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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.
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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.
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How to Play the English Opening
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This chess book is written by former world champion Anatoly Karpov, and explains an opening system for the White pieces based on 1.c4. The text is shaped around a collection of 30 well-annotated Grandmaster games that highlight the main variations of the English Opening.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
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Mikhail Tal, the "Magician from Riga", was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. Dazzling games are interspersed throughout with anecdotes and witty self-interviews, and in typically objective fashion he relates both the ups and downs of his encounters.
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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.
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Games of Wilhelm Steinitz
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It is well known that the surest way to improve one's skill at chess is to carefully play over the games of the great Masters. The greatest Masters, of course, are the World Champions, and the student is well-advised to select one from this handful of the best to model his play after. All the better if the chosen World Champion has provided deep and careful annotations for his best games to increase our understanding!
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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.
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The Complete Sicilian, Volume 1
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Volume One of the late Attila Schneider's Sicilian encyclopedia.
Schneider covers the subtleties and possibilities of either side in each substantial variation of the Sicilian Defense. Schneider's methodology consists of detailed analysis of two games per variation, with White succeeding in one and Black the other. There is plenty of annotative text intermingled with the raw chess moves.
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The Complete Sicilian, Volume 2
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Volume Two of the late Attila Schneider's Sicilian encyclopedia.
Schneider covers the subtleties and possibilities of either side in each substantial variation of the Sicilian Defense. Schneider's methodology consists of detailed analysis of two games per variation, with White succeeding in one and Black the other. There is plenty of annotative text intermingled with the raw chess moves.
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Dangerous Weapons: The French
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In Dangerous Weapons: The French, International Master John Watson takes a revolutionary look at one of the most famous and widely-played chess openings: the French Defence. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, Watson concentrates on fresh or little-explored variations of the French, selecting a wealth of dangerous options for both White and Black.
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Gambiteer II
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Are you fearless in your approach to chess openings? Do you like to attack your opponents from the very beginning? Are you happy to take calculated risks? Do you loathe trivial positional chess? Do you feel the need to sacrifice pawns early in the game? Are you a Gambiteer? If the answer to these questions is "yes!" then this is the book for you!
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Gambiteer I
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Our Price: $23.95
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Are you fearless in your approach to chess openings? Do you like to attack your opponents from the very beginning? Are you happy to take calculated risks? Do you loathe trivial positional chess? Do you feel the need to sacrifice pawns early in the game? Are you a Gambiteer? If the answer to these questions is "yes!" then this is the book for you!
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Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
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Grandmaster and endgame expert Glenn Flear has created an in-depth book of all chess endgames that feature either two pieces for each side, or two pieces against one - a critical area of the game that has never been comprehensively covered in one volume.
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Scotch 4...Qh4
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The venerable Scotch Game has enjoyed a great revival in recent years, with many top Grandmasters adding it to their repertoires. World Champion Kasparov's adoption of the opening aroused much interest, and the Scotch Game is regularly seen by his opponents.
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The Puzzle King
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Sam Loyd, the "Puzzle King", is an authentic American genius. Famous as a composer of chess problems and puzzles of every kind, his inventive and original posers have amused, perplexed and delighted people by the millions.
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Discovering Chess Openings
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There's no denying that the opening is one of the most daunting phases of the game for newcomers to chess. There are literally hundreds of different opening lines, many with unusual sounding names, and some of these go up to twenty or so moves of theory. What is a chess player supposed to do: memorise countless variations
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