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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME I
Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine
Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but also of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. These magnificent compilations of chess form the basis of the first two parts of Garry Kasparov's work on the history of the World Chess Championship.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME I
Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine
Catalog Code: B0132EM
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME II
Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov and Tal
Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov and Tal
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles that have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME II
Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov and Tal
Catalog Code: B0133EM
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME III
Petrosian and Spassky
Petrosian and Spassky
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of the chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators.
This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play from this era to a rigorous analysis, the examination being enhanced by the use of the latest chess software.
This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play from this era to a rigorous analysis, the examination being enhanced by the use of the latest chess software.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME III
Petrosian and Spassky
Catalog Code: B0134EM
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Fischer
This book brings together the two greatest names in the history of chess. The author, Garry Kasparov, is the world number one and, by common consent, the greatest player ever. The subject of the book, Bobby Fischer, is the only American to have become world champion and is probably the greatest natural talent the world has ever seen.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Catalog Code: B0135EM
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Korchoi and Karpov
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the 1970's and early 1980's. This period was dominated by Anatoly Karpov (world champion from 1975-1985) and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by winning through the Candidates series in 1974. As is well known, Fischer refused to defend the title and in 1975 Karpov became champion by default. Although he did not have to contest a Championship match to gain the title, Karpov proved that he was a worthy champion by winning virtually every major tournament over the next decade.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Catalog Code: B0136EM
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 1
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected 74 of Kasparov's best and most instructive games from 1973 to 1993, and annotated them in detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves. Stohl provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points. This makes the book outstanding study material for all chess enthusiasts.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0069GB
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected the best and most instructive games from Kasparov's later years, and annotated them in great detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0070GB
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Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A collection of John Nunn's best games from 1994 to the present day, annotated in detail in the same style as the best-selling Understanding Chess Move by Move. Throughout, the emphasis is on what the reader can learn from each game, so the book is ideal study material for those seeking to progress to a higher level of chess understanding. There is also entertainment in abundance: Nunn has a direct aggressive style, and many of his opponents in these games are ambitious young grandmasters from the generation inspired by Kasparov's dynamic chess.
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
Catalog Code: B0099GB
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Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
Superb defensive technique is a hallmark of all great chess-players. With a few deft counterstrokes, they not only deflect what looked like an overwhelming offensive, but also expose the darker side of their opponent's build-up. Is this sheer black magic, or are these skills that ordinary players can develop?
Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack
A Step-By-Step Guide to Turning Defence into Victory
Catalog Code: B0136GB
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Grandmaster Secrets - Winning Quickly at Chess
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Grandmaster Secrets - Winning Quickly at Chess
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Catalog Code: B0012GB
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Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
There is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap. Similarly, there's nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the opening phase of the game, and many battles can be won or saved simply through learning and mastering the most important ones. In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back through chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favourite tricks and traps.
Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
Catalog Code: B0082EM
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
This is not just a book for kids - for 'Dad' read any opponent who beats you regularly! This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates - basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards. Each mating motif is carefully and simply explained, and several illustrative examples are given. A final test enables the reader to grade his pattern recognition abilities, and the last chapter explains what to do if your Dad is Garry Kasparov. Fun, instructive - and guaranteed to improve your game.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0056GB
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How to Calculate Chess Tactics
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate 'like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.
How to Calculate Chess Tactics
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
Catalog Code: B0080GB
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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 Play Chess Endgames
A Comprehensive Guide to Endgame Strategy
A Comprehensive Guide to Endgame Strategy
In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Muller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board.
How to Play Chess Endgames
A Comprehensive Guide to Endgame Strategy
Catalog Code: B0117GB
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How to Play Dynamic Chess
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. No piece is ever identically as valuable as any other, and their scope changes from move to move. The current generation of supergrandmasters plays unrelentingly dynamic chess, but a great deal of chess literature still deals with chess as if it were a predominantly static game. Much traditional chess teaching is based around rules of thumb that might work well 'on average' or in 'typical' situations, but these rules may not equip players for the specific and sometimes exceptional situations that they face in their games.
How to Play Dynamic Chess
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Catalog Code: B0123GB
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How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days.
How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
Explains How to Tame the Silicon Monsters and Use Them to Your Advantage
Catalog Code: B0061GB
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How to win at Chess - Quickly
Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game - at all levels of chess - but a key skill is to recognize these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency. This is a skill which Grandmaster Simon Williams addresses in this book. Using instructive and entertaining games in which one side wins quickly, he examines all the typical mistakes chess players make in the opening and early middlegame, how you should look to exploit them, and how to avoid falling into similar traps yourself.
