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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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Capablanca - The Mouthpiece
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 5
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.
Capablanca - The Mouthpiece
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 5
Catalog Code: B0005TP
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Bobby Fischer: Karpov on Fischer - VOLUME 1
In a remarkable and unprecedented video-publishing endeavor, the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov has created a series of chess DVDs concerning the games of the American World Campion - Robert J. Fischer. Karpov has personally selected his own favorite Fischer games, played during the American's "Quest for the Crown" and prior to the ultimate showdown with Boris Spassky in 1972.
Bobby Fischer: Karpov on Fischer - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: DVD0009OT
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 10 - Essential Endgames for Intermediate and Advanced Players
Susan Polgar's Winning Chess The Easy Way: Essential Endgames for the Intermediate to Advanced Players (Volume 10) - will bring you to the next level on your way to mastering the Endgame. This is a great follow up DVD to Volumes 8 and 9 (Essential basic Endgames Part 1 and 2). Susan will teach you how to play and win the more difficult Pawn, Rook, Bishop, Knight, and Queen Endgames.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 10 - Essential Endgames for Intermediate and Advanced Players
Catalog Code: DVD0010SP
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LEARNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - Chess for Absolute Beginners
Susan Polgar's Learning Chess the Easy Way: Chess for Absolute Beginners is by far one of the best ever DVDs made to teach beginners how to play the worlds greatest game. Susan teaches with the aid of great graphics and annimation beginners basic chess knowledge.
LEARNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - Chess for Absolute Beginners
Catalog Code: DVD0014SP
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Learn to Think the Way Bobby Does
Learn to Think the Way Bobby Does
Learn to think the same way Bobby Fischer did. This is the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable book on chess ever compiled. As the student, you start at the beginning and progressively develop your skills as you apply Bobby Fischer's principles and learn how to play Chess the Bobby way.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Learn to Think the Way Bobby Does
Catalog Code: B0007IS
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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the participants who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long matches for the World Championship. This 3rd volume of the 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Catalog Code: B0272EM
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Russians vs. Fischer
This magnificent volume contains the extraordinary story of the prolonged battle between Bobby Fischer, the lone American genius who is perhaps the most famous chess player of all time, and the long-standing and all-dominating Soviet chess machine. For the first time readers will be able to view virtually all the secret documents on ,'the Fischer problem', many of which have never previously been published. These include papers from the archives of the KGB, the Communist Party Central Committee, the USSR Sports Committee and the Chess Federation.
Russians vs. Fischer
Catalog Code: B0139EM
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Gary Kasparov: My Story - VOLUME 1
By the age of 12 Garry was the Junior Champion of the mighty USSR, the youngest ever. Back then fashion bowed to the immaculate safety-first style of the reigning titan Anatoly Karpov. Along came young Kasparov, raging onto the scene and riding some new contraption called glasnost.
Gary Kasparov: My Story - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: DVD0012OT
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Diary of a Chess Queen
Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.
Diary of a Chess Queen
Catalog Code: B0044EU
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MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Najdorf - VOLUME 3
The Najdorf system in the Sicilian Defense has a legendary reputation as a defensive weapon for Black. It is an opening where people often strive for a full point, instead of simply defending the position with the black pieces.
MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Najdorf - VOLUME 3
Catalog Code: WIN0103CB
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The Middle Game in Chess - Book I
Static Features
Static Features
This comprehensive study of middle-game theory is a classic unlikely to be superseded. It is a valuable addition to the library of every serious student of chess.
The Middle Game in Chess - Book I
Static Features
Catalog Code: B0169IS
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How to Beat Bobby Fischer
Even chess legend Bobby Fischer occasionally lost matches, and his rare defeats offer valuable lessons for ordinary players. This intriguing collection, compiled by a noted chess master, features comprehensive text-and-diagram analyses of 61 of Fischer's losing games. Highlights include "the losing moment," the move at which each game was beyond saving.
How to Beat Bobby Fischer
Catalog Code: B0011DV
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Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983
This much-await clash between two giants of the chess world attracted vast interest among all chess players.
Garry Kasparov, the 20-year old Grandmaster from Baku, is already the second highest ranked player in the world and has won several top tournaments including the Soviet Championship. 52 year old Victor Korchnoi was a Grandmaster before Kasparov was even born and already had played two matches for the world title.
Garry Kasparov, the 20-year old Grandmaster from Baku, is already the second highest ranked player in the world and has won several top tournaments including the Soviet Championship. 52 year old Victor Korchnoi was a Grandmaster before Kasparov was even born and already had played two matches for the world title.
Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983
Catalog Code: B0012AC
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Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1986-2010 - VOLUME 2
The Prime Years
The Prime Years
Anatoly Karpov was World Champion from 1975 to 1985 and is universally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Award-winning author Tibor Károlyi explains Karpovs genius with a particular focus on Karpovs unrivalled grasp of strategy. In this second volume, Károlyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1986-2010 when Karpov was battling with his young rival Garry Kasparov for chess supremacy.
Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1986-2010 - VOLUME 2
The Prime Years
Catalog Code: B0047QT
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 4 - Learn How to Avoid Opening Traps and Pitfalls
It is always nice to win a game quickly. But some opening traps are based only on hopes that the opponent will make a serious mistake. If the opponents play correctly, the trap could backfire. On this DVD Susan will take you through a number of opening traps & short games.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 4 - Learn How to Avoid Opening Traps and Pitfalls
Catalog Code: DVD0004SP
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Fischer World Champion!
The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match!
The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match!
In 1972 a boy from Brooklyn broke the hegemony of Soviet chess.
Bobby Fischer, the greatest genius the game had ever seen, completed his crusade against the 'commie cheaters' by defeating Boris Spassky in Reykjavik.
