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Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 1
Fundamentals of the Game
Fundamentals of the Game
Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can learn tactics and strategies that improve their play.
Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 1
Fundamentals of the Game
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Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
Beyond the Basics
Beyond the Basics
Quite simply, the quickest way to learn chess the right way. Great is the disappointment to the library patron who browses for a chess instructional and finds only picked-over bones from the pre-Fischer, pre-Kasparov eras. These books by a U.S. champion and a chess magazine editor offer something more. A range of abilities, from novice to entrants in a local tournament, can learn tactics and strategies that improve their play.
Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters - VOLUME 2
Beyond the Basics
Catalog Code: B0011LV
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Simple Chess
New Algebraic Edition
New Algebraic Edition
Written by a young Grand Master, this introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at players for whom a game plan is utterly enigmatic. By isolating the basic elements and illustrating them through a selection of Master and Grand Master games, Simple Chess breaks down the mystique of strategy into plain, easy-to-understand ideas.
Simple Chess
New Algebraic Edition
Catalog Code: B0003DV
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Strategic Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
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.
Strategic Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
Catalog Code: B0003OE
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Tactical Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 2
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.
Tactical Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0002OE
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Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess
A Knowledge Based Approach
A Knowledge Based Approach
Through a revolutionary testing system, Dr. Kopec is able to quantify their overall chess strength, specific deficiencies and definite abilities, allowing him to pinpoint which aspects need the most work. This book, developed with the US Chess Federation, represents the sum of Dr. Kopec's knowledge and efforts to help chess players understand and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve chess mastery.
Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess
A Knowledge Based Approach
Catalog Code: B0009OB
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The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Nine information-packed chapters and twenty-two diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. You'll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation.
The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Catalog Code: B0020CZ
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The Tarrasch Formula
One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch was the first to formula and express the rule that 'If one piece is badly placed, your whole game is bad.' The genius of this phrase ties in its simplicity as well as it's correctness.
The Tarrasch Formula
One Badly Placed Piece Makes Your Whole Position Bad
Catalog Code: B0003OB
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The Turk, Chess Automaton
This work contains a detailed discussion of the literature surrounding the Turk along with an analysis of its hidden operation. The complete collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included.
The Turk, Chess Automaton
Catalog Code: B0010MF
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US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - FIFTH EDITION
The U.S. Chess Federation Official Rules of Chess is the only official rulebook for chess. Serious players at every level as well as chess club teachers, directors, and tournament sponsors should have it on hand during every match. This new edition features the latest rules, including guidelines for the popular game of speed chess, an updated quick rating system, and the latest conventions of governing tournaments.
US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - FIFTH EDITION
Catalog Code: B0012RH
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Winning Chess Brilliancies
A Scintillating Move By Move Account of the Best Chess Games of the Last 25 Years, Played by the World's Greatest Grandmasters
A Scintillating Move By Move Account of the Best Chess Games of the Last 25 Years, Played by the World's Greatest Grandmasters
This book by International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating excursion of the most brilliant chess game, providing highlights into and explanations of each and every move.
Winning Chess Brilliancies
A Scintillating Move By Move Account of the Best Chess Games of the Last 25 Years, Played by the World's Greatest Grandmasters
Catalog Code: B0200EM
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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.
Winning Chess Endings
Endgame-Winning Moves, Strategies and Philosophy from One of the World's Best Chess Players
Catalog Code: B0198EM
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Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Newly formatted and updated! Fourteen chapters illustrate the explanations and thinking behind every tactical concept. Learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threats and other crushing tactics to gain an immediate edge. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with diagrams, examples and game situations so you understand the thinking and game plan behind every moves.
Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Catalog Code: B0025CZ
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World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1
All games are commented in informator style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe
"This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
"This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1
Catalog Code: B0039EU
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World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2
This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998. Among the games presented in this work are number of genuine masterpieces, the study of which will afford great pleasure to lovers of the game. Such material cannot age and cannot be consigned to oblivion.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2
Catalog Code: B0040EU
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World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3
All games are commented in informatory style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Karpov, Kasparov. This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3
Catalog Code: B0041EU
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