Ajedrez / Chess: Match Kasparov-karpov (Spanish Edition)

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Ajedrez / Chess: Match Kasparov-karpov (Spanish Edition)

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Winning Chess Tactics

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Winning Chess Tactics

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The Scandinavian Defence

The world's best Grandmasters have deployed the Scandinavian Defense with great success-and now every player can. Champion and prolific author James Plaskett explains how to use the defense and its variations (including the Icelandic Gambit), discusses the schemes played by such superstars as Vishy Anand in his World Cup Championship against Gary Kasparov, and shows how Black can employ the Scandinavian in a radically different middlegame.

The Scandinavian Defence

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Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions

Four-time US Champion Yasser Seirawan provides a fascinating and highly entertaining account of his games and encounters with the world champions of chess including:

Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Max Euwe.

Having been involved in frequent battles against world champions over a 25-year period, Seirawan is in an ideal position to reveal how it really feels to be facing the legends of the game.

He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters – both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chessplayers of the last 50 years.

During this time Seirawan has also been highly active in off-the-board chess activities. This has brought him into close personal contact with many of these champions. In,"Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions,"Seirawan recounts many stories involving these giants of the game - giving an intriguing insight into their personalities away from the board.

Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions

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The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

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The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

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Chess Developments: The Modern Benoni

Chess Developments is a brand new series providing state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the current trends – concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening theory whilst also expanding and improving their repertoires.

The Modern Benoni is an exciting, counter-attacking weapon against 1 d4. Black willingly creates an early imbalance which allows both sides to fight for the initiative in positions which are rich in tactical and strategic possibilities. In this book, Richard Palliser examines the most theoretically important and instructive Modern Benoni games from recent years, highlighting the main developments and novelties for both sides. Whether playing White or Black, studying this book will provide you with essential information on a popular opening.

Chess Developments: The Modern Benoni

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Prepare to Attack

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

There's no escaping the fact: if you want to win chess games, you have to attack at some point. Many players are happy solving combinations in winning positions, when the hard work is already done, but the key to a successful attack undoubtedly comes much earlier. No-one can attack effectively if they haven't prepared properly, and yet planning in chess can be a difficult technique to master, even for experienced players.

This book provides a solution. Using an abundance of illustrative games and examples, Gary Lane answers the questions which constantly puzzle players of all levels.

Prepare to Attack

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Chess Tactics for Beginners (Chess lovers' library)

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Chess Tactics for Beginners (Chess lovers' library)

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The New Old Indian

The Old Indian Defence is considered to be a sound way for Black to meet 1 d4. Some might argue that it is steady rather than spectacular, but is this reputation totally deserved? Grandmaster Alexander Cherniaev strongly disagrees, and in this book he introduces ambitious and aggressive ways for Black to play in the main lines. He constructs an improved version of a repertoire he has himself utilized with great success against grandmaster opposition. Using illustrative games, he studies the fundamental tactical and positional ideas for both sides, and also covers what to do if White avoids the Old Indian. This book tells you everything you need to know about playing the New Old Indian.

* A Grandmaster’s repertoire against 1 d4
* Full of new ideas and critical analysis
* Illustrative games highlight key ideas.

The New Old Indian

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Lessons with a Grandmaster, II

Imagine you are a club player who has been given the opportunity to talk at length with a famous Grandmaster. How would you make the most of this opportunity? This book is the much anticipated follow-up to the highly acclaimed and award-nominated Lessons with a Grandmaster. It bridges the gap between great player and amateur through a series of conversations between teacher, the renowned Grandmaster Boris Gulko, and student Dr. Joel R. Sneed, a professor of psychology and amateur chess player. The lessons are based on Gulko's own battles against fellow Grandmasters. This second volume focuses on dynamic chess, developing chess imagination, the capacity to take risks, the ability to simultaneously attack and defend, and perhaps above all, the ability to visualize the chess board and calculate combinations in sharp positions.

Lessons with a Grandmaster, II

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Diary of a Chess Queen

Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.

Diary of a Chess Queen

Alexangra Kosteniuk..

Nunn's Chess Openings (Cadogan Chess Books)

Nunn's Chess Openings is written by a team of experts -- four writers who are acclaimed as outstanding chess writers and experts in their fields. The expert team's collective knowledge and experience covers all openings. Each section is written by a player with expertise in that area, enabling Nunn's Chess Openings to provide the sort of insider knowledge that can only be gained by playing an opening against tough opposition.

