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Play 1b4 !
ISBN: 9781857445602 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you wish to surprise your opponent on the first move? Do you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the game? Look no further than 1 b4 With this aggressive pawn lunge White takes the game into relatively unknown territory and forces Black players onto their own devices.In this landmark book, Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello take an in-depth look at 1 b4. The authors provide a practical and fun-to-play repertoire for White, offering options against all of Black s main possibilities. Read this book and confound your opponents with 1 b4 "
Do you wish to surprise your opponent on the first move? Do you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the game? Look no further than 1 b4 Wi...
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The Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas
ISBN: 9781857445619 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the greatest opening ideas in chess history? This is a fascinating question that would undoubtedly spark endless debate and discussion amongst all the experts and enthusiasts of the game. From the invention and development of openings which are now considered to be mainline, to the wealth of stunning one-move novelties which have convincingly overturned previous expert assessments, there is certainly a plethora of brilliant ideas to choose from everyone will have their own opinion on this subject In this book, Christoph Scheerer looks back though chess history and at modern times in...
What are the greatest opening ideas in chess history? This is a fascinating question that would undoubtedly spark endless debate and discussion amongs...
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Pawn Sacrifice! winning at chess the adventurous way
ISBN: 9781857445657 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature... until now. In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, highlighting the many reasons for their success and indicating the ideal situations in which pawn sacrifices work. The ability to handle pawn sacrifices is one of the most important skills in chess, and enhancing this skill will undoubtedly improve your understanding and results. This book will show you how to do this.
Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature... until now...
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Starting Out: The Modern
ISBN: 9781857445664 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grandmaster Nigel Davies revisits the fundamentals of the Modern Defence, studying in depth the crucial early moves and plans for both sides. This book is ideal for up-and-coming players.
Grandmaster Nigel Davies revisits the fundamentals of the Modern Defence, studying in depth the crucial early moves and plans for both sides. This boo...
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How to Beat the French Defence
ISBN: 9781857445671 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French Defence is considered to be one of Black s most reliable answers to 1 e4. Indeed, many players have become frustrated in their attempts to prove an advantage and make headway against Black s ultra-solid formation.In How to Beat the French Defence, Andreas Tzermiadianos meets this difficult challenge head on. He advocates his favourite weapon against the French the Tarrasch Variation and reveals an abundance of opening ideas and novelties, providing the reader with a complete repertoire which is aimed at posing Black serious problems. Read this book and fight the French Defence with...
The French Defence is considered to be one of Black s most reliable answers to 1 e4. Indeed, many players have become frustrated in their attempts to ...
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Dangerous Weapons: Benoni & Benko
ISBN: 9781857445718 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyman Chess are proud to present a new title in their much-admired Dangerous Weapons series, which specializes in supplying the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting opening ideas. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking and incredibly tricky; they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponent off balance.In this new book, four renowned opening experts examine the Benoni and the Benko, and select a number of original or little-explored variations for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident...
Everyman Chess are proud to present a new title in their much-admired Dangerous Weapons series, which specializes in supplying the reader with an abun...
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Chess Tactics for Scholastic Players
ISBN: 9780615167220 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Master, Dean Ippolito has been one of the foremost and recognizable chess players in the United States for over a decade. He has been interviewed on several different television programs both here and abroad including Inside Edition. At the age of eleven, he was featured in Sports Illustrated and Boys Life after winning several National Titles. Both articles labeled him as "One of the Nation's Top Rising Chess Stars." Dean has been a 10 time All-America team Member and has 11 National Championships to his name. Dean's chess teaching skills are highly regarded. He has taught...
International Master, Dean Ippolito has been one of the foremost and recognizable chess players in the United States for over a decade. He has been in...
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Chess Results, 1941-1946: A Comprehensive Record with 810 Tournament Crosstables and 80 Match Scores, with Sources
ISBN: 9780786438198 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, these comprehensive chronological references list the results of mens chess competitions from all over the world. Individual and team matches are recorded. Entries note the location and the group that sponsored the event. First and last names of players are included and are standardized for easy reference.
Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, these comprehensive chronological references l...
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Chess Results, 1947-1950: A Comprehensive Record with 980 Tournament Crosstables and 155 Match Scores, with Sources
ISBN: 9780786438204 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, these comprehensive chronological references list the results of mens chess competitions from all over the world. Individual and team matches are recorded. Entries note the location and the group that sponsored the event. First and last names of players are included and are standardized for easy reference.
Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, these comprehensive chronological references l...
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Football and Chess: Tactics Strategy Beauty
ISBN: 9781843821861 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are football and chess 'beautiful games'? Do top football coaches read the pitch as a chess player reads the board? What is the connection between Jose Mourinho's defensive cunning and Grandmaster Wilhelm Steinitz's 'principles of defence'? The global popularity of football and chess remains unmatched by any other game. In this book, Adam Wells argues that stereotypical views of the games have concealed a deep connection between them. The first study of its kind, this book explores a rich world of tactics, psychology and aesthetics. Structural principles are analysed using real life...
Why are football and chess 'beautiful games'? Do top football coaches read the pitch as a chess player reads the board? What is the connection between...
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Reykjavik 1972: Fischer V Spassky - 'The World Chess Championship' and 'The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik'
ISBN: 9781843821878 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and eagerly analysed beforehand of any chess match to date. It seized the attention of the world's press and media in general in unprecedented fashion and inspired more books and column inches than any chess contest before or since. Hardinge Simpole now commemorate this stellar chess clash by reprinting the eye witness accounts by Grandmaster Emeritus Harry Golombek OBE and Professor George Steiner. Grandmaster Golombek analyses the moves while Professor Steiner searches...
