Hobbies, Games & Quizzes

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  • How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords

    Little, Brown Book Group How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords

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    Expert crossword compiler and solver Kevin Skinner shows in easy steps how to solve those trickier puzzles. Once you recognize the type of clue used, you're half way to finding the answer. Learn to spot:• Double straight clues• Double meaning clues• Word exchange clues• Homophone clues• Anagrams• And all the other clever clues beloved of crossword compilersWork your way through the example crosswords provided and hone your new-found skills. The explanations show how the answers are arrived at, so you can see precisely how each clue works. Next time you come across a clue of the same type, you'll be able to tease out the answer for yourself and beat the compiler at their own game!

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    £9.04

  • Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs

    Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs

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    Creating an impromptu, original character every time the heroes meet a contact on a crowded space station or chat with a local on an alien planet can be a challenge, but the Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs makes it as simple as drawing four cards from the deck. These cards combine to form a unique NPC, each with their own role, motivation, personality trait, and secret agenda! With over 100 million different combinations, you are sure to get an interesting new character to add to your story every time! The Starfinder Deck of Endless NPCs contains the following: • 104 NPC cards, plus 6 rules cards explaining how to use the deck. The front of each card has a portrait of the NPC, featuring characters from dozens of species. • The back of each card explains the character's role, goal, traits, and secret agenda, along with symbols to help determine some of the specific details. • Includes species from across all Alien Archives, sourcebooks like the Pact Worlds, Starfinder Adventure Paths, and more!

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    £25.19

  • Murdle Volume 1

    St. Martin's Publishing Group Murdle Volume 1

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    £13.00

  • The New York Times Super Sunday Crosswords Volume 16: 50 Sunday Puzzles

    St Martin's Press The New York Times Super Sunday Crosswords Volume 16: 50 Sunday Puzzles

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    The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy-five years. It's America's favorite-and most famous-crossword puzzle. The clues in these extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better than ever: easier on the eyes for stress-free solving! Features: - 50 New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold, fun series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, lay-flat solving

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    £12.55

  • 1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that also Improves Your Endgame Skills

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    £20.66

  • Daily Mail Pitcherwits Volume 7: 200 of the Daily Mail's most popular picture puzzles

    Octopus Publishing Group Daily Mail Pitcherwits Volume 7: 200 of the Daily Mail's most popular picture puzzles

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    Seeking something different to test your crossword skills?Professor Rebus is back with a seventh volume in this best-selling series of perplexing pictogram puzzles!A unique cross between crossword and cryptic visual puzzle, Pitcherwits are the Daily Mail's most popular puzzle, and perfect for crossword fans looking to put their deductive skills to the test!Whether you're looking for a relaxed evening in or setting off on a long commute, Pitcherwits Volume 7 is the ultimate companion.

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    £9.04

  • You Are Sherlock Holmes: You control the action: solve three interactive cases

    Headline Publishing Group You Are Sherlock Holmes: You control the action: solve three interactive cases

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    Strap on the deerstalker of the world's most famous detective: in this interactive puzzling adventure you choose which steps to take.Enter the mind palace of Sherlock Holmes as you view the most testing mysteries through his very eyes. You must choose your own path at every step as you attempt to solve the riddles of three new cases.Your task is to decipher the clues, solve the puzzles and make the right choices to solve each fiendish case. Do you have what it takes to step into the shoes of Sherlock Holmes?

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    £14.99

  • Atlantic Books Bid Better, Play Better

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  • How (not) to Paint a Locomotive

