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CHESS GAMES
Lasker - The Ultimate Streetfighter
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 1
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 1
This monograph examines Lasker's wins in his early years plus a number of simultaneous and exhibition games taken from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Lasker - The Ultimate Streetfighter
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 1
Catalog Code: B0001TP
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Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But "The Chess Machine" was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablanca's record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play advocated by the unequaled teacher, C.J.S. Purdy.
Capablanca - A Primer of Checkmate
Catalog Code: B0055EU
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Win Like Kasparov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Garry Kasparov
Learn to Play Chess Like Garry Kasparov
Win Like Kasparov! is the first in the Win like My Hero! series by International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley. This instructional series was created for chess players to learn to play like the most heroic figures of the Royal Game. Tactics and strategy are explained through the use of visually enhanced diagrams.
Win Like Kasparov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Garry Kasparov
Catalog Code: B0060OB
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The Best of the Best - The Next Chapter - 1001 - 1100
The book you are holding aims to sustain the tradition, by collecting the hundred best games of volumes 101 - 110, ten of each volume, spanning a period of four years (2007-2011). These games have been methodically selected and strictly evaluated by such esteemed GMs as A. Beliavsky, L. Christiansen, M. Gurevich, M. Marin, A. Mikhalchishin, Z. Ribli, J. Speelman, former women's World Champion Xie Jun and the President of Chess Informant, A. Matanovic.
The Best of the Best - The Next Chapter - 1001 - 1100
Catalog Code: B0005SHV
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 108
Chess Informant 108 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 301 annotated games and 413 accompanying game fragments from January - April 2010.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 108
Catalog Code: B0108INF
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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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Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1961-1985 - VOLUME 1
The Making of a Champion
The Making of a Champion
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 Karolyi explains Karpov's genius with a particular focus on Karpov's unrivaled grasp of strategy. Karolyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1961-1985 as the Russian star proved he was a worthy successor to Bobby Fischer.
Karpov's Strategic Wins - 1961-1985 - VOLUME 1
The Making of a Champion
Catalog Code: B0059QT
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Blackburne - The Black Death in Spades
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 2
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 2
Joseph Henry Blackburne mowed his opponents down as if chess were bowling due to his great skill.
Blackburne - The Black Death in Spades
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 2
Catalog Code: B0002TP
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 109
Chess Informant 109 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 371 annotated games and 540 accompanying game fragments from May - August 2010.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 109
Catalog Code: B0109INF
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Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings.
Grandmaster Chess Strategy
What Amateurs can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces
Catalog Code: B0100NIC
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Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Winning with White
IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton team up again to continue their coverage of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz's winning repertoire with the White pieces, designed to grind down weaker players while challenging his peers. In this second volume, Ippolito and Hilton examine Wojo's handling of the popular King's Indian Defense, focusing on the positional Fianchetto Variation.
Wojo's Weapons - VOLUME 2
Winning with White
Catalog Code: B0067EU
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Alekhine - The Executioner
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 3
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 3
This book contains lesser, but not unimportant games, many of them from simultaneous displays where he made short work of his opponent. 59 annotated games.
Alekhine - The Executioner
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 3
Catalog Code: B0003TP
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Pillsbury - The Fencer
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 4
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 4
A genius at chess, he also gave exhibitions of blindfold seances as well as playing checkers and bridge at the same time. He won the first big tournament he entered at age 22.
Pillsbury - The Fencer
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 4
Catalog Code: B0004TP
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 110
The present World Champion Vishy Anand in this volume joins a force of more than seventy prominent grandmasters, citizens from thirty-two countries, who analyze a total of 321 games and 387 game fragments.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 110
Catalog Code: B0110INF
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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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Isaac Kashdan - American Chess Grandmaster
A Career Summary with 757 Games
A Career Summary with 757 Games
This work chronicles the chess career and games of Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan, one of the leading United States players of the 1930s (along with such notables as Fine and Reshevsky). The main body of the work examines Kashdan's game play, with diagrams and analysis provided for many hundreds of his tournament games, match games, speed games, simultaneous exhibitions, training games and consultation games.
Isaac Kashdan - American Chess Grandmaster
A Career Summary with 757 Games
Catalog Code: B0011MF
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Chess Evolution - September 2011
A multinational team of Super-GMs analyse the most important recent games, using their world-class skill and powerful computers. This volume is essential to anyone interested in the most up-to-date and highest quality opening theory.
Chess Evolution - September 2011
Catalog Code: B0001EV
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 111
This single issue offers more than 300 annotated games, a similar amount of game fragments, brilliant combinations, instructive endings, excellent moves, chess problems and studies.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 111
Catalog Code: B0111INF
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The Chess-Player's Companion
This is the third in a series of three books by Howard Staunton, who is considered to have been the best player in the world at that time.
