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by Vladimir Vukovic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add power and brilliance to any chess enthusiast's play.
Quick Kills
Practice Crushing Your Opponent Out Of The Opening - Gruenfeld Defense
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
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, clearance, bank-rank mates, and so on – is to learn them in the context of your openings. Your knowledge...
Mah Jong Handbook
How to Play, Score, and Win
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Master the game of Mahjong with this must-have game strategy guide for Mahjong beginners and enthusiasts.
Originally played with cards, and then piece carved from ivory or bamboo, the Chinese game of Mahjong or "Mah Jongg" is well over a thousand years old. Said to have originated...
by Richard Reti
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Réti's "Other†Classic Ask most chessplayers about the works by Richard Réti, and most will quickly reply Modern Ideas in Chess. His Masters of the Chessboard will be a distant second and that is unfortunate, because in many ways Masters is more comprehensive and instructive than...
Amateur to IM
Proven Ideas and Training Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title? The secret was knowing what to study and how to learn as efficiently as possible. Focusing his attention firmly on the endgame, Jonathan devised a number of building...
A King in Hiding
How a child refugee became a world chess champion
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 **
Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight year-old chess prodigy Fahim arrived in Paris with his father. Refused asylum, as illegal immigrants they spiralled downwards into homelessness and desperation.
By a stroke...
by Cyrus Lakdawala
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This is a brand new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, Move by Move greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening...
The Liberated Bishop Defence
A Surprising and Complete Black Repertoire against 1.d4
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In many 1.d4 openings, Black has trouble getting his bishop on c8 into play. Former Russian Chess Champion Alexey Bezgodov presents a radical solution to this nagging problem; liberate your bishop right away and put it on f5 on the second move!Play 2...Bf5! against either 2.c4 or 2.Nf3 will surprise...
The Complete Manual of Positional Chess
The Russian Chess School 2.0 – Opening and Middlegame
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world.
The Complete Manual of Positional Chess, probably the most thorough grounding in the history of teaching chess, was recently created for chess teachers at the...
by Honfi György
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This book is a sequel to "Kingdom". In the first volume, I have presented a chess problem series which contained a two-move and a three-move chess problem for all the 64 squares. 2X64=128 problems!
In this second volume, you can find two miniature helpmate problems for every square, a...
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
The information in this ebook on adult toys like golf is organized into 20 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
I hope that it will interest those who are looking for a hobby or who want to know more about one...
The Art of the Tarrasch Defence
Strategies, Techniques and Surprising Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The Tarrasch Defence is one of the most ambitious ways to play against 1.d4. Black immediately fights for the centre, gets a lot of space and develops his pieces without many problems. Great fighters like Boris Spassky, Paul Keres and Garry Kasparov have played the Tarrasch Defence.
Former...
by Andrea Angiolino
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Alcuni giochi ci accompagnano da millenni e sono ancora in voga come cinquemila anni fa, altri sono opera di autori geniali che hanno fatto divertire milioni di persone, anche se nessuno o quasi ne conosce il nome. Sulle tracce degli scacchi e del mercante in fiera, del Monopoly e del cruciverba,...
by Millard Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Improve your game or learn checkers from Millard Hopper, the Unrestricted Checker Champion of the World. Here is a book that will appeal to all your questions — often even before you ask them — and impart many of the championship secrets of a perennially popular recreation.The book actually presents,...