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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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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 Tactics
A mastery of tactics is essential to a competitive chess player and Lev Psakhis is ideally qualified to show the way. In Advanced Chess Tactics Psakhis showcases many beautiful attacking games to make his points. Psakhis has the ability to explain deep analysis while also offering simple yet wise tips gleaned from his lifetime of experience.
Advanced Chess Tactics
Catalog Code: B0061QT
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Attacking Manual - VOLUME 1
British Champion Jacob Aagaard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage) in an accessible and entertaining style. This groundbreaking work is well balanced between easily understandable examples, exercises and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this book will surely not disappoint. Volume I deals with bringing all the pieces into the action, momentum, colour schemes, strongest and weakest points, evolution/revolution.
Attacking Manual - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0014QT
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Attacking Manual - VOLUME 2
British Champion Jacob Aagaard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage) in an accessible and entertaining style. This groundbreaking work is well balanced between easily understandable examples, exercises and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this book will surely not disappoint.
Attacking Manual - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0034QT
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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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Boost Your Chess 3
Boost your Chess 3 continues Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess improvement. The Fundamentals series showed players the basic ideas they should know. The Beyond the Basics series set off on the road to mastery, and now in the Mastery series we arrive at our final destination. Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice.
Boost Your Chess 3
Catalog Code: B0045QT
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Build Up Your Chess - VOLUME 1
The Fundamentals
The Fundamentals
A book for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Build Up Your Chess - VOLUME 1
The Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0015QT
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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
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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 Evolution 1 - The Fundamentals
Chess Evolution 1 concludes Artur Yusupov's award-winning instructional series. Chess Evolution 1 is at the Fundamentals level, which shows chess players the basic ideas they should know as they set off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Chess Evolution 1 - The Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0056QT
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Chess Evolution 2 - Beyond the Basics
The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Chess Evolution 2 - Beyond the Basics
Catalog Code: B0066QT
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Chess Evolution 3 - Mastery
This volume completes Artur Yusupov's course of chess improvement. The Fundamentals series showed players the basic ideas they should know. The Beyond the Basics series set off on the road to mastery, and now in the Mastery series we have arrived at our final destination. Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Chess Evolution 3 - Mastery
Catalog Code: B0074QT
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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 Kids and Parents
It is widely accepted that learning chess has a very positive effect on children. Many parents want to help their children to study chess, but don't know how to do it. This book is the solution. It is a practical handbook that teaches the mysteries of chess with a light touch.
Chess for Kids and Parents
Catalog Code: B0004QT
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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 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 Praxis
A supplement to the Chess player's handbook, containing all the most important modern improvements in the openings, illustrated by actual games; a revised code of chess laws; and a collection of Mr. Morphy's matches, &c., in England and France.
Chess Praxis
Catalog Code: B0007QT
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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 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 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 Tactics for Kids
50 Tricky Tactics to Outwit Your Opponent
50 Tricky Tactics to Outwit Your Opponent
Chess enthusiasts of all ages and levels will find this book an instructive delight. In a simple, easy-to-understand format it explains how to bamboozle your chess opponents using commonly occurring tactical motifs. The illustrative positions, all taken from real games, show the 50 Tricky Tactics that experienced chess masters use to win their games. Recognizing frequently-occurring tactical ideas is vital to success in chess. One of the fastest and most enjoyable ways to improve at chess is by learning these thematic manoeuvres. Beginners will benefit from the clear explanation of basic concepts, such as how to utilise a fork, pin, or skewer. Advanced players will delight in the many devious middlegame tricks - some classified here for the first time - which can catch out even grandmasters.
Chess Tactics for Kids
50 Tricky Tactics to Outwit Your Opponent
Catalog Code: B0170GB
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Chess Tactics from Scratch - 2ND EDITION
Understanding Chess Tactics
Understanding Chess Tactics
These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself. But Weteschnik was not completely satisfied with the book and decided to restructure and rewrite it completely.
Chess Tactics from Scratch - 2ND EDITION
Understanding Chess Tactics
Catalog Code: B0062QT
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Decision Making at the Chessboard
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
Chess is a game of decisions. As well as deciding about which move to play and which plan to adopt, players must also make practical decisions about how to use their clock time and whether to use intuition rather than trying to calculate every line to a finish.
Decision Making at the Chessboard
An Experienced Grandmaster Penetrates to the Heart of the Chess Thought-Process
Catalog Code: B0118GB
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Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
This book tackles fundamental questions such as: 'How should pawns be used to fight for the centre?' and 'How does the central pawn formation affect planning for both sides?' These issues are central to understanding chess. Marovic discusses central pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the centre and on the wings.
Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
Catalog Code: B0066GB
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Essential Chess Sacrifices
A Guide to the Sacrifices that are most Fundamental to Understanding Chess
A Guide to the Sacrifices that are most Fundamental to Understanding Chess
>Sacrifices are an essential part of chess. Those who never consider sacrificing will miss countless opportunities and find that promising positions repeatedly slip away. Players who do not appreciate their opponents' sacrificial possibilities will be unable to see danger signs, and find themselves on the wrong end of too many king-hunts. Rather than merely cataloguing the various possibilities and providing examples, LeMoir discusses the possible follow-ups to the sacrifices, the defensive options against them, and the positional factors that might suggest whether the sacrifice will be sound or unsound.
Essential Chess Sacrifices
A Guide to the Sacrifices that are most Fundamental to Understanding Chess
Catalog Code: B0053GB
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Foundations of Chess Strategy
Applying Business Methods to Chess Preparation and Training
Applying Business Methods to Chess Preparation and Training
Chess is a game where profound strategic thinking must be allied with clever short-term tactics. Most previous works on strategy focus on specific aspects of chess strategy, but Lars Bo Hansen's aims here are different. He creates a framework in which the various elements can be systematically included and organized - a framework that will help chess-players to think about chess strategy during practical play.
Foundations of Chess Strategy
Applying Business Methods to Chess Preparation and Training
Catalog Code: B0058GB
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Fundamental Chess Endings
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
In a major event in chess publishing, two German endgame experts have produced a masterly one-volume encyclopaedia that covers all major endgames. This is the first truly modern one-volume endgame encyclopaedia. It makes full use of endgame tablebases and analytical engines that access these tablebases; where previous authors could only make educated guesses, Muller and Lamprecht have often been able to state the definitive truth, or get much closer to it.
Fundamental Chess Endings
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
Catalog Code: B0109GB
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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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