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1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts Too!
The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts Too!
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners is a great first tactics book. It helps you in identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, in recognizing patterns of combinations, and in visualizing tricks.
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts Too!
Catalog Code: B0110NIC
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50 Years of Tal-Botvinnik - 4 DVD's - Chess Lecture - Volume 24
GM Jesse Kraai currently resides in Berkeley, California. His most notable chess achievements are winning the Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 1989 and 1990, and competing in the U.S. Championship from 2002-2006.
50 Years of Tal-Botvinnik - 4 DVD's - Chess Lecture - Volume 24
Catalog Code: DVD0024CL
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A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME I
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME I
Catalog Code: B0121IS
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A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME II
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME II
Catalog Code: B0122IS
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A History of Chess
From Chaturanga to the Present Day
From Chaturanga to the Present Day
In this book, the author, legendary Russian grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, presents a well-researched and documented theory about the origins, development and spread of this immensely popular game. In addition, over three dozen splendid color plates - presented on coated stock making the images suitable for framing - supplement his historical analysis.
A History of Chess
From Chaturanga to the Present Day
Catalog Code: B0062RE
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Advanced Defense
This course features about 400 exercises with large number of pieces in play. All exercises are taken from actual games. Find the only way to avoid checkmate! This course is for beginners and club players.
Advanced Defense
Catalog Code: WIN0134CV
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Alexander Kotov - RUSSIAN EDITION
The book offers a sketch of the life and work of a talented writer and Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov. Chess games with commentary selected and grouped by topics (debut, a combination tactical strikes, defense, etc.) so that the book was not only an outstanding monograph on the players, but also a kind of textbook on the management of chess.
Alexander Kotov - RUSSIAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0155IS
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Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
These pages reveal the secrets of his notebooks for the first time. IM Hawkins presents special material aimed to help you become a much better practical player, one armed with a deeper understanding of key aspects of chess.
Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Catalog Code: B0089EU
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Aron Nimzowitsch - On the Road to Chess Mastery
1886-1924
1886-1924
Publisher: McFarland
Author: Per Skjoldager and Jorn Erik Nielsen
Year of Publication: 2012 Pages: 458
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
Book Description One of the greatest chess legends of all time, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), is best known for founding the Hypermodernism school of chess, which emerged after World War I to challenge the chess ideologies of traditional central European masters. This first full-scale biography of Nimzowitsch chronicles his early life in Denmark, his family and education, and his fascination with the game that would become the focus of his life. Also included are explorations of his tournament games and records, his dispute with influential chess teacher Siegbert Tarrasch, and his role in the development of Hypermodern Chess. With detailed accounts of nearly 450 games and the only narrative of Nimzowitsch from 1914 to 1924, a period formerly cloaked in mystery, this volume offers the most thorough profile available of one of chess's greatest innovators.
Aron Nimzowitsch - On the Road to Chess Mastery
1886-1924
Catalog Code: B0013MF
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Attacking 101
Volume #001
Volume #001
The goal of the books in this series (Attacking 101: Volume #001) is to provide detailed analysis of my own attack games played against lower rated players
Attacking 101
Volume #001
Catalog Code: B0068OB
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Averbakh Chess Endings - RUSSIAN EDITION
Bishop Against Knight, Rook Against Minor Pieces
Bishop Against Knight, Rook Against Minor Pieces
The book can be used as a training manual for the enactment of endings, as well as a reference in the analysis of the deferred parties.
Averbakh Chess Endings - RUSSIAN EDITION
Bishop Against Knight, Rook Against Minor Pieces
Catalog Code: B0166IS
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Bobby Fischer Comes Home
The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
Bobby Fischer Comes Home tells the story of their complicated friendship and paints an intimate portrait of the last years of the man who many see as the greatest chess player that ever lived.
Bobby Fischer Comes Home
The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
Catalog Code: B0109NIC
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Botvinnik - 100 Selected Games
Learn chess from a World Champion! These 100 games were selected and annotated by Botvinnik himself as the best games he played before becoming World Champion in 1948. Includes contests against Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, Smyslov and others. Author explains his theories, the development of Russian chess and six end game studies.
Botvinnik - 100 Selected Games
Catalog Code: B0036DV
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Break the Rules!
