Board games: Chess Books
New in Chess Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key
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£18.89
New In Chess Liquidation on the Chess Board New and Expanded
Book SynopsisPawn endings do not arise out of nowhere. Before emerging as endgames with just kings and pawns, they 'pre-existed' in positions that still contained any number of pieces. Liquidation is the purposeful transition into a pawn ending. It is a vital technique that is seldom taught. Strange, because knowing when and how to liquidate can help you win games or save draws. In this book, former US Chess Champion Joel Benjamin teaches everything about successfully liquidating into pawn endgames. Enter a fascinating world of tempo play (triangulation, zugzwang and opposition), breakthroughs, king activity, passed pawn dynamics, sacrifices and counter-sacrifices.
£999.99
New In Chess Chess Board Options: A Memoir of Players, Games
Book SynopsisLarry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster. Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty. Yet his victories in the chess arena are considerable. Over a career span of nearly sixty years Kaufman won the state championships of Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, D.C. and Pennsylvania. He was an American Open Champion and won the U.S. Senior Championship as well as the World Senior Championship. Never a great chess player himself (his words), he met or played chess greats such as Bobby Fischer, Bent Larsen, Walter Browne, Boris Spassky, Viktor Kortchnoi and many others. He worked as a second to legendary grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili, and coached three talented youngsters to become International Master, one of them his son Raymond. This engrossing memoir is rife with stories and anecdotes about dozens of famous and not-so-famous chess players. In one of the most remarkable chapters Larry Kaufman reveals that the American woman chess player that inspired Walter Tevis to create the Beth Harmon character of Netflixs The Queens Gambit fame, is his former girlfriend. You will learn about neural networks, material values and how being a chess master helps when trading options. And find lots of memorable but little-known annotated games.
£20.66
New In Chess Attacking Strategies For Club Players: How to
Book SynopsisAttacking your opponents king is not just a shortcut to victory, its also one of the most enjoyable and gratifying experiences in chess. If you want to win more games you should become a better attacker. Studying typical attacking motifs and ideas easily brings dividends while you are having a good time. Michael Prusikin presents the prerequisites and the rules for a King attack in a lucid and attractive manner. In 15 thematic chapters he teaches you how to assess the nature of the position, identify the appropriate offensive patterns, find the preliminary moves and conduct your attack in a clear and effective way. Battering rams, obstructive sacrifices, pawn storms, striking at the castled position, sacrificing a knight on f5, Prusikin demonstrates the most important patterns of attack with lots of clear and well-chosen examples. Next, Prusikin tests your newly acquired insights and your attacking intuition with exercises covering all the themes and motifs. You will find that studying ATTACKING STRATEGIES FOR CLUB PLAYERS is both entertaining and rewarding.
£18.86
New In Chess Chess Buccaneer: The Life and Games of Manuel
Book SynopsisThere arent many chess players who can say theyve both beaten Garry Kasparov in an official blitz game and crushed Peter Leko in a classical game in 26 moves. And who regularly win blitz tournaments high on marihuana. But then Manuel Bosboom is not an ordinary chess player. The Dutch International Master never made it to the top in chess, but over the course of his swashbuckling career he has produced an astonishing amount of brilliantly creative games. When Manuel Bosboom enters the room, a smile appears on every chess players face. Not only is he an exuberantly colourful player, he also leads an unconventional existence. His enthusiasm for the game and zest for life are highly contagious. This book offers a captivating collection of games and it also describes the adventurous life of the Wizard from Zaanstad, who grew up and still lives in a picturesque shed next to a 17th century windmill on the famous Zaanse Schans. You will be treated to many a stunning chess move, a wealth of hilarious but also touching stories and a vivid impression of the Dutch chess scene in the late 20th and early 21st century.
£20.66
New In Chess Winning the World Open: Strategies for Success at
Book SynopsisFor nearly fifty years grandmasters and amateurs alike have been making their annual pilgrimage to the World Open. Legendary organiser Bill Goichberg created the model of this iconic event in American chess: large entry fees, large prizes, and no-frills. Every year around the 4th of July, Philadelphia is the scene of countless epic battles at the board. Joel Benjamin and Harold Scott examined hundreds of games and conducted a series of interviews with what they call the Heroes of the World Open, players who won the tournament on multiple occasions. What they wanted to investigate was: why have some players been so consistent in their efforts, always battling for the top prizes? Benjamin and Scott discovered that many different paths were taken on the road to victory, but that the Heroes definitely had one common factor: their fighting spirit! The authors present the history of the World Open from its humble beginnings to the juggernaut it has become today. There are many entertaining stories and scandals that the reader will enjoy. This rich book holds a fantastic collection of the very best games that were crucial in deciding the outcome of the tournament as well as a selection of exciting tactics. WINNING THE WORLD OPEN is as entertaining as it is instructive. Not only the many thousands of players that participated will find it an irresistible read.
