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Good chess positions don't win games - good moves do. It is in the chess middlegame where the mastery of basic chess strategy will score points. A player must have a positive, realistic chess plan because the initiative goes to the side that can devise one. Here you will find chess middlegame books about tactics, chess strategy, creating a plan and more. ChessCentral offers classic chess middlegame books like Chess Praxis to books devoted to specialized chess tactics. Remember, between the chess opening and the chess endgame...the gods have placed the middlegame!
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Steeplechase Chess Tactics
Steeplechase
Our Price: $15.95

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.
How to Choose a Chess Move
How to Choose a Chess Move
Our Price: $19.95

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.
Chess Praxis: The Praxis of My System
Chess Praxis
Our Price: $17.95

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.
Alekhine's Block
Alekhine's Block
Our Price: $11.95

World chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) refined the art of Kingside attack into its purest form. Often Alekhine's onslaught was accompanied by the spectacular placement of a piece directly in front of the enemy King's castled position, exposed to immediate capture.
In the World of Tactics
In the World of Tactics
Our Price: $14.95

In the World of Tactics is the only collection of each year's finest chess combinations. See today's top-rated Grandmasters (including the World Champion!) conjure their tactical wizardry at "crunch time," in the toughest elite tournaments of 1997.
Middlegame Strategy
Middlegame Strategy
Our Price: $17.50

Long ago Philidor taught that "pawns are the soul of chess." Today we know that understanding the pawn structure is vital when choosing a plan of action for the middlegame. Indeed, any correct middlegame plan depends on knowing how the pawns will behave - only then is it clear where the pieces should go!