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1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
This great book for beginning players covers the most basic of all mates - the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where you must find the move that instantly wins the game. You'll learn how to make the final move with all the pieces - knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This great training tool is perfect for players new to the game of chess!
1 Move Checkmates
200 Instructive and Challenging Mates for Beginners!
Catalog Code: B0033CZ
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1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
The man who wrote, "Tactics is 99 per cent of chess," might well have added ? "and 99 per cent of the fun, too!"
Brilliant sacrifices and combinations, either calculated in advance or played on the spur of the moment, give us thrills that cannot be equaled by any other aspect of the game. And, by a very fortunate coincidence, these brilliant strokes are just what we need to become first-rate players.
Brilliant sacrifices and combinations, either calculated in advance or played on the spur of the moment, give us thrills that cannot be equaled by any other aspect of the game. And, by a very fortunate coincidence, these brilliant strokes are just what we need to become first-rate players.
1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
Catalog Code: B0015OB
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
Catalog Code: B0043CZ
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365 Selected Endgames
One for Each Day of the Year
One for Each Day of the Year
This book is written in both German and English. Some knowledge of both Classic notation and Algebraic (mainly the latter) is needed to follow all the notes. The book is mainly a series of fairly difficult endgame studies. I went through the book and solved each problem in the manner that the authors suggested in their preface. It helped me win many Chess tournament games that would have otherwise been draws and also draw many games that should have been lost.
365 Selected Endgames
One for Each Day of the Year
Catalog Code: B0062IS
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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 Legend on the Road
Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simul Tour
Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simul Tour
A Legend on the Road deals with Bobby before he had become a household name. A complete unknown he wasn't, not with six U.S. Championships to his credit - including a scintillating 11-0 in the 1963/64 affair - but U.S. chess players bad never had a real opportunity to see him in action without traveling thousands of miles.
A Legend on the Road
Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simul Tour
Catalog Code: B0035RE
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Anthology of Chess Combinations
The third edition of the Anthology of Chess Combinations features several major changes introduced by the Chess Informant Editorial Board. The main one being that it has been divided into two main parts: featuring educative and practical examples.
Anthology of Chess Combinations
Catalog Code: B0001SHV
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Back To Basics - Tactics
Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about and benefiting from the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you can't win! And if you capture each of your opponent's pieces, winning should be easy.
Back To Basics - Tactics
Catalog Code: B0006RE
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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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Bobby Fischer - The Wandering King
Chess devotees simply can't get enough of Bobby Fischer. Every facet of his personality and his play unfolds in this biographical study. In addition to analyzing his exceptional talent, it captures and puts into perspective his tough youth, anti-social tendencies, fights against the chess authorities, and growing mental illness.
Bobby Fischer - The Wandering King
Catalog Code: B0043BT
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Chess Bitch
Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
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.
Chess Bitch
Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
Catalog Code: B0004SI
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Chess for Dummies
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
Chess For Dummies is your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess.
Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game.
Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game.
Chess for Dummies
A Reference for the Rest of Us!
Catalog Code: B0033OB
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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 Informants - ISSUE 100
Chess Informant 100 contains 451 annotated games and 489 game fragments from Sofia, USA (ch), La Habana, Sarajevo, Elista, Valjevo, Foros, Dortmund, Montreal, Biel, Russia - China (m), Amsterdam and many other tournaments and events held between May 1st, 2007 and August 31st, 2007.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 100
Catalog Code: B0100INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 101
Chess Informant 101 contains 459 annotated games and 516 variations. Events held between September 1st, 2007 and December 31st, 2007
Chess Informants - ISSUE 101
Catalog Code: B0101INF
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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 Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
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Chess Secrets - The Giants of Strategy
Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
Catalog Code: B0268EM
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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 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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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies
Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan (1910-1995) is considered to have been without doubt the greatest composer and analyst of chess endgame studies ever. He was so great that when a great new chess star named Kasparyan appeared on the scene, the Soviet authorities decided to change the name of the second Kasparyan to Kasparov to avoid confusion. In this book, his master work, Kasparyan first classifies endgame studies into the analytic as opposed to artistic. Analytic studies are those likely to arise in an actual game.
Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies
Catalog Code: B0050IS
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Elista Diaries
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Elista Diaries is the classic first-hand account of one of the most intensely fought World Chess Championship matches seen for decades. The World Champion and his chief trainer deeply annotate all of the games from the 1996 World Championship Match.
Elista Diaries
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Catalog Code: B0026IS
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Endgame Virtuoso Karpov
His 100 Best Endgames!
His 100 Best Endgames!
Anatoly Karpov's legendary endgame technique has always been something of an enigma. Karpov became worldchampion 1975 (having been preceded by Bobby Fischer). He managed to win positions which nearly everybody else estimated as a draw with his fine end game technique.
