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Whiz Kids Teach Chess
Winning Chess for Young Players
Winning Chess for Young Players
Today's greatest young stars, ranging from ten to seventeen years old, some perhaps to be future world champions, present a fascinating look at the world of chess. Learn from their stories of successes, failures, world travels, and love of the game. They show off their best moves and admit to their most embarrassing blunders. This basic chess primer features diagrams, explanations, and winning ideas written for kids by their prodigal peers.
Whiz Kids Teach Chess
Winning Chess for Young Players
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Chess the Easy Way
More chess coaches in America recommend this book for their students than any other book. Written by one of the World's Strongest Grandmasters who was top contender for the World Chess Championship, "Chess the Easy Way" takes the player from the beginning moves of chess, rapidly advancing to the Expert Level.
Chess the Easy Way
Catalog Code: B0012IS
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
The book's story begins when Gary, a young boy, finds himself at home with his babysitter one boring afternoon. His day picks up when a young girl named Cassie comes to take him away to Chess Country, a world where everything is related to the royal game. Along the way, Gary meets many of the residents of Chess Country, including Riddles -- who provides Gary and the reader with numerous chess puzzles -- and Zug, another young boy who will become Gary's chess rival.
Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
Catalog Code: B0003EU
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True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board
Winning Battles over the Board, International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
True Combat Chess
Winning Battles over the Board
Catalog Code: B0106EM
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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique.
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Catalog Code: B0116GB
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Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games
Instructive Masterpieces of America's Greatest Chessplayer
Instructive Masterpieces of America's Greatest Chessplayer
This is the first book about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer that is written for novice and beginning players, ninety percent of the chess playing audience, and is focused on the lessons one can learn from his games.
Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games
Instructive Masterpieces of America's Greatest Chessplayer
Catalog Code: B0010CZ
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Chess Fundamentals
This is the masterpiece by World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca who is regarded as the strongest chess player who ever lived, prior to the arrival of Bobby Fischer.World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik regarded Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals as the best chess book ever written.
Chess Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0017IS
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Secrets of Positional Play
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 4
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 4
The main theme of Volume 4 is "prophylaxis", a concept first expounded by Nimzowitsch and one which has been brilliantly developed by Mark Dvoretsky and his pupils. The art of positional play is explained in terms of planning, maneuvering, the study of typical positions, and deep strategy in grandmaster games.
Secrets of Positional Play
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 4
Catalog Code: B0015OE
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Fundamentos Del Ajedrez - SPANISH EDITION
Tratado de los principios basicos del juego-ciencia, expuestos con notable precision y claridad, y desarrollados y aplicados en una serie de partidas comentadas por el propio campeon.Fundamentos del Ajedrez se publico por primera vez hace trece anos. Desde entonces han aparecidos numerosos articulos bajo el titulo, por lo general, de "teoria hipermoderna del ajedrez".
Fundamentos Del Ajedrez - SPANISH EDITION
Catalog Code: B0018IS
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Aron Nimzowitsch - Master of Planning
Improve Your Chess by Studying the Games of the Master of Positional Play
Improve Your Chess by Studying the Games of the Master of Positional Play
For more than a quarter of a century until his death in 1935, Aron Nimzowitsch was recognised as one of the world's leading players. The leading Grandmaster of the Hypermodern school, his games were full of new ideas and plans, which were accompanied by landmarks in chess literature such as My System and Chess Praxis. Challenging old theories, his books are regarded as being the best teaching manuals and have strongly withstood the test of time.
Aron Nimzowitsch - Master of Planning
Improve Your Chess by Studying the Games of the Master of Positional Play
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Staunton's Chess-Player's Handbook
The name "Staunton" has become so closely associated with chess that the words have become virtually synonymous. All modern tournament chess games are required to be played with Staunton chess pieces. The First International Chess Tournament, London 1851, was organized by Staunton. The leading distributor of chess books and equipment in the USA has taken the name "House of Staunton".
Staunton's Chess-Player's Handbook
Catalog Code: B0076IS
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Secrets of Creative Thinking
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 5
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 5
In this final volume of the series, the authors deal with various creative aspects, such as the calculation of variations and the development of intuition. It also explores the psychology of taking decisions, both when attacking and when defending.
Secrets of Creative Thinking
Dvoretsky School of Future Champions - VOLUME 5
Catalog Code: B0016OE
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The Improving Chess Thinker
he Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level.
The Improving Chess Thinker
Catalog Code: B0043EU
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Rules of Winning Chess
Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit opponents' weaknesses while minimizing the effect of their own - they make it look all too easy!
Rules of Winning Chess
Catalog Code: B0287EM
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Improve Your Chess At Any Age
In August 2008 Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for an unrated player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an inspired decision; he exceeded all expectations and was rewarded with a FIDE international rating of 2199. This, however, was no overnight success; it was the result of systematic work. How did he achieve such outstanding improvement? The answer lies in this book.
