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50 Ways to Win at Chess
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 pa...
Item: GP0855
$23.95
A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian
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 righ...
Item: GP0367
$21.95
Ches College 2 : Pawn Play
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instru...
Item: GP0473
$17.95
Chess College 1 : Strategy
Chess College is a new series of books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of entertaining and instru...
Item: GP0459
$17.95
Chess College 3: Technique
Chess College is an exciting new series of chess books to take intermediate players to new levels of chess understanding. New ideas are introduced and immediately illustrated by a number of enterta...
Item: GP0572
$17.95
Chess Explained: The English Opening
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-boar...
Item: GP0596
$17.95
Chess Explained: The Meran Semi-Slav
Chess Explained books provide an understanding of an opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at...
Item: GP0817
$21.95
Chess Explained: The Modern Benoni
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-boar...
Item: GP0770
$21.95
Chess Explained: The Nizmo-Indian
Chess Explained books provide an understanding of an opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at...
Item: GP0725
$21.95
Chess Explained: The Taimanov Sicilian
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-boar...
Item: GP0626
$17.95
Chess for Children
With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by st...
Item: GP0060
$14.95
Chess for Zebras
Jonathan Rowson, author of the highly acclaimed Seven Deadly Chess Sins, investigates three questions important to all chess-players: 1) Why is it so difficult, especially for adult players, to imp...
Item: GP3852
$26.95
Creative Chess Opening Preparation
Grandmaster Eingorn is an chess opening trendsetter. Throughout his career, he has introduced many novel concepts in the openings, and some of the systems he has introduced have gone on to become a...
Item: GP0589
$23.95
Foundations of Chess Strategy
Chess is a game where profound strategic thinking must be allied with clever short-term tactics. Most previous works on strategy focus on specific aspects of chess strategy, but Lars Bo Hansen's ai...
Item: GP0263
$24.75
French: Advance and Other Lines
In the third and final volume of his series on the French Defence, Steffen Pedersen covers all of White's alternatives to 3 Nc3 and 3 Nd2. These include the aggressive Advance, the quiet Exchange, ...
Item: GP0409
$21.95
Garry Kasporov's Greatest Chess Games Volume 1
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected 74 of K...
Item: GP0328
$31.50
Garry Kasporov's Greatest Chess Games Volume 2
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected the bes...
Item: GP0435
$31.50
Grandmasters Secrets: Winning Quickly at Chess
In this tremendously instructive and entertaining work, John Nunn selects 125 of the finest short decisive grandmaster games of the modern era. For a grandmaster to lose a game in 25 moves or fewer...
Item: GP0893
$26.95
How to Calculate Chess Tactics
Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has p...
Item: GP0503
$23.95
How to Defend in Chess
Many books discuss how to attack in chess, but resourceful defensive play is also a vital ingredient in competitive success. This is an area largely neglected in the literature of the game. This bo...
Item: GP0831
$21.95
How to Play Chess Endgames
Andrei Volokitin is one of a rare breed of players: he achieved a ranking in the world's top 20 while still a teenager, playing dynamic and often brilliant chess. Although we cannot all aspire to e...
Item: GP0824
$25.95
How to Play Chess Endgames
In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Müller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on...
Item: GP0862
$30.95
Mastering the Chess Openings Volume 1
For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is su...
Item: GP0602
$26.95
Modern Chess Planning
Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess plann...
Item: GP0688
$21.95
Play the Classical Dutch
In this book, one of the most enthusiastic adherents of the Classical Dutch explains the workings of his favourite opening, and provides Black with a complete repertoire against 1 d4. Few opponents...
Item: GP3889
$16.95
The French: Tarrasch Variation
This book continues the coverage of the French Defence that was begun by Pedersen in The Main Line French: 3 Nc3. It is essential reading for all those who play the French, and for those who meet i...
Item: GP3498
$21.95
The Grandmaster's Mind
My banner makes an attractive headline; but I would humbly opine that this book is sort of like Kotov's classic "Think like a GM" and Pal Benko's "Winning Chess Psychology" combined. I was at the p...
Item: GP0190
$21.95
The Ultimate Chess Strategy Book: Volume 1
The opening is reaching its end, and we must make a pivotal decision: what shall our middlegame strategy be? Do we seek an active plan to profit from our strengths and highlight the opponent's weak...
Item: GP0848
$26.95
Win with the London System
The London System is a perennial favourite of club players, as it is a very sound and solid system with a real practical sting. The authors of this new book seek to maximize this sting in two princ...
Item: GP0352
$23.45
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