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CHESS BOOKS
Chess Informants - ISSUE 101
Chess Informant 101 contains 459 annotated games and 516 variations. Events held between September 1st, 2007 and December 31st, 2007
Chess Informants - ISSUE 101
Catalog Code: B0101INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 100
Chess Informant 100 contains 451 annotated games and 489 game fragments from Sofia, USA (ch), La Habana, Sarajevo, Elista, Valjevo, Foros, Dortmund, Montreal, Biel, Russia - China (m), Amsterdam and many other tournaments and events held between May 1st, 2007 and August 31st, 2007.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 100
Catalog Code: B0100INF
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Elista Diaries
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Elista Diaries is the classic first-hand account of one of the most intensely fought World Chess Championship matches seen for decades. The World Champion and his chief trainer deeply annotate all of the games from the 1996 World Championship Match.
Elista Diaries
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Catalog Code: B0026IS
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A Strategic Opening Repertoire
In 1998 a slim volume by IM John Donaldson explored the crafting of a sophisticated but easily assimilated group of interrelated opening strategies intending to establish small but lasting advantages. The result, A Strategic Opening Repertoire was an instant success. Now this second edition, revised by Danish FM Carsten Hansen with the assistance of John Donaldson, is greatly expanded - twice the size, with many more games and detailed explanations.
A Strategic Opening Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0027RE
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Catalog Code: B0268EM
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My Daily Exercises
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
"My Daily Exercises" is a superb collection of 365 exercises designed to help players of all levels recognize patterns, visualize tactics, and identify weak points in their opponent's position.
My Daily Exercises
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
Catalog Code: B0101NIC
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My One Hundred Best Games
Alexey Dreev is one of the most popular contemporary Russian grandmasters. He is famous for his deep understanding of chess and fine endgame technique. Many of his games are milestones in the theory of the Slav Defence, the King's Indian Defence and others.
My One Hundred Best Games
Catalog Code: B0019EU
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Practical Chess Exercises
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
This book will sharpen your tactical vision, deepen your positional understanding, and enrich your knowledge of theoretical positions.
Practical Chess Exercises
600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy
Catalog Code: B0067OB
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Secrets of Practical Chess
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
What is the best way to improve your chess results? Memorizing an opening encyclopedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions ... there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent? In a new and enlarged edition of a highly popular work, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that.
Secrets of Practical Chess
A Chess Olympic Gold Medal Winner Explains How You Can Dramatically Improve Your Chess Results
Catalog Code: B0017GB
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Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums with Answers
This book, Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles Tricks and Conundrums with Answers, was compiled by his son and published in 1914 after his death. Although many books have been written about some of Loyd's puzzles, this remains the most complete volume of all of his puzzles. This is considered to be the most fabulous and exciting collection of puzzles ever assembled in one volume. The puzzles come with wonderful illustrations.
Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums with Answers
Catalog Code: B0035IS
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The Opening Theory of Go - Modern Joseki and Fuseki - VOLUME 2
This book, Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Vol. 2, The Opening Theory of Go, was Sakata's second book published in English, the first being Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Vol. 1.
The Opening Theory of Go - Modern Joseki and Fuseki - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0064IS
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Parallel Fuseki - Modern Joseki and Fuseki - VOLUME 1
This book, "Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Vol. 1", was Sakata's first book published in English. It is now regarded as a classic in Go literature. It is also the first book published by The Ishi Press. Published in 1968, this book along with two follow-up volumes by Sakata Eio, made The Ishi Press the world's leading publisher on the game of go. The cover photo of this book is historic. It shows the three leading go players in the world at that time, plus the strongest female go player in the world at that time.
Parallel Fuseki - Modern Joseki and Fuseki - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0061IS
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Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 7
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 7
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Catalog Code: B0007SOS
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Chess Explained - The Meran Semi-Slav
A Dynamic Opening Explained with Words and Examples
A Dynamic Opening Explained with Words and Examples
Chess Explained books provide an understanding of an opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
Chess Explained - The Meran Semi-Slav
A Dynamic Opening Explained with Words and Examples
Catalog Code: B0064GB
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME I
Revolution in the 1970s
Revolution in the 1970s
This book is the first in a brand new series that follows on from My Great Predecessors and sees chess legend Garry Kasparov reflecting on a pivotal time in chess history. Bobby Fischer's spurt towards the chess summit (1970-1972) marked the approach of a new era affecting all aspects of the game and opening theory in particular.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME I
Revolution in the 1970s
Catalog Code: B0137EM
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Starting Out - Classical Sicilian
In this book, Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik revisit the basics of the Classical Sicilian, elaborating on the crucial early moves and plans for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts.