The Chess-Player's Companion
Catalog Code: B0098IS
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - PART 1
1973-1985
1973-1985
The series in itself is a continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess, comprising My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess. Kasparov's historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred both on and off the board.
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - PART 1
1973-1985
Catalog Code: B0335EM
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Petrosian - The Punisher
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 6
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 6
This title includes 75 games, 53 of which are annotated in a lively style to show how flexible and tactical he could really be with many wins under 30 moves.
Petrosian - The Punisher
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 6
Catalog Code: B0006TP
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Soviet Chess
This seems to be regarded as the West's answer to "The Soviet School of Chess" by Alexander Kotov ISBN 4871878198 who asserts superiority in the Soviet playing style. However, those who say that are mistaken. This book by a New Zealander who emigrated to England because of the greater opportunities to play chess there, fully concurs with Kotov that the Soviet players were the best in the world.
Soviet Chess
Catalog Code: B0104IS
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Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One
Two Volumes Bound as One
This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine's 220 best games, his own personal acounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his briliant ascent to world mastery, his surprising defeat in 1935, and his dramatic return two years later - the first deposed champion to regain his crown.
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937
Two Volumes Bound as One
Catalog Code: B0045DV
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Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us.
Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Catalog Code: B0336EM
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EBOOK - Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us.
EBOOK - Chess Secrets - Giants of Innovation
Learn from Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchoi and Ivanchuk
Catalog Code: E-B0336EM
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 112
Chess Informant 112 brings in the main section a thoroughly refined selection of 315 annotated games and 315 accompanying game fragments from May - August 2011. Featuring games are from following tournaments, Kazan (World Championship Candidates), La Habana, Lublin, Danzhou, Leon (rapid), Medias, Paks, New Delhi, Biel, Dortmund, Rostov on Don (Women's Grand Prix), Russia (ch), France (ch), Khanty-Mansiysk (World Cup), etc.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 112
Catalog Code: B0112INF
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The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
The Later Years
This greatly enlarged second edition chronicles the second half (1921-1961) of the Polish grandmaster's life. Dozens of archival photographs, photographs and approximately 40% more material finish off this splendid work, completing the journey begun in volume 1.
The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
Catalog Code: B0055RE
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Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen
This book presents detailed annotations to 64 of Carlsen's best games, together with a description of his career. Also examined are the deficiencies from which he suffered as a young player, and how he overcame these on his way to the top.
Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen
Catalog Code: B0018OE
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Larsen - The Hammer
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 7
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 7
Bent Larsen, chess grandmaster from Denmark, was one of the most formidable foes in chess history, even beating the likes of all world champions including Bobby Fischer.
Larsen - The Hammer
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 7
Catalog Code: B0007TP
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Horowitz - The Interrogator
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 8
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 8
International Chess Master Al Horowitz was a New Yorker: raconteur, player, and writer-editor of books and magazines as well as chess columns for such as the New York Times and Saturday Review as well as his own Chess Review.
Horowitz - The Interrogator
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 8
Catalog Code: B0008TP
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 113
Garry's Choice
Chess Informants - ISSUE 113
Catalog Code: B0113INF
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Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Win Like Karpov! begins with extensive Biography and Openings sections. There are four Karpov Early Games and six Karpov Classics.
Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Catalog Code: B0066OB
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Bronstein - The Mechanic
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
One of the great former Soviet chess grandmasters.
Bronstein - The Mechanic
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
Catalog Code: B0009TP
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 114
2nd exclusive column by Garry Kasparov! The 13th World champion dissects top games of modern chess/ in English, 8 pages.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 114
Catalog Code: B0114INF
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Aron Nimzowitsch - On the Road to Chess Mastery
1886-1924
1886-1924
Publisher: McFarland
Author: Per Skjoldager and Jorn Erik Nielsen
Year of Publication: 2012 Pages: 458
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
Book Description One of the greatest chess legends of all time, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), is best known for founding the Hypermodernism school of chess, which emerged after World War I to challenge the chess ideologies of traditional central European masters. This first full-scale biography of Nimzowitsch chronicles his early life in Denmark, his family and education, and his fascination with the game that would become the focus of his life. Also included are explorations of his tournament games and records, his dispute with influential chess teacher Siegbert Tarrasch, and his role in the development of Hypermodern Chess. With detailed accounts of nearly 450 games and the only narrative of Nimzowitsch from 1914 to 1924, a period formerly cloaked in mystery, this volume offers the most thorough profile available of one of chess's greatest innovators.
Aron Nimzowitsch - On the Road to Chess Mastery
1886-1924
Catalog Code: B0013MF
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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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