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1001 Deadly Checkmates
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
For all chess-players, from beginners to world champions, from kids to seniors, delivering checkmate is the greatest thrill the game has to offer. The ability to spot checkmates is a vital skill - and this easy-to-use book shows you how it is done. With the help of Grandmaster John Nunn, you will be ready to shock your next opponent with a deadly checkmate, whether in a school match, a club tournament - or even a championship game!
1001 Deadly Checkmates
Solve the Puzzles and Measure Your Skill!
Catalog Code: B0139GB
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101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
A Collection of Sparkling Modern Games to Instruct and Entertain
A Collection of Sparkling Modern Games to Instruct and Entertain
One of the world's finest writers on chess presents his selection of brilliant modern games of 25 moves or fewer. Much can be learned from these sparkling miniatures. John Nunn examines how the loser might have avoided disaster, and explains how the winner managed to punch home his advantage so effectively.
101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
A Collection of Sparkling Modern Games to Instruct and Entertain
Catalog Code: B0131GB
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101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the answers also address highly sophisticated concepts, providing insights gleaned from many years of experience and discussions with players and trainers of the highest level.
101 Chess Questions Answered
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Catalog Code: B0013GB
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5,000 Mate Studies
A new interactive training course that includes over 5,000 of the best mate studies ever! These mates are classified by the number of moves that it takes to achieve mate, by the number of pieces on the board and also by authors.
5,000 Mate Studies
Catalog Code: WIN0031CV
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50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games - some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learned from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older works of this type.
50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
Catalog Code: B0031GB
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50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
In a sequel to the hugely successful 50 Essential Chess Lessons, Steve Giddins now presents 50 games that each illustrate an important winning method. This engaging and highly readable book is a painless way to build your personal arsenal of techniques and ideas.
50 Ways to Win at Chess
Brilliant and Instructive Games Explained in User-Friendly Fashion
Catalog Code: B0106GB
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A Course in Chess Tactics
A Step-by-Step Approach to Mastering Tactics and Combinations
A Step-by-Step Approach to Mastering Tactics and Combinations
Few books present a structured approach to tactics, so this book fills a valuable niche in the ambitious player's library. The authors present each major tactical theme in turn, explaining how it works and providing inspiring examples. They then explain how you can spot the idea in your own games and use it to your advantage.
A Course in Chess Tactics
A Step-by-Step Approach to Mastering Tactics and Combinations
Catalog Code: B0141GB
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Advanced Chess School
Advanced Chess School by Convekta is an interactive tutorial for inexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learn the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength.
Advanced Chess School
Catalog Code: WIN0040CV
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Advanced Defense
This course features about 400 exercises with large number of pieces in play. All exercises are taken from actual games. Find the only way to avoid checkmate! This course is for beginners and club players.
Advanced Defense
Catalog Code: WIN0134CV
Our Price: $25.95
Attack on the King - VOLUME I - Mating in 2 Moves
The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your computer in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves!
Attack on the King - VOLUME I - Mating in 2 Moves
Catalog Code: WIN0096CV
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Attack on the King - VOLUME II - Mating in 3 or 4 Moves
This course includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your imagination and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king.
Attack on the King - VOLUME II - Mating in 3 or 4 Moves
Catalog Code: WIN0097CV
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Beat the Grandmasters
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
This book pits readers against the grandmasters by placing them in real-game situations where there is a way to defeat a well-known player. Your task is to find the moves which lead to the defeat of some of the strongest players in the world. Quite often one move can change the course of the game, and calculating with precision at the right moment can mean the difference between winning and losing. Even if you have had a lost position for a long time, you may suddenly get the chance to turn things around if your opponent drops his guard for a moment.
Beat the Grandmasters
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
Catalog Code: B0120GB
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Chess College - VOLUME 1 - Strategy
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Publisher: Gambit
Author: Efstratios Grivas
Year of Publication: 2006 Pages: 112
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)
Book DescriptionChess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice. Volume 1: Strategy introduces a variety of topics, including: ""Why do we lose?"", Attack on the King, Two Bishops, Passed Pawn, Exchange Sacrifice, Positional Sacrifice, and Outpost. By drawing extensively upon his own games, Grivas is able to explain exactly what was going on over the board, and avoids the pitfall of providing overly familiar, clich
Chess College - VOLUME 1 - Strategy
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0173GB
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Chess College - VOLUME 2 - Pawn Play
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice.
Chess College - VOLUME 2 - Pawn Play
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0174GB
Our Price: $9.95
Chess College - VOLUME 3 - Technique
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice.
Volume 3: Technique features topics including the central break, bishop vs. knight, standard sacrifices against the castled position, opposite-coloured bishops, and immobilization, and discussions on topics such as how to handle won positions and lost positions, and positions with small advantages, together with a wealth of training tips.
Volume 3: Technique features topics including the central break, bishop vs. knight, standard sacrifices against the castled position, opposite-coloured bishops, and immobilization, and discussions on topics such as how to handle won positions and lost positions, and positions with small advantages, together with a wealth of training tips.
