Chess category: 725 books
Chess Secrets: Great Chess Romantics
Learn from Anderssen, Chigorin, Réti, Larsen and Morozevich
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author studies a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of...
Chess Movies 2
The Means and Ends
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
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 chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself,...
by James Eade
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Your quick and easy guide to chess
Kings, queens, knights—does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? Taking the intimidation out of this age-old pastime, Chess For Dummies, 4th Edition is here to help beginners wrap their minds around the rules of the game, make sense of those puzzling pieces,...
Chess for Success
Using an Old Game to Build New Strengths in Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Maurice Ashley immigrated to New York from Jamaica at the age of twelve, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of urban life. But he found his inspiration for a better life after stumbling upon a chess book and becoming hypnotized by the game’s philosophies; his dedication would eventually...
by Yasser Seirawan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either...
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...
Tactics Training - Viswanathan Anand
How to improve your Chess with Viswanathan Anand and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand (1969) was the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2007-2013. In 2007 Anand won a strong eight-player, double round robin tournament in Mexico City. It is highly unusual to become World Champion by winning a tournament instead of a match, but this had to...
How to Play Chess for Children
A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How to Play Chess for Beginners – for Kids of All Ages!
When you read How to Play Chess for Children, you’ll discover a wonderful world of challenge and adventure! This easy-to-follow guide provides a complete overview of the game of chess. It’s a perfect introduction to the game.
Kids...
by Max Euwe, Walter Meiden
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
These 25 chess games played between master and amateur were chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs improve their games. What better way could the amateur have of learning to exploit the weak play of fellow amateurs than to study how a master would handle such situations? Selected by former...
by Bruce Alberston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Chess Puzzle for Everyone! A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary visualization skills to take your game to the next level When the first volume of Chess Mazes was released, it was an immediate hit with both chess instructors and students. It was a completely new...
Reaching the Top?!
A Practical Guide to Playing Master-Level Chess
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What Does It Take to Play Master-Level Chess? Becoming a master is a goal many chessplayers seek. And for most, it is an unfulfilled dream. Now, for the first time, the topic is squarely addressed. Not by a super grandmaster or high-powered international master, but by a “regular†national...
Move First, Think Later
Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The chess playing mind does not work like a machine. Selecting a move results from rather chaotic thought processes and is not the logical outcome of applying a rational method. The only problem with that, says International Master Willy Hendriks, is that most books and courses on improving at chess...
by Colin Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The chess world has witnessed a great number of wonderfully gifted attacking players, geniuses who have dazzled the chess public with their brilliant masterpieces. Everyone has their own favourites, and in Chess Secrets: Great Attackers, Colin Crouch chooses three of his own: Garry Kasparov, Mikhail...
The Complete Manual of Positional Chess
The Russian Chess School 2.0 - Middlegame Structures and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
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 DYSS,...