How to win at Chess - Quickly
Catalog Code: B0312EM
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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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Improve Your Chess At Any Age
In August 2008 Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for an unrated player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an inspired decision; he exceeded all expectations and was rewarded with a FIDE international rating of 2199. This, however, was no overnight success; it was the result of systematic work. How did he achieve such outstanding improvement? The answer lies in this book.
Improve Your Chess At Any Age
Catalog Code: B0291EM
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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique.
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Catalog Code: B0116GB
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Its Your Move
This book provides the reader with a selection of puzzles to solve. However, unlike other books of the White to play and mate in three' variety, it simulates real game scenarios, offering readers a choice of tempting alternatives and requiring them to pick the best
Its Your Move
Catalog Code: B0093EM
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Its Your Move
Improvers
Improvers
In this highly original and instructive test yourself book Chris Ward invites readers to solve a selection of carefully chosen puzzles. In this, the second book in the 'It's Your Move' series, the positions are aimed at improving players, specifically the low level club players who are looking to hone their skills in order to climb further up the chess ladder.The reader is given a choice of five plausible plans for each position and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed.
Its Your Move
Improvers
Catalog Code: B0247EM
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Its Your Move Tough Puzzles
Feeling up to a challenge? In this highly original and instructive test yourself book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles for you to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players. The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed.
Its Your Move Tough Puzzles
Catalog Code: B0129EM
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Ivan Sokolov's Best Games
One of the best ways to improve is to study the games of a top Grandmaster, and Ivan Sokolov's uncompromising style and tactical flair make him a perfect role model. In this book Sokolov demonstrates the deadly effectiveness of his systems against openings such as the Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Gambit, Slav, and King's Indian.
Ivan Sokolov's Best Games
Catalog Code: B0218EM
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John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be.
John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Catalog Code: B0111GB
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Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels.
Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
Catalog Code: B0105GB
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Kramnik - Move by Move
Vladimir Kramnik is a giant of the chess world. He firmly secured his legendary status when he won the World Championship in 2000 by defeating the previously dominant Garry Kasparov - the only player ever to do so in a match. Kramnik held on to his crown for seven years, and today he remains one of the World's elite players. In this book, former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Kramnik games.
Kramnik - Move by Move
Catalog Code: B0359EM
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Learn Chess
A Gold Medal Winner Explains How to Play and Win at Chess
A Gold Medal Winner Explains How to Play and Win at Chess
Starting with the very basics, this book tells you everything you need to know to become a successful chess-player. No prior knowledge is assumed. The reader learns step-by-step, with each new point illustrated by clear examples. By the end of the book, the reader will be fully ready to take on opponents across the board, or on the Internet, and start winning. Dr John Nunn has built up a world-wide reputation for the outstanding clarity of his writings on a wide range of chess topics. This is his first book to tackle the fundamentals of chess.
Learn Chess
A Gold Medal Winner Explains How to Play and Win at Chess
Catalog Code: B0130GB
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Learn Chess Tactics
Discover the Secrets of How to Win Chess Games
Discover the Secrets of How to Win Chess Games
This book teaches basic tactical ideas such as the fork, pin, and discovered attack, and introduces general ideas such as elimination, immobilization and compulsion. A basic knowledge of simple tactics will enable a novice to start winning games, by giving checkmate or capturing material. As the player progresses, his tactical arsenal will broaden, and he will start to play sacrifices and combinations, and develop a deeper understanding of the game. Players who fail to study tactics systematically tend to suffer from tactical blind-spots that plague them throughout their playing career, and thus they fail to realize their full potential.
Learn Chess Tactics
Discover the Secrets of How to Win Chess Games
Catalog Code: B0134GB
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Lessons with a Grandmaster
Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko
Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko
Club players are unaware of the subtleties that exist in grandmaster chess. Grandmasters can analyse chess at a depth that is unfathomable to amateurs. Moreover, they have extensive knowledge of chess history and opening theory, as well extraordinary endgame technique and tactical vision. However, having reached such a high level can make it difficult to understand what is lacking in the mind of the amateur.
Lessons with a Grandmaster
Enhance Your Chess Strategy and Psychology with Boris Gulko
Catalog Code: B0326EM
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Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
This book is the much anticipated follow-up to the highly acclaimed and award-nominated Lessons with a Grandmaster.
Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Catalog Code: B0356EM
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Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Short Description for The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal - B0236EM
Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0236EM
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Magic of Mikhail Tal
Short Description for The Magic of Mikhail Tal - B0225EM
Magic of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0225EM
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Mastering Chess Strategy
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Mastering Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0310EM
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