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Chess Endings - Essential Knowledge

Chess Endings - Essential Knowledge

$14.95
As the title implies, this book brings together all the information, which the author considers necessary to provide the average chessplayer with a working knowledge of the endgame. It is concerned...
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International Championship Chess

International Championship Chess

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A complete record of FIDE events with a foreword by the President, Dr. M . Euwe Competitions for the Official World Championship , held under the management of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) are...
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Popular Chess Variants

Popular Chess Variants

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Popular Chess Variants introduces the reader to some challenging alternatives to traditional chess. The majority of games discussed involve standard pieces. In addition there are a few examples using...
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How to Beat Bobby Fischer

How to Beat Bobby Fischer

$19.95
If Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player of our time, perhaps the greatest of all time, he is also only human. Sometimes he loses. Of the 576 tournament and match games Fischer has played since...
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500 Combinations To Train Yourself

500 Combinations To Train Yourself

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Alain Benlolo - trainer of the French Chess Federation - offers a large choice of combinations for the greater part extracted from games played in competitions by leading grand-masters.
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Modern Chess Openings

Modern Chess Openings

$19.95
This edition was revised by Grandmaster Reuben Fine immediately after his victorious result in the famous tournament at AVRO, the strongest chess tournament in history up until that time. The event...
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Games of the Orient

Games of the Orient

$19.95
This collection includes every known game of the Orient, including many otherwise unknown games. These games have different names in Chinese or Korean than the names by which we know them in the West.
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Chess Strategy

Chess Strategy

$19.95
This is one of the most useful and instructive books on chess ever written. It has been through at least ten reprintings and has sold out each time. It has also led to updates including "Modern Chess...
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What's the Next Move?

What's the Next Move?

$18.95
Over eighty problems in chess are presented in large, open diagrams, one to a page, appropriate for children who are being taught chess by readers of Chess and Children, or for any child who knows...
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Pawn Endings
The present work already established in its Russian edition is by far the most complete work on pawn endgames ever published. Containing no less than 911 examples, it will prove invaluable both to the student of chess and to the practical player.
Pawn Endings

Pawn Endings

$25.95
At age 97, Yuri Averkakh is the World's Oldest still living chess grandmaster and is still active in chess. In the ending, the advantage of a single "insignificant" pawn can frequently prove...
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If You Must Play Chess
This book was originally published in 1947 with 55 of his best games, the last game being against World Championship Botvinnik, which ended in a draw. In 1981, he sought to expand this book by adding ten more games including his draw against Fisher, the l
If You Must Play Chess

If You Must Play Chess

$19.95
Arnold S. Denker was one of America's and the World's leading chess players. He played and competed in almost every leading chess event from 1933 right up until his death just short of age 91. He won...
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Sicilian Defense
Sicilian Defense by Alexander Koblentz published in Russian in Moscow in 1955
Sicilian Defense

Sicilian Defense

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????? ???????????? ?????? ????? ???????????? ?????? ? ? ??????? ???????????? ?????? Sicilian Defense by Alexander Koblentz published in Russian in Moscow in 1955 The edition of this book that was...
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Basic Chess Endings
The most important endgames to study and learn are King and Pawn Endgames and Rook and Pawn Endgames. Knowing rook and pawn endgames is like having money in a savings account, as they come up all the time. Be sure to take time and learn all the rook and p
Basic Chess Endings

Basic Chess Endings

$21.95
This is a reprint of the classic work Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine, published in 1941. Although there are claims it has been superseded by other books, Basic Chess Endings by Fine remains the...
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Modern Chess Strategy
Modern Chess Strategy offers thorough, systematic analysis of the use of the queen, active king, exchanges, seven different uses of pawns, minority attack, dynamic elements, much more.
Modern Chess Strategy is a book about the strategies in modern chess by author Edward Lasker with introductions by Richard Bozukich and Sam Sloan. It also includes a special appendix on the game of Go. A Japanese variation of chess which will keep you as
Modern Chess Strategy

Modern Chess Strategy

$25.95
Modern Chess Strategy is a book about the strategies in modern chess by author Edward Lasker with introductions by Richard Bozukich and Sam Sloan. It also includes a special appendix on the game of...
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Lasker's How to Play Chess
German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher, Emanuel Lasker, PhD (1868-1941), who was World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921, reveals his secrets in this classic how-to chess primer.
Lasker's How to Play Chess

