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Chess players! Are you having trouble facing 1.e4? Is your Spanish too sticky and your Sicilian too sickly? Wrongfoot White with the Nimzowitsch Defence. Correspondence Chess Master and experienced author Marek Soszynski analyses 1.e4 Nc6 in detail, including sidelines and novelties, to give you a complete deviant repertoire against White's most popular first move.
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Le système de Londres est un système d'ouverture qui a gagné une popularité notable aussi bien parmi les grands maîtres que parmi les joueurs amateurs ces dernières années. Il existe plusieurs raisons principales à cette situation. La plus importante est probablement que, avec le soutien des programmes informatiques, la théorie des ouvertures est aujourd'hui incroyablement profonde, et les joueurs cherchent des moyens d'échapper à de longues...
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Chess would consecrate a match to select its best player called the World Chess Championship. It would begin with Steinitz and last for ages down to the present time. Here in this book, we will discuss this epic title, its match, and also the grandmaster star Fabiano Caruana. Here we will explore chess for the meaning of its best player, highest title, and greatest institution to the grandeur of the game.
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Henry (Harry) Nelson Pillsbury is one of the strongest players to have never received the title of "World Champion". Captivating with his extraordinary memory and blind multi-table displays, he soon became one of the strongest players of his era, although he started chess at a relatively late age. Pillsbury, whose entire career lasted a total of eleven years, is, according to many commentators, the 3rd strongest ever.He was an American player who...
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The ideas & plans behind all chess openings.
Volume 3 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Comprehensive: covers all main variations likely to arise
Easy-to-use: important moves and key positions are highlighted in colour
Long-lasting: it doesn't outdate because...
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Ready to catch your chess opponents off guard and leave them hopping for the right moves? Discover the ribbiting 1.d4 Nf6 2.g4 Bullfrog Gambit, a daring twist that transforms a classic d4-opening into an electrifying e4-style challenge. Correspondence Chess Master and experienced author Marek Soszynski presents analysis and annotated games so that this audacious opening might leapfrog you to victory on the chessboard with your opponents croaking for...
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Sammy Reshevsky was a child prodigy who became a World Chess Championship contender. In this book, Correspondence Chess Master Marek Soszynski discusses Reshevsky's playing style, annotates 20 of his games (9 of them not in Gordon's Compendium) and adds contemporary newspaper accounts and other reports to give a full and frank picture of the ruthless American Grandmaster.
11) Colección curso de ajedrez 3 libros en 1, jugadas históricas, mates, combinaciones, aperturas, final
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El curso más completo que podrás encontrar. 3 libros en 1 de COLECCIÓN.◆El ajedrez nos inclina siempre a probar constantemente hipótesis que tenemos que desatar o verificar.◆Sea para comenzar en este ciencia-juego, o para mejorarlo, esta colección es el manual necesario que tiene todas las reglas y procesos para tener éxito seguro. Para escribirlo se examinaron, con el apoyo de la tecnología más actual, cientos de jugadas y conocimiento...
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Now a completely New Edition, december 2023, based on analysis with the latest top neural network (Nnue) engines!Structure changed, and most variations brought up to date with an proprietary,computer generated opening database of more thantwo million positions. The result, this E-book, is the only opening book most chess players will ever need.More in depth description: In the 'royal game' of chess, an understanding of all the phases of the game,...
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A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first African American Chess Grandmaster.
At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.
In “Move by Move”, Ashley guides readers through...
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