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100 Best Games of the 20th Century Ranked
This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics (clever and relentless are insufficient qualities); the originality (e.g., not yet another white knight sacrifice in a Sicilian); the level of opposition (the loser played very well); the soundness (i.e., are the moves refutable with perfect play?), accuracy (few of the moves are second-best), and difficulty (the winner overcame major obstacles) of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth (one wants a series of sparkling ideas, with no dry patches).
100 Best Games of the 20th Century Ranked
Catalog Code: B0003MF
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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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50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games - some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learned from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older works of this type.
50 Essential Chess Lessons
A Modern Look at 50 Immensely Instructive Chess Battles
Catalog Code: B0031GB
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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 College - VOLUME 1 - Strategy
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Publisher: Gambit
Author: Efstratios Grivas
Year of Publication: 2006 Pages: 112
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)
Book DescriptionChess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice. Volume 1: Strategy introduces a variety of topics, including: ""Why do we lose?"", Attack on the King, Two Bishops, Passed Pawn, Exchange Sacrifice, Positional Sacrifice, and Outpost. By drawing extensively upon his own games, Grivas is able to explain exactly what was going on over the board, and avoids the pitfall of providing overly familiar, clich
Chess College - VOLUME 1 - Strategy
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0173GB
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Chess College - VOLUME 2 - Pawn Play
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice.
Chess College - VOLUME 2 - Pawn Play
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0174GB
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Chess College - VOLUME 3 - Technique
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instructive examples, many drawn from the author's own practice.
Volume 3: Technique features topics including the central break, bishop vs. knight, standard sacrifices against the castled position, opposite-coloured bishops, and immobilization, and discussions on topics such as how to handle won positions and lost positions, and positions with small advantages, together with a wealth of training tips.
Volume 3: Technique features topics including the central break, bishop vs. knight, standard sacrifices against the castled position, opposite-coloured bishops, and immobilization, and discussions on topics such as how to handle won positions and lost positions, and positions with small advantages, together with a wealth of training tips.
Chess College - VOLUME 3 - Technique
A Step-By-Step Guide to Chess Excellence
Catalog Code: B0175GB
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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 for Kids and Parents
It is widely accepted that learning chess has a very positive effect on children. Many parents want to help their children to study chess, but don't know how to do it. This book is the solution. It is a practical handbook that teaches the mysteries of chess with a light touch.
Chess for Kids and Parents
Catalog Code: B0004QT
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Chess for Tigers - 1ST EDITION
Do you want to win more games? Then become a Tiger. 'Chess for Tigers' tells you how to make the most of your playing strength, how to play upon your opponent's weaknesses, how to steer the game into a position which suits you and not your opponent, how to get results against strong opposition and how to avoid silly mistakes.
Chess for Tigers - 1ST EDITION
Catalog Code: B0005BT
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Chess Fundamentals - Revised
J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters.
Chess Fundamentals - Revised
Catalog Code: B0001RH
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 97
Events covered in Chess Informant #97: Sarajevo, Sofia, Torino (ol), Foros, Taiyuan, Biel, Paks, Dortmund, Montreal, China - Russia (m), Amsterdam, etc.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 97
Catalog Code: B0097INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 98
Chess Informant 98 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 432 annotated games and 490 game fragments from the events held between September 1 and December 31, 2006.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 98
Catalog Code: B0098INF
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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 Workbook for Children
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
Chess Workbook for Children is a fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children (and adults!) who are new to chess or who are in the beginning stages of learning to play the royal game. Ten basic chess lessons and chess rules are presented in detail.
Chess Workbook for Children
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
Chess World Championships - 2 Volume Set
All the Games - All With Diagrams - 1834-2004
All the Games - All With Diagrams - 1834-2004
If you're looking for the ULTIMATE COLLECTION of World Championship Games, Look no further than this two-book collection from McFarland Publishing.
Chess World Championships - 2 Volume Set
All the Games - All With Diagrams - 1834-2004
Catalog Code: B0006MF
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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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Children and Chess
A Guide for Educators
A Guide for Educators
Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. The relationship of chess to academic and humanistic educational goals is convincingly illustrated as curriculum and psychological theories from John D. McNeil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Howard Gardner.
Children and Chess
A Guide for Educators
Catalog Code: B0020OB
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Collection of Chess Studies by Troitzky
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitzky (1866-1942) is considered to have been the greatest composer of chess endgame studies ever. To call him a genius is to trivialize his accomplishments, because there are many geniuses, but few can equal the output of Troitzky. In his lifetime, Troitzky composed more than one thousand chess endgame studies.
Collection of Chess Studies by Troitzky
Catalog Code: B0058IS
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Combinative Motifs
1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 1600-2400. This chess exercise book is written by an experienced coach, International Grandmaster of ICCF. It contains more than 1400 exercises that are arranged very precisely after various combinational motifs.
Combinative Motifs
Catalog Code: B0023OB
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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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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Korchoi and Karpov
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the 1970's and early 1980's. This period was dominated by Anatoly Karpov (world champion from 1975-1985) and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by winning through the Candidates series in 1974. As is well known, Fischer refused to defend the title and in 1975 Karpov became champion by default. Although he did not have to contest a Championship match to gain the title, Karpov proved that he was a worthy champion by winning virtually every major tournament over the next decade.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
Korchoi and Karpov
Catalog Code: B0136EM
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
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 the best and most instructive games from Kasparov's later years, and annotated them in great detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: B0070GB
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How to Calculate Chess Tactics
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate 'like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.
How to Calculate Chess Tactics
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
Catalog Code: B0080GB
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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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Kasparov's Fighting Chess - 1999-2005
Garry Kasparov has dominated the world of competitive chess for longer than any world champion. The period 1999-2005 represents one of the most fascinating and controversial phases of his career, including repeated and frustrated attempts to reunify the world championship. Following his retirement, this must-have guide is a celebration of the final years of one of the greatest players of our time.
Kasparov's Fighting Chess - 1999-2005
Catalog Code: B0014BT
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Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1993-1998
Garry Kasparov has dominated the world of competitive chess for longer than any world champion. The period 1993-1998 represents one of the richest phases in his career. With the announcement of his retirement, it is only appropriate that the games should now be appreciated in the greatest depth possible.
Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1993-1998
Catalog Code: B0013BT
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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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