Chess
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How Karpov Wins: Second, Enlarged Edition
$21.95 Add to cartRevised, enlarged edition of book focusing on Russian chess master’s tactics and strategy against Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, Korchnoi, other greats. 100 games analyzed. Over 300 chess diagrams.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Dover Chess
- Author: Mednis, Edmar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0486278816
- Language: English
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Openings
$28.95 Add to cartStart every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in th… [more below]
- Series: Winning Chess
- Author: Seirawan, Yasser
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: May 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1857443497
- Language: English
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Chess Tactics for Champions: A Step-By-Step Guide to Using Tactics and Combinations the Polgar Way
$21.99 Add to cartSusan Polgar became the first female Grandmaster at age 15–and it wasn’t luck that got her there. Her use of tactics, combinations, and strategy during her games gave her the critical advantage she n… [more below]
- Series: Chess
- Author: Polgar, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 081293671X
- Language: English
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Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll
$20.99 Add to cartOn the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters e
- Series: Enterprise #0
- Author: Cohen, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327507
- Language: English
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Fundamental Chess Endings
$29.95 Add to cartIn a major event in chess publishing, two German endgame experts have produced a masterly one-volume encyclopaedia that covers all major endgames.
This is the first truly modern one-volume endgame ency… [more below]
- Author: Müller, Karsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1901983536
- Language: English
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Magnus Carlsen’s Most Instructive Games
$21.95 Add to cartMagnus Carlsen is the greatest chess player of the 21st century. His tactical wizardry, strategic inventiveness, technical expertise and legendary fighting spirit put him head and shoulders above all … [more below]
- Author: Kravtsiv, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2021
- ISBN10: 191146566X
- Language: English
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Winning with the Slow (But Venomous!) Italian: An Easy-To-Grasp Chess Opening for White
$30.95 Add to cartOne of the best and most popular ways to meet White’s first move 1.e4 remains the tried and tested 1…e5. After this move the majority of games steer for the Ruy Lopez. A perfectly fine choice for Wh
- Author: Souleidis, Georgios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 9056916742
- Language: English
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
$18.99 Add to cartGarry Kasparov’s 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capabl… [more below]
- Author: Kasparov, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773640
- Language: English
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Pandolfini’s Endgame Course
$19.99 Add to cartBased on his private course for students, America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit presents an easy-to-use guide that explains invaluable “inner circle” endg… [more below]
- Series: Fireside Chess Library
- Author: Pandolfini, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: October 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0671656880
- Language: English
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Understanding Chess Move by Move
$24.95 Add to cartJohn Nunn is one of the most highly regarded chess writers in the world. He has carefully selected thirty modern games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of chess and to illustra… [more below]
- Author: Nunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1901983412
- Language: English
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The Seven Deadly Chess Sins
$24.95 Add to cartEveryone loses chess games occasionally, but all too often we lose a game due to moves that, deep down, we knew were flawed. Why do we commit these chess-board sins? Are they the result of general mis… [more below]
- Series: Scotland’s Youngest Grandmaster Discusses the Most Common Ca
- Author: Rowson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1901983366
- Language: English
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The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games
$17.99 Add to cart- Series: Mammoth Books
- Author: Burgess, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1849013683
- Language: English
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Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition: Key Moves and Motifs in the Middlegame
$26.95 Add to cartPattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. This is well known. But what does pattern recognition actually mean? And how can you improve at it?
If you realize a p- Author: Van de Oudeweetering, International Mast
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2014
- ISBN10: 905691538X
- Language: English
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Mastering the Chess Openings Volume 1
$0.00 Read moreFor many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is suffi
- Author: Watson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 1904600603
- Language: English
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Play Winning Chess
$26.95 Add to cartPlay Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear explanations of the games, fundamental and instructive examples, question-and-answer sections, sample… [more below]
- Series: Everyman Chess
- Author: Seirawan, Yasser
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1857443314
- Language: English
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My Best Games of Chess: 1908-1937
$34.95 Add to cartIn chess literature, there have only been a few chess books that have immediately — and permanently — established themselves as classics, and this is one of them.
The original English edition, publi… [more below]
- Author: Alekhine, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 193649065X
- Language: English
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The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games: New, Updated and Expanded Edition – Now with 145 Games
$24.99 Add to cartImprove your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen’s ‘Immortal Game’ to Magnus Carlsen’s world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Cha
- Series: Mammoth Books
- Author: Burgess, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1472146220
- Language: English
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1000 Games Chess (Fireside)
$32.99 Add to cartHere, each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary, are 1,000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature presented in author Irving Chernev’s 1,000 Best Short Games of Che… [more below]
- Author: Chernev, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 1955
- ISBN10: 0671538012
- Language: English
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The Modern Gurgenidze: A Counterpunching Repertoire for Black
$24.95 Read moreThrow Down the Gauntlet from the Very First Move!
The Modern Defense has been popular for decades. However, within the purview of this defense, there is a system that challenges White right from the g
- Author: Ehlvest, Jaan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1949859568
- Language: English
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The Endgame
$25.00 Add to cartThe endgame tends to be the neglected side of the game of go. This is strange indeed, for it also tends to be where the outcome is decided, and frequently accounts for about half the stones played.
Thi
- Series: Elementary Go (Kiseido) #06
- Author: Ogawa, Tomoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 4906574157
- Language: English
