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Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 1
The Complete 1. e4
The Complete 1. e4
This volume helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste, is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire, as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning.
Chess Opening Essentials - VOLUME 1
The Complete 1. e4
Catalog Code: B0023NIC
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The Blue Book of Charts to Winning Chess
This is THE book that first introduced a concept that has revolutionized tournament chess for most players. The concept is simply to create a database of chess games, sorted by openings, and then see which opening moves produce the best results. This book concludes that the overall winning percentage for White is 59%.
The Blue Book of Charts to Winning Chess
Catalog Code: B0030IS
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Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 2
Unlock the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
Unlock the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
For most chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is hard to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit. John Watson seeks to help chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. In his previous books on chess strategy, he explained vital concepts that had previously been the domain only of top-class players.
Mastering the Chess Openings - VOLUME 2
Unlock the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
Catalog Code: B0076GB
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Alterman Gambit Guide - Black Gambits - VOLUME 1
The Alterman Gambit Guide: Black Gambits 1 is both an opening book and an instructional manual. Sharpen your tactics and learn to play dynamic attacking chess while studying the most entertaining gambits.
Alterman Gambit Guide - Black Gambits - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0055QT
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NIC Yearbook 100 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
A brand-new 248 page regular edition of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News with, FREE of charge, 56 pages with a wide range of high-voltage Anniversary extras:
NIC Yearbook 100 - PAPERBACK EDITION
Garry Kasparov's Anniversary Survey - The Final World on the Zaitsev Ruy Lopez
Catalog Code: B0100PYB
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A Strategic Opening Repertoire
In 1998 a slim volume by IM John Donaldson explored the crafting of a sophisticated but easily assimilated group of interrelated opening strategies intending to establish small but lasting advantages. The result, A Strategic Opening Repertoire was an instant success. Now this second edition, revised by Danish FM Carsten Hansen with the assistance of John Donaldson, is greatly expanded - twice the size, with many more games and detailed explanations.
A Strategic Opening Repertoire
Catalog Code: B0027RE
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Grandmaster Secrets - The Caro-Kann
The Inside Story on a Popular and Rich Opening Complex
The Inside Story on a Popular and Rich Opening Complex
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games.
Grandmaster Secrets - The Caro-Kann
The Inside Story on a Popular and Rich Opening Complex
Catalog Code: B0018GB
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The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
The Hedgehog lives! GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental investigation of this counterattacking system for Black with in-depth coverage of formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4. Sparing no effort to discover best play for both sides, he presents White's most promising plans and breathes new life into variations that - according to theory - had turned the Hedgehog into an endangered species.
The Complete Hedgehog - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0068EU
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The Grunfeld Defence - Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - VOLUME 1
Grandmaster Repertoire is a series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - The Grünfeld Defence offers a repertoire for Black against 1.d4.
The Grunfeld Defence - Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0050QT
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The Grunfeld Defence - Grandmaster Repertoire 9 - VOLUME 2
The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - The Grünfeld Defence offers a repertoire for Black against 1.d4. Avrukh's two previous Grandmaster Repertoire books for White received universal rave reviews and have been hugely influential on chess players all over the world, including at the very highest level.
The Grunfeld Defence - Grandmaster Repertoire 9 - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0060QT
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A Universal Weapon 1.D4 D6
This book consists of eleven chapters devoted to different variations of the all-purpose defence for Black 1.d4 d6. Each chapter comprises a "Quick Repertoire" section, followed by a thorough theoretical and practical study in the section "Step by Step" and finally a "Complete Games" section. To be able to include this system in your opening repertoire, it should be sufficient for you to read the introduction and play through the complete games, which should not take too much of your time.
A Universal Weapon 1.D4 D6
Catalog Code: B0070EU
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A Spanish Repertoire for Black
As the title suggests, the repertoire is based on the respected Spanish Opening, or the Ruy Lopez, as it is commonly called in the United States. In his previous book, Beating the Open Games, Grandmaster Mihail Marin dealt with White's options up to 3.Bb5. Now Marin provides all the answers for Black after 4.Ba4.
A Spanish Repertoire for Black
Catalog Code: B0008QT
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The Modern Scandinavian
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
The Modern Scandinavian is an updated and expanded translation of "Modernes Skandinavisch 2", which appeared in 2006 and also became a bestseller. This second book focuses not on theoretical lines but on the structural ideas after the moves 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5.
The Modern Scandinavian
Themes, Structures and Plans in an Increasingly Popular Chess Opening
Catalog Code: B0098NIC
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How To Beat The Sicilian Defence
An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White
An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White
The Sicilian Defence is by far the most popular chess opening. If you play 1 e4 as White, on average you are likely to meet the Sicilian in virtually every other game! You need to be prepared to face the Sicilian at all times, and a ready-to-use repertoire against it is an indispensable weapon. In this book, Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He has constructed a comprehensive Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White, which is based on lines that are successfully employed at grandmaster level.
How To Beat The Sicilian Defence
An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White
Catalog Code: B0327EM
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Fighting the French
A New Concept
A New Concept
Nowadays the French Defence 1...e6 is one of the most popular openings in response to 1.e4. I'd like to suggest a new concept of combating it. White plays 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 and then deploys his pieces according to the scheme Ngf3, Bd3, c3, 0-0, against almost anything that Black may play. This will usually lead to exchanges in the centre and the appearance of an isolated queen's pawn for White.
Fighting the French
A New Concept
Catalog Code: B0074EU
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The Safest Grunfeld
The Safest Gruenfeld offers a complete repertoire for Black against 1.d4 and various Anti-Gruenfeld systems as 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3, 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.b4, 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nc3. The book follows Chess Stars trademark structure with 3 chapters in every part. "Main Ideas" aim to give you a succinct review of the theory and the basic knowledge that should you allow to start playing the opening without much study. They also give examples of middlegame plans and typical tactical motifs, to complement the "Step by Step" and "Complete Games" chapters.
The Safest Grunfeld
Catalog Code: B0069EU
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The Petroff
An Expert Repertoire for Black
An Expert Repertoire for Black
In this book the reader will find an opening repertoire for Black against 1. e4, based on the Petroff Defence and designed to be used up to the highest level. For many years this opening has served as the main black weapon for chess giants as Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand.
The Petroff
An Expert Repertoire for Black
Catalog Code: B0073EU
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Experts on the Anti-Sicilian
The Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5, is one of the popular chess openings. In this book several chess grandmasters present state-of-the-art analysis of lines where White meets the Sicilian by avoiding the Open variations.
Experts on the Anti-Sicilian
Catalog Code: B0052QT
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The Tarrasch Defense - Grandmaster Repertoire 10
The Tarrasch Defense arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3._c3 c5 and leads to wildly complex and dynamic play. With deep analysis and countless novelties, Ntirlis and Aagaard have revived the coolest classical chess opening for use by grandmasters and amateurs in the 21st century.
The Tarrasch Defense - Grandmaster Repertoire 10
Catalog Code: B0064QT
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Secrets of Opening Preparation
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
This helpful chess handbook discusses how to build an opening repertoire and produce opening novelties. Additionally, it explores the connection between the opening and the later stages of the middlegame and the endgame.
Secrets of Opening Preparation
Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0007OE
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Small Encyclopedia of Chess Opening
The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings is based on the same 500 fundamental codes and system of elimination but it's a fifth the length. Instead of five books just one! The best and most up to date information. The creative output of generations of chess masters filtered for the reader's convenience.
Small Encyclopedia of Chess Opening
Catalog Code: B0004SHV
Our Price: $64.95
