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CHESS BOOKS
Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 5
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.
Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 5
Catalog Code: B0005LV
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 104
Chess Informant 104 contains 299 annotated games and 317 variations. Period covered: September 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008
Chess Informants - ISSUE 104
Catalog Code: B0104INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 103
The Most Important Games from May-August 2008 Every volume of Chess Informant offers a selection of the best games played by the world's greatest chess players. Over 90% of the games are annotated by the players who played them.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 103
Catalog Code: B0103INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 102
Chess Informant 102 contains 421 annotated games and 467 variations.
January 1st, 2008 and April 30st, 2008
January 1st, 2008 and April 30st, 2008
Chess Informants - ISSUE 102
Catalog Code: B0102INF
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Play the Sicilian Kan
A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoire for Black
A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoire for Black
A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoire for Black! The Kan is an ideal choice as an opening weapon against 1. e4, as it is one of the easiest variations of the Sicilian to learn and play. This is because, unlike some variations of the Sicilian, you don't need to memorize loads of opening theory in order to be successful.
Play the Sicilian Kan
A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoire for Black
Catalog Code: B0074EM
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Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
There is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap. Similarly, there's nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the opening phase of the game, and many battles can be won or saved simply through learning and mastering the most important ones. In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back through chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favourite tricks and traps.
Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
Catalog Code: B0082EM
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Dangerous Weapons - Flank Openings
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Perhaps it's time for a change, but you cannot decide between the numerous options available. Here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas!
In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at Flank Openings. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors.
In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at Flank Openings. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors.
Dangerous Weapons - Flank Openings
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Catalog Code: B0187EM
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1. d4 - Grandmaster Repertoire 1 - VOLUME 1
"Grandmaster Repertoire" is a new series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship.
1. d4 - Grandmaster Repertoire 1 - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0026QT
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Blindfold Chess
History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games
History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games
During the 18th century, when Philidor played two blindfold games of chess simultaneously, eyewitnesses were asked to swear affidavits attesting to this remarkable feat. Since then, blindfold chess - the art of playing without sight of the board or pieces - has produced some of the greatest feats of human memory, progressing to the extent that the world record is 45 simultaneous blindfold games.
Blindfold Chess
History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games
Catalog Code: B0005MF
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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin variation of the Spanish Opening is one of the best and most popular openings among world-class chess players because there are relatively few forcing lines. Black can play a completely sound chess opening based on understanding, rather than memorising theory.
The Berlin Wall
Catalog Code: B0019QT
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How to Beat the French Defence
The Essential Guide to the Tarrasch
The Essential Guide to the Tarrasch
In How to Beat the French Defence, Andreas Tzermiadianos meets this difficult challenge head on. He advocates his favorite weapon against the French - the Tarrasch Variation. Drawing upon his wealth of playing experience and study of this line, Tzermiadianos reveals an abundance of opening ideas and novelties, and provides the reader with a complete repertoire which is aimed at posing Black serious problems. Read this book and you will be able to fight the French Defence with renewed confidence and vitality.
How to Beat the French Defence
The Essential Guide to the Tarrasch
Catalog Code: B0239EM
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Starting Out - c3 Sicilian
In this book, c3 Sicilian expert John Emms goes back to basics: he explains in depth the reasoning behind the critical early moves - something that is often neglected - and uses instructive games to demonstrate key plans for both White and Black.
Starting Out - c3 Sicilian
Catalog Code: B0017EM
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Starting Out - D-Pawn Attacks
The Colle-Zukertort, Barry and 150 Attacks
The Colle-Zukertort, Barry and 150 Attacks
In this book Richard Palliser provides in-depth coverage of three of the most dangerous attacking set-ups available to White: the Colle-Zukertort, the Barry, and the 150 attacks. In recent years these three opening weapons have considerably gained in popularity, especially at club level, and it's easy to see why.
Starting Out - D-Pawn Attacks
The Colle-Zukertort, Barry and 150 Attacks
Catalog Code: B0036EM
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606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
For the true chess nut, the 64 squares of the chessboard represent a world of imaginative possibilities, where a bright idea can make the difference between triumph and destruction, victory and defeat. Each of these puzzles re-creates that world, putting the reader into a realistic game position with the tantalizing challenge of finding that elusive winning idea.
606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts
Official MENSAﾬ Puzzle Book
Catalog Code: B0023BT
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Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 3
Flank Openings, Practical Play and General Topics
Flank Openings, Practical Play and General Topics
In this highly-acclaimed and popular series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.
Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 3
Flank Openings, Practical Play and General Topics
Catalog Code: B0055GB
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Chess Training Pocket Book II
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
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.
Chess Training Pocket Book II
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
Catalog Code: B0015LV
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101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the answers also address highly sophisticated concepts, providing insights gleaned from many years of experience and discussions with players and trainers of the highest level.
101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Catalog Code: B0013GB
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The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess
If you've played chess for any period of time, chances are you have heard someone say.. "The best opening is the opening your opponent doesn't know" or "The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." This fascinating book contains 300 of the most astute insights on chess ever uttered, culled from three centuries of great players. Each of these invaluable maxims is illustrated with an annotated chess position, making the book a short cut to learning from the masters.
The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess
Catalog Code: B0017BT
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Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual
It is very important for the practical player to train his or her ability, understand when to rely on intuition, rules of thumb and more general positional considerations, when to try to solve the problems by calculating variations to the end, and how to manage time to avoid time pressure. With these goals in mind, Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual delivers a lot of excellent, high quality training material and many exercises.
Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual
Catalog Code: B0008RE
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME II
Kasparov vs. Karpov - 1975-1985
Kasparov vs. Karpov - 1975-1985
This volume concentrates on the first two of those matches. The epic 1984/85 contest which was lasted six months before being controversially halted "without result" by the then President of FIDE Florencio Campomanes. The 1985 match when Kasparov brilliantly won the final game to take the title and become - at the age of 22 - the youngest ever world champion. Great chess contests have often had resonances extending beyond the 64 squares. The Fischer v Spassky match was played during the Cold War with both champions being perceived as the finest products of their respective ideologies.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME II
Kasparov vs. Karpov - 1975-1985
Catalog Code: B0138EM
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Play 1.b3
The Nimzo-Larsen Attack - A Friend for Life
The Nimzo-Larsen Attack - A Friend for Life
The popularity of the Nimzo-Larsen Attack is largely based on its surprise value, but in fact 1.b3 is one of White's more logical first moves, since by immediately developing his queen's bishop, White aims at undermining the black centre.
Play 1.b3
The Nimzo-Larsen Attack - A Friend for Life
Catalog Code: B0001NIC
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Masters of the Chessboard
Widely regarded as the best chess book ever written, "Masters of the Chessboard", discusses the playing styles of each of the leading grandmasters of history up until that time. Richard Reti was one of the strongest and certainly was the most original player of all time. He defeated, at least once, almost every leading player of his era.
Masters of the Chessboard
Catalog Code: B0009IS
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Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 9
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 9
No Time to Study Opening Theory? Shock Your Opponent with an SOS!
Catalog Code: B0009SOS
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The Chess Instructor 2009
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
The Chess Instructor 2009 is the first publication to give comprehensive answers to all questions of chess teachers and parents. It provides tools and methodologies for beginners as well as for more advanced coaching. With ready-to-use teaching exercises for all levels.
The Chess Instructor 2009
The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
Catalog Code: B0054NIC
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Fighting the Anti-King's Indian
How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines
How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines
The truth is you will reach your favorite opening in barely half the games you play against 1. d4, and that's why this book is a godsend to those players fed up with blindly searching for the right way to play against these annoying White systems designed to avoid the main lines: the Trompowsky; the London System; the Torre Attack; the Barry Attack; the Colle System; the Veresov; the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit - the list goes on and on!
Fighting the Anti-King's Indian
How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines
Catalog Code: B0158EM
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St. Petersburg 1909
International Chess Congress
International Chess Congress
This is the official tournament book, available for the first time in English in algebraic notation. It was written by Emanuel Lasker. He annotated all 175 games in the clear, instructive style that would become his trademark.
St. Petersburg 1909
International Chess Congress
Catalog Code: B0005RE
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Build Up Your Chess - VOLUME 1
The Fundamentals
The Fundamentals
A book for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Build Up Your Chess - VOLUME 1
The Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0015QT
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Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik
A Century of Chess Evolution
A Century of Chess Evolution
This book is one of the great classics of chess literature. The author, Imre Konig, was an International Master of Chess and a great analyst as well as an entertaining writer. He describes the development of chess opening theory and discusses lines of play no longer in vogue but which remain powerful weapons for the practical tournament player.This book was originally published in 1950 as "Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik".
Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik
A Century of Chess Evolution
Catalog Code: B0049IS
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Starting Out - The Modern
The Modern Defence is a dynamic, ambitious and universal opening, one that can be used against virtually every system White can play. Black's provocative strategy is based upon allowing White to construct an imposing pawn centre in the anticipation that a well-timed strike will bring about its downfall.
Starting Out - The Modern
Catalog Code: B0002EM
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Dangerous Weapons - Benoni and Benko
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Dazzle Your Opponents!
In this book, four renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the Benoni, the Benko and all their associated variations. Instead of traveling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors. 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 - Benoni and Benko
Dazzle Your Opponents!
Catalog Code: B0193EM
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Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1923
This is the book that every chess master and grandmaster has read and studied, and every aspiring chess master should be reading. The author, a World Chess Champion, clearly explains the most complex and difficult concepts. Grandmaster Reuben Fine wrote that Alekhine's collection of best games was one of the three most beautiful that he knew.
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1923
Catalog Code: B0010IS
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How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess-players, has selected his favourite attacking games from the modern era, and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that indicate it is time to stake everything on an all-out assault. We also get insights into the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defence
How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
Catalog Code: B0025GB
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Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World Chess Championship
The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match
The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match
Reuben Fine was both one of the world's strongest grandmasters of chess and one of the world's leading authorities on psychoanalysis. In this book, he combines the two disciplines. This Fischer-Spassky book is really three books in one.
Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World Chess Championship
The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match
Catalog Code: B0031IS
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Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess
The First Collection of Celebrated Tournament Games Played by Bobby Fischer
The First Collection of Celebrated Tournament Games Played by Bobby Fischer
This is the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. It is not to be confused with other books with similar names that were written by other authors. Here is the blurb on the original dust jacket, as published in 1959: THERE ARE 34 games in this book.
Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess
The First Collection of Celebrated Tournament Games Played by Bobby Fischer
Catalog Code: B0032IS
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Play the Slav
The Slav has a well-deserved reputation as one of Black's strongest answers to 1 d4, and it's no coincidence that it has been used by almost all the World Champions in chess history. Put simply, the Slav is a classy opening, one which combines reliability with the promise of dynamic counterplay. In this book, James Vigus presents a comprehensive and trustworthy repertoire for Black.
Play the Slav
Catalog Code: B0072EM
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Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas
What are the greatest opening ideas in chess history? This is a fascinating question that would undoubtedly spark endless debate and discussion amongst all the experts and enthusiasts of the game. From the invention and development of openings which are now considered to be mainline, to the wealth of stunning one-move novelties which have convincingly overturned previous expert assessments, there is certainly a plethora of brilliant ideas to choose from - everyone will have their own opinion on this subject!
Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas
Catalog Code: B0081EM
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