Winning with Chess Psychology

What's the best move? One that will disturb your opponant the most. Regardless of your playing strength, chess psychology will help you maximise your playing strength--and win more games.

Winning with Chess Psychology

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The 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!

Why is this? Do they know something the rest of us don't? The answer is they do - they know the Rules of Winning Chess.

The Rules of Winning Chess

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Chess Tactics (Crowood Chess Library)

Every chess player has an intriguing array of tactics to choose from, and this comprehensive manual describes, analyzes, and teaches the best of them so beginners can understand the possibilities. Through progressively more difficult exercises and problems, novices will see how to deploy a variety of tactics for attack and how to defend against each type successfully. The result: a significantly better game.

Chess Tactics (Crowood Chess Library)

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Colle Plays The Colle System: All the Games Colle Played With His System

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Colle Plays The Colle System: All the Games Colle Played With His System

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The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon: Improve Your Results with New Ideas in This Dynamic Opening

The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon succeeds by focusing attention on how Black can break the Maroczy Bind and create dynamic possibilities. Studying these general principles can enhance any player's game. Intermediate.

The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon: Improve Your Results with New Ideas in This Dynamic Opening

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Birth of the Chess Queen

Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector.

Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five centuries between the chess queen's timid emergence in the early days of the Holy Roman Empire to her elevation during the reign of Isabel of Castile. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, and Germany to France, England, Scandinavia, and Russia. In a lively and engaging historical investigation, Yalom draws parallels between the rise of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts and internal struggles for power.

Birth of the Chess Queen

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Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points

Purdy fills you in on the details, explains the whys, and makes it easier for you to improve—to be a very good player without large amounts of memorization. Even the elementary principles which begin this book have points not seen in other works of this type. His language is a bit unusual, making it easier to remember such things as "biffing the Bishop." He covers all three phases of a game: the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. Lastly, a complete game is dissected for the purpose of showing how Purdy's Rules are used effectively. The best beginner's book on chess you will ever read.

Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points

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Your Best Move

“I look one move ahead... the best!”, Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give ourselves the very best chance of doing so?

Per Ostman is convinced that there are three key elements: first and foremost, a structured move-by-move thinking process; second, the desired skills to execute this process; and finally, traditional chess knowledge we can build upon. Ostman examines these three vital building blocks which form the basis of what we need to master. He describes in detail a clear thinking process he has developed over several years as a chess teacher – a process to guide us in our ultimate search to find the best move.

Your Best Move

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Unbeatable Chess Lessons

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

• Games arranged by opening to help students improve their knowledge of important openings.
  
• Games and analysis contain important tactical and positional themes to improve pattern recognition and planning ability.
  
• Games played by the author and world famous players such as Fischer, Spassky, Alekhine and Capablanca.
  
• Challenges at various points to find the best move.
  
• Written for the beginner to intermediate player.
  
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Art of Attack in Chess

One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add power and brilliance to any chess enthusiast's play.

Art of Attack in Chess

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Let's Play Chess: A Step by Step Guide for New Players (The Pandolfini Chess Library)

From the author's Introduction of the first edition: Chess is by far the most popular board game in the world. There are millions of players of all ages and the number keeps growing. Maybe it's because you become a general who directs an army against your opponent in an exciting battle of wits. Whatever the reason, chess is challenging and fascinating. This is my attempt to lure you to the royal game. It's based on the very same lessons I have given to thousands of beginners. Their questions and problems have shaped it. Moreover, some of the best ideas in the book were actually suggested by new players! I have tried to be as direct as possible. To make your journey a smooth one, the fundamentals have been broken down into short, logical statements. Each idea is numbered, ordered, and clearly stated. For the most part, statements are linked in graded sequence with the easier ones preceding the harder. The format is unique and easy to follow. You should feel yourself learning step by step. You will see how chess players think about their moves. Where desirable, explanation has replaced calculation. The stress is on understanding, not memory. There are plenty of diagrams for almost every idea.

Let's Play Chess: A Step by Step Guide for New Players (The Pandolfini Chess Library)

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Super Nezh: Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Chess Assassin

A translation from Russian to English of one of the greatest chess grandmasters in the world, in the second half of the 20th century. Nezhmetdinov was more than a giant killer, he produced some games of genius-like creativity. Only once in awhile does a true chess assassin come forward, a player of great imagination, ability, and fearlessness. Nezhmetdinov was one in a very elite group. His method was: ATTACK... ATTACK... ATTACK.

