Board games: Chess Books
Quality Chess UK LLP Magic Chess Moves
Book SynopsisMagic Chess Moves is a book that will enthral you while also testing and improving your chess abilities. You will be invited to solve a collection of exercise positions, but the accompanying text contains far more than simply the solutions. The author offers his reflections on all manner of other fascinating topics, such as how tactics can be coached, and details of the composer's life story. Magic Chess Moves contains the condensed wisdom of an experienced chess trainer with an emphasis on practical improvement. The 317 positions in this book are of mixed difficulty levels, with examples from over-the-board play and from chess compositions. Each and every exercise has been carefully selected for its instructive value to the practical player.
£21.24
Continental Sales Chess Survivor
£23.55
Quality Chess Chess Imbalances
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£22.09
Quality Chess UK LLP The Secret Ingredient: To Winning at Chess
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£20.25
Quality Chess UK LLP The Berlin Defence
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£20.25
Quality Chess UK LLP I was a Victim of Bobby Fischer
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£20.25
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing the Sveshnikov: An Active Repertoire
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£21.24
Quality Chess Learn from the Legends 2
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£22.09
Quality Chess Powerhouse Pawn Sacrifices
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£22.06
Quality Chess UK LLP Reimagining 1.e4
Book SynopsisEvery chess player faces an opening dilemma: big main lines are complicated and time-consuming to learn, while easy-to-learn sidelines usually suffer from other defects. Finding the best of both worlds has been an impossible dream until now!Reimagining 1.e4 offers the Holy Grail of a simple, easy-to-learn White repertoire, which packs a punch against all of Black's main defences. In some lines, White unleashes a surprise as early as move 3. In others, White follows the known paths for a little longer, but only when there are big rewards to justify a modest effort.
£21.24
Continental Sales Practical Chess Strategy
£30.08
Continental Sales Opening Repertoire The London System
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£24.67
Continental Sales Exploiting the Bishop Pair
£18.90
Continental Sales Exploiting Weaknesses
£22.42
Quality Chess Soviet Chess Strategy Chess Classics
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£17.09
Quality Chess Strategic Play
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing the French
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 14 - The French Defence
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 13 - The Open Spanish
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2: The World Champion
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 16: The French Defence:
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£17.99
New In Chess The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess: A Manual
Book SynopsisMany club players think that studying chess is all about cramming as much information in their brain as they can. Most textbooks support that notion by stressing the importance of always trying to find the objectively best move. As a result amateur players are spending way too much time worrying about subtleties that are really only relevant for grandmasters. Emanuel Lasker, the second and longest reigning World Chess Champion (27 years!), understood that what a club player needs most of all is common sense: understanding a set of timeless principles. Amateurs shouldnt waste energy on rote learning but just strive for a good grasp of the basic essentials of attack and defence, tactics, positional play and endgame play endgame play. Chess instruction needs to be efficient because of the limited amount of time that amateur players have available. Superfluous knowledge is often a pitfall. Lasker himself, for that matter, also studied chess considerably less than his contemporary rivals. Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins have created a complete but compact manual based on Laskers general approach to chess. It enables the average amateur player to adopt trustworthy openings, reach a sound middlegame and have a basic grasp of endgame technique. Welling and Giddins explain the principles with very carefully selected examples from players of varying levels, some of them from Laskers own games. The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess is an efficient toolkit as well as an entertaining guide. After working with it, players will dramatically boost their skills without carrying the excess baggage that many of their opponents will be struggling with.
£20.66
New In Chess The Unstoppable American: Bobby Fischers Road to
Book SynopsisInitially things looked gloomy for Bobby Fischer. Because he had refused to participate in the 1969 US Championship, he had missed his chance to qualify for the 1970 Interzonal Tournament in Palma de Mallorca. Only when another American, Pal Benko, withdrew in his favour, and after the officials were willing to bend the rules, could Bobby enter the contest. And begin his phenomenal run that would end with the Match of the Century in Reykjavik against World Champion Boris Spassky. Fischer started out by sweeping the field at the 23-round Palma Interzonal to qualify for the next stage of the cycle. In the Candidates Matches he first faced Mark Taimanov, in Vancouver. Fischer trounced the Soviet ace, effectively ending Taimanovs career. Then, a few months later in Denver, he was up against Bent Larsen, the Great Dane. Fischer annihilated him, too. The surreal score in those two matches, twice 6-0, flabbergasted chess fans all over the world. In the ensuing Candidates Final in Buenos Aires, Fischer also made short shrift of former World Champion Tigran Petrosian, beating the hyper-solid Armenian Tiger 6"-2". Altogether, Fischer had scored an incredible 36 points from 43 games against many of the worlds best players, including a streak of 19 consecutive wins. Bobby Fischer had become not just a national hero in the US, but a household name with pop-star status all over the world. Jan Timman chronicles the full story of Fischers sensational run and takes a fresh look at the games. The annotations are in the authors trademark lucid style, that happy mix of colourful background information and sharp, crystal-clear explanations.Trade ReviewA compelling read: you know the outcome, yet you are still glued to your seat, turning the pages, going through the games, almost as if you are watching the players in real time. -- Carsten Hansen, American Chess Magazine, on The Longest GameThis is magnificent. The book is dotted with fascinating anecdotes. The games are mainly described in words, with variations given only when things get critical. -- Grandmaster Daniel King, Power Play Chess, on Timmans Triumphs
