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Hanging Pawns
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Hanging Pawns
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How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess-players, has selected his favourite attacking games from the modern era, and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that indicate it is time to stake everything on an all-out assault. We also get insights into the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defence
How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
Catalog Code: B0025GB
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How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Learn from the World Champions
Many books discuss how to attack in chess, but good, resourceful defensive play is also a vital ingredient in competitive success. However, this is an area largely neglected in the literature of the game. This book fills the gap admirably, by explaining the basics of defending against direct offensives, and taking an in-depth look at how the all-time greats have fended off their opponents' attacks.
How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Catalog Code: B0003GB
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How To Think Like a Grandmaster - Chess Lecture - Volume 1
GM Eugene Perelshteyn earned his third GM norm and the title GM after sharing first place in the 2006 Foxwoods Open, He won the Samford Chess Fellowship in 2002, awarded to the top American Player under 25 years old earning $64,000, Eugene also led the Unversity of Maryland, Baltimore County to a few Pan American championships from 1998-2002.
How To Think Like a Grandmaster - Chess Lecture - Volume 1
Catalog Code: DVD0001CL
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Improve Your Attacking Chess
250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
Checkmating the enemy king is the ultimate goal in chess. In this book Simon Williams helps readers to practice and improve their skills in this vital area of practical chess. A mating attack typically involves a build-up of forces, followed by an opening of lines, often involving a sacrifice
Improve Your Attacking Chess
250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
Catalog Code: B0030GB
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Isolani Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
In the present book, on the basis of numerous practical examples, the authors explain the methods of attack and defence in positions with an isolated d-pawn, from just after the opening to deep into the endgame.
Isolani Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn
Catalog Code: B0082EU
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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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KNOW THE TERRAIN - Central Majority - Sam Collins - VOLUME 3
Anyone getting through the DVD will have weapons at his disposal (these weapons being ideas!) that his opponents will not have.
KNOW THE TERRAIN - Central Majority - Sam Collins - VOLUME 3
Catalog Code: WIN0318CB
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KOPEC DVD - Pawn Structures & How to Play Them
International Master Dr. Danny Kopec, a highly regarded author and player provides you with tangible techniques and tools which will ensure your success as a player and analyst on this DVD. You will gain an understanding on the importance of Pawn Structures and how to play them.
KOPEC DVD - Pawn Structures & How to Play Them
Catalog Code: DVD0007KP
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Mastering Chess Strategy
Short Description for Mastering Chess Strategy - B0310EM
Mastering Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0310EM
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Mastering Positional Chess
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Mastering Positional Chess is a serious, but entertaining chess instruction book. Daniel started writing it when he realized that his lack of positional understanding was causing him to lose many games.
Mastering Positional Chess
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Catalog Code: B0088NIC
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Mastering Rook vs. Minor Pieces
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Mastering Rook vs. Minor Pieces
Catalog Code: CB0016XX
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Mastering the Bishop Pair
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Mastering the Bishop Pair
Catalog Code: CB0015XX
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Mating Against 0-0
This training CD is designed to hone your skills in attack.
Mating Against 0-0
Catalog Code: WIN0193CB
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Modern Chess Lessons
This book developed out of the author working with chess teams. The five lessons taught are: 1)Sharpening of tactical ability, 2)The important principles of the opening, 3)An opening repertoire is needed. The most popular choice among many is the English Opening for White, 4)Basic principles of pawn endings, 5)Strategy is probably one of the more difficult concepts of chess to master. This is the ability to take advantage of structural weaknesses and an intuitive feel. Going through these lessons will help make the reader a more successful tournament
Modern Chess Lessons
Catalog Code: CB0101CD
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Modern Chess Planning
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess planning has evolved considerably since the days of the "grand plan", whereby a player might even try to map out the whole course of the game.
Modern Chess Planning
A Practical Training Course in Logical Chess
Catalog Code: B0073GB
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Modern Chess Strategy
Modern classic offers thorough, systematic analysis of the use of the queen, active king, exchanges, seven different uses of pawns, minority attack, dynamic elements, much more. Analyses of 129 great games featuring Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, other masters. Indexes of games and openings. 298 diagrams.
Modern Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0013DV
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Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy
Modern Chess Strategy by the well-known Czech Grandmaster and theorist Ludek Pachman, is widely recognized on the continent of Europe as the standard work on the middle-game.
Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0233IS
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Pawn Structure Chess
Every chess player needs to know how to handle pawns. Pawns form the 'playing fields' of chess games, a semi-permanent structure that can determine whether a player wins or loses. This fully updated version of a timeless chess classic will give you the comprehensive knowledge to mastering pawn structures.
Pawn Structure Chess
Catalog Code: B0116BT
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Pocket Chess Strategy
Pocket Chess Strategy is the first chess program to teach strategy and positional play on a Pocket PC.
Pocket Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: WIN0055CV
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Positional Chess - Chess Lecture - Volume 35
2 DVD Collection
2 DVD Collection
IM Valeri Lilov is a young chess talent from the small European country of Bulgaria. He currently resides in Varna, Bulgaria and works hard in the field of practical chess and chess pedagogy.