Setting it above the rest, the majority of game references are from the 1990s.

Nunn's Chess Openings (Cadogan Chess Books)

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360 brilliant and instructive end games

Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd, Toronto, Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd, London. This Dover edition, first published in 1968, is an unabridge and unaltered republication of the work published in 1961 by Sterling Publishing Co, NewYork, under the title Chess Handbook of 360 Brilliant and Instructive End Games. This text is reprinted by special arrangement with Sterling Publishing Co. Manufactured in the USA and published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY.

360 brilliant and instructive end games

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Excelling at Positional Chess (Everyman Chess)

Positional chess remains a mystery to many and yet an understanding of the finer points of the game so often makes the difference between two equally matched players. Improve your positional play and you will see chess in a totally new dimension!
In this unique book, International Master Jacob Aagaard selects many original examples of positional chess, the crème de la crème of those that he uses for training and study. Aagaard also delves deeply into the ideas of positional evaluation and analysis.

Excelling at Positional Chess (Everyman Chess)

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Selections from Chess: 0 (Vocal Selections)

(Vocal Selections). 15 selections from the Broadway musical featuring songs written by Tim Rice and the two "B"s from Scandinavian supergroup ABBA: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Includes: Anthem * Chess * Heaven Help My Heart * Merano * One Night in Bangkok * Someone Else's Story * more.

Selections from Chess: 0 (Vocal Selections)

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Chess: How to Play the White Pieces

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Chess: How to Play the White Pieces

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First Chess Openings

This great beginning book shows players how to confidently start out a chess game with solid near-foolproof openings. Easy-to-read and targeted to novice and new chess player, the oversized format is filled with large diagrams, clear explanations, and ideas and concepts that are easy for new players. Even better, no knowledge of chess notation is required, nor does the reader need to memorize variations. Everything learned becomes common sense and the game becomes fun. Schiller, an ardent teacher of children and beginning players, shows the top 10 most important chess openings and teaches readers the importance of focusing on the four clear goals of the opening.

First Chess Openings

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Grandmasters of chess,

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Grandmasters of chess,

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School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play

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. Using a number of fascinating examples, he also analyzes methods of attack and defense. The book also includes special test positions and questions to engage and instruct the reader.

School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play

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Chess History and Reminiscences (Forgotten Books)

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally.

The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.

Chess History and Reminiscences (Forgotten Books)

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How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

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Winning with the Dutch

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Winning with the Dutch

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Better Moves for Better Shogi

Shogi is the Japanese variety of chess. It is the most popular board game in Japan. The main added feature is that a captured piece becomes a member of the opposing army and can be dropped back into the game later on. This book is by far the best and the most advanced book ever written in the English language about shogi. It goes through all aspects of the game, including complicated opening variations.

Better Moves for Better Shogi

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Celestial Chess

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Celestial Chess

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Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi

The ancient game of chess has its roots in India, where the legendary emperor Ravana used it to exercise his generals in strategy and tactics. Played by millions around the world, shogi is the uniquely Japanese variant of chess.

Japanese Chess is the ultimate book on shogi for beginners and experienced players alike. Its step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams lead the reader through the strategies and intricacies of one of Japan's most popular board games. Shogi is the only variation of chess in which an opponent's captured piece can be dropped back onto the board as one's own. This makes for extremely exciting, dynamic game play in which momentum can quickly shift back and forth between players.

This essential resource includes a shogi board bound right into it, folding out for use with the included shogi pieces.

Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi

Trevor Leggett rose to the rank of fourth dan in shogi. For many years he was the head of Japanese-language broadcasts for the BBC, and was the compiler and translator of A First Zen Reader, A Second Zen Reader, and the author of Zen and the Ways...

The Complete Najdorf

The Najdorf chess opening is synonymous with names such as Tal, Fischer and Kasparov. It includes many famous variations such as the Poisoned Pawn, the Polugaevsky Variation and the Gothenburg Variation. This guide covers all the variations of the Najdorf in detail and explains how to use it.

The Complete Najdorf

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How to Solve Chess Problems

58 two-move problems, 46 three-movers, and eight four-movers composed during the last 30 years and illustrative of the best work of 27 outstanding American problem composers. The author has included practical suggestions for solving each problem, an explanation of common terms and an exhaustive index. Invaluable for any player, even beginners interested in problems.

