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Did you know more books have been written on chess than any other sport?
  • Most chess experts own a substantial collection of not only their favourite books on the fundamentals of chess, but also their favorite chess openings, a few books on chess tactics, and books on middlegame strategy, endgame strategy. You'll often find books on chess theory contrasted with books of great players. It's always a good idea to study and play over games of the best players.
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  • If you want to improve at chess and want recommendations from a nationally recognized chess master, check out Elliott Neff's chess resources! Elliott was Washington High School Champion for 4 years in a row and now at 29, lives in Bellevue, enjoying his career as a professional chess teacher with over 1000 chess students.
Exciting new Chess Workbook for Children is here!
  • It's a wonderful kids chess workbook! Todd wrote this book just for kids, particular with attention to an easier vocabulary. Many basic chess books are seemingly written for adults - this one is wonderful for youth as young as 6 to 8 years old or as soon as they can read on their own. Click here for more info!
Ready for a complete 6 book chess course written in a friendly style, by US champion Yasser Seirawan?
  • This highly acclaimed series published by Everyman Chess is aimed primarily at adult chess players since there is already a wealth of material for kids.
  • In the first book of this famous series, "Play Winning Chess" Yasser will teach you the basics, including chess notation. In the next books you'll learn chess tactics, chess strategies, chess endgames, chess openings, and then chess brilliancies, as you get to study games from great players in the final book.
  • You can place this series of 6 titles on your shelf for only $97! Read more about the Winning Chess Series

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Chess Workbook for Children - Bardwick Winning Chess Brilliancies, 4th Ed. - Seirawan Winning Chess Openings, 4th Ed. - Seirawan
Chess Workbook for Children - Bardwick
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Winning Chess Brilliancies, 4th Ed. - Seirawan
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Winning Chess Openings, 4th Ed. - Seirawan
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Great new kids chess workbook released July 2006. It's a wonderful kids chess workbook! Todd wrote this book just for kids, with particular attention to an easier vocabulary. Many basic chess books are seemingly written for adults but this one is wonderful for youth as young as 6 to 8 years old or as soon as they can read on their own. This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.
Amateurs Mind 2nd Edition / Expanded - Silman Reassess Your Chess Workbook - Silman How to Reassess Your Chess - Silman
Amateurs Mind 2nd Edition / Expanded - Silman
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Reassess Your Chess Workbook - Silman
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How to Reassess Your Chess - Silman
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"The Amateur's Mind is eminently readable and instruction-rich. Jeremy Silman never disappoints those who seriously wish to improve their game." -  Joel Benjamin, International Grandmaster, 1987 U.S. Champion In this comprehensive workbook, IM Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, tactical and positional middlegames, and endgames. How to Reassess Your Chess offers the chess student a step-by-step course that is designed to create a marked improvement in anyone's game--Expanded 3rd Edition.
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century - Bardwick Ideas Behind the Chess Openings - Fine My System - New Algebraic Edition - Nimzowitsch
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century - Bardwick
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Ideas Behind the Chess Openings - Fine
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My System - New Algebraic Edition - Nimzowitsch
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A beginner chess book for teachers, chess club sponsors, or parents with young children. An elementary school teacher can use this book as a textbook to incorporate chess into a math program. Not a list of moves, but a simple and logical explanation of opening systems. This is the all-time chess classic of Aron Nimzowitsch now in algebraic notation, updated to modern, understandable English with 419 diagrams.
The Classical King's Indian Uncovered - Panczyk and Ilczuk Tips for Young Players - Matthew Sadler Checkmate! My first chess book. - KASPAROV
The Classical King's Indian Uncovered - Panczyk and Ilczuk
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Tips for Young Players - Matthew Sadler
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Checkmate! My first chess book. - KASPAROV
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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.
Britain's No. 3 ranked player Grandmaster Matthew Sadler answers key questions: Which openings should I play? How to I learn to spot tactics? What do I need to know about the endgame? Learn to play the great game of chess with none other than Gary Kasparov, the World's number one and the most famous figure in chess history as your teacher.
Breaking Through - POLGAR Play Winning Chess - 4th Edition - Seirawan American Grandmaster - Benjamin
Breaking Through - POLGAR
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Play Winning Chess - 4th Edition - Seirawan
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American Grandmaster - Benjamin
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How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess Play Winning Chess is exuberant and conversational, enlivened by personal anecdotes and fascinating historical details. In American Grandmaster, Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the ‘Fischer boom’ era thorough to an experienced Grandmaster with many titles, Benjamin is in a unique position to highlight the major changes that have occurred both in US and international chess throughout the last four decades.
Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy Dangerous Weapons: 1e4e5 - Emms, Flear and Greet Dangerous Weapons: The Queen's Gambit - Palliser, Flear and Ward
Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy: Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch
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Dangerous Weapons: 1e4e5 - Emms, Flear and Greet
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Dangerous Weapons: The Queen's Gambit - Palliser, Flear and Ward
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In Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy, Neil McDonald chooses his selection of the most prominent strategists in chess history and highlights the major contributions they made. He examines their differing approaches and styles, and from Nimzowitsch to Kramnik, how they followed in each other’s footsteps. A careful study of this book will help you to understand and improve in one of the most crucial elements of the game. In Dangerous Weapons: 1 e4 e5, renowned opening experts John Emms, Glenn Flear and Andrew Greet take a revolutionary look at one of the most famous and widely-played chess openings. Instead of traveling down well-trodden and analyzed paths, the authors concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of ‘dangerous’ options for both colors. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover! In Dangerous Weapons: The Queen’s Gambit, opening experts Richard Palliser, Glenn Flear and Chris Ward team up to investigate one of the most popular openings in chess history, but in a revolutionary way. They concentrate on little-explored and fun-to-play variations of the Queen’s Gambit, selecting a wealth of ‘dangerous’ options for both colors. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!
Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack - Jones Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon - Greet Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon - Martin
Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack - Jones
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Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon - Greet
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Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon - Martin
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Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack is a further addition to Everyman’s best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. International Master Gawain Jones revisits the fundamentals of this opening, elaborating on the crucial early moves and ideas for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts. International Master Andrew Greet, an Accelerated Dragon expert, revisits the fundamentals of the opening, elaborating on the crucial early moves and ideas for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts. Few would disagree that the Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting, high profile and controversial openings in chess history.
   
 
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