Chess
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Chess Traps, Pitfalls and Swindles: How to Set Them and How to Avoid Them
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, Chess Traps is I.A. Horowitz’s exploration of chess’ pitfalls and swindes–both how to set them and how to avoid them.
This is a rich storehouse of Chess ‘crimes.’ Sometimes the- Series: Fireside Chess Library
- Author: Horowitz, I. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0671210416
- Language: English
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Chess Middlegame for Beginners: Winning Tips and Tactics to Dominate your Opponents
$13.99 Add to cartBest-in-Class Guide on Chess Middlegames for Beginners
You mastered the opening phase but how do you make way to win the game? What are the proven strategies and tactics to establish winning positions
- Author: Templar, Magnus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: October 05 2019
- ISBN10: 390726911X
- Language: English
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200 Chess Endgame Challenges
$14.95 Read moreThis fun and challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers and fans of the deam of American chess, Larry Evans.
… [more below]- Author: Evans, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1580423590
- Language: English
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In Black and White: The Chess Autobiography of a World Champion Candidate
$34.95 Add to cartIn Black and White is probably the most honest autobiography ever published by a chess grandmaster. The Dutchman, born in 1956, covers his rise to the chess elite, his insecurities, and the difficulti
- Author: Van Der Sterren, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9083336506
- Language: English
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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 Read moreMagnus 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 Read more- 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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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
