An Opening Repertoire for White (Batsford Chess Library)

This book provides "ammunition" for White chess players wishing to open with 1 d4 and 2 c4. A solid, agressive style is presented and well-known players' moves from famous tournaments are cited throughout as examples. The author is a Grand Master. He has also written "An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player".

An Opening Repertoire for White (Batsford Chess Library)

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Winning With the Modern (Batsford Chess Library)

The Modern defence is one of the most controversial ways for the Black to play the opening. This book provides all the information that the practical player needs to play the Modern. The book covers each of the White's main responses, with complete illustrative games used to explain the key ideas from both sides of the chess board.

Winning With the Modern (Batsford Chess Library)

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Planning (Batsford Chess Library)

This is part of the "Think Like a Chess Master" series, written by young ambitious players on popular topics. It uses questions and exercises to draw the reader into the subject, and offers practical tips which will bring results. The ability to form good plans is one of the key aspects of chess mastery. It is only by forming a coherent plan that brilliant sacrifices and fiendish counterattacks can be devised. Many players can obtain good positions from the opening; do they always know what to do next? Studying this work should help players of all standards to think more clearly about what is important in their games and thus plan more successfully.

Planning (Batsford Chess Library)

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Winning With the Bishop's Opening (Batsford Chess Library)

Winning With the Bishop's Opening (Batsford Chess Library)

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Budapest Gambit (Batsford Gambit)

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Budapest Gambit (Batsford Gambit)

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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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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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Endgame Magic (Batsford Chess Book)

An endgame study offers chess tactics in their purest form; there are no wasted pieces and only one solution. This introduction to endgame studies avoids baffling jargon and each study is illustrated by three diagrams. It is designed to be read without a chess set, on a train, bus or aeroplane.

Endgame Magic (Batsford Chess Book)

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King's Indian Defence: Mar Del Plata Variation (Batsford Chess Books)

Yugoslav Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric is firmly established as one of the great pioneers of the King's Indian strategy and tactics. The variation he introduced in a tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, fifty years ago, is characterised by fierce attacks by the opposing sides - White on the queenside and Black on the castled king - making for exciting games and many dashing Black wins. This book contains not only up-to-date theory and illustrative games, but also the author's own fascinating narrative on the evolution, development and survival of his counterattacking system which has stood the test of time and remained popular at grandmaster and club level.

King's Indian Defence: Mar Del Plata Variation (Batsford Chess Books)

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