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Grandmaster Repertoire 4: The English Opening Volume Two [Paperback]
by Mihail Marin (Author)
Publication Date: June 30, 2010 (400 pages)
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Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club championship. Grandmaster Repertoire provides a repertoire to last a lifetime. Mihail Marin s reputation as a chess author is unsurpassed. In this book he reveals his own white repertoire with 1.c4, the English Opening. Volume One unveiled the first half of the repertoire, covering 1.c4 e5. Now in Volume Two Marin completes his repertoire by covering all Black s other replies to 1.c4. The theory is state-of-the-art with many novelties suggested, but most useful of all are Marin s lucid explanations of how to play the resulting positions.
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Chess Results, 1956-1960
by Gino Di Felice (Author)
Publication Date: (June 30, 2010)
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This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world - individual and team matches, 1957 through 1960. Entries record location and, when available, the group that sponsored the event. First and last names of players are included whenever possible and are standardized for easy reference. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, this work contains 1,020 tournament crosstables and 120 match scores. It is indexed by events and by players.
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Chess Results, 1951-1955
by Gino Di Felice (Author)
Publication Date: (June 30, 2010)
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This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world - individual and team matches, from 1951 through 1953. Entries record location and, when available, the group that sponsored the event. First and last names of players are included whenever possible and are standardized for easy reference. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, this work contains 945 tournament crosstables and 80 match scores. It is indexed by events and by players.
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Nunn's Chess Endings volume 1 (Paperback)
by John Nunn (Author)
Publication Date: June 22, 2010 (320 pages)
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In this major two-volume work, renowned endgame theoretician John Nunn teaches the skills that are most important to success in practical endgames.
Going beyond standard texts, Dr Nunn shows how to apply knowledge of standard endgames to find the right methods in tricky real-life practical situations - even when they differ greatly from the idealized forms given by traditional endgame manuals.
... Nunn shows that lack of familiarity with key ideas can cause important ideas and themes to be missed even by very strong players. We discover that a staggering amount of previously published endgame analysis is simply wrong, and that many of the standard guidelines are at best partially true.
This first volume covers general topics and discusses in detail pawn endings, queen endings and minor-piece endings.
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Play the Najdorf Sicilian (Paperback)
by James Rizzitano (Author)
Publication Date: June 22, 2010 (128 pages)
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The Najdorf Sicilian has a unique place amongst chess openings: for several decades it has been regarded by the top grandmasters as the best way for Black to play soundly for a win against 1 e4. It was a particular favourite of World Champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, and plays a vital role in the repertoires of current top players such as Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov.
Black's stance is totally uncompromising. He accepts no organic weaknesses and stays flexible, ready to counterpunch in any part of the board. White has no safe or easy option. On the other hand, he does have a vast array of extremely dangerous attacking options, such as the old 6 Bg5 main line, which can lead to the Poisoned Pawn, a variation that has undergone much development in the 21st century. The current main line is 6 Be3, intending the English Attack. But given the Najdorf's importance, White has tried almost everything imaginable in the search for an advantage, with considerable bodies of theory evolving for lines that contain merely a drop of poison.
In the ever-changing Najdorf landscape, it is easy to lose sight of the strategic backbone that underpins the Najdorf. In this book, James Rizzitano, a battle-hardened Sicilian warrior, distils the most important ideas and themes from current practice to provide an ideal guide for those looking to succeed as White or Black in the Najdorf in the modern scientific era.
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Masters of Technique: Mongoose Press Anthology of Chess Fiction (Hardcover)
by Howard Goldowsky (Editor)
Publication Date: June 16, 2010 (256 pages)
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Chess has flourished in its modern form for hundreds of years. During this time, tens of thousands of books have been written about the game, but very few have been works of fiction. Now, for the first time ever, an anthology of contemporary chess fiction will appear. Mongoose Press has collected twelve outstanding short stories about the royal game, each story selected for its literary merit, its originality, and the way it captures the psychological impact of chess.