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
In this instructive and entertaining book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald studies in depth the key components of successful rule-breaking in chess. Drawing upon his own experience and using examples from modern grandmaster chess, McDonald examines how to avoid stereotypical thinking, how to exploit typical thinking patterns, and how to confuse and beat opponents with surprising ideas.
Break the Rules!
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
Catalog Code: B0358EM
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Bronstein - The Mechanic
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
One of the great former Soviet chess grandmasters.
Bronstein - The Mechanic
The Chess Gangs of New York and London - Volume 9
Catalog Code: B0009TP
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Capablanca - Move by Move
Jose Raul Capablanca is a chess legend, world champion and quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements and seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers, and his legacy includes a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablanca's play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala, it was a key factor in his chess development and improvement, and in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games.
Capablanca - Move by Move
Catalog Code: B0353EM
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Carlsen's Black Magic & Carlsen in Baku - Chess Lecture - Volume 30
IM David Vigorito is the 2007 Masschusetts Champion. He has been the state champion of New Hampshire and Nevada. David rated at 2479 in USCF and is the Champion of the Boylston (Boston) Chess Club. He playes in the 2006 U.S. Championship after finishing in a tie for 3rd place at the U.S. Open in Phoenix.
Carlsen's Black Magic & Carlsen in Baku - Chess Lecture - Volume 30
Catalog Code: DVD0030CL
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Checkmate in Prague
The Memoirs of a Grandmaster
The Memoirs of a Grandmaster
Ludek Pachman's account of his political struggles is interspersed with numerous chess anecdotes about many of the masters he faced in tournament play, such as Alekhine, Bobby Fischer, Botvinnik, and Tal
Checkmate in Prague
The Memoirs of a Grandmaster
Catalog Code: B0138IS
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Chess - The Fischer-Spassky Games
Of the World Chess Championship
Of the World Chess Championship
This is the authoritative book on the famous 1972 Fischer Spassky Match, and the book by the strongest player to write about the match. An appendix at the end contains all 20 games of the match in Algebraic Notation plus the concluding diagram for each game. Also added the five games Fischer played against Spassky before the match, which had resulted in the lopsided score of three wins by Spassky and two draws, with no wins by Fischer.
Chess - The Fischer-Spassky Games
Of the World Chess Championship
Catalog Code: B0189IS
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 6
Tactics in Attack and Defense
Catalog Code: B0085EU
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Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Opening Tactics
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them.
Chess Camp - VOLUME 7
Opening Tactics
Catalog Code: B0086EU
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Chess Evolution 2 - Beyond the Basics
The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Chess Evolution 2 - Beyond the Basics
Catalog Code: B0066QT
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Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 1 - RUSSIAN EDITION
Alekhine has long earned a reputation not only a brilliant experience, but also the best chess writer and theoretician of the first half of 20th century. Alekhine's Games, which are shining examples of chess creativity, are provided with detailed notes.
Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 1 - RUSSIAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0154IS
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 113
Garry's Choice
Chess Informants - ISSUE 113
Catalog Code: B0113INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 114
2nd exclusive column by Garry Kasparov! The 13th World champion dissects top games of modern chess/ in English, 8 pages.
Chess Informants - ISSUE 114
Catalog Code: B0114INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 115
Chess Informant 115 Games – traditional section with 200+ annotated games, Morozevich, Movsesian, Volokitin, Shankland, Bartel, Sargissian, Ki. Georgiev, Macieja, Tiviakov, Roiz, Berg, etc. in Informant non-language style (152 pages)
Chess Informants - ISSUE 115
Catalog Code: B0115INF
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Chess Informants - ISSUE 116
Chess Informant 116 Games – traditional section with 200+ annotated games, Morozevich, Movsesian, Volokitin, Shankland, Bartel, Sargissian, Ki. Georgiev, Macieja, Tiviakov, Roiz, Berg, etc. in Informant non-language style (152 pages)
Chess Informants - ISSUE 116
Catalog Code: B0116INF
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Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!
Chess is Child's Play
Teaching Techniques that Work!
Catalog Code: B0087EU
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Chess King's Complete Chess Course - ALL 3 VOLUMES
Volume 1: Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.