How to Solve Chess Problems

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Soviet Championships (Cadogan Chess Books)

The famous Soviet Championships, run annually from 1920 to 1991, were truly extraordinary events. Every top Soviet Grandmaster, including Botvinnik, Tal, Kasparov, Spassky, Petrosian, and Karpov, participated regularly, and the best games have gone down in history. This fine book gives a complete record of the results of the Championships (by Bernard Cafferty), while the superb selection of annotated games has been specially provided by the famous Russian Grandmaster Mark Taimanov.

Soviet Championships (Cadogan Chess Books)

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It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess)

Feeling up to a challenge? In this highly original and instructive self-test book, Grandmaster Chris Ward presents a selection of carefully chosen puzzles to solve. Hot on the heels of his very successful It's Your Move and Improvers It's Your Move, comes It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, which this time aims to rack the brains of even the most experienced chess players.
The puzzles might be a bit more difficult this time but, in the same style of the previous two books, the reader is once again helped by the choice of five plausible plans and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed. The answers then identify the most promising plan and explain why the other choices are less attractive. Instead of opting for the traditional 'check, check, mate ... mate!' type of puzzles, Ward concentrates on situations which are much more likely to occur in practical games.

It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles (Everyman Chess)

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The Slav: Move by Move (Everyman Chess)

This is a new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, Move by Move greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved, and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge.

In this book, Cyrus Lakdawala examines the universally popular Slav Defence which has been his main choice against 1 d4 for many years. Here he shares his experience and knowledge of his favorite opening, presents a repertoire for Black and provides answers to all the key questions.

The Slav: Move by Move (Everyman Chess)

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Ataque Con 1. D4 / Attacking With 1 d4 (Jaque Mate) (Spanish Edition)

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Ataque Con 1. D4 / Attacking With 1 d4 (Jaque Mate) (Spanish Edition)

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Forcing Chess Moves: The Key to Better Calculation

Charles Hertan, an experienced chess coach from Massachusetts, has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key winning moves is often due to human bias, since your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural. Charles Hertan?s radically different approach is: use COMPUTER EYES and always look for the most forcing move first! By studying forcing sequences according to Hertan?s method you will develop analytical precision, improve your tactical vision, overcome human bias and staleness, and enjoy the calculation of difficult positions.

Forcing Chess Moves: The Key to Better Calculation

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Programa de Fuerza En Ajedrez (Spanish Edition)

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Programa de Fuerza En Ajedrez (Spanish Edition)

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It's Your Move Improvers

This is a highly original and instructive self-test book. The puzzles are aimed at the improving club player or promising junior.

It's Your Move Improvers

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Modern Chess Theory 1980 - 1981

This Hardinge Simpole Classic Openings reprint features writings by world champions and title candidates.In addition there is a host of material by ingenious theoreticians. Modern Chess Theory magazine, under the editorship of Grandmaster Ray Keene was originally published from 1980-1982.

Modern Chess Theory 1980 - 1981

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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

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Miniatures from the World Champions

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Miniatures from the World Champions

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The Chess of Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer is regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. A movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” was made about two of the times he disappeared. Although there are many books about Bobby Fischer, this is the only one that deals in depth with his second, in 1992, match against Boris Spassky and the one that explores in greatest depth his playing style and thought process. In The Chess of Bobby Fischer, the author employs his long experience as a chess analyst to transform the technique and insight of the greatest player of all time into a unique teaching tool. This, he shows, is how a great player wins games. Robert Burger first got to know Bobby as a precocious youngster when, in 1957, Fischer's mother called him to ask if he would "watch over" Bobby in San Francisco at the U.S. Junior Championship. As a director of The Mechanics' Institute, where the tournament was held, Burger was also familiar to the participants as the co-editor of The California Chess Reporter. A National Master, Burger also has the distinction of being a grandmaster of chess composition, of the U.S. Chess Problem Society. He is also a Fellow of the British Chess Problem Society and the author of numerous nonfiction books. Among his other chess books are "Grandmaster Chess" and "The Unknown Tal." He has reported on chess tourneys and matches throughout Europe. Among his collaborators on chess books have been Isaac Kashdan and Vladimir Nabokov (yes, that one!). The current edition of this classic is the most complete, referencing the second Fischer-Spassky match -- in Yugoslavia in 1992. Burger has always maintained that the real Bobby was among the most generous and statesmanlike of grandmasters, with this anecdote as an example: In 1964, when Bobby made his first, great tour of the United States following his sweep of the U.S. Championship, Burger was one of thirty players in a "simul" at Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco.

