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Chess Grandmaster Joe Gallagher serves up a plethora of ideas to help you root out the enemy king whenever you have the chance in his chess book, 101 Attacking Ideas in Chess. In his chess book, he shows how to mate an exposed king, how to and what to sacrifice, and how to spot key weaknesses in your chess game. Gallagher also reveals in his book on chess playing, when it is wiser to opt for a ...
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This chess book is an entertaining collection of sensational chess games of 25 moves or fewer, annotated by John Nunn. The accent is on instruction, discussing both how the loser might have avoided disaster, and how the winner managed to punch home his advantage so effectively. An innovative format, with three diagrams per page, enables the chess book to be read without a chess set.
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Popular chess author Steve Giddins presents 101 ideas that are vital to successful endgame play. By absorbing and understanding these concepts and methods, you will ensure that you will spot them when they are possible in your own games. This is an ideal book to read without using a chess set, as the abundant diagrams guide you through the analysis and illustrate the key points. All types of en...
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Most chess players are fed a set of dogmatic chess rules about how the opening must be played. The result: stereotyped, unimaginative play. The opening surprises in this chess book land like bombshells in the apparent calm of standard openings and disorientate your opponents as they grapple with original problems. This chess book is a treasure-trove of unusual ideas at an early stage of the ope...
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Without strategy, a chess game is just a series of tactical tricks. A good strategy binds together the tactics, and enables a player to make methodical progress towards victory.This chess book makes sure you will never be short of winning strategies. Angus Dunnington utilizes his many years of chess playing and training to provide an arsenal of ideas in this chess book that can be employed in m...
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Tactics based on checkmate ideas against the enemy king decide a large proportion of chess games, so it is vital to be alert to these possibilities when they occur. Joe Gallagher provides 365 checkmate puzzles to help sharpen your skills! In each position, your task is to find a way to force a clear-cut win. In each case the theme is checkmate: either the enemy king perishes, or can only be sav...
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Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games; some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learned from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older works of this type. Topics include: Attacking the King, Defense, Piece ...
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In a sequel to the hugely successful 50 Essential Chess Lessons, Steve Giddins now presents 50 games that each illustrate an important winning method. This engaging and highly readable book is a painless way to build your personal arsenal of techniques and ideas. The games are mostly from the modern era, but with a few classic examples chosen to show key themes in as clear a way as possible. In...
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This is a basic primer for those who know how to play chess and are seeking to improve. Each 'thing' is explained in an easy-to-follow lesson, which is followed by exercises that enable the reader to check that he or she has fully understood the concept. Topics include: the basic checkmates; essential endgame knowledge; tactics and combinations; middlegame themes; typical checkmating patterns; ...
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This book is in every way a definitive guide: Efstratios Grivas provides the inside story on a variation of the Sicilian Defence that he has worked for more than 20 years to perfect, and which rightly bears his name. The Grivas Sicilian (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Qb6) has proved itself sound and reliable in practice, but is also far less well investigated than most Sicilian systems. Th...
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For readers who are bored with the same old openings, or are worried about having to learn too much theory, this book will come as a godsend! Aaron Summerscale presents in depth a brand-new armoury of opening weapons for players as White to unleash on unsuspecting opponents. Each recommended line is built on a solid positional foundation, yet also promises long-term (and short-term!) attacking ...
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For those who want to keep up to date with main-line openings. This is a repertoire of opening lines for White, based on starting with Bobby Fischer's favorite move 1 e4, that are slightly off the beaten track, but full of practical sting and cunning traps for unwary opponents. All are based on rapid, healthy development, central control and play against the enemy king.
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Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor takes a contemporary look at one of Black's most ambitious counters to 1 e4, the Alekhine Defence. This is a sharp, creative opening in which Black attacks from the very beginning, luring White's central pawns forward in the expectation of destroying them later on. In this book Taylor constructs a practical repertoire for Black, ideal for the modern-day p...
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Alekhine's Defence is a sharp and often underrated counter to 1 e4. Black immediately challenges the white e-pawn and tries to lure White into constructing a big central position. Black's hope is that White's central installations will become unweildy and vulnerable to a middlegame counter-attack. However, Alekhine enthusiasts must always be careful - get it wrong and White will come crashing t...
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Joel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen years of age he broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest ever national master, and this was followed by countless tournament successes. Perhaps most famously, in 1997 he hit the headlines when he became the chess consultant for IBM's Deep Blue computer, which made history by beating World Champion Garry...
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One of the hardest tasks competitive chess-players face is the development of an opening repertoire suited to their own style of play. In view of the limited time most players have to study, an economic and well designed repertoire is essential, but it is sometimes difficult to know where to start. In this book, translated by Ken Neat, Grandmaster Gufeld makes the job easier by providing an ide...
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One of the hardest tasks faced by competitive chess players is the development of an opening repertoire suited to their own style of play. As in their companion volume An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player (also translated by Ken Neat), the authors provide a refined and thoroughly up-to-date opening program, this time selecting variations of a more positional nature.
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The Sicilian is far and away the most popular chess opening, and many players prefer to side-step the Open Sicilian with one of the Anti-Sicilian systems at White's disposal. This book equips Black to fight against all these lines. The Anti-Sicilian systems include: positionally motivated lines such as the 2 c3 Sicilian and the 3 Bb5 systems; slow but tricky attacking lines including the Closed...
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This is the first book ever devoted to these two dynamic variations of the Ruy Lopez, the most famous and traditional of all chess openings. This book will be invaluable to players of White and Black alike.
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The legendary Mikhail Tal was the finest ever exponent of attacking chess. His all-out sacrificial style took him all the way to the World Championship title. Dogged by ill-health, Tal's reign was a short one, and he was never able to regain his crown, but Tal remained an outstanding player right up to his death in 1992. His departure has taken away one of the chess world's most charismatic fig...
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