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King in the Opening, The - Mednis
The King in the Opening provides a valuable test on how to use the King in the opening phase of a chess game. The King must be protected from early attacks through castling or other alternatives, which are simply illustrated. GM Edmar Mednis utilizes 71 practical games as examples to clarify each point of instruction and make them come alive for the reader. Ninety diagrams assist the reader in setting up positions for study.
This book does not attempt to teach any particular opening. Instead, Mednis presents principles of play which are applicable in every game which the reader might play, regardless of the particular opening variation involved.
International Grandmaster Edmar Mednis is recognized as an outstanding author of instructional chess books. He is a most reliable source of useful knowledge for improving one's chess game. This book will definitely elevate a players' success at chess.
This book does not attempt to teach any particular opening. Instead, Mednis presents principles of play which are applicable in every game which the reader might play, regardless of the particular opening variation involved.
International Grandmaster Edmar Mednis is recognized as an outstanding author of instructional chess books. He is a most reliable source of useful knowledge for improving one's chess game. This book will definitely elevate a players' success at chess.
King in the Opening, The - Mednis
The Sicilian Sozin
A Life-Long Sozin Devotee Explains the Subtleties of this Aggressive System for White
A Life-Long Sozin Devotee Explains the Subtleties of this Aggressive System for White
This book presents in detail the theory of the Sozin in all its forms, including the razor-sharp Velimirovic Attack.
The Sicilian Sozin
A Life-Long Sozin Devotee Explains the Subtleties of this Aggressive System for White
Endgame Analysis
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
Mark Dvoretsky is regarded as the leading chess coach in the world, and the first book in his School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to the endgame. He analyzes a wide range of positions, and his comments are packed with advice. Special test positions and frequent questions ensure the reader's participation.
Endgame Analysis
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 1
Strategic Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding.
Strategic Play
School of Chess Excellence - VOLUME 3
New York 1940
A first-rate tournament book for a strong US Championship in which Reshevsky just edged out Fine by 1/2 point. Kashdan was third followed by Pinkus, Simonson, Denker, Kupchik, Bernstein, Polland, Reinfeld, Shainswit, Adams, Seidman, Green, Hanauer, Woliston, and Littman. Notes to most of the games are from contemporary sources, and Fritz 7 checked many of the critical positions.
New York 1940
A Parent's Guide to Chess
So your child has discovered Chess. You've probably heard the good news from teachers and other parents: kids who play Chess do better in school and learn self-reliance and analytical skills. It's great that your kid is interested in an activity that offers such lifelong benefits and provides so many chances to learn real life lessons - and it is so much fun!
A Parent's Guide to Chess
Building Up Your 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.
Building Up Your Chess
The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Nine information-packed chapters and twenty-two diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. You'll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation.
The Basics of Winning Chess
One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! This book contains every important gambit opening and variation ever played - more than two thousand opening strategies in all!
Gambit Chess Openings
The Complete and Definitive Reference to Gambit Chess Openings
Starting Out - Nimzo-Indian
The Nimzo-Indian is one of the soundest and most popular defences against 1 d4, offering Black the chance to unbalance the game early on and play for a win without undue risk. Advocates include virtually all of the world's top players, including Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand and Anatoly Karpov. In this revolutionary book, Grandmaster Chris Ward revisits the basic principles behind the Nimzo-Indian and its many variations.
Starting Out - Nimzo-Indian
Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Newly formatted and updated! Fourteen chapters illustrate the explanations and thinking behind every tactical concept. Learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threats and other crushing tactics to gain an immediate edge. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with diagrams, examples and game situations so you understand the thinking and game plan behind every moves.
Winning Chess Tactics
Learn 25 Essential Opening Strategies Today!
Chess World Title Contenders and their Styles
A rich selection of games by some of the finest young grandmasters of the 1980s. Each chapter introduces a player, outlining his career, personality, and playing style. Then follows a thoroughly annotated selection of his finest and most characteristic games. By studying these games, presented by two international masters and former champions, players at every level will find inspiration and practical techniques.
Chess World Title Contenders and their Styles
Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Can you Find the Best Move?
This challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers. These instructive, elegant and entertaining positions will not only challenge and entertain you, but will also teach you how to improve your endgame while trying to find the best move of the three choices presented.
Chess Endgame Quiz
Can you Find the Best Move?
Starting Out - The King's Indian
The King's Indian is one of the most exciting defences in chess and is favoured by ambitious and aggressive players. At the highest level it has been a major weapon for World Champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster Joe Gallagher goes back to the basics of the King's Indian, studying the key principles of its many variations.
Starting Out - The King's Indian
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1
All games are commented in informator style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe
"This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
"This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2
This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998. Among the games presented in this work are number of genuine masterpieces, the study of which will afford great pleasure to lovers of the game. Such material cannot age and cannot be consigned to oblivion.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2
Starting Out - Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit Declined is one of the most popular and fundamental chess openings of all time and it has been the battleground for countless world-class encounters throughout the history of chess. Adherents include a long list of World champions, including Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov and Vladimir Kramnik.
Starting Out - Queen's Gambit
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3
All games are commented in informatory style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Karpov, Kasparov. This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3
Starting Out - Caro-Kann
In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster Joe Gallagher goes back to the basics of the Caro-Kann, studying the key principles of its many variations. Throughout the book there is an abundance of notes, tips, warnings and exercises to help the improving player, while important strategies, ideas and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.
