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Chess Opening Books in Print

Here you wll find detailed chess opening theory, ideas which have been successfully tested by Grandmasters in actual play! These chess opening books will treat you to the most up-to-date game analysis and boost your chess opening knowledge.
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Alekhine Defense Playbook
Alekhine Defense Playbook
After 1.e4 Nf6 Black is playing full contact “provocateur” chess. He develops a piece and attacks the White center pawn, drawing it forward to be targeted for siege. At first White gets to drive around the pesky Black Knight while gaining time and space - but is it hollow space behind a rickety pawn front, or a positional vice-grip?

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Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, KeyBook II
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, KeyBook II
The KeyBook II is here! Now the exciting Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is brought up-to-the-minute in this incredible volume, featuring the latest in computer-guided analysis (with unexpected results!), correspondence and e-mail tournaments, even high-rated blitz encounters from the Internet Chess Club!

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Center Counter Defense, Portuguese Variation
Center Counter Defense, Portuguese Variation
In the Portuguese, Black offers a pawn for rapid development and the chance to exploit weak squares in the enemy camp. The resulting play is sharp and trappy, with plenty of "coffeehouse" flavor for those wishing to mix it up as Black.

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Dangerous Weapons: The French
Dangerous Weapons: The French
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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Danish Dynamite
Danish Dynamite
Danish Dynamite - Explosive Gambits: The Danish, Goring, Scotch and Urusov. "1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3, is one of the most aggressive chess openings ever devised..." goes the Intro. How true!

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Gambiteer I
Gambiteer I
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 II
Gambiteer II
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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Grundlagen des modernen Eroffnungsspiels
Grundlagen des modernen Eroffnungsspiels
Grandmaster Aleksej Suetin teaches opening play in this well organized single-volume survey. Not a compendium (like E.C.O. or M.C.O.), Suetin instead offers guidelines and advice, grouped around annotated games, and according to the fundamentals of opening play.

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How to Play the English Opening
How to Play the English Opening
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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Nimzo-Larsen Attack
Nimzo-Larsen Attack
Byron Jacobs and Jonathan Tait explain how you can use this dynamic opening to attack your opponent from move one.

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The Pirc Defence
Pirc Defence
Here is complete coverage of the hypermodern Pirc Defense, by popular author Sandor Videki. Those who play the Pirc are willing to concede a space advantage and occupation of the center to White, in exchange for powerful counterattacking chances.

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Play the Evans Gambit
Play the Evans Gambit
A revised edition of a chess title, last published in 1976, which provides coverage of the opening move known as the Evans Gambit, which Garry Kasparov used in 1995 to defeat Anand and Piket

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Scotch 4...Qh4
Scotch 4...Qh4
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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Secrets of Opening Surprises
Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 2 DVD
Look at your opponent sitting there in blissful ignorance. Fully at ease, everything under control, not a worry in the world. Or so he thinks. He’s checked his repertoire, double-checked his main lines.

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Sizilianisch mit d6 und e6 , Band B
Sizilianisch mit d6 und e6 , Band B
This volume is the second in a two-part exhaustive survey of the Sicilian Scheveningen. Whereas volume one covered general plans, here we find the latest opening theory and practice.

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Sizilianisch mit d6 und e6, Band A
Sizilianisch mit d6 und e6, Band A
The Sicilian Scheveningen is given complete coverage in this 2-volume study! Band A lays the groundwork in a survey of the opening’s effect on middlegame and endgame play.

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The Complete Sicilian, Volume 1
The Complete Sicilian, Volume 1
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
The Complete Sicilian, Volume 2
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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The Dynamic Reti
The Dynamic Reti
The Reti Opening has been a popular choice at all levels of chess for many years and is a favorite among hypermodern players who like to control the center with pieces.

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The Queen's Gambit Accepted
The Queen's Gambit Accepted
This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the Queen's Gambit Accepted available. With an emphasis on currently fashionable lines that readers are likely to encounter in their own games, it provides everything you need to know to play the opening with White or Black

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