Endgame Virtuoso Karpov
His 100 Best Endgames!
Catalog Code: B0002NIC
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Fire on Board 2 - Shirov's Best Games
Alexei Shirov has dazzled and inspired a generation of chess fans with his unique brand of attacking chess. The Grandmaster, originally from Riga, Latvia, is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive and inventive chess players of the modern era, an argument backed up by his wealth of amazing games, rich in tactical fireworks and extraordinary moves. Fire on Board begins where the best-selling first edition left off in 1996. Shirov traces his progress at the top of the chess world since that year and presents a delightful collection of his favourite games, all explained in great detail to the reader.
Fire on Board 2 - Shirov's Best Games
Catalog Code: B0220EM
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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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Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME I
Revolution in the 1970s
Revolution in the 1970s
This book is the first in a brand new series that follows on from My Great Predecessors and sees chess legend Garry Kasparov reflecting on a pivotal time in chess history. Bobby Fischer's spurt towards the chess summit (1970-1972) marked the approach of a new era affecting all aspects of the game and opening theory in particular.
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - VOLUME I
Revolution in the 1970s
Catalog Code: B0137EM
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Fischer
This book brings together the two greatest names in the history of chess. The author, Garry Kasparov, is the world number one and, by common consent, the greatest player ever. The subject of the book, Bobby Fischer, is the only American to have become world champion and is probably the greatest natural talent the world has ever seen.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Fischer
Catalog Code: B0135EM
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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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Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A collection of John Nunn's best games from 1994 to the present day, annotated in detail in the same style as the best-selling Understanding Chess Move by Move. Throughout, the emphasis is on what the reader can learn from each game, so the book is ideal study material for those seeking to progress to a higher level of chess understanding. There is also entertainment in abundance: Nunn has a direct aggressive style, and many of his opponents in these games are ambitious young grandmasters from the generation inspired by Kasparov's dynamic chess.
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
Catalog Code: B0099GB
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How to Choose a Chess Move
There are more than 30 moves you can choose from a typical chess position, yet Masters regularly manage to select the best moves and they do it faster, more confidently and with less calculation than other players. This is because Masters have shortcuts that enable them to think more efficiently. This instructive and practical guide explains these techniques, including: Using specific cues to identify good moves - Streamlining analysis of the consequences of moves - Using both objective and highly subjective criteria to find the right move from any position.
How to Choose a Chess Move
Catalog Code: B0020BT
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How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Learn from the World Champions
Many books discuss how to attack in chess, but good, resourceful defensive play is also a vital ingredient in competitive success. However, this is an area largely neglected in the literature of the game. This book fills the gap admirably, by explaining the basics of defending against direct offensives, and taking an in-depth look at how the all-time greats have fended off their opponents' attacks.
How to Defend in Chess
Learn from the World Champions
Catalog Code: B0003GB
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Just The Facts
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 7
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 7
Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. For most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race. This revised, updated edition of Just the Facts! brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. Winning Chess Endgames can take you from beginner to master.
Just The Facts
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 7
Catalog Code: B0007LV
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Karlsbad 1907
An English translation of this original famous tournament book in German by George Marco and Carl Schlechter. This edition has the advantage of enhancements such as the addition of 15 photos of many of the players along with corrections and additional analysis using the new, very strong program, Rybka.
Karlsbad 1907
Catalog Code: B0011CA
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Learn From Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
Before his recent retirement, Garry Kasparov held the number one position in chess for nearly twenty years. He is considered the greatest player of all time. Now, beginning and intermediate players, ninety percent of the chess playing audience, can benefit from his wisdom.
Learn From Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games
The Brilliant and Instructive Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Chessplayer
Catalog Code: B0009CZ
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Max Euwe - The Biography
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
This magnificent book, filling a gap in the literature of chess, shows that Euwes world title was the result of his iron will, his methodical drive and his energetic handling of all aspects of the game. Max Euwe has been called a genius of order and the chess logician. He wrote more than 70 books, many of which are still in print today.
Max Euwe - The Biography
Including 50 Games with the Original Analysis by the Dutch World Champion
Catalog Code: B0028NIC
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Modern Chess Strategy
Modern classic offers thorough, systematic analysis of the use of the queen, active king, exchanges, seven different uses of pawns, minority attack, dynamic elements, much more. Analyses of 129 great games featuring Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, other masters. Indexes of games and openings. 298 diagrams.
Modern Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0013DV
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My Daily Exercises
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
"My Daily Exercises" is a superb collection of 365 exercises designed to help players of all levels recognize patterns, visualize tactics, and identify weak points in their opponent's position.
My Daily Exercises
365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
Catalog Code: B0101NIC
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