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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess - Chandler
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Chess Tactics for Kids - Chandler
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Lessons in Chess Strategy - Beim
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess makes improving easy and fun, and is full of helpful explanations and practical advice on how to approach chess games with confidence and success.
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Chess enthusiasts of all ages and levels will find this book an instructive delight. In a simple, easy-to-understand format it explains how to bamboozle your chess opponents using commonly occurring tactical motifs.
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In each chapter there are exercises for the reader, with full solutions given.
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Essential Chess Sacrifices - LeMoir
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Decision Making at the Chessboard - Eingorn
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Chess Endgame Training - Rosen
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Sacrifices are an essential part of chess.
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Chess is a game of decisions. As well as deciding about which move to play and which plan to adopt, players must also make practical decisions about how to use their clock time and whether to use intuition rather than trying to calculate every line to a finish.
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This is an endgame manual with a difference. As soon as a topic has been introduced and a few basic ideas discussed, you are immediately invited to immerse yourself in the subject by solving a series of relevant positions.
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Creative Chess Strategy - Romero
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Understanding Your Chess - Rizzitano
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How to Play Dynamic Chess - Beim
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Spanish Grandmaster Alfonso Romero explains how creativity can be used to overcome technical obstacles on the chessboard.
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James Rizzitano presents lessons from his own experiences that will be most relevant to club and tournament players.
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Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. The scope and value of pieces can change radically during the course of a game.
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Secrets of Chess Transformations - Marovic
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The Grandmaster's Mind - Avni
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The English Attack - Sammalvuo
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One of the most important skills in chess is the ability to transform one type of advantage into another. The great champions can effortlessly convert an initiative into an attack, an attack into a material gain, and move into an endgame where the material advantage can be exploited smoothly.
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How do players find good chess ideas? Amatzia Avni, a psychologist by profession, explores this question by means of interviews with top players and analysts, discussing specific games and compositions.
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The English Attack (Be3 and f3) became popular as a direct attacking method against the Najdorf Sicilian in the 1980s.
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Play the 4.f3 Nimzo-Indian - Yakovich
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365 Ways to Checkmate - Gallagher
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Learn Chess Tactics - Nunn
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The 4 f3 Nimzo enjoyed a period of great popularity in the early 1990s, following a number of spectacular victories by the teenage Alexei Shirov.
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Tactics based on checkmate ideas against the enemy king decide a large proportion of chess games, so it is vital to be alert to these possibilities when they occur. Gallagher provides 365 checkmate puzzles to help readers sharpen their skills.
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Once a chess player has learned the basic rules of the game, the next step is to study tactics.
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Understanding the Leningrad Dutch - Beim
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The Complete Sveshnikov Sicilian - Yakovich
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Play the 2.c3 Sicilian - Rozentalis
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The Leningrad System of the Dutch Defense is an interesting hybrid of the Dutch and the King's Indian.
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The Sveshnikov Variation is one of the most uncompromising lines of the Sicilian Defense.
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Many players prefer to avoid the all-or-nothing attacks of the Open Sicilian, turning instead to the positionally sound 2 c3 line.
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The Petroff - Janjgava
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Test Your Chess - Pedersen
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Understanding the Chess Openings - COLLINS
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For many years, the Petroff enjoyed a steady following, with Karpov, Ivanchuk, Timan, Anand, and in particular Yusupov among its supporters at the top level.
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This book offers a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking exercises in fundamental chess skills. It will help players of all standards to identify strengths and pinpoint areas of their play that need more attention.
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This major new work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides.
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