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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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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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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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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 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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Learn Chess: A Complete Course
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Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining the rules and basic strategies, whilst the second develops a thorough understanding of the various winning methods, and includes a systematic study of openings, an introduction to attacking techniques, and a guide to fundamental endgame themes.
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Chess for Kids
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Gr. 4-8. International Master Basman puts 20 years of experience teaching children how to play chess into this systematic, succinct, and thorough book. Dedicating each page to a different topic, he guides readers through the rudiments of the game, from explaining the pieces and setting up the board to special moves, essential techniques, and attack and defense strategies that players must know to win. Especially interesting for readers entirely new to the game are anecdotes in the "Check it out" section, which explain the origins of chess and how the game has figured in literature, language, and even history. A solid introduction for novices and good for skilled players wanting to develop their strategies and find out about chess clubs and tournaments.
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The Game of Chess
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While there are many chess manuals available, few have achieved the lofty stature of The Game of Chess. Fewer still have been written by a legendary International Grandmaster whose teaching skills rivaled the chess prowess that enabled him to demolish world-class opponents at the board. An immediate success upon its first publication, The Game of Chess has become one of the game's enduring classics, considered by some critics the finest book ever written on the game of chess.
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Three Hundred Chess Games
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Grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch, in Three Hundred Chess Games takes the combinational school of Paul Morphy and combines it with the positional school founded by Wilhelm Steinitz. The result is a powerful system of chess play utilized by the greatest masters since the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Tarrasch's system reflects the entire store of knowledge of chess up to the hypermodern era.
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Der 3. Versuch
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The 12th world correspondence champion analyzes 59 of his best games. Very in-depth, with lots of insight into top level correspondence chess. The author’s approach to top-level postal play in German text. Excellent work
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Chess Praxis
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Chess Praxis is the fullest exposition of Nimzowitsch's new analysis and theories, and it is beyond question one of the dozen most important books ever written on chess.
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333 Chess Games of Paul Morphy
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Three hundred and thirty three games of the American chess genius Paul Morphy. Though this volume is in Russian all games are annotated in the Informant style and are very easy to follow. The book is meant for all chess lovers:
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Wonderboy
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At the age of thirteen years, four months and twenty-six days, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the world. The scene of this stunning record: Dubai. The date: April 26, 2004. Predictably, the international press raved about the Norwegian prodigy. The Washington Post even dubbed him the "Mozart of chess".
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Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors
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In our modern era in which many chess opening and middlegame positions are guided by sophisticated stratagems, the iron fist of tactical blows is still inevitably the final arbiter of the result.
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Basic Chess
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Chess is the world's most popular board game--and now anyone can play, with this straightforward, jargon-free introduction. Written especially for beginners, it's the most comprehensive manual available and includes everything from explanations of each piece to orchestrating endgames.
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Chess School 1b
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You should try to solve all the exercises without using a board. During one lesson it is recommended that you try to solve between 6 and 30 positions.
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Eine Reise
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Combinations in chess receive complete treatment in this systematic handbook.
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