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Play Winning Chess
An Introduction to the Moves, Strategies, and Philosophy of Chess from one of the World's Top Chess Players
An Introduction to the Moves, Strategies, and Philosophy of Chess from one of the World's Top Chess Players
'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorize the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummeling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do on holidays, the real purpose of this book is to teach you to understand the four major principles of my Seirawan method: force, time, space and pawn structure. Each is easy to understand and each is a weapon that will enable you to defeat most anyone you challenge to a game' -Yasser Seirawan
Play Winning Chess
An Introduction to the Moves, Strategies, and Philosophy of Chess from one of the World's Top Chess Players
Catalog Code: B0197EM
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Positional Sacrifices
Most competitive players are very familiar with the idea of a sacrificial checkmating attack, but the positional sacrifice has been strangely neglected. By means of a subtle positional sacrifice, a player can sometimes fundamentally alter the course of a game in his or her favor. In this instructive and entertaining book International Master Neil McDonald demonstrates just how effective well-executed positional sacrifices are. Topics covered include sacrifices to open lines for the pieces, sacrifices as a defensive weapon, the exchange sacrifice, the psychology of sacrifice and much more.
Positional Sacrifices
Catalog Code: B0183EM
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Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
The Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter
The Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter
The Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter!
Welcome to a new type of endgame book. A book that includes...
The most common endgames you will ever encounter.
Examinations of material balances you will reach in almost half of your games.
Over 500 pages of grandmaster advice and analysis, assisted by the latest computer software.
Welcome to a new type of endgame book. A book that includes...
The most common endgames you will ever encounter.
Examinations of material balances you will reach in almost half of your games.
Over 500 pages of grandmaster advice and analysis, assisted by the latest computer software.
Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
The Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter
Catalog Code: B0148EM
Our Price: $32.95
Practical Endgame Play - Master the Basics
The Essential Guide to Endgame Fundamentals
The Essential Guide to Endgame Fundamentals
The Essential Guide to Endgame Fundamentals.
How can you improve your chess? It's not by chance that the top players say: 'Study the endgame!' This is because a great number of encounters reach the endgame, and studying these positions will teach you how to convert winning positions, and how to save or even overturn inferior ones. Moreover, it's a well-known fact that studying endgames undoubtedly enhances other aspects of your play.
How can you improve your chess? It's not by chance that the top players say: 'Study the endgame!' This is because a great number of encounters reach the endgame, and studying these positions will teach you how to convert winning positions, and how to save or even overturn inferior ones. Moreover, it's a well-known fact that studying endgames undoubtedly enhances other aspects of your play.
Practical Endgame Play - Master the Basics
The Essential Guide to Endgame Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0146EM
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Practical Middlegame Techniques
2nd Edition - 2012
2nd Edition - 2012
This book is aimed at the player who wants to improve his or her understanding of the most important middlegame concepts.
Practical Middlegame Techniques
2nd Edition - 2012
Catalog Code: B0261EM
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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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Quick Chess Knockouts
Julian Hodgson, Grandmaster and twice British Champion Julian Hodgson, with easy to understand move by move commentary, explains to less-skilled players how they can finish off their opponents in the very early stages of the game. By setting the cunning traps presented here, the reader will be given the opportunity - and satisfaction! - of scoring chess knockouts in double-quick time against friends and rivals alike.
Quick Chess Knockouts
Catalog Code: B0175EM
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Quickest Chess Victories of All Time
This book contains a comprehensive collection of the shortest decisive games in chess history. It is an indispensable guide to the pitfalls and traps that lurk in every opening system. An ability to punish errors in the opening is an essential aspect of modern opening play. All too often players fail to seize their chances to win a crisp miniature game. The thousands of games featured in this book show how to detect the opponent's errors and take maximum advantage. The text includes an outstanding and comprehensive collection of games won in 13 moves or fewer, as well as explanations of the errors made and how to avoid them.
Quickest Chess Victories of All Time
Catalog Code: B0213EM
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Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
Rapid Chess Improvement
Catalog Code: B0144EM
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Rules of Winning Chess
Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own - they make it look all too easy!
