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Chess Evolution (Chess Evolution) by Arkadij Naiditsch Publisher Comments A new series about chess openings with a bold concept - a multinational team of grandmasters select the most important recent games and use their world-class skill and powerful computers to analyze them. The books will be released every two months, so... (read more) Your price: $44.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chess Developments: The Modern Benoni by Richard Palliser About the Author Richard Palliser is an International Master and a former British Rapidplay Champion. He has firmly established a reputation as a highly respected chess writer, with many outstanding works to his name. ... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Understanding Chess Middlegames by John Nunn Synopsis The three-times World Chess Solving Champion distils the most useful middlegame concepts and knowledge into 100 lessons that everyone can understand. Following on from his successful Understanding Chess Endgames, John Nunn turns his attention to the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Advanced Chess Tactics by Lev Psakhis Publisher Comments In Advanced Chess Tactics famous grandmaster Lev Psakhis explains how to use tactics to build an attack. The two-time former Soviet champion has written a profound yet accessible work. Psakhis helps the reader understand a complex subject by splitting it... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: 50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection by Raymond M. Smullyan Publisher Comments Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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1...D6: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala About the Author Cyrus Lakdawala is an International Master, a former National Open and American Open Champion, and a six-time State Champion. He has been teaching chess for over 30 years, and coaches some of the top junior players in the US.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Popular Chess Variants (Batsford Chess Books) by David Pritchard Synopsis This guide covers new and exciting games that can be played on a standard chessboard, as well as variants from the Far East such as Xiangqi and Shogi. The games are rapidly becoming popular, through recent major tournaments held in Germany, Georgia and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine Publisher Comments Not a list of moves, but simple and logical explanations of opening systems.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan Publisher Comments An introduction to the moves, strategies, and philosophy of chess with clear explanations of the games fundamentals, instructive examples, question-and-answer sections, sample games, and psychological hints.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady Publisher Comments Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Learn Chess by John Nunn Publisher Comments John Nunn, grandmaster and award-winning author, explains how to play and win at chess.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Positional Chess Handbook: 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games (Chess) by Israel Gelfer Publisher Comments The outcome of most matches depends on positional skills; the first player to establish a positional advantage gains the best chance of a successful direct attack. This complete guide, written by a grandmaster, can assist all players at every level in... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler Publisher Comments This book explains that the best way to beat a stronger opponent (whether a friend, a clubmate, or even Dad) is in the opening stages of the game and shows the 50 most effective opening traps that chess masters use to win games.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and Win (McKay Chess Library) by Andrew Soltis Publisher Comments How to use tactics to achieve strategic goals, with many striking examples.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Chess by Colleen Schafroth Synopsis This is the story of chess, illustrated with pictures of historic chess pieces from an international array of sources. Besides the chess pieces themselves, there are objects, manuscripts and paintings depicting chess games in action.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games by M M Botvinnik Publisher Comments 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 Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, Smyslov, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chess for Everyone: A Step-By-Step Guide to Rules, Moves, & Winning Strategies (Knack: Make It Easy) by Al Lawrence Publisher Comments Chess is a refreshing pastime for most players, and an all-encompassing obsession for a few. And yet much of chess literatureheavy on notation, low on useful illustrations, frustrating for the beginneris directed at those already in the know.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Play the Caro-Kann: A Complete Chess Opening Repertoire Against 1e4 (Everyman Chess) by Jovanka Houska Publisher Comments The Caro-Kann is a reliable yet at the same time dynamic answer to Whites most popular opening move, 1 e4. It has the seal of approval of numerous leading Grandmasters including Vishy Anand, Evgeny Bareev and Alexey Dreev, as well as former World... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Rubinstein Attack: A Chess Opening Strategy for White by Eric Schiller Publisher Comments The book discusses in detail the chess opening known as the Rubinstein Attack, and presents analysis and typical games in all the main branches of the opening. This opening system for White can provide the basis for a solid opening strategy that... (read more) Your price: $12.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Simple Chess by Michael Stean Publisher Comments Written by a young Grand Master, this introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at players for whom a game plan is utterly enigmatic. By isolating the basic elements and illustrating them through a selection of Master and Grand Master games... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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