£22.91
New in Chess The Art of The Endgame - Revised Edition: My
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£21.21
New in Chess Spassky's Best Games: A Chess Biography
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£21.56
New in Chess In Black and White: The Chess Autobiography of a
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£27.16
New in Chess Improve Your Chess Now - New Edition: A
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£20.66
New in Chess Ding Liren's Best Games: A Chess Biography of the
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£22.06
New in Chess Botvinnik versus Smyslov and Petrosian: Four
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£22.91
New in Chess Games and Goals
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£22.91
New in Chess What Would You Play?: Test Your Chess and Improve
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£20.66
Continental Sales Dream Moves
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£21.56
New In Chess 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know
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£18.86
Continental Sales Chess Principles Reloaded
£22.46
Quality Chess Europe AB True Lies in Chess
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£13.49
New in Chess The Rossolimo for Club Players: New Ideas and
Book SynopsisThe Rossolimo is the Anti-Sicilian that is by far the most popular with club players and with elite grandmasters such as Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, and Alireza Firouzja. If you play 3.Bb5 in the Sicilian, you do not need to keep up-to-date with the dazzling theoretical developments in all kinds of Open Sicilians. You can sidestep theory, play your own creative game and put your opponent in trouble! You will love the harmonious, easy development and reach unbalanced positions with winning opportunities and surprisingly dynamic play.
£22.91
New in Chess The Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The
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£20.66
New in Chess The Ink War: Romanticism versus Modernity in
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£25.46
New in Chess Life at Play: A Chess Memoir
Book SynopsisAmerican-Czech Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (1943-2021) was a three-time US Chess Champion and one of the best chess writers of the last decades. He reached millions of chess fans with his much-acclaimed columns in the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. Kavalek could speak from experience as he had played with or met all the chess greats of the last century, including Bobby Fischer. Kavalek''s memoir makes for compelling reading and evokes his fascinating journey in life and the chess world. His story is supplemented by more than fifty of his best games, many with Kavalek''s entertaining comments.
£26.31
New in Chess Endgame Virtuoso Magnus Carlsen Volume 2: The
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£20.66
New in Chess Kings, Queens and Rookies: Celebrating 85 Years
Book SynopsisIn 2023, the Tata Steel Chess tournament celebrates its 85th edition. Hundreds of amateur chess players come to Wijk aan Zee and play in the same hall as the elite grandmasters. This beautiful hardcover full-colour book tells the stories of the winners, the amateurs and their favourite restaurants. Dozens of pictures highlight how photogenic the event is. And, of course, the book includes magnificent chess games annotated by the winners. Wijk aan Zee and the Tata Chess Tournament bring out the best in chess.
£20.66
New in Chess The Chess Pub Quiz Puzzle Book: Who is MC Hammer
Book SynopsisChess players play chess, but almost all of them love other games, puzzles and quizzes. This full-color paperback offers a collection of hundreds of chess trivia and chess-related trivia. Highly entertaining questions, created by a chess grandmaster and former Dutch Champion, Dimitri Reinderman. This book can be used by readers who love solving puzzles on their own, but also for multiple thematic pub quizzes at their local chess café or chess club.
£15.26
New in Chess Speed Demon: The Fascinating Games and Tragic
Book SynopsisChess Grandmaster Alexey Vyzhmanavin died in 2000 at forty, in circumstances that remain unclear. He was a gifted chess player, self-taught, who excelled in rapid and blitz chess, frequently outplaying World Champions like Vladimir Kramnik. He was the ultimate Speed Demon, living for chess but battling depression and alcoholism. This book pays tribute to this forgotten chess genius with fascinating chess games and beautiful stories.
£20.66
New in Chess Zlotnik's Treasure Trove: Enjoyable Chess
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£21.21
SemiClosed Openings in Action Intermediate
Book SynopsisAn ideal read for chess players looking to improve their understanding of the semi-closed openings, this book provides a unique insight into the way a top Grandmaster approaches opening theory.In this fourth and concluding volume of Anatoly Karpov’s semi-closed openings series, the most important developments in the Grunfeld, Queen’s Indian, King’s Indian, and Nimzo-Indian Defenses are explained and examined. Each variation is analyzed in depth, using complete games from recent Grandmaster play to illustrate how opening ideas are put into action in the middlegame and endgame.
£12.19
£14.30
HarperCollins Chess for Beginners A Picture Guide
£12.75
Penguin Random House LLC How to be a Winner at Chess
£11.26
iUniverse Chess Without Borders The Life and Games of ICCF IM Sture Nyman
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£17.58
iUniverse Unbeatable Chess Lessons
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£13.63
Author Solutions Inc Winning Chess Traps Opening Tactics for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player
£13.63
iUniverse More Unbeatable Chess Lessons Instruction for the Advanced Player
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£13.63
iUniverse Winning Chess Tournaments Methods and Materials Training Guide
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£13.63
£12.64
Simon & Schuster Chess Traps
£12.99
£12.99
RUSSIAN CHESS
Book SynopsisAnalyses of six games played by contemporary Russian masters are used to explore chess logic.
£11.99
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Chess Openings Traps And Zaps
£15.00
£12.99
Simon & Schuster Beginning Chess
£12.99
Chess Thinking
Book SynopsisFrom America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes the ultimate chess reference—a visual dictionary of over 1,000 moves, rules, strategies, and concepts.For new players needing clarification on a certain position to an expert brushing up on more obscure strategies, Chess Thinking covers the ABC’s of chess as never before—from algebraic notation to zugzwang. Comprehensive, illustrated with 140 detailed drawings, and written with exceptional clarity, this is an indispensable guide to any player ready to make a move and belongs on the shelf of every chess player’s library.
£16.14
£10.99
£19.99
£17.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Mastering Chess Theory Concise Instruction to Grandmasters Strategies
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£13.92
