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Quality Chess UK LLP The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit
Book SynopsisThe Elephant Gambit is perhaps the boldest opening in all of chess theory. By meeting 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 with 2d5!?, Black takes the fight to his opponent and aims to seize the initiative as early as possible.The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit offers a complete repertoire for Black, based on 3.exd5 Bd6 or 3.Nxe5 Bd6 4.d4 dxe4. In return for the sacrificed pawn, Black ensures himself of quick and active development with most of his pieces pointing menacingly towards the enemy kingside. Attacking and other tactical resources abound, with a future e4-e3 advance often mauling White''s position like an Elephant''s tusk. With original analysis of all variations and improvements against all published "refutations", this book contains everything you need to shock, surprise and stampede your opponents.
£17.99
Quality Chess Exhilarating Elephant Gambit
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing 1.e4 - French Defence and Sicilian
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing 1.e4 - Sicilian Main Lines
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP 1.e4 vs Minor Defences
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 1.e4 vs Minor Defences
£21.59
Quality Chess Science of Strategy
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP The Chess Alchemist
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£21.24
Quality Chess UK LLP The Chess Alchemist
£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP Soviet Outcast
£22.52
Quality Chess Small Steps 2 Success
£23.79
Quality Chess UK LLP The Anand Files
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£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Advanced Chess Tactics
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£21.38
Quality Chess Advanced Chess Tactics 2nd Edition
£22.52
Quality Chess Playing the Grunfeld
£23.79
Quality Chess UK LLP The Italian Renaissance I: Move Orders, Tricks
Book SynopsisWith the seemingly bulletproof Berlin Wall and Marshall Attack continuing to thwart White''s best efforts to find an advantage in the Ruy Lopez, many top players have incorporated the Italian Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4) along with the related Bishop''s Opening (2.Bc4) into their repertoires. In this two-volume work, GM Martyn Kravtsiv shares his insights on this Italian Renaissance from White''s perspective.The first topic is the Bishop''s Opening, which can be used as an Anti-Petroff move order as well as a weapon in its own right. 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 may or may not transpose to the main Italian lines, and it is useful to have it in your arsenal in order to choose the most effective sequence against each opponent.Next is the more popular 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3. Before reaching the Italian, White must be ready to deal with the Petroff Defence (2Nf6). Kravtsiv advocates the well-regarded 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 variation, offering an array of weapons to cause problems for Black, including a large number of untested yet dangerous ideas. The Italian Game will be covered in the second volume.Join The Italian Renaissance and create your own masterpieces!Shortlisted for FIDE Book of the Year 2021
£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP The Italian Renaissance II: The Main Lines
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£17.99
Quality Chess Leningrad Dutch
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Quality Chess UK LLP Dutch Sidelines
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£20.25
Quality Chess Dutch Sidelines
£22.94
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing the Petroff: A Bulletproof Repertoire
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Think Like a Machine
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£17.99
Quality Chess Think Like a Machine
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Playing the Stonewall Dutch: A Bold Repertoire
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Analyzing the Chess Mind
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how.To write about chess psychology, the ideal authors would have world-class chess skills and advanced professional qualifications in psychology, so GM Boris Gulko and Dr Joel Sneed are perfect for the task of Analyzing the Chess Mind.Shortlisted for English Chess Federation's Book of the Year 2022
£20.25
Quality Chess Analyzing the Chess Mind
£22.94
Quality Chess Sicilian Warfare
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Street Smart Chess
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£20.25
Quality Chess Street Smart Chess
£22.94
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 The Mental Game
Book SynopsisWe all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game.Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an 18-month period in which she worked with Grandmaster Alexander Galkin. A year later, Maltsevskaya became World Junior Champion. Galkin holds nothing back in revealing the highs, lows, jubilations and frustrations that were experienced in their collaboration, all while providing expert insights that will benefit chess players and coaches alike. The book contains a wealth of bonus material, including all eleven annotated games from Maltsevskaya?s World Championship victory.
£21.24
Quality Chess Chess Imbalances
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£22.09
Quality Chess Decision Making in Major Piece Endings
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP The Secret Ingredient: To Winning at Chess
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£20.25
Quality Chess Secret Ingredient
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£22.94
Quality Chess UK LLP Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4 Volume 1
Book SynopsisCoffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 chess player?s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume 1, GM Gawain Jones shows how to put pressure on the Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Scandinavian and Alekhine?s Defences, using lines which feature a potent combination of surprise value, objective soundness and practical effectiveness.
£21.24
Quality Chess Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.E4 Volume 1
£25.08
Quality Chess Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.E4 Volume 2
£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP Learn from Bent Larsen
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£21.24
Quality Chess Learn from Bent Larsen
£25.49
Quality Chess Endgame Labyrinths
£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP The Berlin Defence
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£20.25
Quality Chess Berlin Defence
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Quality Chess Korchnoi and His Chess Grandchildren
£25.08
Quality Chess Winning
£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP I was a Victim of Bobby Fischer
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£20.25
Quality Chess Road to Reykjavik
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