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A Primer of Chess
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
While many books on chess are either for the novice or the advanced student, A Primer of Chess is invaluable for its clear instruction at various levels of the game. The book is divided into 3 sections. Part 1 - Discusses the object of the game, the men and their moves, elementary openings and rules and ethics.
A Primer of Chess
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
Catalog Code: B0038OB
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ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK - Chess Blitz Fever
Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk Shows You How to Win at Blitz Chess!
Watch and listen to Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk as she gives you tips to win at Blitz chess, and shows you in great detail and with accompanying live feed eight of her best wins from the 2009 World Blitz Chess Championship. Alexandra outplayed many higher-rated players, including the World Chess Champion Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand and the highest rated player in the world, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen
Watch and listen to Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk as she gives you tips to win at Blitz chess, and shows you in great detail and with accompanying live feed eight of her best wins from the 2009 World Blitz Chess Championship. Alexandra outplayed many higher-rated players, including the World Chess Champion Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand and the highest rated player in the world, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK - Chess Blitz Fever
Catalog Code: DVD0003AK
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Three Days with Bobby Fischer
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
Three Days with Bobby Fischer and Other Chess Essays: How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings is a chess book you can sit back comfortably in your armchair and just read. Or, when you feel like getting the pieces out of the box and learning from some great games, tactics and strategies - that's all here as well.
Three Days with Bobby Fischer
How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings
Catalog Code: B0014LV
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Chess King's Complete Chess Course - Endgames
Volume 3: Endgames. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - Endgames
Catalog Code: WIN0012AK
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - My Career - Viswanathan Anand - VOLUME 2
Viswanathan Anand is the world's highest rated chess player and World Champion. In March 2007 he reached the number one spot on the world ranking lists by winning the prestigious Linares tournament.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - My Career - Viswanathan Anand - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: WIN0024CB
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Opening For White According to Kramnik 1. Nf3-II - 2nd
This volume covers the Black Knights, Tango and Romanishin Variation, Queen's Indian English, Hedgehog Defence English, Double Fianchetto Defence, English without Nc6 and Semi-Tarrasch Defence.
Opening For White According to Kramnik 1. Nf3-II - 2nd
Catalog Code: B0031EU
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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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Opening For White According to Kramnik 1. Nf3 - VOLUME 1B
A new and thorougly updated edition! Part 1A covers the Old Indian, Grunfeld Indian and King's Indian Defences (mainline but not 7...Nc6). Don't be mistaken: though the games start with 1.Nf3 in fact it covers the d2-d4 openings!
Alexander Khalifman is famous for his groundbreaking series "Opening for White According to Kramnik", and "Opening for Black According to Anand" which have set new standards for opening books.
Alexander Khalifman is famous for his groundbreaking series "Opening for White According to Kramnik", and "Opening for Black According to Anand" which have set new standards for opening books.
Opening For White According to Kramnik 1. Nf3 - VOLUME 1B
Catalog Code: B0033EU
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EBOOK - Kramnik - Move by Move
Vladimir Kramnik is a giant of the chess world. He firmly secured his legendary status when he won the World Championship in 2000 by defeating the previously dominant Garry Kasparov - the only player ever to do so in a match. Kramnik held on to his crown for seven years, and today he remains one of the World's elite players. In this book, former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Kramnik games.
EBOOK - Kramnik - Move by Move
Catalog Code: E-B0359EM
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Emanuel Lasker - Second World Chess Champion
Join Russian chess historians Isaak and Vladimir Linder as they take you on a journey exploring the life and games of the great world champion Emanuel Lasker. Isaak Linder is regarded as one of the pre-eminent chess historians of the modern era. He is the author of many books, including the widely acclaimed books in the ChessCafe World Chess Champions Series.
Emanuel Lasker - Second World Chess Champion
Catalog Code: B0041RE
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Max Euwe - The Biography
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
This magnificent book, filling a gap in the literature of chess, shows that Euwes world title was the result of his iron will, his methodical drive and his energetic handling of all aspects of the game. Max Euwe has been called a genius of order and the chess logician. He wrote more than 70 books, many of which are still in print today.