Volume 2: Basic Tactics and Strategy. You'll discover a variety of tactical weapons that you could use over and over to win material and gain an advantage over your opponents. You'll also learn all about chess strategy, plans and formations that will provide you with a lasting edge. 27 chapters, 100 minutes.
Volume 3: Endgames. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.
Volume 2: Basic Tactics and Strategy. You'll discover a variety of tactical weapons that you could use over and over to win material and gain an advantage over your opponents. You'll also learn all about chess strategy, plans and formations that will provide you with a lasting edge. 27 chapters, 100 minutes.
Volume 3: Endgames. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - ALL 3 VOLUMES
Catalog Code: WIN00101112AK
Our Price: $59.00
CHESS LECTURE - VOL. 46 - Nimzo-Indian Patterns - 2 DVDs
International Master Bryan Smith explains Nimzo Indian Defense strategies with real games.
This hypermodern opening was developed by Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch who introduced it to master-level chess in the early 20th century. Unlike most Indian openings the NimzoIndian does not involve an immediate fianchetto, although Black often follows up with ...b6 and ...Bb7. By pinning White's knight Black prevents the threatened 4.e4 and seeks to inflict doubled pawns on White. White will attempt to create a pawn centre and develop his pieces to prepare for an assault on the Black position.
CHESS LECTURE - VOL. 46 - Nimzo-Indian Patterns - 2 DVDs
Catalog Code: DVD0046CL
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CHESS LECTURE - Vol. 47 - Pawn Endgames - 2 DVDs
IM John-Paul Wallace and GM Jesse Kraai and IM David Vigorito analyze endgames with pawns.
CHESS LECTURE - Vol. 47 - Pawn Endgames - 2 DVDs
Catalog Code: DVD0047CL
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Chess Marches On!
A Vivid Record of Chess Activities in the Leading Centers of the World
A Vivid Record of Chess Activities in the Leading Centers of the World
This is a collection of 50 of the finest games played during the period 1941-1944 by the world's greatest masters.
Chess Marches On!
A Vivid Record of Chess Activities in the Leading Centers of the World
Catalog Code: B0167IS
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Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard.
Chess Puzzles for Kids
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
Catalog Code: B0183GB
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Chess Tactics from Scratch - 2ND EDITION
Understanding Chess Tactics
Understanding Chess Tactics
These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself. But Weteschnik was not completely satisfied with the book and decided to restructure and rewrite it completely.
Chess Tactics from Scratch - 2ND EDITION
Understanding Chess Tactics
Catalog Code: B0062QT
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Complete Chess Strategy - VOLUME 1
Planning the Pieces
Planning the Pieces
The First volume of Ludek Pachman's great trilogy Complete Chess Strategy which first appeared in Czechoslovak and German. Planning the Pieces deals with the long term planning, handling and positioning of the individual chess pieces.
Complete Chess Strategy - VOLUME 1
Planning the Pieces
Catalog Code: B0136IS
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Complete Chess Strategy - VOLUME 2
Principles of Pawn Play and the Center
Principles of Pawn Play and the Center
Publisher: ISHI Press
Author: Ludek Pachman
Year of Publication: 2012 (Reprint) Pages: 185
Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)
Book Description Continuing his major work on strategy and tactics in modern chess, the internationalyl renowned Grandmaster, Ludek Pachman, now turns his attention to the play of the pawns and the achievement of control of the center squares. Though the pawns are the weakest pieces in chess, their importance in determining the character of the attack (and defense) and the development of strategic play cannot be underestimated. Pawns are essential to the protection of important squares and pieces. They are the best means of blockading enemy pawns and when correctly deployed, their advance can open vital files and diagonals, thereby creating weaknesses in the opposite position. Despite its limited power, the pawn has one special advantage over other pieces in that it can be promoted when it reaches the eighth rank; a successful pawn advance can completely change the balance of power and the outcome of a game. Pawns have aptly been described as "the soul of chess." Vital of chess mastery is a basic understanding of the importance of control of the center squares. The effectiveness of the pieces depend upon the strength of their position and center control creates a vital sapatial superiority. The effective play of the pawns and center control have been touched upon on other works, but seldom with the insight and lucidity revealed in this second volume of Pachman's masterwork.
Complete Chess Strategy - VOLUME 2
Principles of Pawn Play and the Center
Catalog Code: B0139IS
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