Starting Out - Classical Sicilian
Catalog Code: B0018EM
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This Crazy World of Chess
After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
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.
This Crazy World of Chess
After Reading this Controversial Book, You'll Never Look at Chess the Same Way Again!
Catalog Code: B0032CZ
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Play the Grunfeld
Detailed Coverage of this Kasparov Favourite
Detailed Coverage of this Kasparov Favourite
The Grunfeld is an exciting and dynamic answer to 1. d4, and has become very popular at all levels of chess. A major reason for this is that it has been a long-time favorite of the World's strongest-ever chess player, Garry Kasparov, who used it many times in his numerous World Championship battles. The Grunfeld very much relies on the principles of the hyper-modern school of chess: Black allows White to erect an impressive-looking center on the assumption that in the long run it could prove to be more of a liability than an asset.
Play the Grunfeld
Detailed Coverage of this Kasparov Favourite
Catalog Code: B0077EM
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Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
Improve Your Results Now!
Improve Your Results Now!
Are you making the most of your chess talent? Do you always perform to the best of your ability? Do your results match up with your understanding of the game? If the answer to any of these questions is 'no' then read on! In The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess, Grandmaster and experienced tournament player John Emms reveals the secrets of how to maximize your potential and improve your results.
Survival Guide to Competitive Chess
Improve Your Results Now!
Catalog Code: B0240EM
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How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Learn from the World Champions
Many books discuss how to attack in chess, but good, resourceful defensive play is also a vital ingredient in competitive success. However, this is an area largely neglected in the literature of the game. This book fills the gap admirably, by explaining the basics of defending against direct offensives, and taking an in-depth look at how the all-time greats have fended off their opponents' attacks.
How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Catalog Code: B0003GB
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365 Selected Endgames
One for Each Day of the Year
One for Each Day of the Year
This book is written in both German and English. Some knowledge of both Classic notation and Algebraic (mainly the latter) is needed to follow all the notes. The book is mainly a series of fairly difficult endgame studies. I went through the book and solved each problem in the manner that the authors suggested in their preface. It helped me win many Chess tournament games that would have otherwise been draws and also draw many games that should have been lost.
365 Selected Endgames
One for Each Day of the Year
Catalog Code: B0062IS
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50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
In a sequel to the hugely successful 50 Essential Chess Lessons, Steve Giddins now presents 50 games that each illustrate an important winning method. This engaging and highly readable book is a painless way to build your personal arsenal of techniques and ideas.
50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
Catalog Code: B0106GB
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Secrets of Opening Preparation
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
This helpful chess handbook discusses how to build an opening repertoire and produce opening novelties. Additionally, it explores the connection between the opening and the later stages of the middlegame and the endgame.
Secrets of Opening Preparation
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0007OE
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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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Starting Out - The Accelerated Dragon
Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian
Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian
The Accelerated Dragon is a dynamic choice for Black and arguably the most natural way to play the Sicilian Defence: Black develops rapidly and chooses the most active squares to place his or her pieces. Unknowing white players looking for a direct attack similar to the one used against traditional Dragon are shocked by Black's increased options due to the flexible move order.
Starting Out - The Accelerated Dragon
Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian
Catalog Code: B0030EM
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Modern Chess Planning
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess planning has evolved considerably since the days of the "grand plan", whereby a player might even try to map out the whole course of the game.
Modern Chess Planning
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
Catalog Code: B0073GB
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Dangerous Weapons - French
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Dazzle Your Opponents!
In Dangerous Weapons: The French, International Master John Watson takes a revolutionary look at one of the most famous and widely-played chess openings: the French Defence. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, Watson concentrates on fresh or little-explored variations of the French, selecting a wealth of "dangerous" options for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!
