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Chess Workbook for Children - Bardwick
Chess Workbook for Children - Bardwick
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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.
Reassess Your Chess Workbook - Silman
Reassess Your Chess Workbook - Silman
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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.
Amateurs Mind 2nd Edition / Expanded - Silman
Amateurs Mind 2nd Edition / Expanded - 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
How to Reassess Your Chess - Silman
How to Reassess Your Chess - Silman
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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
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century - Bardwick
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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.
Tips for Young Players - Matthew Sadler
Tips for Young Players - Matthew Sadler
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Best for ages 12 and older. Which openings should I play? How to I learn to spot tactics? What do I need to know about the endgame?
Checkmate! My first chess book. - KASPAROV
Checkmate! My first chess book. - KASPAROV
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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.
Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon - Martin
Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon - Martin
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Few would disagree that the Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting, high profile and controversial openings in chess history.
Starting Out: Closed Sicilian - Palliser
Starting Out: Closed Sicilian - Palliser
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In Starting Out: Closed Sicilian, Richard Palliser examines this popular opening at a fundamental level.
American Grandmaster - Benjamin
American Grandmaster - Benjamin
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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
Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy: Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch - McDonald
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A careful study of this book will help you to understand and improve in one of the most crucial elements of the game.
Dangerous Weapons: 1e4e5 - Emms, Flear and Greet
Dangerous Weapons: 1e4e5 - Emms, Flear and Greet
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Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!
Dangerous Weapons: The Queen's Gambit - Palliser, Flear and Ward
Dangerous Weapons: The Queen's Gambit - Palliser, Flear and Ward
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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: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack - Jones
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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.
Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon - Greet
Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon - Greet
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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.
Play the English - Pritchett
Play the English - Pritchett
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A study of this book will arm you with the essential knowledge to begin playing the English with confidence in your own games.
The Samisch King's Indian Uncovered - Cherniaev and Prokuronov
The Samisch King's Indian Uncovered - Cherniaev and Prokuronov
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A study of this book will allow the reader to begin playing either side of the Sämisch with confidence in his or her own games.
The Slav: Sadler
The Slav: Sadler
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Through the use of model games for both sides, the author provides a thorough grounding in the key ideas so readers can quickly and confidently start to use the Slav in their own games.
Semi-Slav - Sadler
Semi-Slav - Sadler
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Through the use of model games for both sides, the author provides a thorough grounding in the key ideas so readers can quickly and confidently start to use the Semi-Slav in their own games.
Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko: Palliser, Emms, Ward, Jones
Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko: Palliser, Emms, Ward, Jones
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In this new book, four renowned opening experts examine the Benoni and the Benko, and select a number of original or little-explored variations for both colours.
Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian - Emms
Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian - Emms
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c3 Sicilian expert John Emms goes back to basics: explaining in depth the reasoning behind the critical early moves, and uses instructive games to demonstrate key plans for both White and Black.
How to Play Against 1 e4 - McDonald
How to Play Against 1 e4 - McDonald
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A repertoire for Black that requires only the minimum amount of move memorization.
Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings - Palliser, Kosten and Vigus
Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings - Palliser, Kosten and Vigus
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In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at Flank Openings.
My 60 Memorable Games 2009 Edition - Fischer
My 60 Memorable Games 2009 Edition - Fischer
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A rare window into the mind of a chess icon, My 60 Memorable Games is perhaps the most inspirational and influential chess book ever written.
Chess Secrets: Great Attackers - Crouch
Chess Secrets: Great Attackers - Crouch
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Crouch examines differing approaches and styles, and highlights some crucial themes.
Dangerous Weapons: King's Indian - Palliser, Flear and Dembo
Dangerous Weapons: King's Indian - Palliser, Flear and Dembo
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Prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at the ever-popular King’s Indian and select a wealth of ‘dangerous’ options for both White and Black.
Fighting the Ruy Lopez - Pavlovic
Fighting the Ruy Lopez - Pavlovic
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Everyone who plays 1 e4 e5 as Black needs to have a reliable antidote to this powerful opening.
Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc & Modern - Palliser
Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc & Modern - Palliser
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The authors concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors.
7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian - Yapshun and Conticello
7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian - Yapshun and Conticello
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By using illustrative games the authors teach you everything you need to know, including the vital skill of how to recognize when favorable sacrificial conditions arise.
The Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan - Bologan
The Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan - Bologan
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This book brings Chebanenko Slav knowledge up to date and teaches the best methods for both Black and White.
   
 

Chess Books F.A.Q.

Q: Chess Openings: Would you recommend (or do you sell) a book on opening moves -- both white and black. I had quit playing chess for almost 20 years ... just getting back to it and want to polish my skills. Thank you, Ben

A. With so many books on chess openings you have to narrow it down somehow. If you want to learn opening theory as well as study a few key openings, Seirawan's Winning Chess Openings classic is an easy read. Looking for the what and why of chess openings? Ideas Behind the Chess Openings offers great insight into various openings. Modern Chess Openings is a complete opening reference manual. It covers just about all known openings in depth. If you're serious about studying openings, it's good to have one of these on hand. If you're a low to intermediate player, Improve Your Opening Play will help you deal with every important chess opening and focus on the application of simple principles.
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