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From opening, middlegame, and endgame strategy, to psychological warfare and tournament tactics, you are taken through the thinking behind each essent...
The most important concepts, strategies, tactics, wisdom, and thinking that every chess player must know, plus the gold nuggets of knowledge behind ev...
The Definitive Guide to the Concepts and Secrets of Chess Openings as Played by the World Champions
New update includes the exciting games and moves of the newest World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. This serious reference work covers the essential open...
This great beginning book shows players how to confidently start out a chess game with solid near-foolproof openings. Easy-to-read and targeted to nov...
World Champions exert a strong influence on fashion in opening play, and Garry Kasparov is no exception. His advocacy of such variations as the Tarras...
Midwest Master
Alekhine's Defence is one of the most provocative openings at the black's disposal, ideal for tournament players looking for exciting games. All the i...
This powerful repertoire gives players a complete defense system against any King Pawn opening, the most popular first move in chess. Based on the Car...
South Asia and Adjacent Areas : an Ancillary Meeting to the CLS Regional Meeting, April 25th, 1984, University of Chicago
Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! This book contains eve...
World Champion Tactics and Combinations
The greatest chess players in the world reveal their cutthroat insights, concepts, and strategies in this fascinating volume. For individuals looking ...
Learn the Evans Gambit by playing over 24 games by chess superstars with instructive commentary by FIDE Master Eric Schiller....
This book examines an opening which can be quite useful for beginners and amateur chess players. The gambit we will examine (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3 ?...
Here's the kind of opening you've got to love - invented and promoted by a lone pioneer, against all norms of "sound play" in his day. Dr. Siegbert Ta...
Checkmate! the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
The Attack with 5...g6
This is a quiz based on very hard puzzles taken from master chess games, not from composed problems. Because of the difficulty and complexity of the p...
A Chess Works Publication
This book is a collection of attacks in chess against a castled king position. The author, a FIDE rated chess master and a professional chess coach an...
The King's Indian Defense, the single most popular chess opening, is explored, step by step, by two experts of the game....
The Smyslov Variation in chess is a form of the Queen's Gambit Accepted. Smyslov's Variation is inspired by the Gruenfeld Defense but a lot easier to ...
The popularity of the French Defense has surged to the point where it rivals the Sicilian and the Spanish in the international tournament arena. Alway...
Selected Games of the United States Champion
The Janowski-Indian (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 d6 3 Nc3 Bf5) has enjoyed the patronage of such strong chess players as Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, Bent Larsen, Larry...
There will come a time when everything we know and love will cease to exist. But how will such a disaster transpire - by nuclear warfare, ecological c...
Chess Works Publication
The Spanish Chess Opening, also known as the Ruy Lopez, named a Spanish clergyman who made it popular, is one of the oldest and most heavily analyzed ...
London, June 1984
The Ryder Gambit is a fun opening, one which gives rise to spectacular combinational possibilities. Even a player with limited experience can create a...