    Christopher Vine How (not) to Paint a Locomotive

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    The author had spent six years building a 7-1/4" gauge model of an LNER B1 locomotive, 'Bongo', and wanted to paint it to a high standard. This turned out to be easier said than done. The complete process of painting, lining and reassembly of Bongo took two years of frustration, mistakes and wrong directions but, finally, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Model Engineer Exhibition and the Charles Kennion Memorial Trophy for the best finished model in the show. It was this success, together with the lack of published help on the subject, that led to his decision to put pen to paper. This is not an academic treatise on painting, but a practical 'cook book' from someone who did finally achieve a good result, starting from zero knowledge. With 168 pages, 130 colour photographs and 30 diagrams, this book takes the beginner through all the necessary stages and processes in painting a model engineering subject. It includes selection and making of equipment, paint, preparation, spray and hand painting, fixing blemishes, lining, transfers, tips on how to look after the paintwork and a list of suppliers. The many trials, tribulations and disappointments are related, together with the author's solutions to them. It was only when the job was finished and sense of humour restored that people admitted that they had hardly dared to visit any longer because of the endless tales of woe and disaster: Paint running, rough finish, dust, insects, touching the still wet paint, dropping the tender, power failure in the middle of a job, faulty paint, water in the air supply...If the reader avoids just one of these pitfalls then the cost of the book will have been saved, perhaps several times over.

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    £20.00

  • Lingo Puzzle Book: The official companion to the nation’s favourite guessing game featuring over 500 puzzles

    Penguin Books Ltd Lingo Puzzle Book: The official companion to the nation’s favourite guessing game featuring over 500 puzzles

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    Sharpen your mind prove your puzzling genius with the official Lingo puzzle book - perfect for anyone who's obsessed with word games!Are you a whizz with words?Passionate about solving puzzles?Do you love playing along with Lingo on TV?If your answer is yes to any of the above, then the official Lingo Puzzle Book is just for you. Perfect for the whole family, you can play the nation's favourite word game anywhere, anytime.· Over 500 exciting, brain-bending puzzles· 4, 5 and 6 letter games to challenge your skill· Bonus words and timed games to test your true Lingo geniusSo, what are you waiting for? Get to know your Lingo and be as good as your word.

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    £14.99

  • Think You Know It All? Liverpool FC: The Quiz Book for Football Fans

    Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Think You Know It All? Liverpool FC: The Quiz Book for Football Fans

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    Put your Liverpool knowledge to the test with the ultimate quiz book for Reds fans.Do you think you know it all about Liverpool? Could you name the starting line-up in 2005 Champions League final? The most decorated player in the club’s history? Do you know which sides Liverpool have beaten most, and vice versa? Or which game drew the Reds’ biggest-ever crowd?Whatever your area of interest or depth of knowledge, this expertly assembled quiz will have some testing questions for you. From the club’s earliest days to the glory years of Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley, the renaissance under Jurgen Klopp and beyond, Think You Know It All? Liverpool will challenge your knowledge of the iconic team’s players, managers, records and more.Featuring an entertaining mix of questions and puzzles, this is the perfect test for new and veteran LFC fans alike. Proving you know it all about your club has never been such fun – or so tricky.

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  • So This is Christmas Quiz Book: Over 1,500 questions on all things festive, from movies to music!

    Bonnier Books Ltd So This is Christmas Quiz Book: Over 1,500 questions on all things festive, from movies to music!

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    Put your knowledge to the test with over 1,500 questions on all things festive, from movies to music!Do you know The Holiday from Holidate? Can you name the bestselling Christmas song of all time or which song featured in the last five John Lewis adverts? From iconic Christmas TV specials and festive films to bestselling toys and Christmas tunes, there are 34 quizzes to try your hand at with each split into three levels of difficulty to suit everyone.Fun for the whole family, or perfect to play with friends, So This is Christmas Quiz Book is the ideal gift, stocking filler or secret Santa present. Discover who wishes it could be Christmas every day and who is a real Grinch! Quizzes includeChristmas TVChristmas MoviesChristmas ToysChristmas Number OnesChristmas AdvertsChristmas Around the WorldChristmas Trivia

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  • Think Like a Machine

    Quality Chess UK LLP Think Like a Machine

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    £19.99

  • Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide Pocket Edition (P2)

    Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide Pocket Edition (P2)

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    Whether you are a new Game Master or experienced storyteller, you can always find new ways to hone your craft. This 256-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains a wealth of new information, tools, and rules systems to add to your game. Inside you will find handy advice for building your own adventures, designing towns, and creating vibrant characters alongside rules systems for dramatic chases, thrilling tournaments, and deadly duels. This book also includes more 40 pages of sample nonplayer characters, from the simple town guard to the vile cultist, presented to make your job as GM that much easier! The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide includes: • Rules, advice, and guidelines to build adventures, campaigns, and the denizens and treasures that lurk within, from settlements to nations to infinite planes! • Creative variant rules to customize the rules to make the game your own, including variant bonus, feat, and magic item progressions, characters gaining the power of multiple classes at once, and more! • All sorts of new and variant magic items including intelligent items, cursed items, artifacts, quirks you can add to items, and a brand new type of item called a relic that scales with your character! • A catalog of subsystems to handle unique situations, from thrilling chases to researching mysteries to vehicle combat to elaborate duels to sandbox-style “hexploration” and more! Plus, a universal victory point system to help you design your own subsystems! • More than 60 new NPCs to use in your game, designed for maximum usefulness to all Pathfinder campaigns!