Starting Out - Caro-Kann
Learn From Your Chess Mistakes
This is a chess bible for the average club player; it identifies and addresses typical failings such as poor opening preparation, inappropriate choice of openings, being tricked, losing the thread of the position, miscalculation, lack of confidence, faulty judgment, time trouble, missing opportunities, confusion, failure to adjust, and losing the initiative.
Learn From Your Chess Mistakes
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Valeri Beim, an experienced trainer and grandmaster, explains key principles of chess strategy and thinking methods in chess. His 'recipes' include: tactical ideas in the middlegame; liquidation to the endgame; the technique of analyzing variations; inverted thinking in chess. Readers are presented with new ways of looking at chessboard issues that will help them develop a deeper understanding of the game.
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen
Lessons in Chess Strategy and Thinking Methods
Sicilian Kan
The Sicilian Kan is one of the most flexible and easy to play variations of the entire Sicilian complex. In contrast to opening monsters such as the infamous Dragon and Najdorf Variations, Black players are not forced to memorize massive chunks of opening theory. Success in the Sicilian Kan is more dependent on understanding certain principles and a system of development.
Sicilian Kan
Meeting 1. d4
This book is especially useful for players who have neither the time nor inclination to learn reams of the latest opening theory. Throughout this work, Aagaard & Lund delve into the strategies, ideas and tactics for Black, while also showing the possible traps and pitfalls.
Meeting 1. d4
Can you be a Tactical Genius?
Test your tactical chess skills with a quiz book with a difference! Grandmaster James Plaskett, a player of distinguished tactical ability, has carefully assembled an abundance of tactical chess puzzles to test players of all levels. At the beginning of each chapter the puzzles are relatively easy, worth five points for a correct solution. However as you move on they become more and more difficult, soon becoming worth ten points and eventually 15.
Can you be a Tactical Genius?
Excelling at Chess
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. He includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position.
Excelling at Chess
Interview with a Grandmaster
The Thoughts and Games of Some of the World's Strongest Players
The Thoughts and Games of Some of the World's Strongest Players
There are many talented chess players in the world, but very few makes it to the exalted level of grandmaster. In this book Aaron Summerscale questions his grandmaster colleagues about what makes them tick and how they have acquired the highest title that can be awarded in chess. What are the key factors? Talent, hard work, determination or a combination of all three? Read this book and find out.
Interview with a Grandmaster
The Thoughts and Games of Some of the World's Strongest Players
Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
Rapid Chess Improvement
Chess Brilliancy
219 Historic Games from the Masters What do we understand by brilliancy in chess? The author delves back into history to examine how this concept has developed, before presenting a dazzling array of brilliant games from the past few decades - the prize-winners as selected by grandmaster panels for each issue of Yugoslav 'Chess Informator' between 1968 and 1998. Apart from providing hours of pleasure, a study of these masterpieces will also surely help to add sparkle to your own play!
Chess Brilliancy
Its Your Move
Improvers
Improvers
In this highly original and instructive test yourself book Chris Ward invites readers to solve a selection of carefully chosen puzzles. In this, the second book in the 'It's Your Move' series, the positions are aimed at improving players, specifically the low level club players who are looking to hone their skills in order to climb further up the chess ladder.The reader is given a choice of five plausible plans for each position and has to decide which is the most likely to succeed.
Its Your Move
Improvers
Grunfeld Defence
The Grunfeld Defence is a dynamic and popular weapon for Black against queen's pawn openings. Former World Champion Bobby Fischer and current world number one Garry Kasparov head a long list of grandmasters that have utilized this opening with continued success.
Grunfeld Defence
SHOPWORN - Grunfeld Defence
The Grunfeld Defence is a dynamic and popular weapon for Black against queen's pawn openings. Former World Champion Bobby Fischer and current world number one Garry Kasparov head a long list of grandmasters that have utilized this opening with continued success.
SHOPWORN - Grunfeld Defence
SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
The two-part article, "400 Points in 400 Days" by Michael de la Maza was not only wildly popular when it appeared in the Skittles Room at early last year, but its popularity also continued unabated even when it was retired to the Archives. Now the dozen and a half or so pages that made up "400 Points" has been transformed into a full-blown 126-page book published by Everyman Chess: "Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players".
SHOPWORN - Rapid Chess Improvement
EBOOK - Meeting 1. d4
This book is especially useful for players who have neither the time nor inclination to learn reams of the latest opening theory. Throughout this work, Aagaard & Lund delve into the strategies, ideas and tactics for Black, while also showing the possible traps and pitfalls.
EBOOK - Meeting 1. d4
EBOOK - Meeting 1. e4
Fed up having to defend with Black? Annoyed by all those irritating white systems? Then this is the book for you! Russian international master Alexander Raetsky draws upon his wealth of experience gained playing on the tough international tournament circuit to supply you with an all-in-one solution to your problems. The reader is provided with a complete repertoire for Black against 1 e4, based on the ever-reliable Sicilian Defence.
EBOOK - Meeting 1. e4
EBOOK - Starting Out - Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit Declined is one of the most popular and fundamental chess openings of all time and it has been the battleground for countless world-class encounters throughout the history of chess. Adherents include a long list of World champions, including Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov and Vladimir Kramnik.
EBOOK - Starting Out - Queen's Gambit
EBOOK - Excelling at Chess
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. He includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position.
EBOOK - Excelling at Chess
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