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Cómo ganar al ajedrez te enseña todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el juego, incluidos los movimientos y estrategias más importantes para empezar con fuerza y seguir pensando varios pasos por delante.
Con el humor y el estilo característicos de Rozman-que le han hecho famoso entre millones de aficionados-, la primera parte de esta guía única introduce a los jugadores principiantes (0-800 ELO) en las cuatro áreas clave a tener en cuenta al jugar...
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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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Chess has a history like no other game. It literally spans all cultural, national and political boundaries. During the height of the cold war, there was no disagreement between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A about chess. It was a great game.
Chess developed from the realm of kings and was a metaphor for war. The game started in India some 2500 years ago, traveled across Asia and into all parts of Europe, then sailed to the new world, where it kept...
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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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Your White opponents will be booked-up on the main lines of the Ruy Lopez. How can you beat such experts? DoubleMaster and experienced chess author Marek Soszynski shows and explains to you three different variations of Bird's Defence 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nd4!? The first is tactical (with a kingside fianchetto) while the other two are more positional. In all of them you will reach unusual positions with special features requiring special treatments,...
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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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While there are many books written on miniature chess games, there is no consensus or official rule on exactly how many moves constitute a miniature. Some commentators consider a maximum of 20 moves, some 25, and others 30. In your book, this number is accepted as 30. Of course, the crucial point regarding miniatures is not the number of moves. The fact that any chess game can conclude in a few moves is only possible with the emergence of some exceptional...
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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.
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Jose Raul Capablanca (Havana, 1888 - New York, 1942) was a Cuban chess player who became the World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927. Capablanca learned to play chess at the age of four by observing his father's technique, and he became a legend in the world of chess. Originally written in English with the title "Chess Fundamentals" by Capablanca, is a treatise on the basic principles of the game, presented with remarkable precision and clarity, and...
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Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and chess. An essential pastime...
18) 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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180 chess problems in one move with their solutions are included in this book (all in the form of diagrams). Both intermediate and advanced readers can benefit from the book. Real chess games are used to create those puzzles. Please keep in mind that these are do-it-yourself exercises, therefore you must be familiar with all of the basic chess principles. Use "look inside" for additional details.
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