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    £22.99

  • Electrics for the Railway Modeller

    Crecy Publishing Electrics for the Railway Modeller

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    £14.95

  • Cape Cod Puzzle: 500 Pieces

    Schiffer Publishing Ltd Cape Cod Puzzle: 500 Pieces

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    Challenge yourself with a puzzle showing the beach, surf, and blue sky in a summer scene straight off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The perfect rainy day project, this 500-piece puzzle is a wonderful keepsake from a favorite vacation retreat. You'll want to hang when it's done so you can recall summer all year long.

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    £579.37

  • Visual Thinking: Optical Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Power

    Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Visual Thinking: Optical Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Power

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    From the bestselling author of Brain Games for Clever Kids and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book._____________________Put your puzzling prowess to the test with the huge variety of tricky, visual puzzles featured in this book.Challenging your non-verbal reasoning and logical thinking, Dr Gareth Moore presents over 100 visual puzzles that will surprise and delight, boosting your ability to solve problems in different ways and testing your mental agility. Among the puzzles to be found here are:Spot the difference, pairs, matchingMental rotation and cube foldingHanjieSliding piecesShape countingOptical illusions3D ReasoningVisual sequencesCode breakerExtreme mazesJigsawIn short, this engrossing book offers dozens of different creative challenges that will boost your brain power and keep you engaged.

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    £9.99

  • The Italian Renaissance II: The Main Lines

    Quality Chess UK LLP The Italian Renaissance II: The Main Lines

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  • The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch

    Thinkers Publishing The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2: Against the Tarrasch

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    The Tarrasch variation of the French Defense is reached after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2. This is one of the most positional treatments White has available. Using his typical funny and dynamic writing style, David shows that it is possible to play solidly but also remain with the dynamic elements Black has available. He recommends several creative lines, even a bit off the beaten track, but which he has very carefully worked out over the several years of his own practice. Again, Miedema and his love for the French Defense shines through his second volume, the third and final being available at the end of this year.

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  • Pocket Posh Take Care: Inspired Activities for Balance

    Andrews McMeel Publishing Pocket Posh Take Care: Inspired Activities for Balance

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    Take Care by Posh is a series of beautiful pocket-sized books that invite you to practice small moments of self-care through mindful activities, inspirational words, and thought-provoking journal prompts.With over 100 pages of relaxing puzzles—including dot-to-dot, coloring pages, crosswords, spot the difference, and finish the drawing—inspirational words, journal prompts, and interactive activities on calming, restorative themes, these little books provide portable moments of peace. Take Care by Posh: Inspired Activities for Balance asks you to step away, relax, and re-center. Take some time for yourself. Take care.

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    £6.99

  • Still Life 1000 Piece Puzzle

    Hardie Grant Books Still Life 1000 Piece Puzzle

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    Still Life is a vivid 1,000 piece puzzle of a decadent table scene illustrated by Melbourne-based artist Alice Oehr.The finished puzzle is 27 x 19.3 in and will take 3–10 hours to complete.Reduce your screen time and start mindful gaming. Puzzling is meditative, rewarding and satisfying. It is also a great social activity as it''s uncompetitive in nature and you can have as many players as you want.The Piece Full puzzle series is a collection of illustrated puzzles by artists from all over the world. You are compelled to piece the puzzle together as the images are so beautiful – you will want to frame them! A perfect gift as well as self purchase.

