Board Games category: 898 books
Devious Chess
How to Bend the Rules and Win
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they've learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the...
by Gary Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham LincolnThere's no escaping the fact: if you want to win chess games, you have to attack at some point. Many players are happy solving combinations in winning positions, when the hard work is...
The Doeberl Cup
Fifty Years of Australian Chess History
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Dynamic Chess Down Under! The Doeberl Cup has been Australia’s premier weekend chess tournament since its inception in 1963. It has attracted more international masters and grandmasters than any other Australian tournament. The Doeberl Cup Fifty Years of Australian Chess History tells the stories...
Strike Like Judit!
The Winning Tactics of Chess Legend Judit Polgar
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Judit Polgar is the strongest female chess player of all time. From an early age on the Hungarian prodigy baffled the world with her sensational triumphs. At the age of 15 she beat Bobby Fischer’s record to become the youngest grandmaster in history. During her glorious career, which she ended in...
Bologan's Caro-Kann
A Modern Repertoire for Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The Caro-Kann is one of the most important and popular responses to 1.e4. World champions Botvinnik, Petrosian, Karpov and Anand have played this reliable chess opening in many of their games. Present-day elite players such as Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are proving that the ‘drawish’...
by Liliana Najdorf
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
“Chess, easy game!” Miguel el Grande Among major chess figures of the 20th century, few stand out more than Miguel Najdorf. One of the world’s best players for decades, he was also one of the most active and colorful. And his life, both at the chessboard and away from it, was rich in experience,...
Fabiano Caruana
His Amazing Story and His Most Instructive Chess Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
THE FIRST AMERICAN SINCE BOBBY FISCHER TO PLAY FOR THE WORLD TITLE!
‘I started working with Fabiano when he was only five’, remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini. ‘It was obvious that he had a rare intuition, was brave in attack and was one of the most talented...
Test Your Chess Skills
Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action.
Sarhan Guliev and his brother Logman...
Quel est mon prénom ?
Le livre-jeu des "Monsieur et Madame ont un fils ou une fille"
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Quel est mon prénom? reprend le jeu des devinettes "Monsieur et Madame ont un fils ou une fille" avec trois indices : la nationalité du prénom, l'ordre normal prénom-nom ou inversé nom-prénom et un indice libre. Monsieur et Madame Micoton ont une fille... qui s'appelle Mylène bien sûr.
Subbuteo. O per gioco
Una stagione attraverso cronache, aneddoti, calcio “vero” e regolamenti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Il Subbuteo (l’Old Subbuteo in particolare) è gioco e non sport, e nel suo essere ludico riesce a coinvolgere la parte migliore dell’essere umano: quella dedicata al divertimento. Intorno al tavolo verde, magicamente, degradano e sfumano rivalità e agonismo (di fatto messi al bando), nascono...
Diary of Two Boys
Two Buddies Who Got Along (Kids’ Adventure Stories)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
The fun story of the boys, Braden and Bracken, includes soccer games, cows, and chess matches. They do all these things together, but because their personalities differ, they both have a different view of what happened. One is happy, the other sad; the one having a blast, the other bored. It goes on and on like this, but they learn to deal with each other in the right way.
by James Eade
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Improve your chess game the fast and easy way
You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make!
This...
by Lev Alburt, Al Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This right-to-the-point book by one of the game's foremost teacher-writing teams uses a breakthrough approach to teach chess fast!
Studies tout the many benefits of chess for all ages. Want to learn chess or teach it to your child but are busy with lots of other activities as well? This innovative...
by Per Ostman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
I look one move ahead... the best!, Siegbert TarraschChess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give...