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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...
Learn all the chess rules and much more
+ 25 winning chess (max 20 moves) + 25 checkmate tests (max 5 moves)
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The author has won 809 winning chess against the chess computers of top level, 381 with the pieces and 212 winning chess of 26 moves or less.
Learn all the chess rules and much more
Table of contents
PREFACE Nature and objective of chess Chessboard pieces form Chessboard Topography...
ChessBase Complete
Chess in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
ChessBase Step-by-Step There’s a general recognition among chess players at all levels that the ChessBase software application is critical for serious chess improvement, but many chess players are intimidated by the software. Now, for the first time, former U.S. correspondence champion Jon...
Forcing Chess Moves
The Key to Better Calculation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Charles Hertan, an experienced chess coach from Massachusetts, has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key winning moves is often due to human bias, since your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural. Charles Hertan?s radically...
by Fred Reinfeld
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reinfeld's Masterpiece How to Play Chess like a Champion is Fred Reinfeld's sequel to his How to be a Winner at Chess and an absolute gem. In it the reader will find an exquisite blending of classic games, stories, insights, and instruction as only Reinfeld can put together. Rarely has an author succeeded...
Why You Lose at Chess
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This updated chess classic demonstrates how to learn from your losses by recognizing the warning signs as they develop and by analyzing games gone wrong. In addition to expert analysis of each stage of the game, this guide offers insights into why players lose from good positions as well as weak ones,...
by Lorin D'Costa
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge....
by Gwen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Checkers has been enjoyed by people for thousands of years. Easy to learn, this guide will teach you everything you need to know about How to Play Checkers, including rules, game setup and fun variations. In no time at all, you'll be saying "King me!"
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My System & Chess Praxis
His Landmark Classics in One Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
In My System, he expounded his theories of prophylaxis, blockade and much more, while providing ground-breaking insights in pawn structures. In the sequel Chess Praxis, Nimzowitsch demonstrated how he had successfully tested his theories in his games.
Without reading Nimzowitsch your chess education...
by Richard Palliser
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A comprehensive study book for players who would like to cultivate a reliable yet initiative-seeking opening repertoire as White, based on the opening moves 1 d4 followed by 2 c4. Specific main lines and side-variations are given to combat Black's possible choices of the King's, Queen's and Bogoljubow-Indian...
by Cyrus Lakdawala
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Vladimir Kramnik is a giant of the chess world. He firmly secured his legendary status when he won the World Championship in 2000 by defeating the previously dominant Garry Kasparov - the only player ever to do so in a match. Kramnik held on to his crown for seven years, and today he remains one of...
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...
Power Chess for Kids
Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1,5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so. You will learn how...
The Art of Checkmate
new translation with algebraic chess notation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Art of Checkmate, first published in Monaco in 1947, has remained one of the most popular and enduring chess books of all time, loved by chess players and regularly appearing in top ten lists of their favourites. Remarkably, despite its widespread popularity, the first English edition, published...