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Winning Chess Openings
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
This popular book has taught tens of thousands of beginning players the key concepts of the opening, the most crucial part of every chess game. You'll learn the best opening moves from both Black's and White's perspectives. More than twenty-five essential openings are shown: King's Gambit, Center Game, Scotch Game, Giucco Piano, Vienna Game, Bishop's Opening, Ruy Lopez, French, Caro-Kann, Sicilian, Alekhine, Pirc, Modern, Queen's Gambit, Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Dutch, King's Indian, Benoni, English, Bird's, Reti's, and King's Indian Attack.
Winning Chess Openings
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Catalog Code: B0024CZ
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First Chess Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
This great beginning book shows players how to confidently start out a chess game with solid near-foolproof openings. Easy-to-read and targeted to novice and new chess player, the oversized format is filled with large diagrams, clear explanations, and ideas and concepts that are easy for new players.
First Chess Openings
The Easiest Introduction to Openings
Catalog Code: B0018CZ
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51 Chess Openings for Beginners
What the Chess Openings Look Like
What the Chess Openings Look Like
Chess openings are the most important part of every novice's journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves.
51 Chess Openings for Beginners
What the Chess Openings Look Like
Catalog Code: B0027CZ
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Chess Opening Trap of the Day
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Great for beginners who want to improve their game and intermediate players who love challenges, this powerful collection of opening traps will immediately improve your play and have your opponents fearing you. You'll learn how to spot the everyday opening mistakes made by opponents and how to take advantage of these mistakes by setting opening traps.
Chess Opening Trap of the Day
Learn to Play and Defend Against Tricky Opening Traps
Catalog Code: B0034CZ
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Gambit Opening Repertoire for White
Essential Opening Moves
Essential Opening Moves
Chess players who enjoy attacking from the very first move are rewarded here with a powerful repertoire of brilliant gambits. Starting off with 1.e4 or 1.d4 and then using sharp weapons such as the Goring gambit (accepted and declined), Halasz Gambit, Alapin Gambit, Ulysses Gambit, Short Attack and more, you'll learn how to put pressure on opponents.
Gambit Opening Repertoire for White
Essential Opening Moves
Catalog Code: B0040CZ
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Pocket Opening Instructor
is an interactive tutorial for Pocket PC for intermediate players. This is a perfect opening manual.
Pocket Opening Instructor
Catalog Code: WIN0078CV
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The Sicilian Dragon
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
Play the Exciting Dragon! Inside this book are the secrets of one of the most exciting and powerful openings in all of chess - the Sicilian Dragon! Used by amateurs and champons alike, the dragon features brilliant combinations, no-holds-barred assasults, wild sacrifices, and uncompromising positions. This new edition features bigger diagrams, the latest moves and developements, and 30 new game examples.
The Sicilian Dragon
The Classic How-to-Win Guide on One of the Most Exciting and Powerful Chess Openings Played Today
Catalog Code: B0052CZ
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Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings
Essential Opening Moves
Essential Opening Moves
This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games), based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped win Kasparov and Spassky championships.
Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings
Essential Opening Moves
Catalog Code: B0001CZ
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Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Based on the powerful Caro-Kann, a favorite weapon of great players, you'll learn how to come right out of the gate and defend against 1.e4, the most popular first move in chess. This is a great beginner's book because readers need to learn just one strong opening system, and it can be used to combat all of White's 1.e4 openings.
Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings
Win Against Any King Pawn Opening!
Catalog Code: B0008CZ
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Pocket Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Pocket Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders is the opening training program for Pocket PC. The chess material prepared by IM Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both experienced coaches and players in Russia and aimed at intermediate players.
Pocket Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Catalog Code: WIN0060CV
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Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! This book contains every important gambit opening and variation ever played - more than two thousand opening strategies in all!
Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Catalog Code: B0023CZ
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Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
This exciting guide to all the major unorthodox openings used by chess players, contains more than 1,500 contentious, unconventional, arrogant, and outright strange opening strategies. From their tricky tactical surprises to their bizarre names, these openings fly in the face of tradition. You'll meet such openings as the Orangutang, Halloween Gambit, Frankenstein-Dracula Variation, Double Duck, and even the Drunken King.
Unorthodox Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Unorthodox Chess Openings
Catalog Code: B0022CZ
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Slav - Botvinnik and Moscow Variation - Loek Van Wely
In this DVD, Dutch top grandmaster Loek Van Wely presents both the Botvinnik Variation and the Moscow Variation of the Slav Defence, two extraordinary opening systems excelling by extreme sharpness and complexity.
Slav - Botvinnik and Moscow Variation - Loek Van Wely
Catalog Code: WIN0098CB
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Winning in 20 Moves
This excellent CD is loaded with insightful commentary, and includes several introductory texts, video clips, and middlegame theme keys. In addition, the reader will find training keys and trainings tasks for each game.