The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and eagerly analysed beforeha...
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Grandmaster Tactics
ISBN: 9781843821885 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (Nice Olympiad, 1974). He has the rare distinction of having achieved the UK grand slam, winning the British Championship, the Lloyds Bank Masters and the Hastings Challengers, as well as being the highest-placed British player in the Hastings Premier tournament on two occasions. Additionally, he has won first prizes, gold medals and special awards in tournaments, Olympiads, continental and Commmonwealth championships around the world from Adelaide, via Sydney to Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Valletta,...
Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (Nice Olympiad, 1974). He has the rare distinction of ...
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The classical King's Indian uncovered
ISBN: 9781857445176 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The King s Indian is an exciting, challenging opening which is very popular at all levels of chess. It is favoured by ambitious and aggressive players such as the two chess legends Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov who perfected the King s Indian into an opening weapon to be feared throughout the chess world. In recent years, however, White players, led by World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, have hit back hard with many important new ideas. Most experts agree that the Classical Variation is the critical test of the King s Indian. Pulling no punches, White questions Black s entire strategy and...
The King s Indian is an exciting, challenging opening which is very popular at all levels of chess. It is favoured by ambitious and aggressive players...
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The Chess Puzzle Book 2: Test and Improve Your Positional Intuition
ISBN: 9781888690439 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Grandmaster Karsten Muller was born in Hamburg, Germany. He has established himself as one of the great chess authors. His works include the ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1, Danish Dynamite (with Martin Voigt), The Magic of Chess Tactics (with Claus Dieter Meyer), Secrets of Pawn Endings (with Frank Lamprecht) and Fundamental Chess Endings (with Frank Lamprecht). His monthly column Endgame Corner appears at www.ChessCafe.com. This is a unique instructional chess book that aims to help intermediate and advanced players improve their command of one of the most difficult as pects of...
International Grandmaster Karsten Muller was born in Hamburg, Germany. He has established himself as one of the great chess authors. His works include...
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Lasker's Manual of Chess
ISBN: 9781888690507 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Lasker's Manual of Chess- is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published over 80 years ago has diminished neither its relevance nor significance in today's modern chess world. Lasker was both a wonderful fighter and a deep thinker; his book is the quintessence of the exceptionally successful experiences he had over many long years, and his thoughts about them. He teaches what he himself considers most important: general principles and methods applicable to any situation. Once you have read the -Manual-, you will become smarter - afterwards, this is...
-Lasker's Manual of Chess- is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published over 80 years ago has diminished neit...
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Starting Out: the Queen's Indian
ISBN: 9781857443639 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Queen's Indian is one of Black's most dependable and respected defences to the queen's pawn opening. It's an established favorite amongst world-class Grandmasters such as Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Michael Adams, and Judit Polgar, not to mention Anatoly Karpov, who has been a loyal Queen's Indian supporter and theory developer for over three decades. Rather than classically occupying the central squares with pawns, Black adopts a hypermodern approach and endeavors to control this key area with pieces. This procedure leads to rich and varied positions that will appeal to players who...
The Queen's Indian is one of Black's most dependable and respected defences to the queen's pawn opening. It's an established favorite amongst world-cl...
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Semi-Slav
ISBN: 9781901259087 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Semi-Slav defence has been one of Black's most reliable defences to the queen's pawn since the 1920's. Now, it is fashionable both at grandmaster level and with club and tournament players. Here, Grandmaster Matthew Sadler explains the strategy and tactics of this dynamic opening. Through the use of model games for both sides, the author provides a thorough grounding in the key ideas.
The Semi-Slav defence has been one of Black's most reliable defences to the queen's pawn since the 1920's. Now, it is fashionable both at grandmaster ...
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Learn Chess: A Complete Course
ISBN: 9781857441154 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining the rules and basic strategies, whilst the second develops a thorough understanding of the various winning methods, and includes a systematic study of openings, an introduction to attacking techniques, and a guide to fundamental endgame themes.
Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining...
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Devinez 100 tests d'echecs et mat de 5 coups ou moins: contre les logiciels d'echecs de tres haut niveau
ISBN: 9781517138172 / Francuski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Devinez 100 tests d'echecs et mat de 5 coups ou moins, avec plein de diagrammes et la solution de ces tests a la fin du livre d'echecs et ce, contre les logiciels d'echecs de tres haut niveau. Description complete de ces 100 tests avec les figures des pieces et toutes les regles du jeu d'echecs avec plein de diagrammes sont inclus dans ce livre d'echecs. Pour gagner contre les logiciels d'echecs de tres haut niveau, vous devez faire plusieurs sacrifices; sans cela, c'est presque impossible de gagner contre eux. Devinez ces 100 tests d'echecs et mat de 5 coups ou moins contre les logiciels de...
Devinez 100 tests d'echecs et mat de 5 coups ou moins, avec plein de diagrammes et la solution de ces tests a la fin du livre d'echecs et ce, contre l...
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Guess 100 tests of checkmate of 5 moves or less
ISBN: 9781517138011 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guess 100 checkmate tests of 5 moves or less against the chess game software of top level; with full of diagrams to illustrate and solution of these tests. In order to win against the chess game software of top level, you must do many sacrifices; without that, it's almost impossible to win against the high chess game software of top level. Guess the 100 checkmate tests with diagrams in order to understand that reality The author, J.C. Grenon has won 809 chess against the chess computers of top level; 428 with the white pieces and 381 with the black pieces. At the chess game, the russian...
Guess 100 checkmate tests of 5 moves or less against the chess game software of top level; with full of diagrams to illustrate and solution of these t...
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