Rules of Winning Chess
Catalog Code: B0287EM
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Russians vs. Fischer
This magnificent volume contains the extraordinary story of the prolonged battle between Bobby Fischer, the lone American genius who is perhaps the most famous chess player of all time, and the long-standing and all-dominating Soviet chess machine. For the first time readers will be able to view virtually all the secret documents on ,'the Fischer problem', many of which have never previously been published. These include papers from the archives of the KGB, the Communist Party Central Committee, the USSR Sports Committee and the Chess Federation.
Russians vs. Fischer
Catalog Code: B0139EM
Our Price: $34.95
Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Friedgood shared their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game. Moreover, they demonstrated how this fascinating subject could be analysed, and how it could help players to improve both their understanding and practical play.
Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Catalog Code: B0096EM
Our Price: $24.95
SHOPWORN - 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
Short Description for 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess - B0305EM
SHOPWORN - 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
Catalog Code: SWB0305EM
Our Price: $13.50
SHOPWORN - 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.
SHOPWORN - American Grandmaster
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
Catalog Code: SWB0228EM
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SHOPWORN - Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Short Description for Chess For Rookies - B0279EM
SHOPWORN - Chess For Rookies
Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
Catalog Code: SWB0279EM
Our Price: $11.00
SHOPWORN - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Short Description for Chess Secrets : Giants of Strategy - B0268EM
SHOPWORN - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Catalog Code: SWB0268EM
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SHOPWORN - Creative Chess
Most chess books aim to guide and instruct by offering principles, rules, schemes and theories. Creative Chess, on the other hand, has a quite different and original approach. It firmly maintains that every chessplayer, whether amateur or master, is capable of creating something new in chess. After a discussion of the characteristics and processes of creativity, 10 central concepts, such as unusual positioning and functioning of pieces, alertness to subtle differences, absurd moves, and flexibility, are presented with a wealth of truly amazing examples to encourage the reader to broaden the horizons of his chess thinking.
SHOPWORN - Creative Chess
Catalog Code: SWB0078EM
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SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the participants who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long matches for the World Championship. This 3rd volume of the 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.
SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Catalog Code: SWB0272EM
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SHOPWORN - How to win at Chess
Quickly!
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.
SHOPWORN - How to win at Chess
Quickly!
Catalog Code: SWB0312EM
Our Price: $13.50
SHOPWORN - Practical Endgame Play
Beyond the Basics
Beyond the Basics
The Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter!
Welcome to a new type of endgame book. A book that includes...
The most common endgames you will ever encounter.
Examinations of material balances you will reach in almost half of your games.
Over 500 pages of grandmaster advice and analysis, assisted by the latest computer software.
Welcome to a new type of endgame book. A book that includes...
The most common endgames you will ever encounter.
Examinations of material balances you will reach in almost half of your games.
Over 500 pages of grandmaster advice and analysis, assisted by the latest computer software.
SHOPWORN - Practical Endgame Play
Beyond the Basics
Catalog Code: SWB0148EM
Our Price: $16.50
SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
Catalog Code: SWB0144EM
Our Price: $10.00
SHOPWORN - Rules of Winning Chess
Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own - they make it look all too easy!
SHOPWORN - Rules of Winning Chess
Catalog Code: SWB0287EM
Our Price: $13.50
SHOPWORN - Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Friedgood shared their joy and appreciation of chess beauty, engulfing readers with a wealth of amazing and magnificent examples from the aesthetic side of the game. Moreover, they demonstrated how this fascinating subject could be analysed, and how it could help players to improve both their understanding and practical play.
SHOPWORN - Secrets of Spectacular Chess 2
Catalog Code: SWB0096EM
Our Price: $12.50
SHOPWORN - True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board, International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
SHOPWORN - True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Catalog Code: SWB0106EM
Our Price: $12.50
SHOPWORN - Who Dares Win?
Attacking the Kings on Opposite Sides
Attacking the Kings on Opposite Sides
Both players are gunning for each other's kings. Whose attack will break through first? This is a typical scenario in chess games. In such tense battles where one slip can be fatal, often it's a case of 'who dares wins'. But it's not enough to throw your pieces up the board and hope for the best. To succeed you need to acquire sophisticated attacking and defensive skills. The good news is that they can easily be learned, remembered and put into practice.
SHOPWORN - Who Dares Win?
Attacking the Kings on Opposite Sides
Catalog Code: SWB0294EM
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SHOPWORN - Why We Lose at Chess
The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate these mistakes from our game, or at least keep them to an absolute minimum?