Winning in 20 Moves
Catalog Code: WIN0199CB
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1. Nc3... The Van Geet Opening
This CD represents both a basic van Geet openings manual and an up-to-date theoretical database, designed to serve both average and advanced players.
1. Nc3... The Van Geet Opening
Catalog Code: WIN0168CB
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Dutch Defence A90-A99
Choosing the Dutch Defence with the black pieces is a clear signal that you are willing to go for the full point. There are no such things as exchange variations or an early trade of queens.
Dutch Defence A90-A99
Catalog Code: WIN0189CB
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The Dutch Defense Leningrad System
People who play the Dutch Defence are usually aiming for more than a draw. This is particularly true of the Leningrad System.
The Dutch Defense Leningrad System
Catalog Code: WIN0190CB
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How to Play the Nimzo-Indian
The Nimzo-Indian can well be called the opening of the world champions.
How to Play the Nimzo-Indian
Catalog Code: WIN0163CB
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Bogo-Indian Defense
The Bogo-Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+) stands out for two reasons: the concept behind the opening is simple and therefore easy to learn; and the Bogo-Indian has the reputation of being a reliable drawing weapon (statistically backed up by a high number of draws with it).
Bogo-Indian Defense
Catalog Code: WIN0179CB
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Sicilian Dragon - VOLUME 1
When playing as White, if you do not want to enter sharp opening systems, you would do better to fight against the Dragon by castling short. These specific variations are the theme of Rogozenko‘s CD Dragon 1.
Sicilian Dragon - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: WIN0151CB
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Queen's Gambit Orthodox
The Orthodox Queens Gambit is one of the most solid openings which you can play against 1.d4
Queen's Gambit Orthodox
Catalog Code: WIN0195CB
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Learn to play chess by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time.
Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Catalog Code: WIN0130CV
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Dutch A80-85
In the third and final part of his trilogy about the Dutch, Boris Schipkov turns his attention to some very important side lines.
Dutch A80-85
Catalog Code: WIN0214CB
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The Chebanenko - Still Improved - Victor Bologan
After 4 years since my book on the Chebanenko Slav we can definitely say this opening is even more popular and everybody links the name of Chebanenko to the line with 4... a6 in the Slav.
The Chebanenko - Still Improved - Victor Bologan
Catalog Code: WIN0359CB
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Opening Lab
This is a perfect opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players.
Opening Lab
Catalog Code: WIN0081CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Other Openings - VOLUME 7
The Modern Chess Opening, Vol. 7 course is aimed at teaching the student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies of important Other Openings.
Modern Chess Opening - Other Openings - VOLUME 7
Catalog Code: WIN0111CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Open Games (1.e4 e5) - VOLUME 1
This course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies of the Open Games.
Modern Chess Opening - Open Games (1.e4 e5) - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: WIN0105CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Open Games (1.e4) - VOLUME 2
Modern Chess Opening, vol. 2, Semi-Open Games (1.e4) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 426 games/lectures.
Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Open Games (1.e4) - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: WIN0106CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6) - VOLUME 4
Modern Chess Opening, vol. 4, Semi-Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 266 games/lectures.
Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6) - VOLUME 4
Catalog Code: WIN0108CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6) - VOLUME 5
Modern Chess Opening, vol. 5, Semi-Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 294 games/lectures.
Modern Chess Opening - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6) - VOLUME 5
Catalog Code: WIN0109CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Closed Games (1. d4 d5) - VOLUME 6
Modern Chess Opening, vol. 6, Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 416 games/lectures.
Modern Chess Opening - Closed Games (1. d4 d5) - VOLUME 6
Catalog Code: WIN0110CV
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Modern Chess Opening - Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5) - VOLUME 3
Modern Chess Opening - Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5) - VOLUME 3
Catalog Code: WIN0107CV
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Chess Opening Instructor
This is a perfect opening manual. The program features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the chess players in XIX and XX centuries.
Chess Opening Instructor
Catalog Code: WIN0024CV
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Nimzo-Indian Defense: The Easy Way - Jacob Aagaard
On this DVD Danish IM Jacob Aagaard introduces you to the secrets of the Nimzoindian Defence.
Nimzo-Indian Defense: The Easy Way - Jacob Aagaard
Catalog Code: WIN0090CB
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Queen's Gambit Declined - Andrew Martin
Orthodox Variation is an opening choice for Black which will never be refuted. It perhaps has an unjust reputation of being solid and passive, but this all-new ChessBase DVD will challenge that perception
Queen's Gambit Declined - Andrew Martin
Catalog Code: WIN0300CB
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Secret Weapons of Champions - Adrian Mikhalchishin
Modern middlegame theory does not exist in written form. That is why players and trainers have to go back to the old recommendation by Nimzowitsch – to study typical positional methods. But who is better placed to teach us about their own powerful weapons than the great champions of the past?
Secret Weapons of Champions - Adrian Mikhalchishin
Catalog Code: WIN0039CB
Our Price: $33.95
