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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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639 Essential Endgame Positions
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
From basic mates to sophisticated double-rook endgames, every important endgame concept is explained. Topics include every key combination of king and pawn endgames, bishops, knights, rooks, and queens, plus tricky endgames with no pawns. The thinking behind every position is explained in words, unlike diagram-only books.
639 Essential Endgame Positions
The Essential Guide to Closing Out and Winning Games
Catalog Code: B0011CZ
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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
Catalog Code: B0109EM
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Learn to think the same way Bobby Fischer did. This is the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable book on chess ever compiled. As the student, you start at the beginning and progressively develop your skills as you apply Bobby Fischer's principles and learn how to play Chess the Bobby way.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Catalog Code: B0011RH
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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
Catalog Code: B0203EM
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Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Reti, the best. Here are real games from match and tournament play, but endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art.
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
Catalog Code: B0021DV
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Chess Tactics Workbook
Learn to Command Your Chess Army!
Learn to Command Your Chess Army!
What makes this book different from the many other tactics books on the market is that it was written by a classroom teacher for other teachers. All the pages are formatted with a heading and perforated for easy use.
Chess Tactics Workbook
Learn to Command Your Chess Army!
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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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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Mastering Rook vs. Minor Pieces
Short Description for Mastering Rook Versus Minor Pieces - CB0016XX
Mastering Rook vs. Minor Pieces
Catalog Code: CB0016XX
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Mastering Tactical Ideas
For over 50 years, International Master Dr. Nikolay Minev has been playing, researching, writing, lecturing and teaching chess. In the first in a two-volume series, Mastering Tactical Ideas, we have a compilation of his best, award-winning articles written over a twelve year time span. We are presented with all the joy and emotion that Nikolay brings to his exploration of chess tactics.
Mastering Tactical Ideas
Catalog Code: CB0008XX
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Most Instructive Games of Young Grandmasters
Paul Motwani has selected the finest games of the brightest young stars of the 1990s-including Kramnik, Anand, Adams and Judit Polgar-and annotated them in his own inimitable style. Readers will be both inspired and delighted by the games and notes, which both impart instruction in painless fashion and shed light on the factors that have made these players such world-beaters. Written by a former World Under-17 Champion, this book features brilliant games by the greatest talents of modern chess and highlights instructive points from each game. Paul Motwani is a chess journalist, coach and teacher. He won the World Under-17 Championship in 1978, ahead of Short, Hjartarson and many other famous players. In the same year he became the youngest ever Scotish Champion-a title he has won on four subsequent occasions. He became Scotland's first grandmaster in 1992.
Most Instructive Games of Young Grandmasters
Catalog Code: B0185EM
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Nuremberg 1896
International Chess Tournament
International Chess Tournament
Notes to all the games plus two photos, bibliography, openings index, and tournament records of the contestants.
Nuremberg 1896
International Chess Tournament
Catalog Code: B0001CA
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Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
Advances Since Nimzowitsch
Advances Since Nimzowitsch
It is now seventy years since Nimzowitsch wrote his monumental work My System. While it remains a fundamental work on chess strategy, the way chess positions are handled has changed greatly since Nimzowitsch's time - both refinements to existing ideas, and completely new concepts.
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
Advances Since Nimzowitsch
Catalog Code: B0104GB
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Shady Side
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
A chronicle of America's most notorious chess master based on many of his own papers. Includes a detailed story of his life, his loves, his cons, and his many chess experiences in a 60+-year career. along with 570 of his games (some with full notes). Much US chess history and some excellent photos are a notable part of the book. NOTE: This book won the Chess Cafe 'Book of the Year' award for 2000.
Shady Side
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
Catalog Code: B0013CA
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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
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The Amateur's Mind
Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
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.
The Amateur's Mind
Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Catalog Code: B0003SI
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The King in Jeopardy
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 4
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 4
This chess classic has been praised by players and teachers alike. Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the attack and defense of the king, with hundreds of game illustrations, dozens of problems and exercises, and instructive explanations and solutions. These practical exercises take the reader from beginner to tournament-strength chess player.
The King in Jeopardy
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 4
Catalog Code: B0004LV
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The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time
A Top English Grandmaster Explains the 200 Most Astonishing and Insructive Moves in the History of Chess
A Top English Grandmaster Explains the 200 Most Astonishing and Insructive Moves in the History of Chess
Very occasionally, a chess move is played that astonishes the whole world. It may be a move of astounding complexity, unearthly beauty, deep paradox...or all three. The move is discussed and analyzed around the world as chess-players attempt to fathom both why the move works, and how on earth anyone thought of it in the first place. In this book, John Emms has selected, from hundreds of candidates, the 200 most amazing chess moves of all time.
The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time
A Top English Grandmaster Explains the 200 Most Astonishing and Insructive Moves in the History of Chess
Catalog Code: B0021GB
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The System
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
Hans Berliner is one of the most successful correspondence chess players of all time, and was utterly dominant in the 5th World Championship. Here, for the first time, he explains the set of principles - The System - that he used to guide him to the right moves. Readers will be astonished by the simplicity and power of Berliner's methods as he takes several major openings and subjects them to System principles, and finds radically new approaches to them.
The System
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
Catalog Code: B0098GB
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The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, From Beginner to Grandmaster
1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, From Beginner to Grandmaster
This book provides a wealth of puzzle positions to test just about every facet of your tactical skills. The puzzles in this book have been selected by analysing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions. It is very unlikely that even seasoned solvers will recognise many of these positions. Emms, by allying his skills with those of powerful computers, has also made every effort to ensure that the solutions are sound, and that there are no unmentioned alternative solutions.
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, From Beginner to Grandmaster
Catalog Code: B0072GB
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Three Hundred Chess Games
English Language Edition
English Language Edition
Grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch, in Three Hundred Chess Games, takes the combinational school of Paul Morphy and combines it with the positional school founded by Wilhelm Steinitz. The result is a powerful system of chess player utilitized by some of the greatest masters since the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Tarrasch's system reflects the entire store of knowledge of chess, up to the hypermodern era.
Three Hundred Chess Games
English Language Edition
Catalog Code: B0007HY
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Tips for Young Players
In the first half of this book, Sadler concentrates on establishing general principles for the opening, middlegame, and endgame. For instance, the section on the opening discusses the principles of good development, king safety, center occupation, and the initiative. Each section concludes with a summary of the important points and selection of exercises to help you see how much you've internalized before you go on.
Tips for Young Players
Catalog Code: B0259EM
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Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
Chess owes its extraordinary depth to pawns. These humble pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers, battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks of royalty. On the other hand, if mishandled, they can be weak and provide targets for enemy attack.
Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
A Grandmaster Shows How to Make the Most of Your Pawns
Catalog Code: B0002GB
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Winning Chess Strategy for Kids
Winning Chess Strategy for Kids is a fun and comprehensive chess course written for children 7 to 13 years old. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's a perfect guide for learning the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too.
Winning Chess Strategy for Kids
Catalog Code: B0024OB
Our Price: $29.95