Lasker's How to Play Chess

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German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher, Emanuel Lasker, PhD (1868–1941), who was World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921, reveals his secrets in this classic how-to chess primer. In his...
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The Art of Sacrifice in Chess 21st Century Edition
Müller has virtually doubled the size of the original work by adding eleven new chapters, including: Destroying the King’s Shelter; Sacrifices on f6; Sacrifices on e6; The Magic of Mikhail Tal; Shirov’s Sacrifices; and The Fine Art of Defense. In addition
In this book you will get the benefit of the great masters games and experience. Spielmann's ideas have stood the test of time and hardest kind of practice. His instructions are practical and pointed. Every chessplayer will relish Spielmann's masterpiece
The Art of Sacrifice in Chess 21st Century Edition

The Art of Sacrifice in Chess

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“Tactics,” said a famous chessmaster, “is 99% of chess.” It follows that the most effective way to increase your playing strength is to master the tactical aspect of chess...
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A Primer of Chess
A Primer of Chess teaches you how to find the good moves. When it is your turn to move, your objective as a chess player should be to find a good move. If every move you play in the game is a good move, you will win, usually because your opponent will thr
A Primer of Chess

A Primer of Chess

$19.95
A Primer of Chess teaches you how to find the good moves. When it is your turn to move, your objective as a chess player should be to find a good move. If every move you play in the game is a good...
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U.S.Championship Chess
US Championship Chess is unique in the presentation, combining history with history-in-the-making for a new and pleasurable experience in chess study. Part I is a history of the U. S. Chess championship by David Daniels; Part II consists of the complete g
U.S.Championship Chess

U.S.Championship Chess

$25.95
US Championship Chess is unique in the presentation, combining history with history-in-the-making for a new and pleasurable experience in chess study. Part I is a history of the U. S. Chess...
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Checkmate!
George Koltanowski was the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. He was born in Antwerp Beligum on 17 September 1903. He was Belgian Chess Champion 1923, 1927, 1930, and 1936.
Checkmate!

Checkmate!

$25.95
The Patterns of Winning Mating Attacks and How to Achieve Them. This is a complete book on different checkmate strategies. George Koltanowski, was the greatest showman and promoter that chess has...
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Modern Chess Opening Traps
This is a collection of opening traps by Grandmaster William Lombardy. The traps are great and cover every opening system.
Modern Chess Opening Traps

Modern Chess Opening Traps

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This is a collection of opening traps by Grandmaster William Lombardy. The traps are great and cover every opening system. They need to be studied. A chess trap succeeds not because one player is a...
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A Shortcut to Winning Bridge
During Freddy Sheinwold's many years of bridge, he has played many thousands of hands; out of this group he has selected for the book the one hundred which he considers the most interesting and instructive for detailed analysis.
A Shortcut to Winning Bridge

A Shortcut to Winning Bridge

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As one of the nation's leading tournament players and champions, Alfred “Freddy” Sheinwold's star has literally skyrocketed in the last few years. He is the author of six best-selling...
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British Chess
British Chess is a picture book containing information almost available nowhere else. It has the first chess man, the first chess board, the first chess picture, the first chess diagram.
British Chess

British Chess

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British Chess is a picture book containing information almost available nowhere else. It has the first chess man, the first chess board, the first chess picture, the first chess diagram. It has...
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Chess and Children
Chess and Children presents the conventional information about the game of chess from the point of view of one who wishes to teach it to children. It assumes little or no preliminary knowledge of the game on the part of the reader, so parents and teachers
Chess and Children

Chess and Children

$14.95
Chess and Children presents the conventional information about the game of chess from the point of view of one who wishes to teach it to children. It assumes little or no preliminary knowledge of the...
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Chess Panorama
Here are the colorful personalities, the scandals and the great blunders of the champions that make up the chess panorama. Light in tone sometimes humorous and always entertaining these stories illustrated with game diagrams offer a marvelous introduction
Chess Panorama

Chess Panorama

$18.95
This is a book of chess games and stories about the greatest players of the game. This is what top-level competitive chess is really like. A Yugoslav grandmaster, befuddled at a simultaneous...
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Mastering the Sicilian
In this instructive book, part of the acclaimed Batsford "Mastering the Openings" series, IM Dr. Danny Kopec explains the Sicilian from Black's point of view in terms of pawn structures, tactical themes and plans, rather than dense analysis of specific li
Mastering the Sicilian