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Botvinnik - Petrosian: 1963 World Chess Championship Match (Paperback)
Mikhail Botvinnik (Author)
Publication Date: June 16, 2010 (144 pages)
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World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik writes the story of the 1963 match in which he lost his title to fellow Russian Tigran Petrosian. Botvinnik, one of the greatest chess players of all time, analyses the games, reveals his match strategy and comments on the strategic choices of his opponent. Botvinnik?s revealing essay: ?Why In lost the match? is counterbalanced by Petrosian?s analysis of his win, which is also included in this important historical document. A fascinating and highly instructive report.
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Karpov's Strategic Wins 2: The Prime Years: 1986-2009 (Paperback)
by Tibor Karolyi (Author)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010 (360 pages)
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Anatoly Karpov is one of the greatest ever Chess World Champions with his greatest strength being the subtle maneuvering of his positional play. Many of his opponents were baffled by the profundity of his strategies, but in this book award-winning author Tibor Karolyi explains Karpov's genius. Karolyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1986-2009 when Karpov was battling with his young rival Garry Kasparov for chess supremacy. It was during this period, at Linares 1994, that Karpov achieved what statistics show to be the finest ever tournament performance.
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Karpov's Strategic Wins 1: The Making of a Champion: 1961-1985 (Paperback)
by Tibor Karolyi (Author)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010 (360 pages)
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Anatoly Karpov is one of the greatest ever Chess World Champions with his greatest strength being the subtle maneuvering of his positional play. Many of his opponents were baffled by the profundity of his strategies, but in this book award-winning author Tibor Karolyi explains Karpov's genius. Karolyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1961-1985 when Karpov was proving he was a worthy successor to the title vacated by Bobby Fischer's retirement.
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Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player (3rd Edition, Revised) (Paperback)
by Lev Alburt (Author), Sam Palatnik (Author)
Publication Date: May 25, 2010 (256 pages)
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A series of chess lessons which take the mystery out of long-term planning in chess. Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player is the fifth volume in Grandmaster Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course series. Endorsed by world champion Garry Kasparov as revealing "the once-secret Russian method of chess training," this uses only materials and techniques that worked well in the former USSR. It contains hundreds of strikingly beautiful positions arranged by difficulty and designed to sharpen tactical recognition and vision. Nothing is left to chance in this work. All materials have already shown their worth in Russian chess instruction. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Mastering the Chess Openings volume 4 (Paperback)
by John Watson (Author)
Publication Date: May 25, 2010 (336 pages)
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In this highly-acclaimed series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.
This final volume draws together many themes in a wide-ranging discussion of general opening topics. By looking at familiar situations from new angles, Watson helps us greatly increase our understanding of them. In the process, he covers a wide variety of opening structures and variations not seen in the earlier volumes and presents a great wealth of original analysis.
... In the final two chapters, Watson presents his views on the importance of opening study and explains how players should best prepare and choose their openings for the level at which they play. He looks at the future of chess openings and explains which skills will be most important as chess evolves in the forthcoming decades.
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Bobby Fischer for Beginners: Most Famous Chess Player Explained (Paperback)
by Renzo Verwer (Author)
Publication Date: May 16, 2010 (128 pages)
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Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume. His youth in Brooklyn, his astonishing career, his many conflicts, his girlfriends and his tragic death in exile in Iceland in 2008: it is all there. You don?t need to be an accomplished chess player to be thrilled by the triumph and the tragedy of this lone genius.
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Open Files (Progress in Chess) (Hardcover)
Wolfgang Uhlmann (Author), Gerhard Schmidt (Author)
Publication Date: October May 1, 2010 (164 pages)
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The strategy and tactics associated with the open file are explained here clearly and comprehensivelyhow files are opened, blocked, occupied, and exploited as roads along which to invade the enemy position. A brief introduction lays the theoretical foundations and is followed by illustrative games, in all of which the open file is the dominant or deciding factor. In each game there is a pause at a key position where a clear verbal assessment is given; these assessments teach the reader how strong chess players thinkwhat to look for, how to assess, and how to plan. The book benefits not only from Gerhard Schmidts experience as a trainer but also from the huge knowledge and skill gained by Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann during his long and successful career in top-class chess.