Improve Your Chess At Any Age
Catalog Code: B0291EM
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Modern Chess - Move by Move
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
Leading chess author Colin Crouch selects and explains over 30 sensational games, all from the new millennium. By studying battles between the world's best players, Crouch examines in detail all the key areas of modern chess
Modern Chess - Move by Move
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
Catalog Code: B0286EM
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EBOOK - Modern Chess - Move by Move
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
Leading chess author Colin Crouch selects and explains over 30 sensational games, all from the new millennium. By studying battles between the world's best players, Crouch examines in detail all the key areas of modern chess
EBOOK - Modern Chess - Move by Move
A Step-By-Step Guide to Brilliant Chess
Catalog Code: E-B0286EM
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Point Count Chess
An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess
An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess
This book, via the Point Count, shows the reader how to evaluate these differences and exploit them. What is more, the reader also acquires a working knowledge of more than a score of plans, their mechanisms and physical contours, and the influence they exert in actual play.
Point Count Chess
An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess
Catalog Code: B0124IS
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What It Takes to Become a Chess Master
Written by one of our biggest-selling and best-loved chess authors, in his trademark chatty, accessible but always informative style, this book is filled with practical exercises and test games that will reveal the secrets of how to join chess's elite ranks.
What It Takes to Become a Chess Master
Catalog Code: B0115BT
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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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Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation
HARDCOVER
HARDCOVER
If you are human, then this book will offer you practical advice and an effective training plan to think differently and make decisions far more efficiently.
Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation
HARDCOVER
Catalog Code: B0068QT
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Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation
PAPERBACK
PAPERBACK
If you are human, then this book will offer you practical advice and an effective training plan to think differently and make decisions far more efficiently.
Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation
PAPERBACK
Catalog Code: B0078QT
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Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Win Like Karpov! begins with extensive Biography and Openings sections. There are four Karpov Early Games and six Karpov Classics.
Win Like Karpov!
Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
Catalog Code: B0066OB
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The Enigma of Chess Intuition
Can You Mobilize Hidden Forces in your Chess?
Can You Mobilize Hidden Forces in your Chess?
With sparkling tales about Fischer, Carlsen, Tal and other greats in chess and instructive examples of practical play, this is a thought-provoking, yet highly accessible work.
The Enigma of Chess Intuition
Can You Mobilize Hidden Forces in your Chess?
Catalog Code: B0112NIC
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Move First, Think Later
Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Move First, Think Later shows a healthy distrust of accepted methods to get better at chess.
Move First, Think Later
Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Catalog Code: B0111NIC
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Modern Chess Preparation
Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age
Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age
With powerful anecdotes and many instructive high-level games, Tukmakov explains how you can organize your homework, focus your efforts, and arrive at a viable game plan.
Modern Chess Preparation
Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age
Catalog Code: B0115NIC
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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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Platonov's Chess Academy
Using Soviet-Era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings
Using Soviet-Era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings
Publisher: CIRC
Author: Lev Alburt and Sam Palatnik
Year of Publication: 2012 Pages: 176
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)
Book Description Two of the most renowned chess trainers in the world, introduce and explain the revolutionary ideas of their old friend and mentor, Igor Platonov. Platonov was one of the most profound thinkers and theoreticians in the old Soviet Union, which held a grip on the world chess championship for decades, as the title passed from one of its stars to another. For intermediate players to grandmasters, Platonov's visionary insights, examined and explained here for the first time, provide you with the keys to understanding the foundational concepts of the game, strengthening your chess understanding and giving you effective methods to help you find the most powerful moves in the game. About the Author(s) International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. champion and former European champion, is one of the most sought-after chess teachers in the world. He lives in New York.Grandmaster Sam Palatnik's students reached the list of 100 best players in the world. He lives and teaches in Bethesda, Maryland.
Platonov's Chess Academy
Using Soviet-Era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings
Catalog Code: B0020LV
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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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Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
This book is the much anticipated follow-up to the highly acclaimed and award-nominated Lessons with a Grandmaster.
Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Catalog Code: B0356EM
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Grandmaster Performance
This book is a collection of deeply analyzed and instructive grandmaster games by Polugaevsky.
Grandmaster Performance
Catalog Code: B0162IS
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Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Matthew Sadler is one of the UK's strongest ever players. He became a grandmaster at 19, won the British Championship twice and, amongst other amazing achievements, made a gold medal winning score of 101/2/13 on board four for England in the 1996 chess Olympiad.
Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Catalog Code: B0357EM
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EBOOK - Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
This book is the much anticipated follow-up to the highly acclaimed and award-nominated Lessons with a Grandmaster.
EBOOK - Lessons with a Grandmaster II
Improve Your Tactical Vision and Dynamic Play with Boris Gulko
Catalog Code: E-B0356EM
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EBOOK - Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Matthew Sadler is one of the UK's strongest ever players. He became a grandmaster at 19, won the British Championship twice and, amongst other amazing achievements, made a gold medal winning score of 101/2/13 on board four for England in the 1996 chess Olympiad.
EBOOK - Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
Catalog Code: E-B0357EM
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Lessons From My Games
A Passion For Chess
A Passion For Chess
This rich book distills the experience gained during one of the most brilliant chess careers of our time - a career that has been distinguished equally in chess play and in chess analysis. Lessons from My Games combines the best of Reuben Fine the famous grandmaster, who has been a top contender in many of the century's greatest tournaments, with the best of Reuben Fine the writer, whose matchless books have been landmarks in chess history.
Lessons From My Games
A Passion For Chess
Catalog Code: B0172IS
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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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