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ChessCentral carries printed chess books of only the highest quality, aiming to offer chess titles that will stand the test of time - and those that already have! These chess books are in the traditional print format, and cover the whole of chess - biographies, chess openings, tournaments, all about chess strategy and tactics, etc. There's nothing like the feel of a solid chess book in your hands, and every title in our online chess shop will help you get more from your chess games!
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Chess Games of Adolph Anderssen
Chess Games of Adolph Anderssen
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No one has ever played chess like Adolph Anderssen played it, nor won as much fame and glory for his charismatic style. Anderssen's hallmark is the direct (and often spectacular!) Kingside attack, executed always with aggressive optimism, resourcefulness and daring.
Chess for Tigers
Chess for Tigers
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Chess for Tigers can turn players into Tigers who will make the most of their playing strength, take advantage of their opponent’s weaknesses, steer the game into positions that favor their style of play, and improve their odds of winning against stronger players, and avoid making silly mistakes.
Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
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Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. Every game of this great player is annotated and analyzed in this amazing volume! Nearly 1,000 are presented with Grandmaster commentary!
Studies for Practical Players: Improving Calculation and Resourcefulness in the Endgame
Studies for Practical Players: Improving Calculation and Resourcefulness in the Endgame
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Studies for Practical Players: Improving Calculation and Resourcefulness in the Endgame. The endgame training in this book, developed by noted and best-selling chess author Mark Dvoretsky, is directed at developing resourcefulness, imagination, and the readiness to sacrifice material in pursuit of victory!
Lasker’s Manual of Chess Book
Lasker’s Manual of Chess Book
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Lasker’s Manual of Chess is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published almost 85 years ago has diminished neither its relevance nor significance in today’s modern chess world.
Scandinavian Defense The Dynamic 3...Qd6 Chess Opening Book
Scandinavian Defense The Dynamic 3...Qd6 Chess Opening Book
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Now, in the second edition of The Scandinavian Defense: The Dynamic 3...Qd6, the author has added a tremendous amount of new analysis, insight and practical recommendations. This revised and enlarged second edition will provide both a solid foundation for meeting 1.e4 while at the same time allowing considerable room for creativity and original play.
1.b4: Theory and Practice of the Sokolsky Opening Chess Opening Book
1.b4: Theory and Practice of the Sokolsky Chess Opening
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This book, packed with fresh analysis and 95 illustrative games, clearly shows that White can look forward to a rewarding albeit complex or unusual struggle. There’s no need to dwell on the usual platitudes applied interchangeably to unorthodox openings, like “a good psychological choice to get your opponent into unfamiliar territory.”
How to Think in Chess Book
How to Think in Chess Book
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How to Think in Chess teaches you practical ways of thinking to win. You'll see how to assess your thought processes during play and how to reorganize them in practice. You'll get exercises to increase your thinking skills.
Chess Words of Wisdom Book
Chess Words of Wisdom Book
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Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teachings of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs and eve a few scientists, scholars and generals. Essentially, all of the wisdom from thes important sources is in this one book! Chess Words of Wisdom is a digest of hundreds of years of chess knowledge from the greatest chess minds in history.
The Morra Gambit – A Dynamic Weapon against the Sicilian Chess Opening
The Morra Gambit – A Dynamic Weapon against the Sicilian Chess Opening
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In this second edition, chess book  the author probes the secrets of this gambit with tactical acuity and strategic objectivity. He concludes that "Most of Black's defensive systems objectively offer acceptable prospects in a complicated battle."
Steeplechase Chess Tactics
Steeplechase
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This fifth installment of The Tactician's Handbook turns to pawn combinations. Extreme pawn combinations! The Steeplechase is a foot-race through obstacles, and here Charushin treats us to the spectacle of a lowly pawn surmounting barriers and overcoming pieces, headlong in its tactical dash for the finish line.
Breaking Through - Polgar Sisters
Breaking Through - Polgar Sisters
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Readers will share the thoughts and feelings of the Polgar sisters as they experience their major triumphs and disappointments, as Susan discusses their most joyous moments and biggest heartbreaks.
The Soviet Championships
The Soviet Championships
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The famous Soviet Championships, run annually from 1920 to 1991, were truly extraordinary events. Every top Soviet Grandmaster, including Botvinnik, Tal, Kasparov, Spassky, Petrosian, and Karpov, participated regularly, and the best games have gone down in history. This fine, hardcover book gives a complete record of the results of the Championships (by Bernard Cafferty), while the superb selection of annotated games has been specially provided by the famous Russian Grandmaster Mark Taimanov.
1.d4 – Beat the Guerrillas
1.d4 – Beat the Guerrillas!
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After 1.d4, probably the most popular chess opening move in the world, Black can choose to employ a wide variety of unorthodox lines. Taken by surprise, White players may stumble into unknown and treacherous territory, where their fully-prepared opponent is waiting in ambush.
Power Chess for Kids
Power Chess for Kids
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Experienced chess trainer Charles Hertan will show you how to become a very dangerous chess player! You will learn how to weed out silly chess moves and just consider a few important moves. You will learn how to start seeing great chess moves you never thought possible!
The Black Lion Chess Opening
The Black Lion Chess Opening
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This robust, multipurpose chess opening system (in which Black plays d6, Nf6, Nbd7 and e5) looks quiet, like a sleeping lion - hence the name. But when this predator is provoked, and the game heats up, Black eats its prey in an extremely swift and efficient way.
The Flexible French Chess Opening Book
The Flexible French Chess Opening
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The Flexible French is a revolutionary chess repertoire & resources book for both Black and White. Viktor Moskalenko presents a wealth of original and dynamic options in every main line, proving that the French is a very lively and intriguing defense.
The Modern Scandinavian Chess Opening
The Modern Scandinavian Chess Opening
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This chess book features complete games with lots of smoothly written verbal explanations, making the material highly accessible for amateur chess players. Co-authors Karsten Müller and Hannes Langrock have added a new theoretical appendix that provides a condensed chess opening repertoire for Black players.
Sicilian Attacks, Chess Opening Book
Sicilian Attacks, Chess Opening Book
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This chess book provides cutting-edge analysis full of original ideas, but also contains useful verbal guidelines to help you to recognize typical Sicilian plans and counter-plans. An abundance of highly instructive games illustrate the various strategic and tactical themes. At the end of each chapter you will find practical conclusions.
How to Choose a Chess Move
How to Choose a Chess Move
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How to Choose a Chess Move - A classic, now available in modern algebraic notation for the first time! Few books have had as much impact on chess literature as this: the first edition sold out within months.