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50 Mate in Two Chess Puzzles for Intermediate Players
This book contains 50 mate in two puzzles for the intermediate-level chess player. As you work through the book, you’ll not only be looking for your best moves to solve the problems, but also to give your opponent their best moves in response.

Intermediate Puzzles
Cartoons by Tony Sullivan
Illustrated and Written by Tony Sullivan, this collection of cartoons set around the world of Chess Peace explores the dynamics of life played out by chess pieces. The whole family can enjoy these humorous cartoons about the game of chess!

Chess Peace
100-Puzzle Chess Tactics Workbook
Parker's Chess Adventure is a story book/workbook that contains 100 one-move tactics puzzles for kids with a playing level around 1000 or less.

Parker's Chess Adventure
300 Chess Puzzles, Forks, Pins, Skewers, and More
The Intermediate Chess Tactics workbook is split into six chapters of 50 puzzles each. Each chapter covers a specific tactic and the final chapter is a final exam where you're not told which tactic applies, only that the correct answer will involve one of the tactics learned in a previous chapter.

Intermediate Tactics
Winning in 15 Moves or Less: Chess Tactics, Brilliancies & Blunders in the Chess Opening
WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 9 - Caro-Kann & French
Winning in 15 Moves or Less: Chess Tactics, Brilliancies & Blunders in the Chess Opening
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. This volume features some of the best games and tactics from the previous nine volumes, one game for each chapter in the previous books. Therefore, this book will provide you with a firework of great games and excellent puzzles to be solved.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Selected Brilliancies from Volume 1-9
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 8: 1. e4 e5
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 7: Minor Semi-Open Games
99 Chess Puzzles - With Colorable Images
Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids is a workbook containing 99, one-move tactics puzzles covering hanging pieces, forks and pins for kids with a playing level of 1000 or less. Each chapter contains 33 different puzzles with the answers found on the following page in picture form. Also, to be more realistic, the puzzles are approximately a 50/50 mix of "white to play" and "black to play".

Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids
For Chess Coaches and Players To Improve Their Chess
This is a comprehensive tool for a chess player or a chess coach to evaluate their chess knowledge. You can improve your chess game if you become aware of what you need to study.

A Compehensive Chess Assessment and Learning Tool
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 5: Anti-Sicilians
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 6: Open Sicilians
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 4: Dutch, Benonis & d-pawn Specials
Winning Quickly with Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 3: Flank Openings
Written with parents and coaches in mind, Points of Struggle contains basic lessons and worksheets that bring a player from true beginner to having the confidence and skills to enter their first tournament. This book is ideal for parents who know little about chess, coaches who need supplemental materials or a syllabus for beginners, or for identifying why a student is having difficulty improving.

Points of Struggle - Parent and Coach Edition
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 2: 1 d4 d5
A New Guide to Learn & Teach Chess
Hundreds of beginner chess books have been written and published, even in the last 10 years. While they are often well written and well intentioned, they were seldom written solely with the correct audience in mind: Chess Parents, Educators and Chess Students Even more seldom can you find these books written by true chess professionals. Become A Chess Champion, is written by two Full-Time Chess Professionals. Become a Chess Champion was written to stray from age old thought and process for learning the game of chess. It is a new style Chess guide for you featuring the authors thoughts on the best way to learn how to: “Become A Chess Champion!”

Become a Chess Champion
Winning Quickly at Chess Series
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players i which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result if blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study, if the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.

Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 1: Indian Defenses
50 Challenging Chess Puzzles for Experience Players
This book contains 50 advanced chess puzzles for experienced players. There are dozens of each of the following puzzles: Mate in 3, Mate in 4, Mate in 5 and an additional 14 puzzles that will challenge you to find the best move to win material and create winning positions

Advanced Puzzles
From Vellotti's Chess School
It's beginning to look a lot like Holiday Checkmates! Grab a chessboard & put up the lights as you jingle-all-the-way to fun in Enchanted Chess Book 7! Students will enjoy testing their chess knowledge on a variety of key checkmate patterns.

Enchanted Chess - Holiday Checkmates!
Common-sense answers to frequently asked questions on chess rules, regulations, and policy from players, tournament directors, and organizers
Get the Just Law scoop on the most popular chess tournament questions from players, tournament directors and organizers. In the book’s Q&A format, Tim Just guides you through a wide range of tournament topics, including details about notation, draws, byes, clocks, prizes, prize funds, ratings, making claims, playing sites, time controls, pairings, tournament management, tournament creation, scholastic chess mysteries, and even more.

Just Law
From Vellotti's Chess School
Get ready to find some Crafty Clues! Grab a magnifying glass & pack your bags; You've got a mystery to solve! In Enchanted Chess Book 5, students will learn to think and play like Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history.

Enchanted Chess - Crafty Clues
From Vellotti's Chess School
Get ready for our Spooky Checkmates! Grab a chessboard & put on your costume as you trick-and-treat your way to fun in Enchanted Chess Book 4! Students will enjoy testing their chess knowledge on a variety of key checkmate patterns.