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A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire - new enlarged edition (Paperback)
by Aaron Summerscale (Author), Sverre Johnsen (Author)
Publication Date: April 27, 2010 (192 pages)
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Bored with the same old openings? Worried about having to learn too much theory? Then this book will come as a godsend. Aaron Summerscale presents a set of exceptionally dangerous opening weapons for White. Each recommended line is based on a solid positional foundation, yet also promises long-term (and short-term!) attacking chances. The variations are not just easy to learn and play, but they also set Black complex problems.
... For this new edition, the publishers enlisted the help of hotshot opening writer Sverre Johnsen, who has updated the coverage where necessary, while retaining the spirit, charm and aims of Summerscale's original work. The killer repertoire remains easy to learn, and is now more dangerous than ever!
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Understanding the Marshall Attack (Paperback)
by David Vigorito (Author)
Publication Date: April 27, 2010 (176 pages)
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The Marshall Attack is a chess opening like no other. Rather than subjecting himself to the 'Spanish torture' so typical in the Ruy Lopez, Black simply gives away a centre pawn. But in return, he gets long-term attacking chances and activity that can persist well into the endgame.
It is almost a century since Frank Marshall invented his sensational gambit, but it is still controversial, and more popular than ever amongst the best players in the world. In their hands, the Marshall Attack looks remarkably solid - even if White neutralizes Black's attacking chances and remains a pawn up, Black often achieves full positional compensation.
However, the Marshall appears a forbidding opening to ordinary club players, who feel that the theory is too difficult to understand and much too complex to memorize. Many simply avoid it with both colours. That, argues David Vigorito, is a shame. He shows that many typical Marshall positions can be broken down into elements that we can all grasp, and so build up an intuition to guide us. Then we are able to tackle this incredible opening and develop a feel for why pieces go to the squares that they do, and when Black has sufficient compensation, and when he does not.
Of course, the Marshall remains a highly sharp and concrete opening, even to those who are versed in its unique brand of black magic. Vigorito provides detailed, cutting-edge theoretical coverage of all its main lines and the most important Anti-Marshall systems.
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Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1.e4 (2nd Edition, Revised and Updated) (Paperback)
by Lev Alburt (Author), Roman Dzindzichashvili (Author), Eugene Perelshteyn (Author)
Publication Date: April 20, 2010 (548 pages)
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Three-time US Champion Champion Lev Alburt, famous for his ability to turn aspiring players into masters, teams up with two-time U.S. Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili and young international star Eugene Perelshteyn to give you a complete repertoire of opening play-as well as a review of all openings and an explanation of the principles of playing this crucial stage of the game. And although these books concentrate on the first 20 moves or so of a chess game, they never leave you hanging without a plan. The authors make sure you know the themes and ideas so that you can follow up your great opening play with winning strategies.
Chess Openings for White, Explained covers the game from the white side. You'll learn how to play and follow up the first move Bobby Fischer called "best by test." Fully illustrated with two-color chess diagrams throughout. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1. e4: Dealing with the Scandinavian, Pirc, Modern, Alekhine and Other Tricky Lines (Paperback)
by Andrew Greet (Author)
Publication Date: February 26, 2010 (192 pages)
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Anyone who plays 1 e4 as White must be prepared not only for Black's main defenses but also an assortment of less popular lines which, when added all together, still represent a significant proportion of what you are likely to face. Dealing with these openings is often a daunting task, especially against opponents who tend to specialize in them and thus know them inside out. This book provides the perfect solution. International Master and renowned opening expert Andrew Greet gets to grips with each of these tricky openings. He identifies how to both exploit their weaknesses and avoid their strengths, and provides White with a practical and dependable repertoire. Read this book and you will never have to worry about facing the unknown again. It has everything a 1 e4 player needs to know about facing unusual defenses. It is full of original ideas and analysis. It is ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players.