The Chess of Bobby Fischer

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How to Win at Chess: A Complete Course

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How to Win at Chess: A Complete Course

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Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Chess Interactions Conference

This unique proceedings volume offers one of the very first truly interdisciplinary conferences ever organized. More than 15 papers in this volume are written by some of the most acclaimed researchers in their field. Contributions range over a very wide spectrum of disciplines: biology; computer science; economics; education; health sciences; operations research; philosophy; physics; psychology; mathematics; music and sociology.

Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Chess Interactions Conference

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More Unbeatable Chess Lessons: Instruction for the Advanced Player

In More Unbeatable Chess Lessons, chess coach Robert Snyder takes his Unbeatable Chess Lessons book a step further by covering twenty-four additional games with commentary on every move in each game.

Games arranged by opening with original analysis.

Detailed analysis of critical lines.

Important tactical and positional themes allow players to improve pattern recognition and planning ability.

Games played by the author as well as world famous players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi and Tal.

Challenges at various points to find the best move.

Written for intermediate to advanced players.

More Unbeatable Chess Lessons: Instruction for the Advanced Player

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Delights of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Delights of Chess is Assiac's enduring monument. Wit, erudition, grandmaster gossip and profiles of the greats are the staple fare, rather then gruelling analysis or reams of variations. This is the elegant fireside of chess to be savoured with blazing logs and a glass of fine cognac.

Delights of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

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Manual of Chess Combinations, Vol. 1A (Chess School)

The book is a new edition of a bestseller by an experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko. Over 250,000 copies of his books were sold in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's. This book is intended for beginners, both children and adults. The themes are: Mate in one, Mate in two, Win a queen, Win a rook, Win a piece, etc.

The book designed for chess players with ELO 900-1200 points. Includes more than 700 tactical problems classified according to themes and difficulty.

Languages: English, German, Russian and Spanish.

Manual of Chess Combinations, Vol. 1A (Chess School)

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Chess Visualization Course

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Chess Visualization Course

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Ajedrez por niveles / Levels Chess (Spanish Edition)

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Ajedrez por niveles / Levels Chess (Spanish Edition)

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Chess Year Book 1976-77

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Chess Year Book 1976-77

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True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board

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 chess. This book is awash with invaluable advice on all stages of the game. Taylor emphasizes the practical aspects of chess: how to really make the most of your ability; how to win at all costs; and how to absorb the lessons of defeat to come back stronger.

Grab every advantage over your opponents and be in the best possible shape for battle. True Combat Chess will show you the way.

True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board

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Chess Self-Improvement

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

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The Sicilian Pelikan

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The Sicilian Pelikan

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The Sicilian Taimanov: Move by Move

This new series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge.

In this book, John Emms examines his favourite Sicilian variation, which is one of Black’s most reliable answers to 1 e4. He shares his knowledge from over 15 years studying and playing the Sicilian Taimanov at grandmaster level, examines the opening from both sides of the board and offers answers to the all the key question.

The Sicilian Taimanov: Move by Move

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Chess Kaleidoscope (Pergamon Russian Chess)

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Chess Kaleidoscope (Pergamon Russian Chess)

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Winning Chess Traps: 300 Ways To Win in the Opening

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Winning Chess Traps: 300 Ways To Win in the Opening

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Sicilian Defense Wing Gambits

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Sicilian Defense Wing Gambits

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Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

A new, more logical method of evaluating your game position in 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. He maximizes the results of your reading time. More than 400 chess diagrams make reading easy.

Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

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Mastering the Spanish (Mastering (Batsford))

The Spanish opening, one of the oldest known chess openings, is still highly popular at every level of the game. It leads to highly complex play, whichever variation arises. In this volume of the "Mastering" series, the authors explain, with the aid of many diagrams, the essential features of the main variations of the Spanish opening. This series organizes the subject matter according to strategic themes and, by concentrating on the essentials, the books ensure that the reader genuinely understands the underlying principles instead of merely memorizing variations.

Mastering the Spanish (Mastering (Batsford))

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Trends in the Closed Spanish: v. 2

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Trends in the Closed Spanish: v. 2

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Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian

Are you bored of playing the same old openings time and time again? Fed up with constantly having to keep up with modern chess theory? Or perhaps you simply wish to play something new and exciting, but cannot decide between the numerous choices available? Don’t despair – help is on hand!’

In Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian, John Emms and Richard Palliser team up to investigate by far the most popular and widely-played chess opening, but in a revolutionary way. They concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations of the open Sicilian, selecting a wealth of ideas and options for both colours. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking, incredibly tricky, or have been unfairly discarded; they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponent off balance. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you assured and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!

Dangerous Weapons is a brand-new series of opening books that provide the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire.

Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian

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Starting Out: Slav & Semi-Slav (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster and openings expert Glenn Flear goes back to basics, studying the essential principles of the Slav and Semi-Slav Defences and their numerous variations. Throughout the book there are an abundance of notes, tips, and warnings to guide improving players, while key strategies, ideas, and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.

Starting Out: Slav & Semi-Slav (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

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Most Instructive Games of the Young Grandmasters

Readers will be both inspired and delighted by this collection of the finest games of the brightest young stars of modern chess. Selected annotated games and notes instruct readers in the key techniques, while shedding light on why these players have become such world-beaters.

Most Instructive Games of the Young Grandmasters

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Secrets of Rook Endings

The first edition of this book ushered in a new era in chess publishing. It was the first book based on computer-generated position databases that are guaranteed to provide the actual result of a position.
However, this book is no computer print-out. It takes a human 'oracle' to extract the useful information from this mass of data and to identify new principles to help the rest of us appreciate the key practical points. Dr John Nunn, top-class grandmaster and renowned theoretician, performs this role admirably. He has identified where previous theory has been overturned, and where there are important new results. Dr Nunn was also the first to reveal the general importance of the many 'reciprocal zugzwang' positions.

Secrets of Rook Endings

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Najdorf: Life and Games

Miguel Najdorf has been described as a flamboyant poet of the chessboard, but he is perhaps best known for his opening variation of the Sicilian Defense--often used to good effect by Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Here is an informed biography, complemented by one hundred select games, all fully annotated by well-respected authors, that demonstrate his originality and brilliance.

Najdorf: Life and Games

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Your First Chess Games (Batsford Chess Library)

This book explains how the reader can improve his or her game by looking at the common traps and strategies which arise at every stage of a game. Every important idea is systematically illustrated with several samples providing a thorough grounding in the basic techniques of chess play. The book will be ideal for the novice player who has mastered the basic skills of tactics and checkmating and wants to make further progress.

Your First Chess Games (Batsford Chess Library)

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The principles of chess in theory and practice

This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.

The principles of chess in theory and practice

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My Fifty Years of Chess

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My Fifty Years of Chess

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The Blackmar-Deimer Gambit: A modern guide to a fascinating chess opening (Everyman Chess)

Do you like setting your opponent problems from the very first move? And are you happy to roll the dice and take some risks? Then enter the intriguing world of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit! The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is a dangerous attacking opening which has amassed a cult following - a loyal band of supporters like no other in chess. White sacrifices a pawn in return for a strong initiative which tests Black's defensive capabilities to the limit. Some experts have questioned its objective soundness but there's no doubting its effectiveness over the board, where pressure and a ticking clock often mean it's impossible to find the right defence. In this book, Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-day look at the gambit. He examines in detail the most promising lines for White and the most resilient defences for Black, discusses the key ideas for both sides and highlights the many traps awaiting the unsuspecting player. It includes up-to-date coverage of the key lines. It is packed with original ideas and analysis. It is ideal for club and tournament players.

The Blackmar-Deimer Gambit: A modern guide to a fascinating chess opening (Everyman Chess)

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Starting Out: Dutch Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

In this user-friendly book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald goes back to basics, studying the fundamental principles of the Dutch Defence and its many variations. Throughout the book there are an abundance of notes, tips, warnings, and exercises to help improving players, while key strategies, ideas, and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.

Starting Out: Dutch Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

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Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal

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Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal

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Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory (Dover Chess)

Book about the best chess player of the nineteenth century analyzes his games and positions in depth, discusses other players of the period (Adolph Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz), Morphy's rare blunders and omissions, as well as selected endgames and openings. Diagrams.15 halftones.

Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory (Dover Chess)

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History of Chess

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History of Chess

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Piece Power (The Batsford Chess Library)

How do pieces work together? How do they combine to attack weak points, or to crash through the opponent's defences? This book addresses these fundamental questions providing valuable guidance to the player seeking to use their pieces to better effect. By studying Peter Wells' carefully selected material, the reader will develop an understanding of which pieces are effective in certain situations, and which are better exchanged - or sacrificed. Part of the "Think Like a Grandmaster" series, this book includes annotated diagrams and examples taken from recent practice. A question and exercise sections is included.