Enchanted Chess - Spooky Checkmates
From Vellotti's Chess School
Are you ready test your chess skills and checkmate your way to victory?! In the this book, Master Disaster, your chess pieces become the paint for your next project. You'll have fun creating chess “masterpieces” out of the masterful placement of your chess pieces!

Enchanted Chess - Master-Piece Disaster!
From Vellotti's Chess School
The author of this book, Luke Vellotti, wrote this book as a source of inspiration for scholastic chess players all around the country, especially those from smaller states like Idaho.

Enchanted Chess - Age 10 - I'm an Expert
Tall Tales, Legends, Gossip, and Rumors From the World of Tournament Chess
Bobby Fischer is not alone in creating antics away from the chess board. His understudies, the royal game’s masters, players, fans, coaches, parents, tournament officials, and hangers-on, have created their own “tales from the wild side” escapades. This book chronicles those tales. Over the board chess experience takes a back seat to these anecdotes of human interest, human follies and quirky behavior. Lean back and enjoy this peek at human conduct on the sidelines of the chess universe

My Opponent is Eating a Doughnut
50 Mate in One Chess Puzzles for the New Player
This condensed, 55-page puzzle book contains 50 Mate in One chess puzzles for new players. They start out fairly easy and gradually increase in difficulty.

Beginner Puzzles
A Beginner's Guide to the Royal Game
This short pamphlet is a beginner's guide to the royal game of chess. It was written to provide new chess players with basic information that will prepare them to play chess in any venue, whether it's a tournament or club or even just casual games with friends. It includes information on setting up the board and pieces, how the pieces move, understanding chess notation, and more.

Chess 101 for Kids
From Vellotti's Chess School
Grab a compass & pack your bags as you set sail for fun in Enchanted Chess Book 1! Students will learn clever tricks, traps and sneak attacks

Enchanted Chess - Island Adventure!
This is the third in a series of three books by Howard Staunton, who is considered to have been the best player in the world at that time.

The Chess-Player's Companion
Everything A New Chess Player Needs to Know
Learning to play chess involves more than just knowing how to move the pieces. Chess 101 is a chess book for beginners that provides a comprehensive overview of everything a new player needs to know. This includes... Types of boards and pieces, setting up the board, the value of the pieces, how the pieces move, including castling and ''en passant'', chess notation, the three phases of the game of chess, how to study chess, what a chess rating is and how to get one, chess clock rules, an overview of faster chess games, the mechanics of a tournament, rules and etiquette, and tips to winning chess. Chess 101 also contains over two dozen exhibits, designed to make understanding the game easy!

Chess 101
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The Worrall Attack in the Ruy Lopez
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CLEARANCE - The Worrall Attack in the Ruy Lopez
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Dieser Bildband mit 160 seiten zeigt Ihnen weit uber 100 farbige noch nie dagewesene, miesterlich fotografierte Bildkompositionen. Private Sammlungen - Perlen der Schachkunst - mit schach figuren aus indien, China und Indonesian zusammen mit Briefmarken und Ersttagsbriefen von Anatoli Karpov werden eindrucksvoll in Szenegesetzt. Dieser Bildband stellt eine unverzichtbare Kronung jeder Schachbibliothek dar. Der Schlussel zur Welt der Schchkunst scheint gefunden zu sein. Diese Bilder von erlesener Pracht spiegeln wider, was Schach zu leisten vermag, was die Technik heute kann und - sie sind am Zuge - was die Menschen mogen.

CLEARANCE - Faszination Schach - German Text
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Learn to Command Your Chess Army!
What makes this book different from the many other tactics books on the market is that it was written by a classroom teacher for other teachers. All the pages are formatted with a heading and perforated for easy use.

Chess Tactics Workbook
The pamphlet is primarily a publicity brochure for George Koltanowski and was issued in 1997 to celebrate his 50th year as chess editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. A considerable amount of information about Koltanowski is provided in addition to 50 very brief chess openings leading to an early win.

CLEARANCE - 50 Shortcuts to Chess Victory
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White attacks the Queenside with 9.b4 in the Classical Variation of the King's Indian Defense 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Nf3 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7. The Introduction explains what is happening, then each of ten chapters has a short comment on theory. There is a total of 200 games with the main ones having notes.

CLEARANCE - Inside Chess Opening Novelties: KID Bayonet Attack
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Chess Books
Choose from a huge selection of chess books, including a wide variety of topics, players and strategies from The House of Staunton. There is a chess book for nearly every chess move or chess defense you can think of. Looking for a chess book talking about a specific chess player? Browse the many different miscellaneous chess books available. Need to strengthen your opening game? Middle game? Or maybe your end game is lacking. There are chess books covering all of these topics and much more. The purpose of a majority of the chess books available is to serve as guides for beginners and advanced chess players alike, and to address different tactics and strategies to help improve your game. There are also biographical chess books that talk about specific Chess Players such as Magnus Carlsen or Vishwanthan Anand if you are interested in reading about a chess player and their life.