code: B0007LV
    Our Price: $26.95

    1 Move Checkmates
    200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
    This great book for beginning players covers the most basic of all mates - the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where you must find the move that instantly wins the game. You'll learn how to make the final move with all the pieces - knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This great training tool is perfect for players new to the game of chess!
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    1 Move Checkmates

    200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
    Catalog Code: B0033CZ
    Our Price: $9.95

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