Super Nezh: Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Chess Assassin

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Sicilian Kalashnikov (Everyman Chess)

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Sicilian Kalashnikov (Everyman Chess)

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Modern ideas in chess

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Modern ideas in chess

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Chess College 3: Technique

Chess College is an exciting new series of chess 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-colored 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 3: Technique

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Estructura de Peones En Ajedrez - Con CD (Spanish Edition)

Los peones tienen unos movimientos muy limitados. Pero es precisamente esa limitada movilidad lo que los hace tan importantes para la estrategia. La estructura (o esqueleto ) de peones marca el territorio controlado por cada jugador y define los puntos fuertes y débiles que resultarán cruciales en el medio juego y en el final. En este original e importante libro podrá aprender: -Cómo actuar en función de las diferentes estructuras de peones. -Cómo identificar los puntos fuertes y débiles en las cadenas de peones. -Cuándo cambiar y cuándo no peones en centro. -Cómo restringir las piezas enemigas y mantener flexible su propia posición. -Cómo crear agujeros y otras debilidades, y cómo explotarlas luego. ...y muchas cosas más, todo ello explicado e ilustrado con partidas completas y diagramas. Andrew Soltis es gran maestro internacional y un reputado periodista de ajedrez, columnista en el prestigioso diario New York Post y de la revista Chess Life.

Estructura de Peones En Ajedrez - Con CD (Spanish Edition)

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (New in Chess)

The legendary David Bronstein, artist and sorcerer of the chess board, uses examples from his own brillant games to develop club player's skills. An unconventional book with interesting stories and easy-to-understand teaching material. This is a revised and expanded edition of a modern chess classic, written by an icon of chess in the 20st century.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (New in Chess)

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Geheimnisse Moderner Schacheroeffnungen Band 2

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Geheimnisse Moderner Schacheroeffnungen Band 2

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Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster: A Career Summary with 757 Games

This work chronicles the chess career and games of Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan, one of the leading United States players of the 1930s (along with such notables as Fine and Reshevsky). The main body of the work examines Kashdan's game play, with diagrams and analysis provided for many hundreds of his tournament games, match games, speed games, simultaneous exhibitions, training games and consultation games. Some games are accompanied by detailed contemporary analyses written by Kashdan and other prominent chess masters of his era. There are numerous photographs, as well as facsimiles of correspondence. Also included are tournament crosstables, and indexes of Kashdan's opponents.

Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster: A Career Summary with 757 Games

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Tournament Chess

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Tournament Chess

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Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team

A year with the boy geniuses of the nation?s top high school chess team, now in paperback with a new afterword

Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York?s public-education success stories, a school where there are no varsity sports, and the closest thing to jocks is found on the powerhouse chess team.

Award-winning sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season. Weinreb delves into the history of chess in America, following the stories of greats such as Bobby Fischer, for whom the world within the chessboard is as easy to comprehend as the world beyond it is difficult.

Game of Kings: A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team

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Application of Chess Theory

Yefim Geller has been one of the world's foremost grandmasters over the past four decades, during which time he has established a reputation as being the leading Russian authority on opening theory. In this annotated collection of his own games, Geller shows the practical benefits of a sound understanding of opening strategy.

Application of Chess Theory

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Chess for Tigers

The Tiger is a vicious beast. He doesn’t care about the aesthetic side of chess. He doesn’t even care about making the “best” moves. All he cares about is winning. This book will turn players into Tigers who can make the most of their playing strength, take advantage of their opponent’s weaknesses, steer the game into positions that favor their style of play, improve their odds of winning against stronger players, and avoid making silly mistakes. A cult classic in the chess world—now in its third updated and revised edition—this is a must-have for all chess players, especially beginners.

Chess for Tigers

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Techniques of Middle Game in Chess

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Techniques of Middle Game in Chess

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Learn Chess: A Complete Course

Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining the rules and basic strategies, whilst the second develops a thorough understanding of the various winning methods, and includes a systematic study of openings, an introduction to attacking techniques, and a guide to fundamental endgame themes.

Learn Chess: A Complete Course

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Chess Openings for the Average Player

Clearly written guide covers all openings: the Benko Gambit, Bird's Opening, Centre Game, Dutch Defence, Four Knights Game, King's Gambit, others. Techniques are designed to help moderate players whose games are confined to club play or by correspondence, and aid good players who want to improve in tournament or club events.

Chess Openings for the Average Player

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THE CLASSICAL FRENCH

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THE CLASSICAL FRENCH

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Looking for Trouble

This book is written to address an underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to--threats. For beginner and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there is a forced win, checkmate or draw. However, Looking for Trouble takes a different tack. This book helps players to recognize threats by providing over 200 problems in which players can focus on identifying and meeting threats ranging from extremely easy to fiendishly difficult. The identification of difficult threats how to meet them discussed in a manner that accommodates players of all levels.

