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Do you wish to surprise your opponent on the first moveDo you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the game? Look no further than 1 b4! With this aggressive pawn lunge White takes the game……続きを見る

This new series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages ……続きを見る

Ever faced a crowd of fifteen 5-year olds and quaked? Well, here is your chance to bring order and calm to the party proceedings. Just consult your Gem and you can prepare for those half forgotten g……続きを見る

The Classical Sicilian is one of Black's most popular and highly regarded opening choices against 1 e4, and it's been a favourite of such greats as Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and Vishy Anand. W……続きを見る

"And the rest is a matter of technique" is an annoyingly common phrase used in chess literature. The implication from the author is that the task of converting a typically winning position……続きを見る

Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts fr……続きを見る

Scrabble® is one of the greatest word games! Now you can improve your play with this essential guide.  Scrabble® experts agree that in order to win you have to master the all the essen……続きを見る

Learn chess from a World Champion! These 100 games were selected and annotated by Botvinnik himself as the best games he played before becoming World Champion in 1948. Includes contests against Alek……続きを見る

Analytics The Method of Logical Analysis You are invited to take an instructive journey with one of the most successful chess coaches of our era, Greek grandmaster Efstratios Grivas. Over 40 critica……続きを見る

Great for beginners who want to get better and intermediate players who love challenges, readers learn the most fundamental and tricky chess opening trapsand the correct way to play mistake-free ope……続きを見る

This book will teach you to play chess in two hours. Studied more carefully it can make you an average player. Both the authors have world-wide reputations as a chess player, writers and teachers. M……続きを見る

Fascinating, intriguing, and controversial, the dean of American chess tells the never-before-told machinations and stories of world championship chess and what really goes on behind the scenes of t……続きを見る

Sapreste, senza vedere la scacchiera, vedere il percorso di un Cavallo in b2 per dare scacco a un Re in d4, senza passare per la case dove potrebbe essere catturato? Siete in grado di ripetere la pa……続きを見る

This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and Internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you'll learn everything you need to know about tournam……続きを見る

Do you instinctively know what to do in every type of chess position or are you often uncertain about how to proceed? Wouldnt it be really useful to know the best chess strategies and to recognise w……続きを見る

The Pandolfini Chess Library 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 ches……続きを見る

Emanuel Lasker was probably the greatest chess player of modern times. Certainly no man has ever held the world championship longer ー 28 years ー or kept his powers so long. In his sixties, Lasker ……続きを見る

One of a half-dozen great theoretical works in chess, shows principles of action above and beyond moves. Acclaimed by Capablanca, Keres, and other greats. 続きを見る

Chess Developments provides state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the current trends concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It of……続きを見る

If you play chess for blood, it makes sense to learn the violent tactics that feature in the openings that you play. More practical than taking in tactical themes by general category – knight forks,……続きを見る

Improve Your Chess will help you to improve your technique and master your game. This lively new edition is written by William Hartston, an experienced chess player and daily columnist for the Indep……続きを見る

This book has two purposes. First, the authors would like to honor their great friend and mentor by memorializing his works and teachings. Second, we believe that Platonov’s principles, methods, and……続きを見る

Stalingrad, the 1963 game from Avalon Hill, is the most intensely analyzed board wargame in the history of the wargaming hobby. Stalingrad for Beginners - How to Play - presents fundamentals at a le……続きを見る

What separates the best chess players from the rest? What gives them the edge over their rivals? Chess legend Vladimir Kramnik believes its their fighting skills and the ability to continuously find……続きを見る

The King's Indian has always been one of the sharpest, most complex and popular openings that Black can play; it still provides the setting for many encounters at the elite level of Grandmaster ches……続きを見る

The King's Indian remains a hugely popular opening at all levels of chess - unsurprising given the attacking opportunities it offers. In many of the ultra-sharp main lines, both sides can fight for ……続きを見る

A friend of mine once told me that the English language is being taken over by T.L.A.s I confess I had to ask her what T.L.A.s were. “Three Letter Abbreviations!”. I should have guessed. In a way, s……続きを見る

Historic London 1922! José Raúl Capablanca was the superstar of chess in 1922 and London was his first serious chess in the 15 months since he had won the championship title from Emanuel Lasker.……続きを見る

Grandmaster Simon Williams presents an ambitious opening repertoire for Black in the ever-popular French Defence. One of the worlds most creative players combines his attacking talent with the tradi……続きを見る

Few would disagree that the Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting, high profile and controversial openings in chess history. Right from the very beginning of the game Black chooses to unbalanc……続きを見る