Board Games category: 898 books
by Nick Gaspovsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Do you know how to play chess? If not, do you want to learn how but you aren't sure where to start? Or, do you already know a little bit about the game of chess but you want to broaden your knowledge and learn some helpful strategies and tips? If you answered "yes" to any of these...
by Roz Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Take large diagrams, straightforward instruction and helpful tips and quizzesand what do you have? The winning formula for a quick and easy way to play chess today. Perfect for players new to the game, the author explains the basics of chess and each pieces characteristicshow they move, their relative...
by Alexandra Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
This eBook is dedicated to children and beginner players who know the moves of the chess pieces and want to improve their game. It contains tips, exercises and puzzles with solutions.
by Eric Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This great book for beginning players and children covers the most elemental of all mates-the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where the reader must find the move that wins the game instantly. Readers learn how to make the final move with all the pieces-knights, bishops, rooks,...
Learn Chess the Right Way
Book 3: Mastering Defensive Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Polgar Way to Better Chess! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and...
Knack Chess for Everyone
A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Moves & Winning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Chess is a refreshing pastime for most players, and an all-encompassing obsession for a few. And yet much of chess literature—heavy on notation, low on useful illustrations, frustrating for the beginner—is directed at those already in the know. Knack Chess for Everyone provides an alternative: a...
Play American Mah Jongg! Kit Ebook
Everything you Need to Play American Mah Jongg
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Learn and play the fascinating game of Mahjong with this comprehensive kit.
Mahjong or "Mah Jongg" is not called "The Game of a Thousand Intellingences" for nothing. It's relaxing, social, and allows people to focus on something completely unrelated to everyday concerns....
Better Thinking, Better Chess
How a Grandmaster Finds his Moves
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Finding strong moves doesn't simply depend on how much you know about chess. In fact, greater conceptual knowledge makes choosing a move more complex as it increases the number of directions your mind can take. More important is optimizing your thought process.
Grandmaster Joel Benjamin knows...
by James Eade
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Re, regine, cavalieri: gli scacchi non ricordano una battaglia reale da combattere? Scacchi For Dummies è la guida che aiuta il lettore a conoscere le regole del gioco, a dare un senso a quei pezzi misteriosi e a iniziare a giocare come un vero campione. Non importa se sei un giocatore alle prime...
by Eric Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections...
by Alex Raetsky, Maxim Chetverik
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA) is Black's simplest way of dealing with one of White's most fashionable openings, the Queen's Gambit. Black grabs the gambit pawn and thus refuses to succumb to the passive positions so typical of the Queen's Gambit Declined. This direct and uncompromising way of...
Tactics Training - Mikhail Tal
How to improve your Chess with Mikhail Tal and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to get in the shoes of the most famous attacking player of all time. It offers one hundred training exercises in positions the former World Champion turned in his favour. Can you be as imaginative as Mikhail Tal was? Mikhail Tal (1936-1992) was...
Tactics Training Paul Morphy
How to improve your Chess with Paul Morphy and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Paul Morphy (1837-1884) is considered to have been the greatest chess player of his era. The American was a chess prodigy who, according to his uncle Ernest Morphy, learned the rules of the royal game from watching others play. By the time he was 13, he was already one of the best players in America.
After...
Tactics Training – Veselin Topalov
How to improve your Chess with Veselin Topalov and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Veselin Topalov (1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, a former #1 in the world rankings and a former World Champion. He is a very energetic player, always looking for interesting moves, complicated positions and fighting chances. He never gives up and plays for a win with both the white and the...