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If you want to improve in chess, you usually have to settle for instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all. Or, contrived puzzles that have little in common with the reality of your own games.
Italian FIDE Master and chess instructor Franco Zaninotto has a different approach. He knows from experience how stimulating it is to study the games of the best players in your peer group. Zaninotto...
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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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Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know (and want to know) about getting their pawns and pieces ready for action.
Traditional chess opening books concentrate on the variations in different openings. Charles Hertan believes that for beginners and advanced beginners memorizing lines is not only boring but also a waste of time.
Hertan's approach is different.
He helps kids to develop a solid understanding of the fundamental...
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How good are you at bringing in the full point when you hold a clear advantage or are just plain winning? An honest response to this question is likely to evoke some painful memories. Perhaps the single greatest frustration for club level chess players is that time and again they see wins turn into draws or even losses.
The reasons for messing up a won position are by no means just technical. And the rest is a matter of technique? Not likely, in the...
65) Sicilian Dragon
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This great chess book examines one of the most popular chess openings: Sicilian Defense Dragon Variation.
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How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title?
The secret was, knowing what to study and how to learn, as efficiently as possible. Focusing his attention firmly on the endgame, Jonathan devised a number of building blocks and identified a number of very important areas of study. The result of his hard work was a meteoric rise through the ranks, as he became...
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Si busca una actividad entretenida que le sirva para desarrollar su inteligencia y relacionarse con personas de su entorno, ha llegado al libro indicado.
Este libro ofrece una selección de más de 50 juegos de tablero, aptos para personas mayores de 8 o 10 años, con los que podrá disfrutar de muchas horas de diversión junto a su familia, sus amigos, sus compañeros, su pareja, etc. Además de los distintos juegos ideados por el autor, se incluyen...
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This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called 'Total Control'. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable, yet very accessible, building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian's playing style he explains amateurs how to exploit small advantages. With a new set of exercises.
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now...
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When a chess master finds a winning strategic idea it is seldom by accident. An amateur, staring at a position on the chess board is often fumbling in the dark, his head spinning with a multitude of general rules and vague notions. The master's approach is concrete. He knows how and where to look, because he has studied the games of other masters.
Sarkhan Guliev presents a wide range of strategic manoeuvres that have been repeatedly employed by great...
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Every chess player loves to attack the enemy King. Your goal is clear, your thinking is concrete, your creativity is in gear and direct victory is just around the corner. Few things in life are better than a conducting a blistering King's attack!
But how good are you actually at attacking? Have you ever analysed your efforts? Looked at calculation errors, missed chances and derailed efforts? Highly experienced chess trainer Herman Grooten finds that...
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The Caro-Kann Defence has a justified reputation for reliability, making it an attractive choice for players with a preference for positional play. However, in recent years many new dangerous ideas have been discovered for White which makes a study of the theoretical main lines imperative for competitive players. The Panov Attack against the Caro-Kann, 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4, covered in this second volume in the series, leads to a rapid...
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A world famous grandmaster explains the modern style of attacking chess to amateur chess players. Jan Timman teaches how to build up an advantage in the game and how to convert that advantage into an aggressive strategy and into great attacking moves. He has selected the most instructive attacking games of great players like Kasparov, Topalov, Karpov, Shirov, and Judit Polgar in order to explain to amateur chess players the basic ideas of modern attacks...
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The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.e4. Most black players hope to get an Open Sicilian because of its unbalanced play and interesting opportunities to play for a win.
But what if White avoids the Open Sicilian and does not play 2. Nf3? This happens more often than you would think, as in roughly one third of the cases White players opt for one of the numerous 'Anti-Sicilian' lines at their disposal.
These Anti-Sicilians vary...
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Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations.
There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.
Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the...
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They did it! Dejan Antic and Branimir Maksimovic have created a complete chess opening repertoire for Black players in only two books.
First they wrote the acclaimed The Modern French (against 1.e4). Now The Modern Bogo provides Black players with a comprehensive answer to 1.d4. The two books complement each other perfectly.
The point is that the authors recommend to answer 1.d4 with the direct 1... e6, for the follow-up 2.c4 Bb4+. In this way they...
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The back catalogue of New In Chess magazine is a fabulous source of chess instruction. For more than three decades every issue has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the world's best players of their own best games.
Acclaimed chess author Steve Giddins is firmly convinced that for the average player, the study of well-annotated master games is the best way to learn the skills that really matter. Therefore he has revisited...
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Award-winning author Charles Hertan has, written a lively and user-friendly chess primer for kids and other beginners. You will meet all the pieces, learn all the important rules and get tips on how to start playing real games yourself.
Charles Hertan teaches you about the ins and outs of the chess board, how the pieces move, the value of the pieces, capturing (and recapturing!) enemy pieces, check, checkmate and stalemate, illegal moves, pawn promotion...
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You're booked up on your openings and know the Philidor and Lucena positions hands down, but how to convert all that theoretical knowledge into points against flesh-and-blood opponents? Jay Bonin, the "Iron Man of Chess," shares the keys to victory as he's learned them over four decades of competitive play.
Is it better to complicate the game, or to keep it simple? How do you create winning chances against a player who's happy to make a draw? When's...
79) Alekhine
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The fourth world champion of chess, Alexander Alekhine (1892—1946) was one of the greatest chess players ever. This interactive book contains 50 chess diagrams, each showing a critical position in which a very strong Alekhine move follows. You can also take part in the interesting chess fights by trying to find the moves in question. The game itself is shown on the page after the diagram. And the chess great whose games you can review is Alekhine,...
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Seguro que, durante una partida de ajedrez, alguna vez te han derrotado porque la estrategia de tu contrincante era mejor que la tuya. ¿Quieres planificar mejor tu juego? ¿Te gustaría batir a tu oponente? No lo pienses más. Este manual te ofrece todas las respuestas para competir con éxito:
• Consejos prácticos, ejemplos comentados de los mejores ajedrecistas de la historia y técnicas que te ayudarán a planificar las partidas.
• Más de...
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