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303 Tricky Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two, three and four move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions.
303 Tricky Checkmates
Two, Three and Four Move Checkmates
Catalog Code: B0017CZ
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A Parent's Guide to Chess
So your child has discovered Chess. You've probably heard the good news from teachers and other parents: kids who play Chess do better in school and learn self-reliance and analytical skills. It's great that your kid is interested in an activity that offers such lifelong benefits and provides so many chances to learn real life lessons - and it is so much fun!
A Parent's Guide to Chess
Catalog Code: B0007OB
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A Primer of Chess
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
While many books on chess are either for the novice or the advanced student, A Primer of Chess is invaluable for its clear instruction at various levels of the game. The book is divided into 3 sections. Part 1 - Discusses the object of the game, the men and their moves, elementary openings and rules and ethics.
A Primer of Chess
The Classic Introduction to Chess By One of the Greatest Players of All Time
Catalog Code: B0038OB
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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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Building Up Your Chess
Building Up Your Chess makes use of colorful graphs and a new, more logical method of expressing the evaluation of a chess position to teach the critical skill of assessing how you stand. Lev Alburt's unique experience as both a top-level champion and a world-renowned teacher allow him to explain in a clear, logical way how to master chess.
Building Up Your Chess
Catalog Code: B0012LV
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Can you be a Tactical Genius?
Test your tactical chess skills with a quiz book with a difference! Grandmaster James Plaskett, a player of distinguished tactical ability, has carefully assembled an abundance of tactical chess puzzles to test players of all levels. At the beginning of each chapter the puzzles are relatively easy, worth five points for a correct solution. However as you move on they become more and more difficult, soon becoming worth ten points and eventually 15.
Can you be a Tactical Genius?
Catalog Code: B0087EM
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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 Brilliancy
219 Historic Games from the Masters What do we understand by brilliancy in chess? The author delves back into history to examine how this concept has developed, before presenting a dazzling array of brilliant games from the past few decades - the prize-winners as selected by grandmaster panels for each issue of Yugoslav 'Chess Informator' between 1968 and 1998. Apart from providing hours of pleasure, a study of these masterpieces will also surely help to add sparkle to your own play!
Chess Brilliancy
Catalog Code: B0151EM
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Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Can you Find the Best Move?
This challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers. These instructive, elegant and entertaining positions will not only challenge and entertain you, but will also teach you how to improve your endgame while trying to find the best move of the three choices presented.
Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Catalog Code: B0035CZ
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Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Valeri Beim, an experienced trainer and grandmaster, explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess. His 'recipes' include: tactical ideas in the middlegame; liquidation to the endgame; the technique of analyzing variations; inverted thinking in chess. Readers are presented with new ways of looking at chessboard issues that will help them develop a deeper understanding of the game.
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Catalog Code: B0054GB
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Chess World Title Contenders and their Styles
A rich selection of games by some of the finest young grandmasters of the 1980s. Each chapter introduces a player, outlining his career, personality, and playing style. Then follows a thoroughly annotated selection of his finest and most characteristic games. By studying these games, presented by two international masters and former champions, players at every level will find inspiration and practical techniques.
Chess World Title Contenders and their Styles
Catalog Code: B0027DV
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Counter-Gambits
Black to Play and Win
Black to Play and Win
Publisher: Dover
Author: T. D. Harding
Year of Publication: 2001 Pages: 208
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
Book Description As noted British chess author T. D. Harding explains in the preface to Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win, the aim of this book is to show you how to win games with Black. The method? Calculated aggression, right from move one! To offset the distinct advantage White is thought to have because it moves first, Black can engage in dynamic counterplay to avoid those openings that give White the opportunity of early exchanges. Following a brief explanation of symbols, this excellent guide covers such topics as dynamic counterplay, counter-gambits in open games, Black sacrifices in the half-open games, counters to the Queen's Gambit, Indian counter-gambits, and an index to openings and variations. Seventy-seven games, including ten new to this edition, are fully annotated, while more are found in the theoretical notes, with commentary. Among the counter-gambits used in the quest for dynamic counterplay are the Budapest, Blumenfeld, Falkbeer, and Latvian — all illustrated in great detail. A new update "Update 2001," written especially for this edition, examines developments in the field since this book was first published in the 1970s. Players at all skill levels — beginner to advanced — are sure to benefit from this expert analysis of gambits and counter-gambits.
Counter-Gambits
Black to Play and Win
Catalog Code: B0047DV
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Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
This book tackles fundamental questions such as: 'How should pawns be used to fight for the centre?' and 'How does the central pawn formation affect planning for both sides?' These issues are central to understanding chess. Marovic discusses central pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the centre and on the wings.
Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
Catalog Code: B0066GB
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Endgame Analysis
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
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.
Endgame Analysis
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: B0001OE
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Excelling at Chess
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. He includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position.
Excelling at Chess
Catalog Code: B0117EM
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Fundamental Chess Endings
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
In a major event in chess publishing, two German endgame experts have produced a masterly one-volume encyclopaedia that covers all major endgames. This is the first truly modern one-volume endgame encyclopaedia. It makes full use of endgame tablebases and analytical engines that access these tablebases; where previous authors could only make educated guesses, Muller and Lamprecht have often been able to state the definitive truth, or get much closer to it.
Fundamental Chess Endings
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
Catalog Code: B0109GB
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How I Became a Grandmaster at Age 14
The book "How I became Grandmaster at age 14" includes an instructional part that will help anyone go from complete novice to a knowledgeable beginner in just ninteen lessons. This part will be very helpful for parents who wish to opem the magical wolrd of chess to their children.