Max Euwe - The Biography
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
Catalog Code: B0028NIC
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ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK - My Best Chess Games
Watch and listen to Alexandra Kosteniuk as she shows you her career's top 10 games from her first serious championship when she was 10 years old, until she became the 12th Women's World Chess Champion. She speaks about the importance of the circumstances around each game and gives valuable tips and insights along with her detailed comments.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK - My Best Chess Games
Catalog Code: DVD0002AK
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MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Najdorf - VOLUME 1
The Najdorf system in the Sicilian Defence has a legendary reputation as a defensive weapon for Black.
MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Najdorf - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: WIN0101CB
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Alexander Alekhine - 4th World Champion
Includes 1300 annotated games played by the 4th World Champion Alexander Alekhine. These annotations of Alekhine and his contemporaries have been revised and enlarged.
Alexander Alekhine - 4th World Champion
Catalog Code: WIN0048CV
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Mikhail Tal
The meteoric tempo with which the young Tal took the world top by storm at the end of the 50s and seized the world champion's title from Botvinnik in 1960 is already sufficient to grant him a special place in the world of chess.
Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: WIN0047CV
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REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.
REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
Catalog Code: B0009RM
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Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One
Two Volumes Bound as One
This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine's 220 best games, his own personal acounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his briliant ascent to world mastery, his surprising defeat in 1935, and his dramatic return two years later - the first deposed champion to regain his crown.
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One
Catalog Code: B0045DV
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107 Great Chess Battles - 1939-1945
One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving such masters as Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Kashdan, Reshevsky, Tartakower, Keres and others, including many of Alekhine's own games. Includes delightfully candid views on fellow masters and rivals for the world title. Edited and translated by E. G. Winter. Preface. Index.
107 Great Chess Battles - 1939-1945
Catalog Code: B0012DV
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Petrosian the Powerful
Short Description for Petrosian The Powerful - CB0055CD
Petrosian the Powerful
Catalog Code: CB0055CD
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Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Win Like Karpov! begins with extensive Biography and Openings sections. There are four Karpov Early Games and six Karpov Classics.
Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Catalog Code: B0066OB
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Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?
This is a book in Descriptive Chess Notation of great importance not only because of the question it addresses, but because of who asks and then answers that question. Dr. Max Euwe, who was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937, compares and contrasts Bobby Fischer with the three greatest players before him, world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.
Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?
Catalog Code: B0108IS
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Bobby Fischer: Karpov on Fischer - VOLUME 2
Continue with Anatoly Karpov in his specially created series of chess DVDs about the games of the American World Champion - Robert J. Fischer. Karpov has personally selected his own favorite Fischer victories, played during the American's historic World Championship Match with Boris Spassky in 1972.
Bobby Fischer: Karpov on Fischer - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: DVD0010OT
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A Guide To Chess Endings
This book makes a fairly thorough study of those endings most likely to occur in play, especially those with rooks. This book is best worked through as a course of study, so that the underlying ideas are absorbed and a sound positional judgment is acquired it is at first not necessary to understand every nuance, far less to try to remember the more difficult variations; indeed one might pass over the sub-variations at first reading.
A Guide To Chess Endings
Catalog Code: B0118IS
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Bobby Fischer - The Wandering King
Chess devotees simply can't get enough of Bobby Fischer. Every facet of his personality and his play unfolds in this biographical study. In addition to analyzing his exceptional talent, it captures and puts into perspective his tough youth, anti-social tendencies, fights against the chess authorities, and growing mental illness.
Bobby Fischer - The Wandering King
Catalog Code: B0043BT
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Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But "The Chess Machine" was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablanca's record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play advocated by the unequaled teacher, C.J.S. Purdy.
Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Catalog Code: B0055EU
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME IV
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1988-2009
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1988-2009
Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME IV
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1988-2009
Catalog Code: B0308EM
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Kasparov's Winning Chess Tactics
How He Thinks, How He Moves
How He Thinks, How He Moves
Russian grandmaster Gary Kasparov is the youngest world champion ever. He is renowned for his aggressive play and superior tactics, which the author, a U.S. national chess master, analyzes in this book of recapped pivotal positions. Pandolfini opens with a brief biographical sketch on Kasparov and then proceeds to discuss how Kasparov responded or might have responded to 150 or so actual and hypothetical situations.
Kasparov's Winning Chess Tactics
How He Thinks, How He Moves
Catalog Code: B0016SS
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Bobby Fischer His Approach
Short Description for Bobby Fischer : His Approach - B0230EM
Bobby Fischer His Approach
Catalog Code: B0230EM
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Theorie der Schach-Eroffnungen - GERMAN EDITION
Teil I-II Damengambit
Teil I-II Damengambit
Hinweis uber die Entstehung mit einer biografischen Erganzung. Dr. Euwe hat es verstanden, durch seine einfache und methodische Kommentierung der Eroffnungsgedanken und der Zugfolgen den schwierigen Stoff jedermann leicht zuganglich zu machen. Was die Euwe'schen Werke speziell auszeichnet, ist vor allem ihre grossartige Klarheit im Aufbau der verschiedenen Systeme, die jederzeit ein rasches Nachschlagen der gewunschten Variante erlaubt. Dieses Werk hat schon vielen Schachfreunden zur Meisterstarke verholfen!
Theorie der Schach-Eroffnungen - GERMAN EDITION
Teil I-II Damengambit
Catalog Code: B0208IS
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 12 - Mastering The French - PART 2
On this 3 Part DVD series Susan Polgar will share with you her experiences, exciting battles, and won games from the first opening she ever learned at the early age of 4. Although the French can be complex, the main benefit is there are not many long and forceful lines compared to other openings.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 12 - Mastering The French - PART 2
Catalog Code: DVD0012SP
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 2 - Learn How to Create a Plan in the Opening, Middlegame and Endgame
Planning in chess is essential throughout the entire game. On this DVD, Susan will teach you the general ideas and concepts for short and long term planning in the opening, middle and endgame. You will come away with a better understanding and insight on all three phases of a chess game. Your moves will have more meaning and purpose, which will result in more wins. So, sit back and let Susan teach you the foundation of essential chess planning.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 2 - Learn How to Create a Plan in the Opening, Middlegame and Endgame
Catalog Code: DVD0002SP
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Endgame Virtuoso Karpov
His 100 Best Endgames!
His 100 Best Endgames!
Anatoly Karpov's legendary endgame technique has always been something of an enigma. Karpov became worldchampion 1975 (having been preceded by Bobby Fischer). He managed to win positions which nearly everybody else estimated as a draw with his fine end game technique.
Endgame Virtuoso Karpov
His 100 Best Endgames!
Catalog Code: B0002NIC
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The Games of Tigran Petrosian - 1942-1965 - VOLUME 1
This is the first of two volumes devoted to the chess career of former World Champion Tigran Petrosian, whose masterly positional play and near invincibility earned him the name of "Iron Tigran".
The Games of Tigran Petrosian - 1942-1965 - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0153IS
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Magic of Mikhail Tal
Short Description for The Magic of Mikhail Tal - B0225EM
Magic of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0225EM
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Alekhine's Best Games of Chess - 1938-1945
This is a reprint of the original third book, with all of the games converted into Algebraic Figurine PGN Notation with diagrams in the back. Alekhine died in 1946, so this third volume was edited by International Master and British Chess Champion Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, based in part on the notes left by Alekhine to some of the games.
Alekhine's Best Games of Chess - 1938-1945
Catalog Code: B0016IS
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Mikhail Botvinnik - 6th World Champion
The most complete collection of Botvinnik’s games ever compiled. Contains as many as 1.069 games played by Botvinnik from 1924 till 1970.
Mikhail Botvinnik - 6th World Champion
Catalog Code: WIN0051CV
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