£21.21
New In Chess Countering The Queens Gambit: A Compact (but
Book SynopsisIf you are aware of endgame patterns, you spot key moves quicker, analyse and calculate better, avoid making errors and memorise what you have studied more fully. The Queen's Gambit is easily the most talked-about chess opening since the immensely popular Netflix TV series of the same name became a hit. The screen adventures of Beth Harmon have inspired thousands to start playing the Royal Game but didn't offer any information on this highly popular chess opening. This book fills that gap. German Grandmaster Michael Prusikin presents a solid but dynamic opening repertoire for Black against the Queen's Gambit. He wants you to understand rather than memorize what is important. His primary focus is on explaining the relevant pawn structures and the middlegame ideas behind the lines he recommends. Prusikin deals with every single variation of the Queen's Gambit in a way that is highly accessible for club players but at the same time surprisingly effective and concise: the Catalan, Tartakower, Carlsbad, London, Colle, Veresov, and all the others. As a bonus, the FIDE Senior Trainer also provides responses to openings such as the Bird, Réti, and Nimzo-Larsen. It may seem unlikely, and yet it is true: in less than 200 pages, Countering the Queen's Gambit has Black covered for really every first move except 1.e4! To test your newly acquired insights in the tactical motifs and strategic ideas of the Queen's Gambit, you are invited to solve 36 exercises in carefully selected key positions from actual games.
£20.66
New In Chess Re-Engineering The Chess Classics: A Silicon
Book SynopsisMatthew Sadler is the world's greatest expert in computer chess and what it brings to us humans in new insights. In this book, the authors have unleashed the collective power of Leela, Komodo and Stockfish to look at 35 classic games played by fan favourites such as Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen and Bobby Fischer. The authors have re-engineered a wonderful collection of classic games. Their findings illustrate the richness and beauty of chess. But they have also generated dozens of positional chess lessons that will help every club player and expert to improve their game.
£26.31
New in Chess Max Euwe's Best Games: The Fifth World Chess
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£22.06
New In Chess Think Like Ivanchuk
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£21.21
New in Chess Tricks, Traps and Tips in the Chess Opening:
Book SynopsisThis book gives kids -- especially scholastic chess players - and adult improvers the tools to start their chess games with confidence -- and have fun with exciting ''weapons'' such as the Fried Liver Attack and the Center Fork Trick. These tricks can bring quick wins. But studying them also improves general chess knowledge and helps with understanding concepts such as ''rapid development'' and ''the importance of the centre''. The author, the experienced American chess coach Dean Ippolito, has trained thousands of beginners and adult improvers with his Dean of Chess Academy. He knows precisely how beginners should play the opening and what they can expect from their opponents. TRICKS, TRAPS AND TIPS IN THE CHESS OPENING is an ideal first opening manual for ambitious starters who want to take their chess to the next level. Included are over two hundred exercises.
£20.66
New in Chess Rock Solid Chess: Tiviakov's Unbeatable
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£21.21
Brass Monkey Say Yes To The Chess Game Set
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£19.55
Galison Mudpuppy Liberty Anita Peggable Chess Set
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£28.00
Gambit Publications Ltd Schach Verstehen Zug um Zug
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£17.17
Gambit Publications Ltd Schach Fur Zebras
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£17.61
Gambit Publications Ltd 50 Grundlegende Schachlektionen
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£14.61
Gambit Publications Ltd Nunn's Chess Endings: v. 2
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£17.09
Gambit Publications Ltd Das Verstandnis Des Mittelspiels Im Schach
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£15.48
Gambit Publications Ltd Schachtaktik Richtig Berechnen
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£14.24
Gambit Publications Ltd Understanding the Scandinavian
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£15.19
Gambit Publications Ltd Fundamental Checkmates
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£17.99
Gambit Publications Ltd Extreme Chess Tactics
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£16.14
Gambit Publications Ltd Fundamental Chess Tactics
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£20.25
Gambit Publications Ltd Chess Logic in Practice
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£17.99
Gambit Publications Ltd A Startling Chess Opening Repertoire: New Edition
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£17.09
Gambit Publications Ltd Desert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus
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£17.09
Quality Chess UK LLP Theoretical Rook Endgames
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£21.24
Penguin Books Ltd The Grass Arena
Book SynopsisJohn Healy''s The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe.In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging carried an automatic three-year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled the parks and streets in search of drink or prey. When not united in their common aim of acquiring alcohol, winos sometimes murdered one another over prostitutes or a bottle, or the begging of money. Few modern writers have managed to match Healy''s power to refine from the brutal destructive condition of the chronic alcoholic a story so compelling it is beyond comparison.John Healy (b. 1943) was born into an impoverished, Irish immigrant family, in the slums of Kentish Town, North London. Out of school by 14, pr
£9.49
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 1A - The Catalan
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Fischer – Spassky 1972: Match of the Century
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£24.29