The Match of the Century electrified the world. No one wanted to miss even the slightest detail about the struggle of Fischer against the superpower that for decades had exploited its superiority in chess as an irrefutable justification of communism.
Bobby Fischer, the greatest genius the game had ever seen, completed his crusade against the 'commie cheaters' by defeating Boris Spassky in Reykjavik.
The Match of the Century electrified the world. No one wanted to miss even the slightest detail about the struggle of Fischer against the superpower that for decades had exploited its superiority in chess as an irrefutable justification of communism.
Fischer World Champion!
The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match!
Catalog Code: B0075NIC
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EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Fischer
This book brings together the two greatest names in the history of chess. The author, Garry Kasparov, is the world number one and, by common consent, the greatest player ever. The subject of the book, Bobby Fischer, is the only American to have become world champion and is probably the greatest natural talent the world has ever seen.
EBOOK - Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Catalog Code: E-B0135EM
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The Games of Tigran Petrosian - Volume 2
1966-1983
1966-1983
This is the second volume of a two-volume work on the games of Tigran Petrosian. The first volume has his games from 1942 to 1965. Tigran Petrosian was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He became the first player in the modern era to win a match to defend the world chess title, by defeating Boris Spassky in a match in 1966.
The Games of Tigran Petrosian - Volume 2
1966-1983
Catalog Code: B0186IS
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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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Gary Kasparov: My Story - VOLUME 3
A close look at Garry Kasparov's career reveals a remarkable amount of sheer brinkmanship. At a time when the Soviet Union was wired with paranoia and run by invisible connections, the winds of political change were beginning to stir and the brash renegade Kasparov would be in the right place at the right time to capitalize on the new climate.
Gary Kasparov: My Story - VOLUME 3
Catalog Code: DVD0014OT
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Learn to think the same way Bobby Fischer did. This is the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable book on chess ever compiled. As the student, you start at the beginning and progressively develop your skills as you apply Bobby Fischer's principles and learn how to play Chess the Bobby way.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Catalog Code: B0011RH
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The Bobby Fischer I Knew
And Other Stories
And Other Stories
The Bobby Fischer I knew and other stories is hailed as an instant classic. This Damon-Runyan like work will be around well into the 21st Century. To inform future generations about such greats as Bobby Fischer and World Champion Garry Kasparov as well as the "Guys and Dolls" of the New York Chess scene during the fabled Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s. In the introduction, five time U.S. Chess Champion writes that the authors capture "some of the most raucous and colorful figures in 20th century chess" with a "Dickensian precision".
The Bobby Fischer I Knew
And Other Stories
Catalog Code: B0059IS
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The Logical Approach to Chess
This has long been one of the standard books on basic chess strategy. It takes the player from the middle game of chess and shows how to take it to a favorable conclusion.
The Logical Approach to Chess
Catalog Code: B0105IS
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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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London 1922 & Capablanca-Lasker 1921
21st Century Edition
21st Century Edition
London 1922 is important for all these reasons, but it also served as the setting for the creation of the famous 'London Rules' which would for years govern the way in which prospective challengers to the title would have the right to play the champion. As an added bonus, all fourteen games of the 1921 Capablanca-Lasker title match - with annotations by Capa himself - have been added to this new 21st-century edition.
London 1922 & Capablanca-Lasker 1921
21st Century Edition
Catalog Code: B0043RE
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The Development of Chess Style
An Instructive and Entertaining Trip Through the Heritage of Chess
An Instructive and Entertaining Trip Through the Heritage of Chess
An algebraic expanded revision of Euwe's 1968 edition examining the contributions of great players throughout history. Nunn brings you up-to-date over the last 30 years with the eras of Fischer, Karpov, and Kasparov. They assess the contributions of each great players in the way chess is played and approached.
The Development of Chess Style
An Instructive and Entertaining Trip Through the Heritage of Chess
Catalog Code: B0072BT
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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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Judgement and Planning in Chess
This is a basic book that teaches strategic planning in chess. Written by a former Chess Champion of the world, this book has as its basis an entirely novel idea which will help players over a real difficulty.
Judgement and Planning in Chess
Catalog Code: B0106IS
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Chess Archives
Chess Archives was published monthly by a team of Dutch chess opening analysts, headed by former World Champion Dr. Max Euwe. If a new opening trick or trap were discovered, one could be sure it would appear soon in Chess Archives. Readers of established books like Modern Chess Openings could have an unpleasant surprise when a line the were playing had been refuted by new discoveries. That was unlikely to happen to any reader of Chess Archives because the new issues would always contain the latest stuff.
Chess Archives
Catalog Code: B0194IS
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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.
Kramnik - Move by Move
Catalog Code: B0359EM
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected the best and most instructive games from Kasparov's later years, and annotated them in great detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0070GB
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How Karpov Wins - 2nd Edition
100 games analyzed simply and clearly, showing exactly how Karpov won. Over 300 chess diagrams.
How Karpov Wins - 2nd Edition
Catalog Code: B0049DV
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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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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Includes All 3 Books
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - The Complete Collection
Includes All 3 Books
Catalog Code: B0000RE1
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Fischer Spassky
Report On the Chess Match of the Century
Report On the Chess Match of the Century
AT LAST- after cancellations, protests, demands, disappearances, apologies, reporter limitations, referee uncertaincies, chessboard glares, unsuitable chairs and disputes about lighting, noise, and player and audience distance were resolved-at last Bobby Fischer was in Iceland and ready to play. Jully 11, 1972, the Green Day, had arrived at last...
Fischer Spassky
Report On the Chess Match of the Century
Catalog Code: B0240IS
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