Dangerous Weapons - French
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Catalog Code: B0190EM
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course
A Revolutionary Book on Chess Endgames, Designed to Ensure that Players Understand Everything They Need to Know at their Rating Levels, and Prepare them to Advance to the Next Level
A Revolutionary Book on Chess Endgames, Designed to Ensure that Players Understand Everything They Need to Know at their Rating Levels, and Prepare them to Advance to the Next Level
For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels. Silman's Complete Endgame Course, by famed writer and player Jeremy Silman, is the one and only endgame book you'll need as you move up the ladder from beginner to strong tournament player and finally to master.
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
A Revolutionary Book on Chess Endgames, Designed to Ensure that Players Understand Everything They Need to Know at their Rating Levels, and Prepare them to Advance to the Next Level
Catalog Code: B0001SI
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Starting Out - Sicilian Sveshnikov
This book is a further addition to Everyman's best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. John Cox revisits the fundamentals of the Sveshnikov, elaborating on the crucial early moves and ideas for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts.
Starting Out - Sicilian Sveshnikov
Catalog Code: B0025EM
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Pirc in Black and White
Detailed Coverage of an Enterprising Chess Opening
Detailed Coverage of an Enterprising Chess Opening
In this book James Vigus provides an up-to-date appraisal of the Pirc and its many variations. Using illustrative games, he examines the traditional main lines, the fashionable alternatives and the tricky sidelines, while outlining the typical tactical and positional ideas for both White and Black. A study of this book will allow the reader to begin playing the Pirc with confidence in his or her own games.
Pirc in Black and White
Detailed Coverage of an Enterprising Chess Opening
Catalog Code: B0055EM
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Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 6
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 6
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Catalog Code: B0006SOS
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Victor Bologan - Selected Games
1985-2004
1985-2004
Power Chess at it's Best! Moldovian Grandmaster Victor Bologan is among the world's strongest and most dynamic grandmasters. You are invited to join him on a highly personal, autobiographical journey, as he presents 52 of his games, deeply annotated. These games are highlighted against a background of his life experiences and development, resulting in one of the most splendid game collections available today.
Victor Bologan - Selected Games
1985-2004
Catalog Code: B0028RE
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Play 1... Nc6
A Complete Chess Opening Repertoire For Black
A Complete Chess Opening Repertoire For Black
Are you constantly struggling with the black pieces? Cant make up your mind which openings to play? Are you looking for something new: an all-in-one solution to your problems? Look no further! In this original book, Christoph Wisnewski, who is renowned for his innovative and adventurous opening ideas, provides the reader with an ambitious and all-encompassing repertoire for Black against every main line opening that White can play, based on the initial move 1...Nc6.
Play 1... Nc6
A Complete Chess Opening Repertoire For Black
Catalog Code: B0067EM
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Fighting the Anti-Sicilians
Combating 2. c3, the Closed, the Morra Gambit and Other Tricky Ideas
Combating 2. c3, the Closed, the Morra Gambit and Other Tricky Ideas
The Sicilian Defence is by far Black's most popular answer to 1. e4 at all levels of chess. The reason for this is easy to understand: from the very first move Black unbalances the position and can play for a win without needing to take unjustified risks. This is particularly the case with the Open Sicilian, where Black can take comfort from the knowledge that his superior pawn structure ensures control of the centre and excellent long-term chances.
Fighting the Anti-Sicilians
Combating 2. c3, the Closed, the Morra Gambit and Other Tricky Ideas
Catalog Code: B0157EM
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My System
Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the greatest chess players of the 1920s and 1930s, ranked just behind the famous World Champions Alekhine and Capablanca. His reputation as an author is higher still.
My System is at the top of a very short list of chess classics. Nimzowitsch's ideas have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. Most chess masters will at some point have studied Nimzowitsch's work, and not to have read My System is by many regarded as a shocking gap in a chess player's education.
My System is at the top of a very short list of chess classics. Nimzowitsch's ideas have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. Most chess masters will at some point have studied Nimzowitsch's work, and not to have read My System is by many regarded as a shocking gap in a chess player's education.
My System
Catalog Code: B0009QT
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Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 1
The Complete 1. e4
The Complete 1. e4
This volume helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste, is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire, as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning.
Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 1
The Complete 1. e4
Catalog Code: B0023NIC
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