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CHESS BOOKS
Baden Baden 1925
International Chess Tournament
International Chess Tournament
Notes by Grekov and a host of great annotators including Lasker, Alekhine, Tartakower, Rabinovich, Burn, Grunfeld, Grigoriev, Levenfish, Romanovsky, Sozin, a.o., A tournament book worthy of this great event, which was one of Alekhine's finest performances. Easily one of the best tournament books ever published in English with a cornucopia of great games from the golden age of hypermodern chess.
Baden Baden 1925
International Chess Tournament
Catalog Code: B0002CA
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My System - 21st Century Edition
The Landmark Positional Chess Training Classic in an Easy-To-Study Algebaic Format / 419 Diagrams
The Landmark Positional Chess Training Classic in an Easy-To-Study Algebaic Format / 419 Diagrams
For many years, Nimzovich was known as the "Stormy Petrel" of the chess world. Today, his profound theories of positional chess are accepted as a matter of course, and a knowledge of them is essential to every player who wants to improve his game. My System describes a theory of chess; it also describes the character and genius of its author.
My System - 21st Century Edition
The Landmark Positional Chess Training Classic in an Easy-To-Study Algebaic Format / 419 Diagrams
Catalog Code: B0002HY
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Chess Middlegame Combinations
Chess Middlegame Combinations, a companion volume to Chess Middlegame Planning, forms the second part of Peter Romanovsky's classic Russian textbook on the middlegame. Now available for the first itme in an English language translation, Chess Middlegame Combinations is written with a view to helping the reader acquire a practical understanding of middlegame techniques as well as an appreciation for the beauty and aesthetics of chess.
Chess Middlegame Combinations
Catalog Code: B0005AC
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Chessercizes
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
National Master Bruce Pandolfini has created a unique and challenging Chess exercise book for players of all levels. Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world's best players, including World Champions Kasparov and Karpov.
Chessercizes
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
Catalog Code: B0006SS
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More Chessercizes - Checkmate
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
This book offers chess players the ultimate challenge - to find the move or sequence of moves that will finish off the imaginary opponent in a checkmate situation, allowing readers to practice traps and winning opening moves without using a chess board.
More Chessercizes - Checkmate
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
Catalog Code: B0007SS
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How to Get Better at Chess
Chess Masters on Their Art
Chess Masters on Their Art
The material in these pages form one of the most original chess books ever printed. Questions that have been in the mind of all chess players are answered by the greatest legends of the game. Luminaries such as Grandmasters Tal, Larsen and Seirawan present previously unpublished stories, comments and anecdotes that will usrely delight any chess enthusiast.
How to Get Better at Chess
Chess Masters on Their Art
Catalog Code: B0016OB
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How to Win Quickly at Chess
The book places a heavy emphasis on opening theory, basic strategic & tactical themes. These themes occur in a variety of openings and they often are the determining factor in short, decisive games. By examining in detail over 70 short games, many involving some of the world's top GM's, the author offers valuable instruction which will enable players to broaden their understanding of the critical themes that occur in short, decisive games.
How to Win Quickly at Chess
Catalog Code: CB0001XX
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Take My Rooks
"Over the years IM Minev has collected the most beautiful examples of the classic double-Rook sacrifice. Some of them worked and some of them didn't(or shouldn't), but all are entertaining and instructive. GM Seirawan has teamed up with Minev to painstakingly annotate each of the 136 games featuring these gems. A must for the combination player."
Take My Rooks
Catalog Code: CB0011XX
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Five Crowns
Five is the number of World Championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990.
Yasser Seirawan deeply analyzes each of the 24 games of the 1990 World Chess Championship . played in New York and Lyon. France. He answers all of the big questions, who was belligerent, who blew it and why.
The final section gives all 158 tournament games played by Kasparov and Karpov, arguably the two best chess players who have ever lived. The games appear by opening, a far more useful arrangement for the chess student than the ordinary chronological presentation.
Yasser Seirawan deeply analyzes each of the 24 games of the 1990 World Chess Championship . played in New York and Lyon. France. He answers all of the big questions, who was belligerent, who blew it and why.
The final section gives all 158 tournament games played by Kasparov and Karpov, arguably the two best chess players who have ever lived. The games appear by opening, a far more useful arrangement for the chess student than the ordinary chronological presentation.
Five Crowns
Catalog Code: CB0012XX
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Winning with the Sicilian Defense - VOLUME 1
Winning with the Sicilian Defense - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: CB0112CD
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Persona Non Grata
The GM's side of his 1978 World Championship Match with Karpov. All thirty-two games are here with most being annotated. Included are the ESP battles, scandals, and fights that make it a classic.
Persona Non Grata
Catalog Code: CB0002XX
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500 Master Games of Chess
Three Books in One - Open Games, Semi-Open Games & Closed Games
Three Books in One - Open Games, Semi-Open Games & Closed Games
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798-1938, with much material nowhere else readily available. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
500 Master Games of Chess
Three Books in One - Open Games, Semi-Open Games & Closed Games
Catalog Code: B0029DV
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1974 Chess Olympiad
The Biennial Chess Olympiad is the official World Team Championship and rivals the individual World Championship as the premier event in the chess calendar. The 1974 Olympiad, which took place at Nice on the French Riviera, had a record entry of 74 national teams. The Soviet Union once again captured the gold medal, the USA, without Fischer, made their best result for eight years to win the bronze medal behind Yugoslavia in second place.
This book covers the story of the Olympiad with 130 annotated games, nearly half of them annotated by Grandmasters, complete tables of team performances in both the preliminary and the final groups, tables of every individual result of every player and the results of all past Olympiads.
This book covers the story of the Olympiad with 130 annotated games, nearly half of them annotated by Grandmasters, complete tables of team performances in both the preliminary and the final groups, tables of every individual result of every player and the results of all past Olympiads.
1974 Chess Olympiad
Catalog Code: CB0014XX
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King's Pawn Openings
King's Pawn Openings
King's Pawn Openings
Catalog Code: CB0066CD
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