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Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
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Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0236EM
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik - One Hundred Selected Games
Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games is a direct translation in Descriptive Notation of a book in Russian published in Leningrad in 1949. Unlike most other cases where the translator takes some liberties, we have not been able to find any differences in the text between this translation and the original in Russian. Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was born on August 17, 1911. In 1931 at the age of 20 he won his first of six Soviet championships. He won the World Chess Championship in 1948 and held the title with two breaks until 1963. This book covers the most important period of his career from the time he played in his first serious chess event until just before his winning the World Chess Championship in 1948.
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik - One Hundred Selected Games
Catalog Code: B0217IS
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Alexandra Teaches Chess
Listen to Chess Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk as she gives instruction on how to play chess for the absolute beginner. Practice what you learn by playing chess against dinosaurs, and watch yourself grow as you progress.
Alexandra Teaches Chess
Catalog Code: WIN0001AK
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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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Bobby Fischer - Complete Games Of the American World Chess Champion
A thorough look at the games of the man recognized as the greatest Chess player of all time. Bobby Fischer's genius and uncompromised attitude raised the entire world's consciousness of chess and paved the way for multi-million dollar prize funds enjoyed by today's top players.
Bobby Fischer - Complete Games Of the American World Chess Champion
Catalog Code: B0009HY
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MOVIE - Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine
Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM's true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself.
MOVIE - Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine
Catalog Code: DVD0002MV
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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
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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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Botvinnik Selected Games - RUSSIAN EDITION
1926-1946
1926-1946
M. M. Botvinnik - Selected Games Due to the interest of a wide range of players to be creative strongest chess player of the USSR, and later the first Soviet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik periodically came out of his best books, and commented on them in detail parties. T
Botvinnik Selected Games - RUSSIAN EDITION
1926-1946
Catalog Code: B0209IS
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Botvinnik vs. Petrosian 1963
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Botvinnik vs. Petrosian 1963
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Meet the Masters
The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
Meet the Masters contains the biographies of the eight strongest players in the world at that time. It includes their histories, photographs, games and an analysis and critique of their playing styles. Each of these eight players had been invited to the historic tournament at AVRO 1938, regarded as the strongest chess tournament ever held prior to modern times. The eight players generally regarded as the strongest in the world were: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, future champion Mikhail Botvinnik and challengers Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr.
Meet the Masters
The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
Catalog Code: B0112IS
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Emanuel Lasker - The Life of a Chess Master
The legendary master comes vividly to life as Dr. Hannak details his childhood, education, decision to become a professional player, great exploits in matches against Marshall, Capablanca, Tarrasch, Schlechter and other players, his happy marriage, flight from Nazi Germany and much more.
Emanuel Lasker - The Life of a Chess Master
Catalog Code: B0046DV
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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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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
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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 King's Guide to Opening Ideas - Open Games 1.e4 e5
Volume 1: Open Games 1.e4 e5. King's Gambit, Italian, Evans, Scotch, Two Knight's, Philidor, Petroff, Ruy Lopez, Marshall and many more. 32 chapters, 145 minutes.
Chess King's Guide to Opening Ideas - Open Games 1.e4 e5
Catalog Code: WIN0013AK
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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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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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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Korchoi and Karpov
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the 1970's and early 1980's. This period was dominated by Anatoly Karpov (world champion from 1975-1985) and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by winning through the Candidates series in 1974. As is well known, Fischer refused to defend the title and in 1975 Karpov became champion by default. Although he did not have to contest a Championship match to gain the title, Karpov proved that he was a worthy champion by winning virtually every major tournament over the next decade.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Catalog Code: B0136EM
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Mr. Kasparov - How I Became World Champion - Volume 1
1973-1985
1973-1985
On this DVD Garry Kasparov deals with the first phase. He recounts how he made it to the top in the years 1973 to 1985 and shows the key games which helped him become the world’s best player.
Mr. Kasparov - How I Became World Champion - Volume 1
1973-1985
Catalog Code: WIN0368CB
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Beating the Grunfeld
Since his surprise choice of the Grunfeld Defence in the 1986 World Championship match, Garry Kasparov has regularly adopted the Grunfeld in tournaments and matches around the world. Against Karpov, however, this opening has proved an unfortunate choice and Karpov has won more World Championship games against Kasparov in this opening than in any other.
Beating the Grunfeld
Catalog Code: B0086BT
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World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games
This collection of best games of Smyslov is probably the best collection of his annotated games in Descriptive Notation. This book was first published in 1958, the year that Vassily Smyslov was World Chess Champion.
World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games
Catalog Code: B0178IS
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Kasparov's Fighting Chess - 1999-2005
Garry Kasparov has dominated the world of competitive chess for longer than any world champion. The period 1999-2005 represents one of the most fascinating and controversial phases of his career, including repeated and frustrated attempts to reunify the world championship. Following his retirement, this must-have guide is a celebration of the final years of one of the greatest players of our time.
Kasparov's Fighting Chess - 1999-2005
Catalog Code: B0014BT
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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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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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Capablanca - Move by Move
Jose Raul Capablanca is a chess legend, world champion and quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements and seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers, and his legacy includes a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablanca's play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala, it was a key factor in his chess development and improvement, and in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games.
Capablanca - Move by Move
Catalog Code: B0353EM
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 1
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 74 of Kasparov's best and most instructive games from 1973 to 1993, and annotated them in detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves. Stohl provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points. This makes the book outstanding study material for all chess enthusiasts.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0069GB
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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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How Fischer Plays Chess
A study and analysis of the games of Bobby Fischer, the greatest chess player the world has ever known.
How Fischer Plays Chess
Catalog Code: B0040IS
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Fundamentos Del Ajedrez - SPANISH EDITION
Tratado de los principios basicos del juego-ciencia, expuestos con notable precision y claridad, y desarrollados y aplicados en una serie de partidas comentadas por el propio campeon.Fundamentos del Ajedrez se publico por primera vez hace trece anos. Desde entonces han aparecidos numerosos articulos bajo el titulo, por lo general, de "teoria hipermoderna del ajedrez".
Fundamentos Del Ajedrez - SPANISH EDITION
Catalog Code: B0018IS
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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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Chess Strategy - Become a Grandmaster
For intermediate and advanced players. Based on the most common and important pawn structures such as center pawn formations, isolated pawn, hanging pawns (and more), strategical methods will be presented for both camps, and will increase your understanding of those positions dramatically. When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the strategical methods and improve your play.
Chess Strategy - Become a Grandmaster
Catalog Code: WIN0006AK
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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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Chess King's Complete Chess Course - Opening Principles
Volume 1: Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - Opening Principles
Catalog Code: WIN0010AK
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 8 - Essential Basic Endgames - PART 1
It is Essential to know how to play and win your Endgames. In fact, the Endgames are more essential to learn than Openings. In Chapter 1 of this DVD, Susan will cover all the most important basic endgames for the novice player. She will teach you how to checkmate a lone King using a Queen, a Rook, two Bishops, a Knight and Bishop, or two Knights. In Chapter 2, Susan covers all the Basic Pawn Endgames, including the Square Rule, the Rook Pawn, Opposition, Geometry in chess, two extra Pawns, the Pawn Race, one side Queens first, King activity, and lots more!
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 8 - Essential Basic Endgames - PART 1
Catalog Code: DVD0008SP
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Chess King with Houdini 2 - Your Coach to Improve at Chess
Chess King with Houdini 2 is a new and versatile tool for chess players. It is described as an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master.
Chess King with Houdini 2 - Your Coach to Improve at Chess
Catalog Code: WIN0008AK
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