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    REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
    How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
    In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.
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    REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
    How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
    Catalog Code: B0009RM
    Our Price: $14.95

    REMAINDER - How Life Imitates Chess
    Makes the Right Moves - From the Board to the Boardroom
    Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy.
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    REMAINDER - How Life Imitates Chess
    Makes the Right Moves - From the Board to the Boardroom
    Catalog Code: B0004RM
    Our Price: $7.95

    SHOPWORN - 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
    Short Description for 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess - B0305EM
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    SHOPWORN - 10 Great Ways To Get Better At Chess
    Catalog Code: SWB0305EM
    Our Price: $13.50

    SHOPWORN - American Grandmaster
    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.
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    SHOPWORN - American Grandmaster
    Four Decades of Chess Adventures
    Catalog Code: SWB0228EM
    Our Price: $12.50

    SHOPWORN - Chess For Rookies
    Learn To Play, Win and Enjoy!
    Short Description for Chess For Rookies - B0279EM
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    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
    Short Description for Chess Secrets : Giants of Strategy - B0268EM
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    SHOPWORN - Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
    Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
    Catalog Code: SWB0268EM
    Our Price: $12.50

    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.
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    SHOPWORN - Creative Chess
    Catalog Code: SWB0078EM
    Our Price: $10.00

    SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
    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.
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    SHOPWORN - Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME III
    Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
    Catalog Code: SWB0272EM
    Our Price: $22.50

    SHOPWORN - How to win at Chess
    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.
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    SHOPWORN - How to win at Chess
    Quickly!
    Catalog Code: SWB0312EM
    Our Price: $13.50

    SHOPWORN - Practical Endgame Play
    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.
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    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".
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    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!
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    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.
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    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, 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.
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    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
    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.
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    SHOPWORN - Who Dares Win?
    Attacking the Kings on Opposite Sides
    Catalog Code: SWB0294EM
    Our Price: $13.50

    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?
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    SHOPWORN - Why We Lose at Chess
    Catalog Code: SWB0303EM
    Our Price: $13.50

    SHOPWORN - Winning Chess Endings
    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.
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    SHOPWORN - Winning Chess Endings
    Endgame-Winning Moves, Strategies and Philosophy from One of the World's Best Chess Players
    Catalog Code: SWB0198EM
    Our Price: $12.50

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