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    £12.74

  • Bally® Bingo Pinball Machines

    Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bally® Bingo Pinball Machines

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    The pinball book you have been waiting for is finally here! From those fabulous '50s & '60s, Jeffrey Lawton, Bingo Pinball Historian, presents 290+ photos, including original promotional brochures and advertisements, that showcase a fantastic collection of Bally*r Bingo pinball machines, along with a history of the evolution and excitement that surrounds this compelling hobby. All who grew up with street cars, slot machines, pinball machines, pool halls, and diners will enjoy this book tremendously! If you buy only one pinball book, this is the one to have.

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    £33.29

  • Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern

    McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern

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    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Covers every aspect of ship modeling, from how to scale-down plans and what glues and paints to use, to how to build a ship model in a bottleWritten in an engaging, conversational style, this comprehensive guide leads the reader through every aspect of ship modeling, from how to scale-down plans and what glues and paints to use, to how to build a ship model in a bottle and where to turn for more help.

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    £18.99

  • Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Kew Marianne North View in the Brisbane Botanic Garden 500 pieces

    Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Kew Marianne North View in the Brisbane Botanic Garden 500 pieces

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    Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with this stunning painting by Marianne North. Intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.

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    £11.99

  • Arcane Arts: The Dungeoneer's Guide to Miniature Painting and Tabletop Mayhem

    Andrews McMeel Publishing Arcane Arts: The Dungeoneer's Guide to Miniature Painting and Tabletop Mayhem

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    Learn how to paint exciting miniature creatures and elevate your tabletop experience, with Arcane Arts.Professional miniature painter and instructor Noxweiler Berf has created an immersive guide to painting miniatures for tabletop games. In his engaging and playful style, Berf demystifies the miniature painting process for the beginner and offers new perspectives and encouragement for advancing hobbyists.The guide offers the reader a number of milestone “quests” that will take them from the first steps of selecting a miniature figure, to understanding the visual cues that come from their choice of color and texture, to even developing scenic basing and preparing your miniature for game-play.

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    £18.89

  • Lego Technic Non-electric Models: Simple Machines: Cars and Mechanisms

    No Starch Press,US Lego Technic Non-electric Models: Simple Machines: Cars and Mechanisms

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    Get inspired by the fun, creative projects found in LEGO Technic Non-Electric Models. Each project uses colour-coded pieces and is illustrated with photographs taken from multiple angles, making it easy to see how the models are assembled. The Technic models in Non-Electric Models don't require motors or sensors, making it easy for the novice Technic builder to get started. This visual guide is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa and is designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.

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    £21.59

  • Thats What She Said

    Ulysses Press Thats What She Said

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    Celebrate your love of all things The Office with 200 custom-crafted stickers inspired by your favorite Scranton, PA, workplace.Can’t get enough Michael Scott? Well, That’s What She Said. Now you can show off your die-hard obsession with everything Dunder Mifflin with original artwork inspired by The Office that you can stick all over your memos, sales reports and swivel chairs.  From hardcore street slang like “Fluffy Fingers” and “Dinkin Flicka” to Schrute-inspired mantras like “Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica” and “Perfectanshlage” and unforgettable images like Michael’s World’s Best Boss mug and a coveted “Dundies” trophy, this collection of colorful stickers highlights the very best and funniest moments from The Office. With multiple sizes of each illustration, you’ll never run out of fun stickers to brighten up your belo

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  • Ultimate Book of Card Games: The Comprehensive Guide to More than 350 Games

    Chronicle Books Ultimate Book of Card Games: The Comprehensive Guide to More than 350 Games

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    Classic and comprehensive, this guide to over 350 games is sure to appeal to all ages. From Bridge to Poker and Solitaireto Hearts, card games are a beloved source of entertainment and competition (and they are recession proof!). Thisauthoritative book is ideal for every household, college dorm, family cabin, or neighborhood bar that has a pack of cards. Designed in the style of the popular Ultimate Bar Book , this essential resource provides the rules to dozensof variations of your favorite games, and a few you've probably never heard of (Bezique, anyone?). With simple instructions and clear illustrations to guide the way, this volume will be a welcome addition to any gamer's library.

