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Chess - Crowood Sports Guides is the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techn……続きを見る

Many chess books try to teach you how to eventually win, a few if any will tell you how to defend, here you will find suggestions on how to play in (even dead) lost situations. Thirty odd endgames y……続きを見る

So you're a fairly decent chess player. You compete in tournaments, you play on the Internet. But you would love to make that leap to become a chess master. What do you need to know, how much do you……続きを見る

**A board game designer offers an in-depth exploration of board game design and experience! Features insights from 32 leading professionals, including the designers behind Magic: The Gathering, 7 Wo……続きを見る

CHESS OPENINGS The first moves of a chess game are termed the opening or opening moves. A good chess opening will provide protection of the king, adequate control over an area of the board (particul……続きを見る

Miniatures in the Ruy Lopez Main Line Another Great Book in the "Miniatures in the..." Series! The lines covered in this book, the Ruy Lopez Main Lines, arise (with a few exceptions for move ord……続きを見る

Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we de……続きを見る

Miniatures in the Queen’s Indian: 4.g3 The subject of this book is the Fianchetto Variation of the Queen’s Indian Defense, which arises after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3. Its purpose is to e……続きを見る

Questo secondo volume di Patterns integra quelli fondamentali presentati nel primo volume, con schemi più sofisticati e difficili da identificare. Presenta una decina di patterns, spiegati dettaglia……続きを見る

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an……続きを見る

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a hou……続きを見る

Lights! Action! Chess! Chess Movies represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard……続きを見る

Learn the mating principles and combinations needed to finish off opponents. From the 4 basic mates using the king and queen, rook, two bishops, and bishop/knight combinations, to king/pawn, king/kn……続きを見る

Good to see that you have an interest in English proverbs. They appear in all areas of life, offering sage advice to help us get on with people and stay healthy, wealthy and wise. In this little col……続きを見る

This collection of brilliant ideas from real tournaments is not just regular combinations or tactical swindles, but moves of stunning originality. Schiller has selected one hundred awesome moves, an……続きを見る

Both a fascinating challenge and a great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve, but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools t……続きを見る

It will be as I'm taking you on a chess tour through history. It will be as if you are by my side as we enter into people's homes along the way. Some will be ordinary folks, some will hold high posi……続きを見る

A beginner-friendly study of chess openings and how you can use your first moves to your advantage Are you feeling frustrated that you’re losing your chess game in the first few moves? Do you want t……続きを見る

Alekhine's Controversial Masterpiece Finally in English! For decades, Alexander Alekhine's account of New York 1927 was at the top of the list of works that should have been rendered into English b……続きを見る

Go is an ancient Chinese strategy game invented over 4,000 years ago and played by millions of people worldwide. It's a two player board game with a few simple rules. You can be up and playing with ……続きを見る

You may be surprised at how much demand there is for chess coaches in the scholastic systems of the world, and this demand grows constantly. This book, ‘The Chess Coach,’ can ease the way into this ……続きを見る

This right-to-the-point book by one of the game's foremost teacher-writing teams uses a breakthrough approach to teach chess fast! Studies tout the many benefits of chess for all ages. Want to learn……続きを見る

The name of José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942), the third world champion, is indelibly inscribed in the annals of chess history. Capablanca s technique, intuition, remarkably quick calculation, and ……続きを見る

The Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting and popular openings in all chessone that all chess players need to be familiar withfeaturing games with brilliant combinations and exciting attacks. ……続きを見る

Classic chess guide, first published in 1915. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Lasker (December 3, 1885 March 25, 1981) was a leading German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of ……続きを見る

Targeted for beginning and novice players, this step-by-step approach uses more than a hundred actual chess diagrams to bring out the excitement of chess and show you an easy method of learning and ……続きを見る

Originally published in London in the 1920s as a revised and enlarged edition based on Hoyle's early works of the 1700s. The book is an illustrated compendium of over eighty games and their varietie……続きを見る

Mike Cappelletti, who has impressive credentials both as a bridge expert and as a poker authority, believes that the enlightened solution-or "preferred view"- to many difficult bridge bidding proble……続きを見る

Negli scacchi, come in tante altre discipline, sono importanti sia la conoscenza che l'abilità, entrambe, sono complementari, una sola non basta. Questo manualetto non è dedicato a migliorare la vos……続きを見る

Letterati spans the history of competitive Scrabble® in North America from the colourful hustlers of the 1960s New York game rooms, to the hard driving quantitative tile pushers who dominate the gam……続きを見る