Looking for Trouble

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Learn Chess Tactics

This book teaches basic tactical ideas such as the fork, pin, and discovered attack, and introduces general ideas such as elimination, immobilization and compulsion. A basic knowledge of simple tactics will enable a novice to start winning games, by giving checkmate or capturing material. As the player progresses, his tactical arsenal will broaden, and he will start to play sacrifices and combinations, and develop a deeper understanding of the game. Players who fail to study tactics systematically tend to suffer from tactical blind-spots that plague them throughout their playing career, and thus they fail to realize their full potential.

Learn Chess Tactics

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Secrets of Chess Training

This chess book describes the methods employed by the world's number one trainer, who is a Soviet International Master, based upon his experience of teaching many of today's leading Grandmasters, including Gary Kasparov. There are questions and exercises to test the reader's understanding throughout the book. This is the first book to explain exactly how to set about the difficult task of training chess players. The author takes the endgame as an area of chess frequently neglected by players in their studies and shows the various techniques he employs in teaching his students how to analyze positions and learn from them. In particular, he introduces his technique of presenting players with positions and making them play against each other under tournament conditions.

Secrets of Chess Training

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Mitrofanov's Deflection (Annex Annex)

Volume Three of The Tactician's Hand- book continues ICCF IM Charushin's unique look at the fundamental building blocks of tactical play. Here we have his detailed examination of deflections, the "drawing away" of an attacking piece onto an inconvenient square. The sacrifice is marvelous to behold: a piece is given away for nothing, and also with check! This stunning combinational method is here shown to be no lucky accident, but a basic mechanism of tactics in chess. Mitrofanov's Deflection is presented with its own history, then games and studies reinforce the operation of this beautiful tactical device - all in Charushin's inimitable style! The Tactician's Handbook offers a profound new method of exploring chess combinations: one element at a time, in short focused steps.Each volume examines a single, often seen tactical category using carefully selected illustrations. Every example demonstrates the real-world "nuts and bolts" operation of the tactic in question. Readers can immediately apply the skills acquired here, blending the combinational types learned from The Tactician's Handbook into their own games.

Mitrofanov's Deflection (Annex Annex)

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Celestial chess

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Celestial chess

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New In Chess Yearbook 88: The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News (New in Chess Yearbook: The Chess Player's)

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 88: The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News (New in Chess Yearbook: The Chess Player's)

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El ajedrez de Bobby Fischer / The Bobby Fischer's chess (Spanish Edition) (Jaque Mate / Checkmate)

Este libro muestra las claves de su concepcion de ajedrez. Acompanado por el autor, el aficionado captara la logica de jugadas FISCHERIANAS sorprendentes y vera que no siempre respondian a una valoracion objetiva de la situacion, pues, eran fruto de las preferencias personales de Bobby. Y aqui radica otro gran valor de este trabajo: nos aproxima a la compleja personalidad del genial norteamericano a traves de las decisiones que tomaba en sus partidas. Ademas de estudiar el ajedrez Bobby Fischer, Elie Agur ha escrito un verdadero tratado sobre el medio juego: elaboracion de planes, transformacion de ventajas, manejo de la pareja de alfiles, defensa activa, estructura de peones, liquidacion… Todos estos temas se tratan en profundidad analizando el juego de Fischer y comparando su estilo con el de otros ajedrecistas universales como Capablanca, Petrosian o Karpov. Esta obra, por otra parte, rebosa de aspecto puramente deportivo del ajedrez al poner de manifiesto los lazos que lo unen con la ciencia y el arte, sobre todo la musica. El resultado es un libro que esta destinado a convertirse en un clasico.

El ajedrez de Bobby Fischer / The Bobby Fischer's chess (Spanish Edition) (Jaque Mate / Checkmate)

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men -- the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer -- met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.

Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow, authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine -- a machine that had delivered the world title to the Kremlin for decades. Drawing upon unpublished Soviet and U.S. records, the authors reconstruct the full and incredible saga, one far more poignant and layered than hitherto believed.

Bobby Fischer Goes to War

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Grandmaster Repertoire 8: The Grunfeld Defence Volume One

Grandmaster Repertoire is a series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. In two volumes, The Grünfeld Defence offers a complete repertoire for Black against 1.d4. Avrukh's two previous Grandmaster Repertoire books White received universal rave reviews and have been hugely influential on chess players all over the world, including at the very highest level. This is Volume One of Two.

Grandmaster Repertoire 8: The Grunfeld Defence Volume One

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Who Was The Strongest - Warriors of The Mind II

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Who Was The Strongest - Warriors of The Mind II

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Chess on the Net (Everyman Chess)

A chess book on the developments of chess on the net, aimed at a general audience, from beginners to strong players.

Chess on the Net (Everyman Chess)

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Comprehensive Chess Openings, Vol. 3: Closed Games (Pergamon Russian Chess)

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Comprehensive Chess Openings, Vol. 3: Closed Games (Pergamon Russian Chess)

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El metodo 64 de entrenamiento en ajedrez / The Method Number 64 of Chess Training (Spanish Edition)

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El metodo 64 de entrenamiento en ajedrez / The Method Number 64 of Chess Training (Spanish Edition)

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Chess!