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    £18.99

  • The Wanderlust World Travel Quiz Book: Thousands of Trivia Questions to Test Globe-Trotters

    Headline Publishing Group The Wanderlust World Travel Quiz Book: Thousands of Trivia Questions to Test Globe-Trotters

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    World-renowned traveller and author Bill Bryson said of Wanderlust that 'there simply isn't a better magazine for the serious traveller'. And now there isn't a better quiz book for the serious traveller, either.The Wanderlust World Travel Quiz Book is both informative and entertaining. With quizzes on countries and cities, landmarks and landscapes, you will feel like you are travelling around the globe as you test your credentials as a world explorer. Real experts can slip it into their backpacks or hand luggage to test their travel companions as they experience the locations for themselves. For those at home – dreaming of future travel destinations – there are 32 pages of picture quizzes with stunning high-quality photographs of worldwide destinations for you to add to your bucket list.

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    £8.99

  • The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess: A Manual for Modern-Day Club Players

    New In Chess The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess: A Manual for Modern-Day Club Players

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    Many 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.

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    £20.66

  • Improve Your Opening Leads

    Orion Publishing Co Improve Your Opening Leads

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    The opening lead is one of the toughest areas of the game. By following the guide-lines in this book not only will you find the winning lead more often, but also you will be able to avoid the futile or dangerous leads which make declarer's task easier. By giving less away with the opening lead, your scores are bound to improve.This book is about the logic and methods for finding the best lead time and time again. The first section deals with the approach you should adopt before you even consider plucking a card from your hand. It provides a series of steps to enable you to come up with the best start. This is followed by a section of practical problems that arose in major competitions where the very best players did not always find the right answer. Most importantly, the solutions to each problem include the logic behind the right choice and the clues that should point you in the right direction. After completing this book, perhaps you will not find the killing lead every time, but you will find it more often.

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    £9.99

  • Improve Your Slam Bidding

    Orion Publishing Co Improve Your Slam Bidding

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    Bidding in the slam area has developed rapidly over the past 20 years and players are bidding slams more often and more accurately. In this book Ron Klinger shows how to judge whether slam is likely or not and reveals the methods to find the critical cards in partner's hand, whether it is to stay out of a poor slam, bid a good small slam or find an excellent grand slam.

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    £12.99

  • When to Bid, When to Pass

    Orion Publishing Co When to Bid, When to Pass

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    From the opening bid to much later rounds of bidding, from uncontested sequences to highly competitive auctions, this book will provide the groundwork so that you will know when silence can be golden. Each chapter covers the principles that indicate when bidding is the right course, and then which call to choose, and when passing is the winning action.

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    £12.99

  • Chess for Educators: How to Organize and Promote a Meaningful Chess Teaching Program

    New In Chess Chess for Educators: How to Organize and Promote a Meaningful Chess Teaching Program

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    Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. In this guide, psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the best didactical methods. Van Delft has created a dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers. What can teachers do to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you support a special needs group? How do you deal with parents? What are the best selling points of a chess program? Boys and girls, does it make a difference? How do chess in schools programs fare in different countries? This is not a book on chess rules and moves, but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.

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    £20.66

  • Winning!: The path to Rugby World Cup glory

    Hodder & Stoughton Winning!: The path to Rugby World Cup glory

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    'There is so much more to the man than single-minded determination.' Sunday Telegraph 'His first day in the job of England coach is superbly described, and thereafter he is forever going the extra yard to make his team great.' Sunday Times__________Winning! tells a remarkable story - an unforgettable journey that began in September 1997 and took the English Rugby Team team from the lower ranks of international first-class rugby to the top as World Cup Champions. Sir Clive Woodward and his team mounted a campaign of vast change, great learning, team building and clear vision to achieve their aim. 'We would question everything, change anything and leave no stone unturned,' he writes. WINNING! will talk about the team's journey of innovation and discovery and will reveal exactly how it happened, the fundamentals of their success and how these principles can be applied to any human endeavour. 'We changed the way we coached, the way we played and, of equal importance, how we operated off the field.' Bringing his business management skills to the game, Woodward simplified the entire approach to the structure of the team and created new management systems both on and off the pitch.In an anecdotal style, Clive Woodward entertains and informs while he describes the thrilling build-up to England's World Cup triumph in 2003.

