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The Complete Games of Bobby Fischer
As a massive work of reference to Fischer's chess science and technique, and as a tribute to the delights of Fischer's aesthetic prowess, this book can hardly be excelled. Meticulously documented, indexed and copiously illustrated. New Statesman Bobby Fischer became the youngest U.S. champion at the age of fourteen and later went on to defeat Boris Spassky in a titanic match for the world championship at Reykjavik in 1972, becoming the highest rated player of all time.
The Complete Games of Bobby Fischer
Catalog Code: B0002IS
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Emanuel Lasker - 2nd World Champion
Emanuel Lasker - A dashing young man with a passion for philosophy appeared on the global stage in 1894 to challenge the reigning World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. Emanuel Lasker, 25, faced the 58 year old Steinitz in a three city, grueling match, in which the first man to achieve 10 outright wins would wear the crown of World Chess Champion.
Emanuel Lasker - 2nd World Champion
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Fischer vs. Spassky
The Chess Match of the Century
The Chess Match of the Century
The World Chess Championship Match 1972 The chess match of the century has finally taken place and chess masters throughout the world have already agreed that some of the games are among the greatest that have ever been played.
Fischer vs. Spassky
The Chess Match of the Century
Catalog Code: B0168IS
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - My Career - Viswanathan Anand - VOLUME 1
Acclaimed as the "Fastest Brain in the World", Viswanathan Anand is the world number one and World Champion.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - My Career - Viswanathan Anand - VOLUME 1
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Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step Teacher's Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the board.
Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
The Fire Attack - RUSSIAN EDITION
The Fire Attack" by Mikhail Tal and Iakov Damsky, brings out all the brightest and most beautiful of the great victories of the Soviet Grandmaster of Chess and World champion Mikhail Tal Nehemevicha. His aggressive, unpredictable, graceful, and in some cases even warlike games are always admired and will always be admired by millions of players around the world. He was a true master of the attack on the king. Tal showed that the need for a good attack, unexpected solutions, endless sacrifices, even if not always correct in terms of computer analysis.
The Fire Attack - RUSSIAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0211IS
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SHOPWORN - 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.
SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Catalog Code: SWB0272EM
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MONOGRAPH - World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca
The Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, world chess champion 1921-1927, was considered at the height of his career to be almost unbeatable and received the nickname the chess machine.
MONOGRAPH - World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca
Catalog Code: WIN0030CB
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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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Bobby Fischer Rediscovered
A lively, personal, and wonderfully informative look at Bobby Fischer, his personality and his playing. Although three decades have passed since Fischer won the world chess title from the former Soviet Union, he still remains a source of fascination and admiration for all players.
Bobby Fischer Rediscovered
Catalog Code: B0026BT
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Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914
Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914 has become a rare book, almost impossible to obtain. I bought the book used for this reprint from a collector of rare books in Denmark.
Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914
Catalog Code: B0176IS
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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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Tal Botvinnik 1960
One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. Take a trip with the Magician from Riga as he invites you to share his thoughts and feelings as he does battle for the world title.
Tal Botvinnik 1960
Catalog Code: B0001RE
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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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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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Garry Kasparov's Opening Repertoire
This work has been updated in 2012 to include all of the latest World Chess Championship matches by Garry Kasparov.
Garry Kasparov's Opening Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0137IS
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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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Opening For White According to Anand 1. e4 - VOLUME III
The third volume of the popular series "Opening for White according to Anand -1.e4" deals with the Caro Kann Defence. It has the reputation as the opening of the chess-academics. Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov - this list of great chess-champions that have been life-long devotees of the Caro-Kann Defence can be easily extended.
Opening For White According to Anand 1. e4 - VOLUME III
Catalog Code: B0022EU
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William Steinitz - Chess Champion
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz had a rich and elevated career and life, which can now be known as well. From Steinitz's own writings and the fruits of extensive first-time-ever research by the author, a fascinating portrayal emerges of the life and genius of a man widely known as the 'Bohemian Caesar' quite apart from his chess dominance.
William Steinitz - Chess Champion
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
Catalog Code: B0004MF
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WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 7 - The Colle-Zukertort System
On This DVD Susan will teach you an exciting and dynamic easy to learn system to play The Colle- Zukertort. Susan brings you 20 years of her own experience with this opening which is perfect for the player who only wants to spend one tenth (1/10) the time it normally takes to master an opening. So if you are looking to avoid well known deeply analyzed main theoretical Opening lines and want to win games in and out of opening, the Colle-Zukertort System is for you.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 7 - The Colle-Zukertort System
Catalog Code: DVD0007SP
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The Games of Jose Raul Capablanca
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The Games of Jose Raul Capablanca
Catalog Code: CB0039CD
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Magic of Mikhail Tal
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Magic of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0225EM
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The Games of Robert J. Fischer
he Games of Robert J. Fischer contains every serious traceable game of chess by Bobby Fischer from 1955 until his death in 2008. An appendix has been added to the original volume to include, in algebraic notation with diagrams, all 20 games actually played in the epic battle of Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland and all 30 games in their return match in Montenegro and Yugoslavia in 1992.
The Games of Robert J. Fischer
Catalog Code: B0063IS
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Chess Openings - What You Need To Know
For club and intermediate players. Presents the current state of chess openings theory in each major chess opening and the main ideas and plans to follow in each of them.
Chess Openings - What You Need To Know
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Alekhine in Europe and Asia
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Alekhine in Europe and Asia
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Chess King's Guide to Opening Ideas - Closed Games 1. d4 or 1. Nf3
Volume 3: Closed Games 1.d4 or 1.Nf3. Queen's Gambit, Reti, Benko, Grünfeld, Dutch, Slav, English Opening and several Indian Defenses (Bogo-Indian, Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian). 33 chapters, 150 minutes.
Chess King's Guide to Opening Ideas - Closed Games 1. d4 or 1. Nf3
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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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MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Queen's Gambit
Wherever he appears, chess fans gather in crowds. Garry Kasparov is the strongest chess player of our time – and a great personality who can represent the sport like no other chess professional. Now Kasparov comes into your home and shares with you his knowledge of one of the great openings in chess.
MR. KASPAROV - How to Play the Queen's Gambit
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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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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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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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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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Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Now, for the first time, every one of his 736 tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Best-selling chess author, German International Grandmaster Karsten Muller, annotates each game of the player many believe to be the greatest of all time.
Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Catalog Code: B0034RE
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Monograph: Mikhail Tal
Johannes Sondermann, author of the biographic part of the CD, has made an objective portrait of the world champion's character.
Monograph: Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: WIN0203CB
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Lasker's Manual of Chess
Lasker's Manual of Chess is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published over 80 years ago has diminished neither its relevance nor significance in today's modern chess world. Lasker was both a wonderful fighter and a deep thinker; his book is the quintessence of the exceptionally successful experiences he had over many long years, and his thoughts about them.
Lasker's Manual of Chess
Catalog Code: B0016DV
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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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