SHOPWORN - Why We Lose at Chess
Catalog Code: SWB0303EM
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SHOPWORN - Winning Chess Endings
Endgame-Winning Moves, Strategies and Philosophy from One of the World's Best Chess Players
Endgame-Winning Moves, Strategies and Philosophy from One of the World's Best Chess Players
Approach every endgame with a winning strategy! Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. WINNING CHESS ENDINGS is a great one, a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with confidence whenever a game goes the distance. You'll learn to prevail time and again in endgames with common and uncommon combinations and pieces.
SHOPWORN - Winning Chess Endings
Endgame-Winning Moves, Strategies and Philosophy from One of the World's Best Chess Players
Catalog Code: SWB0198EM
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Soviet Championship
Starting in 1920 and running through to the early 1990s, when the political break-up of the USSR meant the end of the competition, the prestigious Soviet Championships were truly representative events with all of the top Soviet players participating. Because of the enormous State support for the game in the old USSR, these Championships were usually gladiatorial, all-play-all contests lasting weeks, and the Grandmasters represented the elite of World Chess. Alekhine, Botvinnik, Keres, Bronstein, Tal, Petrosian, Korchnoi, Geller, Stein, Spassky, Karpov, and Kasparov were all winners at least once, and the tournaments have gone down in legend for the quality and creative inspiration of the gam
Soviet Championship
Catalog Code: B0141EM
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Starting Out - Attacking Play
How to Set Up And Executive Decisive Attacks
How to Set Up And Executive Decisive Attacks
Attacking the opponent's king is one of the most exhilarating aspects of chess, but also one of the most difficult to master. Everyone loves a good old-fashioned king hunt, especially when it leads to checkmate, but often the pressure is very much on the aggressor-one false move and the attack can often fizzle out into less than nothing, leaving the attacker with an empty shell of a position.
Starting Out - Attacking Play
How to Set Up And Executive Decisive Attacks
Catalog Code: B0005EM
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Starting Out - Chess Tactics and Checkmates
Once a chess player has figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step on the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides players with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics.
Starting Out - Chess Tactics and Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0001EM
Our Price: $23.95
Starting Out - Defensive Play
In this valuable and entertaining book, Angus Dunnington arms the reader with all the necessary skills to be able to cope with vicious assaults on his or her king. Using illustrative games, Dunnington investigates in depth defensive ideas such as blockading, giving up material and the timely launch of counterattacks. Read this book and defend with confidence!
Starting Out - Defensive Play
Catalog Code: B0010EM
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Starting Out - In Chess
International Master Byron Jacobs provides newcomers to the chess with a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles of the game. In this book he takes the novice player to the standard at which they can enjoy a friendly or competitive game. Learn chess from scratch or brush up on the basics.
Starting Out - In Chess
Catalog Code: B0042EM
Our Price: $12.95
Starting Out - Minor Piece Endgames
In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster and renowned endgame expert John Emms concentrates on the absolute fundamentals of minor piece endings and slowly but surely arms the reader with the essential knowledge and confidence to move onto slightly trickier positions.
Starting Out - Minor Piece Endgames
Catalog Code: B0008EM
Our Price: $17.95
Starting Out - Pawn Endgames
Endgames involving only kings and pawns are the most fundamental of all chess positions, and a firm understanding of them is required in order to become confident of tackling more complex endings that preceded them. In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster and distinguished endgames expert Glenn Flear focuses on the very basics of pawn endings.
Starting Out - Pawn Endgames
Catalog Code: B0007EM
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Starting Out - Rook Endgames
In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster and well-known endgames expert Chris Ward begins with the absolute fundamentals of rook endgames. He gradually arms the reader with the indispensable knowledge and confidence needed to move onto slightly trickier positions. Using examples from practical play, Ward highlights the correct plans as well as the typical mistakes made by both attacker and defender.
Starting Out - Rook Endgames
Catalog Code: B0009EM
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Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Matthew Sadler is one of the UK's strongest ever players. He became a grandmaster at 19, won the British Championship twice and, amongst other amazing achievements, made a gold medal winning score of 101/2/13 on board four for England in the 1996 chess Olympiad.
Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Catalog Code: B0357EM
Our Price: $26.95
