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What separated Alexander Alekhine from the rest of his contemporaries? Why did he dominate the chess world for so long?
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Mikhail Tal was simply a chess phenomenon. The "magician from Riga" stunned the chess world when he became the youngest ever World Champion (at that time) in 1960, and he won countless supporters for his scintillating tactical play and his infectious enthusiasm for the game.
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How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess
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Garry Kasparov is the World number one and generally regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. Here is his fourth in a series of titles proving extremely popular.
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In this highly instructive book, translated by Ken Neat, Grandmaster Mark Taimanov presents an annotated selection of the best games from his long and illustrious career.
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Every chess player loves to win early in the game with a deadly combination or a cunning trap. On the other hand, nobody wants to be tricked by his opponent before the game has really started. Part 5 in the popular series Tactics in the Chess Opening teaches how to recognize opportunities to attack early in the game. You will also learn how to avoid standard pitfalls in the opening.
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In this book GM Joe Gallagher takes a fresh look at Tal's games and career, focusing on the previously neglected period from 1975 to 1992 duing which he played some of his most accomplished chess.
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Garry Kasparov analyzes the style and play of the first four recognized champions: Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894), Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921), Jose Capablanca (1921-1927) and Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935 and 1937-1946).
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Alexei Shirov has dazzled and inspired a generation of chess fans with his unique brand of attacking chess.
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This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's course is devoted to questions of strategy, and is aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding.
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Paul Motwani has selected the finest games of the brightest young stars of the 1990s--including Kramnik, Anand, Adams and Judit Polgar--and annotated them in his own inimitable style.
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Chess Facts and Fables by Edward Winter features in-depth research into chess lore, corrections of popular misconceptions, biographical notes on famous players, and authenticated quotations.
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This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men’s chess competitions all over the world. From the famous to the lesser known, both individual and team matches from 1936 through 1940 are remembered here. Entries record location and, when available, the group that sponsored the event.
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This first volume of My Best Games presents Kortchnoi's best games with White, which are particularly noteworthy for his original methods of fighting for the initiative.
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The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts—this second edition of Soltis’s classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser’s delight.The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded—or both.
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A comprehensive record with 465 tournament crosstables and 590 match scores. Here, in one volume, are the results of the main chess competitions, both tournaments and matches, that took place around the world from 1747 to 1900.
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Showcases tremendously exciting and hard fought games that produced chess of an extremely high level.
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Showcases tremendously exciting and hard fought games that produced chess of an extremely high level.
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A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews, quotations, etc.
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The Human Comedy of Chess is Ree's tenth book; the fifth about chess and his first to appear in English.
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Nimzowitsch's other classic, the companion volume to My System.
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