How I Became a Grandmaster at Age 14
Catalog Code: B0029OB
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How to Reassess Your Chess - WORKBOOK
How to Master Chess Imbalances
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.
How to Reassess Your Chess - WORKBOOK
How to Master Chess Imbalances
Catalog Code: B0006SI
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How To Think In Chess
How to Think in Chess is the rare book that explains in clear terms the techniques chess masters use to find their moves. The authors, an international chess champion and a trained professional thinker, are uniquely qualified on the subject. They offer you both academic research and personal experience. How to Think in Chess teaches you practical ways of thinking to win.
How To Think In Chess
Catalog Code: B0014RE
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Its Your Move
Improvers
Improvers
In this highly original and instructive test yourself book Chris Ward invites readers to solve a selection of carefully chosen puzzles. In this, the second book in the 'It's Your Move' series, the positions are aimed at improving players, specifically the low level club players who are looking to hone their skills in order to climb further up the chess ladder.The reader is given a choice of five plausible plans for each position and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed.
Its Your Move
Improvers
Catalog Code: B0247EM
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Magic of Mikhail Tal
Short Description for The Magic of Mikhail Tal - B0225EM
Magic of Mikhail Tal
Catalog Code: B0225EM
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Modern Art of Attack
"The Art of Attack by Vukovic" ends with the Alekhine era --- the last example being in 1947. In the 1950's a new generation emerged starting with the daring play of Mikhail Tal. He and his contemporaries are where we begin with this book, taking the reader through the 1980's. The chapters are 1)Attacking the King Which Can't Castle, 2)Attacking the Uncastled King, 3)Attacking the Kingside Castled Positions, 4)St.George Attack, 5)Greek Gift Attack, 6)Defensive Measures, 7)Attacking the Opposite Side, 8)Couterattacking, 9)Great Attacking Players including Tal's Daring Sacrifical Attacks, Fischer's Scientific Style, Karpov's Fiery Attacking Style. A great book for players of all strengths.
Modern Art of Attack
Catalog Code: CB0047CD
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New York 1940
A first-rate tournament book for a strong US Championship in which Reshevsky just edged out Fine by 1/2 point. Kashdan was third followed by Pinkus, Simonson, Denker, Kupchik, Bernstein, Polland, Reinfeld, Shainswit, Adams, Seidman, Green, Hanauer, Woliston, and Littman. Notes to most of the games are from contemporary sources, and Fritz 7 checked many of the critical positions.
New York 1940
Catalog Code: B0006CA
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Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess
Although Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974) was not widely known in the West, his games have a great reputation among connoisseurs of attacking play. Among his many distinctions in chess are his score of six wins, nine draws and five losses against World Champions.
Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess
Catalog Code: B0008CA
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Pandolfini Endgame Course
Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher
Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher
The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching championship games. Now Pandolfini's Endgame Course changes all that.
Pandolfini Endgame Course
Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher
Catalog Code: B0017SS
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Positional Chess Handbook
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
This complete guide, written by a grandmaster, can assist all players at every level in developing a more powerful strategic game. Spanning more than a century of chess, it presents examples on such themes as key squares, bad bishops, and pawn structures in ascending difficulty, with ample cross-references.
Positional Chess Handbook
495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games
Catalog Code: B0040DV
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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".
Rapid Chess Improvement
Catalog Code: B0144EM
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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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Tal Botvinnik 1960
One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. Take a trip with the Magician from Riga as he invites you to share his thoughts and feelings as he does battle for the world title.
Tal Botvinnik 1960
Catalog Code: B0001RE
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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 Official Rules of Chess
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Author: Eric Schiller
Year of Publication: 2003 Pages: 128
Notation Type: None
Book Description This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and Internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you'll learn everything you need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections for students and parents answer all the frequently asked questions about competitive play. These are the rules that apply to every tournament form of chess, from scholastic competitions, to world championship play. About the Author(s) Eric Schiller is a National Master and well-known opening theoretician. He has authored Bozens of monographs and is a Contributing Editor to Chess Life magazine. He holds a Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and has translated Works by the present and former World Champions.
The Official Rules of Chess
Professional, Scholastic and Internet Chess Rules
Catalog Code: B0031CZ
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Understanding Chess Move by Move
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
Publisher: Gambit
Author: John Nunn
Year of Publication: 2008 Pages: 240
Notation Type: Figurine (FN)
Book Description John Nunn is one of the most highly regarded chess writers in the world. He has carefully selected thirty modern games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of chess and to illustrate modern chess principles in action. Virtually every move is explained using words that everyone can understand. Jargon is avoided as far as possible. Almost all the examples are taken from the 1990s and show how key ideas are handled by the grandmasters of today. The emphasis is on general principles that readers will be able to use in their own games, and detailed analysis is only given where it is necessary. Each game contains many lessons, but to guide the reader through the most important ideas in each phase of the game, the thirty games are grouped thematically into those highlighting opening, middlegame and endgame themes. About the Author(s) John Nunn is a grandmaster from England. He has won four individual gold medals and three team silver medals at Chess Olympiads. In the Chess World Cup of 1988/9, he finished sixth overall, ahead of several former World Champions. He is arguably the most highly acclaimed chess writer in the world, with two of his books receiving the prestigious British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.
Understanding Chess Move by Move
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
Catalog Code: B0086GB
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Why You Lose at Chess
This newly updated chess classic shows players how to learn from their losses by recognizing the warning signals in time and by analyzing what went wrong in losing games. Expert analysis covers each stage of the game and examines why players lose from good positions as well as difficult ones.
Why You Lose at Chess
Catalog Code: B0015DV
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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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