Piece Power (The Batsford Chess Library)

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How to Become a Candidate Master

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How to Become a Candidate Master

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Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko

Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Perhaps it's time for a change, but you cannot decide between the numerous options available? Here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas!

In this book, four renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the Benoni, the Benko and all their associated variations. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analysed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!

Dangerous Weapons is a series of opening books which supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire.

Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko

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Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate

Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But The Chess Machine was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king.In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablanca's record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play advocated by the unequaled teacher, C.J.S. Purdy. The author also identifies an overlooked checkmate pattern - Capablanca's Mate - that aspiring attackers can add to the standard catalogue in Renaud and Kahn's The Art of the Checkmate. As Del Rosario shows, Capablanca has inspired not only generations of players, but also many of the classics of chess literature.Easy to read but chock-full of advice for study and practical play, Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate fills a gaping hole in our understanding of the third World Champion.

Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate

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A Guide to Chess Endings

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A Guide to Chess Endings

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Lasker's Manual of Chess

"Lasker's Manual of Chess" is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published over 80 years ago has diminished neither its relevance nor significance in today's modern chess world. Lasker was both a wonderful fighter and a deep thinker; his book is the quintessence of the exceptionally successful experiences he had over many long years, and his thoughts about them. He teaches what he himself considers most important: general principles and methods applicable to any situation. Once you have read the "Manual", you will become smarter - afterwards, this is bound to help you, both in chess and in life. Emanuel Lasker, the Second World Champion, begins at the most basic level, explaining the board, the pieces, how they move and then goes on to describe the fundamentals of chess strategy, chess tactics and even chess philosophy. The result is one of best chess books ever written.

Lasker's Manual of Chess

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Tabiya Tournament Chess Scorebook: Cover Style: White with Green Graphic

The Tabiya Tournament Chess Scorebook is a chess player's answer to scattered, disorganized game scores. The Tabiya holds 100 games and has the most moves per scoresheet available today: 130 moves per game—more than enough space to record most rated games. And when you're ready to study, the Tabiya makes it easy to find your games. With its exclusive Player Table of Contents, looking up games, results, tournaments, or openings is as simple a using the table of contents in a published book. The Tabiya has a modern paperback format, and you have your choice of cover styles. Click the small "+" sign in the "Formats" box above to see the 10 choices available. (The "Formats" box may not be enabled on all product pages.) Players can choose between two formats: Tabiya and Pocket Tabiya. The Tabiya is available in six cover styles: Black, Blue, Red, White with Green Graphic, White with Orange Graphic, and White with Blue Graphic. The Pocket Tabiya is available in four cover styles: Black, Blue, Black with Green Graphic, and Black with Yellow Graphic. You can find more information on Tabiya scorebooks at http://www.PrecisionChess.com.

Tabiya Tournament Chess Scorebook: Cover Style: White with Green Graphic

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Comprehensive Chess Openings: Open Games

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Comprehensive Chess Openings: Open Games

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Chess Praxis

Here now is a full exposition of Nimzowitsch's new analysis and theories that is remarkably profound and useful.

Chess Praxis

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4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade September 7th - October 29th

The Candidates' Tournament of 1959 was one of the most dramatic and exciting of all tournaments, launching the flamboyant Grandmaster Mikhail Tal on his road to become the youngest-ever World Champion. Keres played possibly the best chess of his career at this event, restraining his natural attacking flair in the service of a more universal style, able to turn out finely honed strategic campaigns and subtle endgames. His three(!) victories over Tal in this tournament must have made him believe he could take the champion's crown, if he finished first... It was also notable for the arrival on the world's stage of Bobby Fischer, already twice USA champion and World Championship Candidate at 15 years of age.

4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade September 7th - October 29th

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How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician

A guide for chess-players to help them spot unlikely-looking tactical tricks and launch cunning attacks. Readers are shown how to hunt the enemy king and how to seize the initiative with surprising sacrifices. LeMoir shows that the key factors in becoming a deadly tactician are motivation (having the willingness to sacrifice and to consider tactical ideas during play), imagination (being aware of tactical concepts that lead to ideas which other players might miss) and calculation (being able to analyse and calculate effectively).