Positional Chess - Chess Lecture - Volume 35
2 DVD Collection
Catalog Code: DVD0035CL
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Positional Chess Handbook
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
This complete guide, written by a grandmaster, can assist all players at every level in developing a more powerful strategic game. Spanning more than a century of chess, it presents examples on such themes as key squares, bad bishops, and pawn structures in ascending difficulty, with ample cross-references.
Positional Chess Handbook
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
Catalog Code: B0040DV
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Positional Ideas In Chess
"The foundation upon which any position is built is the board itself, that apparently simple space of sixty-four squares arranged in alternate light and dark colors..." That is how John Love introduces the sparkling world of positional play in chess.
Positional Ideas In Chess
Catalog Code: B0011AC
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Positional Play
Grandmaster Preparation
Grandmaster Preparation
In Positional Play Jacob Aagaard shares his simple three-step tool of positional analysis that he has used with club players and famous grandmasters to improve their positional decision-making. Working from the starting point that all players who aspire to play at international level have a certain amount of positional understanding, Aagaard lays out an easy-to-follow training plan that will improve everyone's intuition and positional decision-making.
Positional Play
Grandmaster Preparation
Catalog Code: B0072QT
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Power of Exchange - Adrian Mikhalchishin
The correct technique of exchanging is the most important ability of Grandmasters!
Power of Exchange - Adrian Mikhalchishin
Catalog Code: WIN0237CB
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Power of Planning - Adrian Mikhalchishin
Planning is the most difficult part of the game of chess. It is everywhere - we use it from the opening to the ending.
Power of Planning - Adrian Mikhalchishin
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POWER PLAY - Attacking the King - Daniel King - VOLUME 2
In this second DVD in the Power Play series, Grandmaster Daniel King looks at attacking play and asks: what makes for a successful attack?
POWER PLAY - Attacking the King - Daniel King - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: WIN0067CB
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POWER PLAY - Improve Your Pieces - Daniel King - VOLUME 7
In this 7th Power Play DVD, Daniel King helps you to recognize when a piece is poorly placed and what to do about it. Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions will enable you to test your understanding of the subject.
POWER PLAY - Improve Your Pieces - Daniel King - VOLUME 7
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POWER PLAY - Knights and Bishops - Daniel King - VOLUME 8
In this 7th Power Play DVD, Daniel King helps you to recognize when a piece is poorly placed and what to do about it.
POWER PLAY - Knights and Bishops - Daniel King - VOLUME 8
Catalog Code: WIN0071CB
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POWER PLAY - Major Pieces vs. Minor Pieces - Daniel King - VOLUME 9
In this 9th Power Play DVD Grandmaster Daniel King discusses the theme of Major Pieces v. Minor Pieces.
POWER PLAY - Major Pieces vs. Minor Pieces - Daniel King - VOLUME 9
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POWER PLAY - Pawn Storm - Daniel King - VOLUME 3
n this 3rd DVD in the Power Play series, Grandmaster Daniel King examines more devilish methods of attacking the castled king - this time by means of a pawn storm.
POWER PLAY - Pawn Storm - Daniel King - VOLUME 3
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POWER PLAY - Pawns - Daniel King - VOLUME 5
You might be a brilliant tactician or a fearsome attacker, but you won’t always be able to apply these skills when you play.
POWER PLAY - Pawns - Daniel King - VOLUME 5
Catalog Code: WIN0096CB
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POWER PLAY - Pawns Pieces and Plans - Daniel King - VOLUME 6
In this fifth Power Play DVD, Daniel King discusses strong and weak pawn structures, isolated pawns and pawn islands, how to create pawn weaknesses, how to cramp a pawn structure, the power of center pawns and much more.
POWER PLAY - Pawns Pieces and Plans - Daniel King - VOLUME 6
Catalog Code: WIN0069CB
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POWER PLAY - Squeeze - Daniel King - VOLUME 13
Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions will enable you to test your understanding of the subject.
POWER PLAY - Squeeze - Daniel King - VOLUME 13
Catalog Code: WIN0271CB
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Prepare to Attack
There's no escaping the fact: if you want to win chess games, you have to attack at some point. Many players are happy solving combinations in winning positions, when the hard work is already done, but the key to a successful attack undoubtedly comes much earlier. No-one can attack effectively if they haven't prepared properly, and yet planning in chess can be a difficult technique to master, even for experienced players.
Prepare to Attack
Catalog Code: B0317EM
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ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 106 - Strategy Behind Playing Pawn Blockaded Positions Right Out of the Opening
This dvd will help your chess game whether you're a novice level player or master. Roman will teach you how to play and win by blockading Pawns right out of the Opening. Blockaded Pawns occur in every openings and by following Roman's easy universal system, you will have a new way to win games.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 106 - Strategy Behind Playing Pawn Blockaded Positions Right Out of the Opening
Catalog Code: DVD0106RM
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