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Secrets of Opening Surprises, Vol. 11 (Paperback)
by Jeroen Bosch (Author)
Publication Date: February 25, 2010 (144 pages)
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SOS allows amateurs to play the opening like a pro without spending nearly all their free time studying stuffy theory. Readers of this series can ignore large areas of the ever expanding chess opening theory, because they can concentrate on these very early deviations (usually before move six!) from the regular lines in main stream openings. Ideal for club players with a basic knowledge of openings, who have not enough time to keep up with the latest fashions. A refreshing change, is what GM Nigel Short wrote about SOS in The Daily Telegraph.
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Ruy Lopez Revisited (Paperback)
Ivan Sokolov (Author)
Publication Date: February 16, 2010 (240 pages)
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The Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Opening) is one of the oldest and most important chess openings, popular with amateurs as well as professional players. Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov presents bold, but very playable, off-beat weapons for Black, as well as dynamic new ideas and refutations in many main-line variations, for both Black and White. An accessible and inspirational book book by world-famous Ivan Sokolov who, in his rich career, has beaten world champions Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand. Much useful material for aspiring club players, said British Chess Magazine about Sokolov's previous book - 'Winning Chess Middlegames'.
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Alekhine Alert!: A Repertoire for Black Against 1. e4
by Timothy Taylor
Publication Date: January 31, 2010 (192 pages)
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Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor takes a contemporary look at one of Black's most ambitious counters to 1 e4, the Alekhine Defence. This is a sharp opening in which Black attacks from the very beginning, luring White's central pawns forward in the expectation of destroying them later on. The Alekhine is a favorite among creative players such as Nigel Short, Vassily Ivanchuk and Hikaru Nakamura. By studying the most important games and also drawing upon his own experience in the opening, Taylor constructs a practical repertoire for Black, ideal for the modern-day player. All the key tactical and positional ideas for both players are covered, and crucial move-order nuances are highlighted. This book provides everything you need to know to play the Alekhine with confidence. It presents a dynamic repertoire for Black. It provides answers to all of White's possibilities. It is ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players.
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Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch (Paperback)
by Richard Palliser, Simon Williams, James Vigus
Publication Date: January 31, 2010 (192 pages)
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Are you tired of playing the same old openings again and again? Perhaps it's time for a change and here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas! In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the Dutch Defense, one of Black's most ambitious answers to 1 d4. In doing so they take the road less traveled and concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations - selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover! "Dangerous Weapons" is a series of opening books which supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking, incredibly tricky, or have been unfairly discarded. However, the one thing they have in common is that they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponents off balance. This book presents the Dutch defense in a completely new light. It is packed with original ideas and analysis. It is ideal lines to shock your opponents.
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How to Play Against 1 D4 (Paperback)
by Richard Palliser
Publication Date: January 29, 2010 (192 pages)
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Finding a suitable defence to 1 d4 is never an easy task, especially if you don't have endless time available to study the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable openings, it's often a necessity to keep pace with modern theory if you want to succeed with Black. Those unwilling to become slaves to opening theory need not fear - this book provides a solution. Richard Palliser advocates the Czech Benoni, a simple, low-maintenance but effective opening in which the understanding of ideas and tactics far outweighs the necessity to memorize moves. The lines he selects are very easy to learn and play. Read this book and you will be ready to meet 1 d4 with confidence. This book offers a complete repertoire against 1 d4. It covers key positional and tactical ideas for both sides. It is ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players.
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Elements of Positional Evaluation: How the Pieces Get Their Power (Paperback)
by Dan Heisman (Author)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (188 pages)
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Which side stands better? How much better? Why? Most chess players rely on loosely knit, unstructured methods to evaluate chess pieces and positions. They learn positional principles which often lead to inaccurate evaluations and faulty decisions about how to proceed. This groundbreaking book by best-selling chess author Dan Heisman addresses the evaluation and understanding of how static features affect the value of the pieces in a given position. Emphasis is placed on the static evaluation of each piece s value and its role in the overall position rather than the assessment of a specific position, but Heisman s approach can also be applied to help evaluate entire positions by helping to answer the questions who stands better, by how much, and why?
