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Here you will find chess e-books for download published by Pickard & Son, and offered exclusively at ChessCentral. Download chess opening e-books like the Traxler Counterattack, or classics every chess player should own such as World Chess Champion Lasker's Common Sense in Chess. Each chess e-book download has been carefully edited and professionally presented, so get re-acquainted with your old friends Morphy and Blackburne - the great chess Masters of yesterday never looked better! 
 
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Ponziani Opening Data Library
Ponziani Opening Data Library Download
Our Price: $7.95

Covers 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 with 3,812 games. Includes introductory text and special Opening Key - 297 classification positions! Complete through 9-15-2001.
Center Game Data Library
Center Game Data Library Download
Our Price: $7.95

Covers 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 with 3,664 games. Includes introductory text and special Opening Key - 205 classification positions! Complete through 9-15-2001.
Goring Gambit
Goring Gambit Download
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Covers 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 (both accepted and declined), along with the Danish Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2. Includes 7,119 games, introductory text, and special Opening Key - 350 classification positions! Complete through 7-1-2002.
The Discart-Bonetti Chess Match, 1863
Discart-Bonetti Chess Match, 1863 Download
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Here is your chance to experience chess as it used to be - or might have been! In January of 1863 a match took place in Modena, Italy, between Francesco Discart and Cornelio Bonetti, using the old Italian rules of chess.
Capablanca - Lasker Match
Capablanca - Lasker Match Download
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The 1921 match in Havana between J. R. Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker was the most decisive victory ever achieved by any challenger.
Chess Masterpieces
Chess Masterpieces Download
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Sale Price: $9.95

In this age of chess databases boasting upwards of 2 million games, we more than ever need somebody to sift and select the best, to distill those few games worthy of the name "masterpieces". Most welcome, therefore, is Henry Bird's timeless Chess Masterpieces, an elegant collection as vital and lively today as when first published - over 125 years ago!
Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted Data Library
Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted Data Library Download
Our Price: $9.95

Covers 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 with 7,742 games. Includes introductory text and special Opening Key - 426 classification positions! Complete through 9-15-2001.
My Chess Career - Download
My Chess Career - Download
Our Price: $12.95

The 3rd World Chess Champion's own account of his chess career, from the earliest days through the Hastings "Victory Congress" in 1919. Capablanca has divided his development as a chess master into distinct phases, each illustrated by selected games, in which his powers have emerged ever more refined. Here is your chance to sit ringside as the greatest natural talent in chess history prepares for the ultimate fight
Janowski-Indian Defense
Janowski-Indian Defense Download
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The Janowski-Indian is a flexible defense for Black that can lead either to the King's Indian Defense, or into original positions which offer lively play and many interesting tactical and strategic opportunities for the player of the Black pieces.
Chess Openings for Beginners
Chess Openings for Beginners - Download
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This manual, E. E. Cunnington's Chess Openings for Beginners, supplies a sore need among players wishing to understand how the openings work, and what are the basic ideas behind the openings in chess.