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This collection of superb opening traps is essential reading for any chess player. As the traps in this book show, no one should feel safe from an opponent armed to the teeth with cunning traps ---in these pages we regularly see masters losing in a handful of moves.
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SOS Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 6 brings you some more of the SOS surprises that readers vastly enjoy! This volume also includes a section by GM Hikaru Nakamura on attacking the Sicilian center!
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This book covers all the tactical themes and typical traps in the main lines of the English, the Dutch and the Reti, as well as a couple of interesting gambits.
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An SOS Secrets of Opening Surprises deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six! That is why it is so easy to actually bring the variation on the board. You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory.
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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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To lose a game of chess in the opening or the early middlegame is especially annoying yet surprisingly common.
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The Four Knights has the distinction of being one of the oldest openings in the history of chess. In a king's pawn opening, both players bring out their knights before contemplating further development.
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In "Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps", Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more.
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The third book in the series Chess Tactics in the Chess Opening, this book explains, in more than 230 carefully selected and annotated games, all the tactical themes and typical traps of the main lines in the French Defence, the Caro-Kann, the Pirc and the Scandinavian Defence.
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Brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at first sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable.
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You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory.
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There are not too many feelings more satisfying in chess than winning very quickly by cleverly snaring your opponent in an opening trap.
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SOS Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 4 brings even more of the SOS surprises that readers vastly enjoy! The SOS series highlights very early deviations from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six!
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The Open Games, more than any other segment of the entire opening spectrum, have always given rise to spectacular miniatures and fascinating sacrifices! The second volume of the Tactics in the Openings series covers Open games in depth.
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Part 4 of the successful Tactics in the Chess Opening series for casual chess players and club players, this book will teach you great ideas for the Queen's Gambits, the Slav, and more!
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You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory.
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No one likes to make mistakes, but all chess players, even those belonging to the world's elite, are prone to blundering. How can this problem be eradicated or, at the very least, kept to a minimum? Read this book and find out!
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Gambit Busters! Take it, keep it, and win! Practical advice on how to win against gambits and ultra-aggressive opening play.
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The first book in the Tactics in the Openings series, Tactics in the Openings 1 holds more than 250 carefully selected and expertly annotated Sicilian games full of unexpected turns and brilliant surprise attacks.
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Ready-to-go chess opening ideas. Ideal for players who don’t have enough time to keep abreast with main line theory.
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A chess player leads his opponent into an unfavorable position that he would normally have shunned. Using entertaining examples from the games of the masters, Soltis covers a variety of transpositions in virtually every kind of opening
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