Chess!
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Chess!

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Kings of Chess

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Kings of Chess

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Budapest Gambit (Batsford Gambit)

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Budapest Gambit (Batsford Gambit)

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Bobby Fischer Vs the Rest of the World

In 1972, an epic chess match took place in Iceland between representatives of the two great super-powers of the world: Bobby vs. Boris. Boris was backed by the Mighty Soviet Union, with late night phone calls coming from his handlers in Moscow, telling him what his next move should be. Meanwhile, Bobby stood alone against the might of the opposing nation. But, Bobby was not exactly alone. The Americans did not need to tell him what moves to make on the chessboard. Bobby already knew how to do that. Rather, what the Americans needed to do was somehow to get him to sit down at the board and play the game. Here is the story of that titanic struggle: One half of the world trying to get Bobby to play, while the other half was trying to defeat him assuming that he did play. Hence the Title: Bobby Fischer vs. The Rest of the World. In the end, Bobby won. Émigrés from the Soviet Union often state that, more than any other single event, this defeat led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Bobby Fischer Vs the Rest of the World

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Taming the Sicilian: A Repertoire for White Against the Most Popular Black Opening

The Sicilian Defence is Black¿s most ambitious and popular defence to 1 e4. Finding a suitable weapon against it has taxed many a grandmaster¿s brain. Should White dive into the labyrinth of mountainous theory and complications, in which the player who knows the latest theoretical wrinkle is likely to prevail, or should White abstain and instead head for the more tranquil waters of the various Anti-Sicilians on offer? Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in-between! In this book, Grandmaster Nigel Davies tackles the Open Sicilian head on, but still develops an easy-to-use system for White based upon the fianchetto of the king¿s bishop. He arms the readers with an impressive repertoire which enables them to face the Sicilian Defence with renewed confidence.

Taming the Sicilian: A Repertoire for White Against the Most Popular Black Opening

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Secrets of Opening Preparation: School of Future Champions Vol. 2 (Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions)

This helpful chess handbook discusses how to build an opening repertoire and produce opening novelties. Additionally, it explores the connection between the opening and the later stages of the middlegame and the endgame.

Secrets of Opening Preparation: School of Future Champions Vol. 2 (Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions)

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The Art Of Chess

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

The Art Of Chess

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Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook E

Comprehensive Chess Endings is a five volume master work by one of the world's leading authorities on the Chess Endgames, Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh. Grandmaster Averbakh is now the World's Oldest Grandmaster. He was born on February 8, 1922. He is now 90 years old and is still active in chess. This series was originally published in Russian. Ishi Press has published the Russian Language version of volume 2. That is Averbakh Chess Endings Bishop against Knight, Rook against Minor Pieces ISBN 4871875024. We will try to reprint the other volumes if we can ever find them, as they are difficult to obtain. These English versions are direct translation from the Russian except that the order of the volumes has been changed. The contents are exactly the same, other than the translation from Russian to English. These volumes in this series were first published in the Soviet Union in 1954 with a blue hard cover.

Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook E

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Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings

This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games), based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped win Kasparov and Spassky championships. Black learns the Classical Tarrasch, Symmetrical Tarrasch, Asymmetrical Tarrasch, Marshall and Tarrasch gambits, and Tarrasch without Nc3, to achieve early equality or even an outright advantage in the first few moves. This is an important opening book for aggressive players looking for an edge.

Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings

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The Rules of Winning Chess

The Rules of Winning Chess provides you with the key fundamentals of the game, principles that you can easily learn and remember, and that will help you to achieve both greater understanding and enjoyment of chess.

The Rules of Winning Chess

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Chinese Chess

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Chinese Chess

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Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days

Australian chess champion Gary Lane introduced his unique training methods in the bestselling Improve Your Chess in 7 Days. Now he applies the same quick, effective approach to a book focused on tactics. With realistic examples from actual games, the reader learns to use pins, forks, skewers, decoys, deflections, and other classic maneuvers in every phase of play, from the opening to the endgame. By following the plan day by day—studying the positions, reading the text, and performing the exercises—any player, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced, is assured of dramatic results in just 7 days.

Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days

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Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

Ivan Sokolov, a famous grandmaster who has beaten world champions like Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, has written a lucid guide on how to win chess middlegames, by addressing an almost universally ignored but extremely important topic: pawn structures. With very accessible verbal explanations this book helps you to solve the basic problems of chess middlegames: space, tension and initiative. Study of this important book, with dozens of highly instructive and clearly explained games from the greats of chess, will enhance your middlegame skills and will let you understand why pawns are considered to be ?the souls of chess?.

Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

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