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    Chess Bitch
    Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
    Chess Bitch, written by the 2004 U.S. Woman's Chess Champion, is an eye-opening account of how today's young female chess players are successfully knocking down the doors to this traditionally male game, infiltrating the male-owned sporting subculture of international chess, and giving the phrase "play like a girl" a whole new meaning.
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    Chess Bitch
    Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
    Catalog Code: B0004SI
    Our Price: $23.95

    Complete Book of Chess Strategy
    Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
    An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy -- conceptual planning -- has always been the amateur's dream. This book makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength.
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    Complete Book of Chess Strategy
    Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
    Catalog Code: B0002SI
    Our Price: $18.95

    Endgame Analysis
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
    Mark Dvoretsky is regarded as the leading chess coach in the world, and the first book in his School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to the endgame. He analyzes a wide range of positions, and his comments are packed with advice. Special test positions and frequent questions ensure the reader's participation.
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    Endgame Analysis
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
    Catalog Code: B0001OE
    Our Price: $34.95

    Fighting Chess with Hikaru Nakamura
    This is the very first book to focus exclusively on Hikaru Nakamura, the greatest American chess player since the legendary Bobby Fischer.
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    Fighting Chess with Hikaru Nakamura
    Catalog Code: B0019OE
    Our Price: $29.95

    Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen
    This book presents detailed annotations to 64 of Carlsen's best games, together with a description of his career. Also examined are the deficiencies from which he suffered as a young player, and how he overcame these on his way to the top.
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    Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen
    Catalog Code: B0018OE
    Our Price: $29.95

    How to Reassess Your Chess - 4TH EDITION
    Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances
    How to Reassess Your Chess has long been considered a modern classic. Now this fourth, and final edition completely rewritten and featuring all new example stakes Silman's groundbreaking concept of imbalances to a whole new level.
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    How to Reassess Your Chess - 4TH EDITION
    Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances
    Catalog Code: B0007SI
    Our Price: $29.95

    How to Reassess Your Chess - WORKBOOK
    How to Master Chess Imbalances
    In this large workbook, a stand-alone companion to How to Reassess Your Chess, Jeremy Silman provides 131 problems designed to test a player's strengths and weaknesses. These problems cover openings, middlegames (both positional and tactical) and endgames. As a player completes one of these problems, he or she may then turn to Mr. Silman's answer, which is always detailed yet never dry.
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    How to Reassess Your Chess - WORKBOOK
    How to Master Chess Imbalances
    Catalog Code: B0006SI
    Our Price: $19.95

    LIMITED EDITION - How to Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition - AUTOGRAPHED BY JEREMY SILMAN
    Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances
    For a limited time purchase the special autographed, collector's edition of Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition, in hardcover version and get the author's commemorative t-shirt free! This offer is limited to the first 100 customers!
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    LIMITED EDITION - How to Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition - AUTOGRAPHED BY JEREMY SILMAN
    Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances
    Catalog Code: B0008SI
    Our Price: $49.95

    Pal Benko
    My Life, Games and Compositions
    Grandmaster Pal Benko is a chess legend: A challenger for the World Championship, an innovator of many modern opening systems, a problem composer par excellence, and a father figure to his close friend Bobby Fischer, Benko has played and defeated most of the top players of the last fifty years. This biography is a celebration of a great man's creative legacy.
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    Pal Benko
    My Life, Games and Compositions
    Catalog Code: B0005SI
    Our Price: $44.95

    Secret Notes
    David Bronstein, one of the world's great players of the 20th century, drew a match for the world championship and was victorious in numerous international events. He was also one of the most original thinkers in the history of chess: rapidplay tournaments, clocks with the addition of a certain time after every move, his own version of random chess - these are just a few of the ideas that have sprung from his fertile imagination.
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    Secret Notes
    Catalog Code: B0005OE

    Regular Price: $34.95

    Special Price: $13.98


    Secrets of Chess Training
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
    The world's top trainer, Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov, present a five-volume series based on courses given to talented young players throughout the world. The books contain contributions by other leading trainers and grandmasters, as well as games by pupils who have attended the courses.
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    Secrets of Chess Training
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
    Catalog Code: B0006OE
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    Secrets of Creative Thinking
    Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 5
    In this final volume of the series, the authors deal with various creative aspects, such as the calculation of variations and the development of intuition. It also explores the psychology of taking decisions, both when attacking and when defending.
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    Secrets of Creative Thinking
    Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 5
    Catalog Code: B0016OE
    Our Price: $39.95

    Secrets of Endgame Technique
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 3
    Proper technique is central to executing successful endgame play. This instructional guide provides information on how to study the endgame and analyze endgame positions. It also illustrates the highly important technique of converting an advantage.
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    Secrets of Endgame Technique
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 3
    Catalog Code: B0008OE
    Our Price: $39.95

    Secrets of Positional Play
    Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 4
    The main theme of Volume 4 is "prophylaxis", a concept first expounded by Nimzowitsch and one which has been brilliantly developed by Mark Dvoretsky and his pupils. The art of positional play is explained in terms of planning, maneuvering, the study of typical positions, and deep strategy in grandmaster games.
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    Secrets of Positional Play
    Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 4
    Catalog Code: B0015OE
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    Silman's Complete Endgame Course
    A Revolutionary Book on Chess Endgames, Designed to Ensure that Players Understand Everything They Need to Know at their Rating Levels, and Prepare them to Advance to the Next Level
    For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels. Silman's Complete Endgame Course, by famed writer and player Jeremy Silman, is the one and only endgame book you'll need as you move up the ladder from beginner to strong tournament player and finally to master.
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    Silman's Complete Endgame Course
    A Revolutionary Book on Chess Endgames, Designed to Ensure that Players Understand Everything They Need to Know at their Rating Levels, and Prepare them to Advance to the Next Level
    Catalog Code: B0001SI
    Our Price: $24.95

    Strategic Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
    This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding.
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    Strategic Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
    Catalog Code: B0003OE
    Our Price: $34.95

    Tactical Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 2
    In this second book in his School of Chess Excellence series, Mark Dvoretsky looks at combinations and tactical techniques and suggests methods for developing a player's ability to calculate.
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    Tactical Play
    School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 2
    Catalog Code: B0002OE
    Our Price: $34.95

    The Amateur's Mind
    Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
    This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a significant gain in strength. Most amateurs possess erroneous thinking processes that remain with them throughout their chess lives.
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    The Amateur's Mind
    Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
    Catalog Code: B0003SI
    Our Price: $19.95

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