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Take Control of the Opening: A Repertoire Based on the Center Game (Paperback)
by Jerzy Konikowski (Author), Marek Soszynski (Author)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (256 pages)
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A complete opening repertoire is presented for White, with something unique offered against any response by Black. The repertoire has at its core the Center Game, a potent, but rather underestimated opening. The Center Game was a favorite of old-time players like Mikhail Chigorin and Jacques Mieses; then in the 1990s it was revived by Alexander Shabalov, Judit Polgar and others. They appreciated that the aggressive 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd5 takes control of the opening by sidestepping all of Black's familiar defenses to the expected 2.Nf3. Not only does this book provide the first comprehensive coverage of the Center Game, but it also goes on to provide a complete White repertoire. Black's responses to 1.e4 are met with a mix of forceful ideas, old and new, all of them like the Center Game aiming to take control of the game from the very start. White's play will never be the same again!
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Studies for Practical Players: Improving Calculation and Resourcefulness in the Endgame (Paperback)
by Mark Dvoretsky (Author), Oleg Pervakov (Author)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (200 pages)
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Nowadays, chessplayers spend almost all their free time preparing openings, and rarely spend the time necessary to perfect the vitally important technique of calculating. Regular training in solving and playing out endgames studies is a good recipe for eliminating that shortcoming. This training is directed at developing resourcefulness, fantasy (in chess, these qualities are called combinative acuity ), and the readiness to sacrifice material, in pursuit of the goal winning! How do we develop good habits of winning endgame play? There are lots of manuals; but this may be the first in which a famous practical player, a trainer with a world-renowned name, and a study composer who has earned the title of International Grandmaster of Composition, share their views in one and the same book.
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The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein: The Later Years (Paperback)
by John Donaldson (Author), Nikolay Minev (Author)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (400 pages)
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Akiva Rubinstein occupies a unique position in chess history. One of the greatest artists ever to sit down at a chessboard, Rubinstein was also the strongest player never to get a shot at the title of World Champion. The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 2: The Later Years (2nd ed.) chronicles the second half (1921-1961) of the Polish grandmaster's life. Dozens of archival photos and crosstables finish off this splendid work, completing the journey begun with the second edition of The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned King.
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Chesscafe Puzzle Book: Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill! (Chesscafe Puzzle Books) (Paperback)
by Karsten Mueller (Author), Merijn Van Delft (Author)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (384 pages)
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Defend to the End! One of the most important skills a chessplayer needs is the ability to defend a position that is under siege. In this third volume in the highly acclaimed, best-selling ChessCafe Puzzle Book series, International Grandmaster Karsten Müller along with International Master Merij van Delft examine and expound upon the vital defensive concepts and techniques used to repulse enemy attacks. Major topics include (1) Principles and methods of defending; (2) Defending against a direct attack on the king; (3) Countering the initiative; (4) Saving the draw; (5) Passive versus active defense; and (6) Use and development of counterplay. Many of the world s greatest players Steinitz, Lasker, Petrosian were famous for their legendary defensive skills. Now International Grandmaster Karsten Müller along with International Master Merijn van Delft will show you how you can Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill.
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The Mammoth Book of Chess (Paperback)
by Graham Burgess, Dr. John Nunn
Publication Date: January 5, 2010 (560 pages)
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For rookie chess players or advanced players who simply want to hone their skills, this new edition of the chess classic has been fully revised and updated. With this guide, which includes courses in tactics and attacking strategy, a selection of the greatest games ever played, helpful advice on club and tournament chess, and a useful glossary of chess terms, victory will be yours. Checkmate!
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Modern Ideas in Chess (Paperback)
by Richard Reti (Author)
Publication Date: January 2, 2010 (400 pages)
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Richard Reti was a formidable over the board grandmaster as shown by his victories at the splendid tournaments of Kaschau 1918, Gothenburg 1920 and Teplitz Schonau 1922. His victims included Capablanca, Alekhine and Nimzowitsch, while his elegant destruction of Bogolyubov deservedly won the beauty prize at New York 1924.
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