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Gambit Publications, Ltd is a chess publishing company founded by three top level chess players, GM's John Nunn, GM Murray Chandler, and FM Graham Burgess. They have over 140 chess books in print aimed at all levels of players.

The chess books published by Gambit are high quality, well bound, and great for both chess collectors and those that study on a regular basis. Some of their most popular books include How to Beat Your Dad at Chess, Chess Tactics for Kids, Chess for Children, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Nunn's Chess Openings.

Today Gambit's books find great appeal among especially club players.

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Chess Tactics for Kids - Chandler How to Beat Your Dad at Chess - Chandler Chess for Children - Chandler
Chess Tactics for Kids - Chandler
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess - Chandler
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Chess for Children - Chandler
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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. 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. This charming book teaches the very basic moves of chess, ideal for a child who has never played before.
Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book - Emms Understanding the Chess Openings - COLLINS The Grandmaster's Mind - Avni
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book - Emms
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Understanding the Chess Openings - COLLINS
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The Grandmaster's Mind - Avni
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1001 original puzzles to challenge all standards of player, from beginner to grand-master. 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. 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.
101 Chess Opening Traps - Giddins How to Beat 1.d4 - RIZZITANO Chess Explained: The Nimzo-Indian - Reinaldo Vera
101 Chess Opening Traps - Giddins
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How to Beat 1 d4 - Rizzitano
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Chess Explained: The Nimzo-Indian - Reinaldo Vera
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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.
James Rizzitano, author of Understanding Your Chess, presents a full repertoire for Black against 1.d4 based on the Queen's Gambit Accepted. The Nimzo-Indian is one of the most important of all chess openings, and popular at all levels of play. Together with the Queen's Indian (also covered in this series), the Nimzo has provided the backbone of the opening repertoire of a large portion of the world's top players over the last 80 years.
Chess Strategy in Action - Watson How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician - LeMoir Modern Chess Analysis - Smith
Chess Strategy in Action - Watson
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How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician - LeMoir
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Modern Chess Analysis - Smith
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John Watson has again produced a classic that will be a strong tool of learning in any player's armory. Watson has an excellent writing style that makes his book essential reading, this is a book you will not readily put down! Some chessplayers always spot unlikely looking tactical tricks, launch cunning attacks from seemingly quiet positions and are unrelenting when the enemy king is in their sights. Even when things go wrong they create chances and repeatedly swindle their way out of trouble. Personal computers and powerful chess software are having a profound effect on chess analysis and theory.
Mastering the Najdorf - Arizmendi 101 Attacking Ideas in Chess - Gallagher Endgame Challenge - Nunn
Mastering the Najdorf - Arizmendi
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101 Attacking Ideas in Chess - Gallagher
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Endgame Challenge - Nunn
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The Najdorf if the most popular line of the Sicilian for a very good reason:  Black can play for a win without taking undue risks. Do you find yourself in good attacking positions, but then fail to land the killer blow?  Or do you find it hard to decide where to attack when you have a promising position? John Nunn presents 250 challenging positions where your task is to find a cunning way to win or draw.
How to Use Computers, Improve Your Chess - Kongsted Improve Your Attacking Chess - Williams Play the 4.f3 Nimzo-Indian - Yakovich
How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess - Kongsted
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Improve Your Attacking Chess - Williams
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Play the 4 f3 Nimzo-Indian - Yakovich
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Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Checkmating the enemy king is the ultimate goal in chess, and this book will help readers to practice their skills in this vital area. 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.
The System: A World Champion's Approach to Chess - Berliner S*T*A*R Chess - Motwani Secrets of Rook Endings - Nunn
The System: A World Champion's Approach to Chess - Berliner
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S*T*A*R Chess - Motwani
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Secrets of Rook Endings - Nunn
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Hans Berliner is one of the most successful correspondence chess players of all time, and was utterly dominant in the 5th World Championship. Acclaimed author Paul Motwani discusses these four elements of successful chess with the same wit and clarity that has characterized his previous writings on the game. The first edition of this book ushered in a new era in chess publishing.  It was the first book based on computer-generated position databases that are guaranteed to provide the actual result of a position.
   
 
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