Chess College - VOLUME 3 - Technique
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0175GB
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Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
This fundamental Russian-authored program on chess tactics revs up your game with more than 4,000 easy-to-follow training examples and exercises, classified by over 100 tactical methods and motifs.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
Catalog Code: WIN0029CV
Our Price: $32.95
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia is a fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
Catalog Code: WIN0129CV
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Chess Combinations for Club Players
Combinations for Club players is an indispensable training tool for club players. Improve your play by solving exercises with Combinations. Its ease of use let’s you focus on what matters most: your improvement.
Chess Combinations for Club Players
Catalog Code: WIN0094CV
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Chess Endgame Training
The program designed to teach you different endgame methods. Material written by IM ICCF Alexander Alpert.
Chess Endgame Training
Catalog Code: WIN0044CV
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Chess for Children
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by his pet alligator Kirsty, self-proclaimed Grand Alligator of chess.
Chess for Children
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
Catalog Code: B0157GB
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Chess for Zebras
Making the Most of White and Black
Making the Most of White and Black
In a strikingly original work, Rowson makes use of his academic background in philosophy and psychology to answer these questions in an entertaining and instructive way. This book assists all players in their efforts to improve, and provides fresh insights into the opening and early middlegame.
Chess for Zebras
Making the Most of White and Black
Catalog Code: B0108GB
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Chess Guide for Club Players
This is a course for club level chess players based on a textbook by distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev.
Chess Guide for Club Players
Catalog Code: WIN0126CV
Our Price: $28.95
Chess Guide for Intermediate Players
This is a course for intermediate players. It is based on a textbook by a distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev.
Chess Guide for Intermediate Players
Catalog Code: WIN0127CV
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Chess Middlegame Collection
These are unique chess software courses, in which five chess courses on the middlegame are put together.
Chess Middlegame Collection
Catalog Code: WIN0027CV
Our Price: $99.95
Chess Openings for Kids
Featuring 50 Mighty Opening Systems
Featuring 50 Mighty Opening Systems
For chess-players of all ages and abilities, it is vital to get off to a good start. This simple guide provides all the tips and ideas needed to play purposefully from move one. That's because these 50 Mighty Openings are the very ones used by chess masters and grandmasters to outwit opponents time and again. This book teaches the names and starting moves of all the main chess openings, and explains the basic ideas.
Chess Openings for Kids
Featuring 50 Mighty Opening Systems
Catalog Code: B0164GB
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Chess Package for Club Players
This new Chess Training Package for Club Players consists of five magnificent educational chess programs.
Chess Package for Club Players
Catalog Code: WIN0114CV
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Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard.
Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
Catalog Code: B0183GB
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Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Valeri Beim, an experienced trainer and grandmaster, explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess. His 'recipes' include: tactical ideas in the middlegame; liquidation to the endgame; the technique of analyzing variations; inverted thinking in chess. Readers are presented with new ways of looking at chessboard issues that will help them develop a deeper understanding of the game.
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Catalog Code: B0054GB
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Chess School for Beginners
Written by GM Yury Razuvaev, well-known GM and one of Anatoly Karpov’s coaches, this friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners.
Chess School for Beginners
Catalog Code: WIN0039CV
Our Price: $32.95
Chess Self-Improvement
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
Zenon Franco guides readers through 50 top-level games, challenges them to guess key moves correctly, and poses questions at critical moments. Points are awarded for good answers, and at the end of each game, a score-chart rates the reader's performance. This material has never appeared in the English language before, and represents the pick of monthly articles that Franco has written for a quarter of a century in Spanish-language magazines, revised and rechecked for this book.
Chess Self-Improvement
Assess and Improve Your Chess Strength
Catalog Code: B0121GB
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Chess Strategy 2.0
Chess Strategy 2.0 designed by GM Alexander Kalinin to teach students strategy and positional play, STRATEGY 2.0 is a significantly expanded version of the original Strategy, containing not only more exercises but also many new lessons not present in the first edition.
Chess Strategy 2.0
Catalog Code: WIN0036CV
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Chess Strategy 3.0
This chess software course is aimed at teaching the student much of the game's strategical methods and intricacies, using a theoretical section which includes over 450 games and lectures.
Chess Strategy 3.0
Catalog Code: WIN0119CV
Our Price: $31.95
Chess Strategy in Action
The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
John Watson fleshes out the theory presented to enormous acclaim in Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy and extends it into new areas. He illustrates the modern practice of chess with many examples from imaginative players such as Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk and tempestuous innovators such as Shirov and Morozevich.
Chess Strategy in Action
The Successor to the Best-Selling Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0011GB
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Chess Studies 2.0
With Chess Studies 2.0 you'll learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, especially chosen for their instructive value.
Chess Studies 2.0
Catalog Code: WIN0037CV
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Chess Tactics - LEVEL 1
This training program is designed for beginning chess players, those that have a basic understanding of the game of Chess.
Chess Tactics - LEVEL 1
Catalog Code: WIN0082CV
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Chess Tactics - LEVEL 2
For club players. The program includes 224 theoretical tactical weapons and 291 practical exercises, classified by tactical methods and motifs. In each theme exercises are given in order of rising difficulty to help in the learning process.
Chess Tactics - LEVEL 2
Catalog Code: WIN0083CV
Our Price: $29.95