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    £14.99

  • Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3: A Complete Repertoire for White

    Thinkers Publishing Beat the French Defense with 3.Nc3: A Complete Repertoire for White

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    In this book on the 3.Nc3 French, Harikrishna offers practical ideas from White’s perspective to make your preparation more effective. At times, this means suggesting the 2nd or 3rd choice of the engine. He builds on the material from his earlier French course (Chessable, May 2019) and has expanded it with new analysis in all the lines, especially the 3...Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 variation. Harikrishna analyzes both 5.Nce2 and 5.f4, so that the reader may make an informed choice about their personal preference. The driving force throughout is to keep the book clear-cut and practical. A good example of a practical weapon is the deceptively simple 3…Bb4 4.exd5 line. There are also fresh and interesting suggestions against the sidelines you are likely to encounter, especially at shorter time controls. The entire Thinkers Publishing team joins with the author in wishing you enjoyment and success from this exceptional book

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    £27.99

  • Improve Your Life By Playing A Game: Learn how to turn your life activities into lifelong skills

    Thinkers Publishing Improve Your Life By Playing A Game: Learn how to turn your life activities into lifelong skills

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    This book is partly designed as an autobiographical experience focusing on the processes that arise in the life of a chess player that have be translated into everyday life. In part, the book incorporates psychological theories that generally explain these processes, but overall it can be seen as a guide on how to use any activity to learn skills that will enrich your life. There are several activities in life which can be seen in the same way if we know where and how to exploit the opportunities. The truth is that all aspirations are interconnected when we keep an eye on the thematic links. I believe that this book will give you a new insight into how any ability can be transferred from a particular activity to the universal wisdom of life. It will awaken your networking skills and teach you how to turn life activities into lifelong skills that will improve your well-being. The course of the book follows the typical process of playing chess, starting with training, followed by the tournament situation, the course of the game, the time after the game and the tournament. Since I am not a poet, I have often borrowed some quotations from famous, imaginative and clever people from all over the world. I believe that these valuable thoughts have enriched the book. One thing I ask you to do while reading this book is to open your mind and enjoy the inner journey. So let us go and try to become aware of the processes behind our life activities. Let us find out what and why we do what we do in our daily lives.

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    £25.19

  • Understanding before Moving - Volume 1 - Revised & Extended Second Edition

    Thinkers Publishing Understanding before Moving - Volume 1 - Revised & Extended Second Edition

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    Although my first book in this new series was well received, it turned out that a new updated and revised edition would not be an unnecessary luxury. This was partly due to the fact that it did not seem a bad idea to add more comments to a sub-variant in the Italian Game, the Max Lange Attack, which had received little attention in the first edition, but could be further explored. That has happened in this edition. Furthermore, it turned out from practice that the part in the Ruy Lopez where White can choose to close the center with d4-d5 needed further explanation. This closed position with a pawn chain arisen in the center, as we know that from the King’s Indian Defense, contains some hidden secrets that could be explored a little more. That is why I have compiled several extra pages in which the most important strategic (and also tactical) details of this type of positions are presented. Of course, two model games had to be added for both colors. These have now become the games Sutovsky – Stefanova, Hoogeveen 2015 (for White) and Bruzon Batista – Morozevich, Biel 2006 (for Black), which I have provided with a broad analysis and will be added right behind this strategic overview. Because this book has also become available on the internet platform chessable.com, it seemed a good idea to generate some extra exercises on top. These should of course not be missing in the printed edition. Since in the original version mainly the tactics were dominant, I have now chosen to split the chapter with the exercises into two parts: • Section 1: Tactical exercises • Section 2: Strategic exercises I offer sixteen extra exercises, divided in both sections and adding more than 80 pages to the previous edition. All in all, with this new edition, I hope to have fulfilled the expectations raised in some reviews. I wish the reader a lot of reading and playing fun while working through this book! Herman Grooten, December 2020.

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    £20.69

  • Big Book of Wordsearches Book 2: a bumper word search book for adults containing 300 puzzles

    Richardson Publishing Big Book of Wordsearches Book 2: a bumper word search book for adults containing 300 puzzles

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    A massive 300 word search puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect word search gift book for adults of any age. With a huge mix of fascinating subjects, the 15 x 15 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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    £7.20

  • A Guide to Japanese Sushi  1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

    Tuttle Publishing A Guide to Japanese Sushi 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

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