Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions (Third Revised Edition) (Comprehensive Chess Course Series)

“Amazing! The Chess Pocket Book contains all the essential knowledge!”—Boris Gulko, former U.S. and USSR champion

This book saves you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together the crucial, game-winning knowledge in one easy-to-carry volume. Each position gives you an important piece of practical chess knowledge. This time-efficient approach leads to the deepest understanding of the game. This is the sixth but stand-alone volume of the Comprehensive Chess Course. 310 b/w chess diagrams

Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions (Third Revised Edition) (Comprehensive Chess Course Series)

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FIFTY GREAT GAMES OF MODERN CHESS

FIFTY GREAT GAMES OF MODERN CHESS

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My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937

World Champion Garry Kasparov wrote, "Alexander Alekine is the first luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess." Bobby Fischer wrote, "He had great imagination. He could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. It was in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest concepts."

My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937

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Younger School of Soviet Chess (Bell chess books)

Younger School of Soviet Chess (Bell chess books)

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How to Beat the French Defence: The essential guide to the Tarrasch

The French Defence is considered to be one of Black’s most reliable answers to 1 e4. Indeed, many players have become frustrated in their attempts to prove an advantage and make headway against Black’s ultra-solid formation.

In How to Beat the French Defence, Andreas Tzermiadianos meets this difficult challenge head on. He advocates his favourite weapon against the French – the Tarrasch Variation – and reveals an abundance of opening ideas and novelties, providing the reader with a complete repertoire which is aimed at posing Black serious problems. Read this book and fight the French Defence with renewed confidence and vitality.

How to Beat the French Defence: The essential guide to the Tarrasch

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Fischer's Chess Games (Oxford chess books)

Fischer's Chess Games (Oxford chess books)

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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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