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10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
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10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
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A Guide to Chess Improvement
The Best of Novice Nook
The Best of Novice Nook
A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at a popular website. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: general improvement, thought processes, planning and strategy, tactics, endgame play, technique, time management and much more.
A Guide to Chess Improvement
The Best of Novice Nook
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Alexander Alekhine - Master of Attack
What separated Alexander Alekhine from the rest of his contemporaries? Why did he dominate the chess world for so long? The main reason was undoubtedly his brilliant attacking style of play. Alekhine had a combinative gift and thrilled the chess public and influenced every great chess player since. Garry Kasparov once said I fell in love with the rich complexity of his ideas at the chessboard. Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky.
Alexander Alekhine - Master of Attack
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Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
These pages reveal the secrets of his notebooks for the first time. IM Hawkins presents special material aimed to help you become a much better practical player, one armed with a deeper understanding of key aspects of chess.
Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
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American Grandmaster
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
In American Grandmaster, Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the 'Fischer boom' era thorough to an experienced Grandmaster with many titles, Benjamin is in a unique position to highlight the major changes that have occurred both in US and international chess throughout the last four decades.
American Grandmaster
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
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Analyse Your Chess
Leading chess author Colin Crouch believes that the key to sustained chess improvement lies in the critical analysis and assessment of your own games. Each and every game you play provides a significant learning opportunity, and this opportunity should never be squandered.
Analyse Your Chess
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Art of Attack in Chess
One of the finest chess books ever written, now revised in algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. It has been updated by legendary author GM John Nunn. Still one of the great classics ever written on tactics.
Art of Attack in Chess
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Attack with Mikhail Tal
The legendary Mikhail Tal was the finest ever exponent of attacking chess. His all-out sacrificial style took him all the way to the World Championship title. Dogged by ill-health, Tal's reign was a short one, and he was never able to regain his crown, but Tal remained an outstanding player right up to his death in 1992. His departure has taken away one of the chess world's most charismatic figures; a player who excited chess passions wherever he went.
Attack with Mikhail Tal
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Bobby Fischer His Approach
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Bobby Fischer His Approach
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Brain Games World Chess Championship 2000
The Official Inside Story of Vladimir Kramnik's Sensational Match Win Against Garry Kasparov
The Official Inside Story of Vladimir Kramnik's Sensational Match Win Against Garry Kasparov
Grandmaster Ray Keene, chess impresario, broadcaster and writer, has been responsible for organising more world championship matches outside the USSR than any other person in the history of official contests. In 1986 he brought Kasparov and Karpov together and in 1993 Kasparov and Short. Finally, in 2000, after a five year gap with no world title match, Keene raised 2 million dollars to persuade Kasparov to defend his title in London against the rising Russian star Vladimir Kramnik. To almost universal surprise Kramnik toppled Kasparov after his 15 year reign and won with relative ease. He became World Champion without losing a single game, a feat not accomplished since Capablanca defeated Lasker in 1921.
Brain Games World Chess Championship 2000
The Official Inside Story of Vladimir Kramnik's Sensational Match Win Against Garry Kasparov
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Break the Rules!
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
In this instructive and entertaining book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald studies in depth the key components of successful rule-breaking in chess. Drawing upon his own experience and using examples from modern grandmaster chess, McDonald examines how to avoid stereotypical thinking, how to exploit typical thinking patterns, and how to confuse and beat opponents with surprising ideas.
Break the Rules!
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
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Can you be a Tactical Genius?
Test your tactical chess skills with a quiz book with a difference! Grandmaster James Plaskett, a player of distinguished tactical ability, has carefully assembled an abundance of tactical chess puzzles to test players of all levels. At the beginning of each chapter the puzzles are relatively easy, worth five points for a correct solution. However as you move on they become more and more difficult, soon becoming worth ten points and eventually 15.
Can you be a Tactical Genius?
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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
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Capablanca - Move by Move
Jose Raul Capablanca is a chess legend, world champion and quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements and seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers, and his legacy includes a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablanca's play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala, it was a key factor in his chess development and improvement, and in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games.
Capablanca - Move by Move
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Checkmate My First Chess Book
Learn to play the great game of chess with none other than Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as your teacher. Discover all the various pieces - the king, the queen, the knights, the bishops and the pawns. Find out how the pieces move, the values of the chessmen, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, how to employ special moves such as castling, how to write the moves down and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.
Checkmate My First Chess Book
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Checkmate! Tactics
Would you now like to know how to regularly beat your opponents and move to the next level? If so, then Checkmate Tactics is the book for you.
Checkmate! Tactics
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Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning in the Middlegame
Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks - the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to little-known gems of Russian chess, the author challenges you to form your own impression and then see how the masters honed in on the key elements to achieve victory, or neglected them and went down to defeat.
Chess Blueprints
Planning in the Middlegame
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Chess Brilliancy
219 Historic Games from the Masters What do we understand by brilliancy in chess? The author delves back into history to examine how this concept has developed, before presenting a dazzling array of brilliant games from the past few decades - the prize-winners as selected by grandmaster panels for each issue of Yugoslav 'Chess Informator' between 1968 and 1998. Apart from providing hours of pleasure, a study of these masterpieces will also surely help to add sparkle to your own play!
Chess Brilliancy
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
Move, Attack and Capture
is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 1
Move, Attack and Capture
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
Simple Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 2
Simple Checkmates
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Checkmates with Many Pieces
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chess players, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 3
Checkmates with Many Pieces
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
Elementary Endgames
In this fourth volume, Elementary Endgames, the student will: 1) learn how to deliver fundamental checkmates such as a king and a rook against a lone king; 2) discover how to avoid stalemating the opposing king, and how to induce stalemate when threatened with checkmate; and 3) develop not only an understanding of concepts such as passed pawns and king opposition, but also a sense of confidence in the final phase of the game.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 4
Elementary Endgames
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
Two-Move Checkmates
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 5
Two-Move Checkmates
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Opening Tactics
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
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Chess Duels
My Games with the World Champions
My Games with the World Champions
Four-time US Champion Yasser Seirawan provides a fascinating and highly entertaining account of his games and encounters with the world champions of chess including: Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Max Euwe. Having been involved in frequent battles against world champions over a 25-year period, Seirawan is in an ideal position to reveal how it really feels to be facing the legends of the game. He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters - both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chessplayers of the last 50 years.
Chess Duels
My Games with the World Champions
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Chess Endings Essential Knowledge
By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game.
Chess Endings Essential Knowledge
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Chess for Dummies
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
Chess For Dummies is your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess.
Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game.
Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game.
Chess for Dummies
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
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Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
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Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
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Chess Fundamentals
This is a reprint of the original "Chess Fundamentals" by Capablanca, as first published in 1921 and only a preface added by Capablanca in 1934. The reader here can feel confident that this reprint contains the exact, complete words of Capablanca. Unlike other reprints, not one word has been changed or omitted.
Chess Fundamentals
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Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!
Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
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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
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Chess Secrets - Great Attackers
Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein
Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein
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Chess Secrets - Great Attackers
Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein
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Chess Secrets - Heroes of Classical Chess
Learn from Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Smyslov and Rubinstein
Learn from Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Smyslov and Rubinstein
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Chess Secrets - Heroes of Classical Chess
Learn from Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Smyslov and Rubinstein
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Power Play
Learn from Topalov, Geller, Bronstein, Alekhine and Morphy
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
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