This user-friendly and humorously written book contains many outstanding examples of seized opportunities, together with guidance on how to spot surprising tactics and handle positions of material imbalance. Throughout, there are exercises for the reader to tackle.

How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician

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New in chess keybook, 1970-1982: An encyclopaedic analysis of current opening theory = New in chess Schlusselbuch, 1970-1982 :

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New in chess keybook, 1970-1982: An encyclopaedic analysis of current opening theory = New in chess Schlusselbuch, 1970-1982 :

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Begin Chess

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Begin Chess

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New In Chess Yearbook 74 2005

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings, and each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. The Yearbook not only covers the latest fashion, but also offers fresh insights into underrated gambits, rare continuations, and almost forgotten weapons. A must-have publication for serious chess students.

New In Chess Yearbook 74 2005

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Learn Chess Tactics

Once a chess player has mastered the basic rules of the game, the next step is to study tactics, the art of using the pieces to win material or deliver checkmate. Grandmaster John Nunn tackles this important subject systematically, carefully explaining each new idea before giving plenty of exercises to test the reader's understanding.
John Nunn has won four individual gold medals in Chess Olympiads, and was three times World Chess Problem Solving Champion.

Learn Chess Tactics

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Selected Games: 1967 - 1970 (Pergamon Russian Chess)

In his book the author describes his chess career from 1967 to the present day. The first section contians a collection of his games from 1967 until 1970, all of which have been meticulously annotated. The second half of the book includes his recollecitons of three former world champions Lasker, Euwe and Alekhine and summarises his pioneering work in the field of computer chess.

Selected Games: 1967 - 1970 (Pergamon Russian Chess)

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Morphy's Games of Chess (Btb Chess Classics)

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Morphy's Games of Chess (Btb Chess Classics)

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40 Lessons for the Club Player: A Proven Course in All Aspects of Chess

This sequel to From Beginner to Expert in 40 Lessons concentrates on the challenges of practical play.

40 Lessons for the Club Player: A Proven Course in All Aspects of Chess

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The Soviet School of Chess

“The Soviet School of Chess” is one of the most important books ever written on chess. It starts with the pre-Soviet Era with the beginning of the 19th century and recounts not only the histories of their greatest players up to modern times but also the history of their ideas. A biography is provided for each of the greatest players plus examples from their games and their contributions to chess knowledge and chess opening theory. This revised version has added in Algebraic Notation the complete scores of all 200 games referenced in the book plus the concluding diagram, in the appendix in the back. Here is the name of the player of white and black, the year the game was played, the opening and opening code, the number of moves, the result and the page in the book where the game is referenced. The games are in the order in which they are referenced in the book.

The Soviet School of Chess

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From Baguio to Merano: The World Championship Matches of 1978 and 1981

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From Baguio to Merano: The World Championship Matches of 1978 and 1981

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Fly the Pterodactyl: A Chess Works Publication

The Pterodactyl (1…g6, 2…Bg7, 3…c5 and an early …Qa5) is one of the most exciting new chess openings. Used experimentally in the 1950s and 1960s, it has only gained true popularity in the 21st century. With the structure closely resembling the Sicilian Dragon, Black relies on a very powerful Bishop and active Queen to put pressure on White's position. The opening has been played by many grandmasters and the formation has been seen in over 20,000 games, yet until now there has been no in-depth study of the Pterodactyl. FIDE master Eric Schiller presents the opening in all its glory with detailed opening analysis and over. The complete illustrative games in this book you will find all you need to know to take up it as black and confront your opponents from the very earliest stages of the game. The author has played the opening frequently and successfully even against Grandmasters and has many insights into past that were geared more unexplored. At the same time, this remains a new opening, so there is still room for plenty of original play. So explore this exciting opening and use it to confound your opponents no matter how they choose to open as White.

Fly the Pterodactyl: A Chess Works Publication

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Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black (Batsford Chess Book)

Following the success of Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings comes this complete repertoire for Black that allows players to dominate the game right from the start. Award-winning openings expert Gary Lane provides every expert tip, trick, and trap in the book, and chess grids throughout demonstrate key lines and accelerate the learning process. All the games are annotated throughout, in the same appealing easy-to-follow style that has made Lane (Find the Winning Move, Grand Prix Attack) one of the most popular chess writers in the world today.

Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black (Batsford Chess Book)

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Young Chess Player

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Young Chess Player

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