Mastering the Sicilian

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The Sicilian Defence, famed for its exciting counter-attacking potential, has long enjoyed great popularity at all levels of play - from club amateur to world champion.In this instructive book, part...
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The Unknown Alekhine - 1905-1914
Fred Reinfeld found that there were many great games by Alekhine that were not included in his My Games Book. Fred set about collecting and going though these games. He found 102 interesting and exciting games not found in the other volumes. So he called
The Unknown Alekhine - 1905-1914

The Unknown Alekhine - 1905-1914

$19.95
Fred Reinfeld found that there were many great games by Alekhine that were not included in his My Games Book. Fred set about collecting and going though these games. He found 102 interesting and...
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Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings
Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings is a book of witty remarks about unusual chess positions and strange games by famous old chess masters. Here is a delightful addition to the chess library, a collection of witty and lively articles on all aspects of the game.
Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings

Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings

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Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings is a book of witty remarks about unusual chess positions and strange games by famous old chess masters. The title to the book comes from the famous Lewis Carroll ditty:...
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Phiona's Greatest Games of Chess
Collected Chess games of Phiona Mutesi, Ugandan School, Women's and Junior Chess Champion and the subject of the Disney Major Motion Picture "The Queen of Katwe"
Phiona's Greatest Games of Chess

Phiona's Greatest Games of Chess

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Phiona Mutesi was born a raw sewage dump in the poorest country of the world in a state of constant war, where the president of her country was said to eat his political opponents. At age 9, Phiona...
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The Queen's Gambit - a Chess Novel
There has never been a top ranked woman chess player. But suppose if an American girl were born with abilities in chess that matched the greatest players. What would happen to her in a highly competitive field dominated by men? Starting from this premise,
The Queen's Gambit - a Chess Novel

The Queen's Gambit - a Chess Novel

$19.95
There has never been a top ranked woman chess player. But suppose if an American girl were born with abilities in chess that matched the greatest players. What would happen to her in a highly...
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Let's Play Checkers
This is regarded as one of the best books for the average player ever written. This modern textbook pays particular attention to the many problems confronting the average player. Besides an extensive game collection that shows the best restrictive lines f
Let's Play Checkers

Let's Play Checkers

$19.95
This is regarded as one of the best books for the average player ever written. This modern textbook pays particular attention to the many problems confronting the average player. Besides an extensive...
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Last Lectures The Chess legacy of Jose Raul Capablanca
Last Lectures is, as the name suggests, a series of lectures given over the radio by former World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca just a few months before he died. While he was preparing these lectures, he dictated them to his wife, Olga Capablanca, w
Last Lectures The Chess legacy of Jose Raul Capablanca

Last Lectures

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Last Lectures is, as the name suggests, a series of lectures given over the radio by former World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca just a few months before he died. While he was...
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Thought and Choice in Chess
What does a chessmaster think when he prepares his next move? How are his thoughts organized? Which methods and strategies does he use by solving his problem of choice? To answer these questions, the author did an experimental study in 1938, to which famo
Thought and Choice in Chess

Thought and Choice in Chess

$29.95
What does a chessmaster think when he prepares his next move? How are his thoughts organized? Which methods and strategies does he use by solving his problem of choice? To answer these questions, the...
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Big Book of Chess Combinations
This book provides one thousand combinations from chess tournament play. It is not the typical book with positions and their solutions. Rather, it tests the actual players against the computer. Sometimes the computer finds the correct solution but not alw
Big Book of Chess Combinations

Big Book of Chess Combinations

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This is a unique book like no other. This book provides one thousand combinations from chess tournament play. It is not the typical book with positions and their solutions. Rather, it tests the...
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Fischer, Kasparov and the Others
Memoirs of Chess Official, organizer and members of the FIDE Executive Board who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov for the World Chess Championships. The insider story of these important
Fischer, Kasparov and the Others

Fischer, Kasparov and the Others

$25.95
Memoirs of Chess Official, organizer and members of the FIDE Executive Board who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov for the World...
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Chessdon
Memoirs of a Chess Official, organizer and member of the FIDE Executive Board of the World Chess Federation who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov for the World Chess Championships. The in
Chessdon

Chessdon

$25.95
Memoirs of a Chess Official, organizer and member of the FIDE Executive Board of the World Chess Federation who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer,...
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Chess in the Eighties
David Bronstein was a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest players in the world. In this sharp and provocative essay, the authors explain their concern regarding the increasingly sport oriented nature of chess, in which the result is all-important,
Chess in the Eighties

Chess in the Eighties

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David Bronstein was a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest players in the world. In this sharp and provocative essay, the authors explain their concern regarding the increasingly sport oriented...
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The Education of A Poker Player
This is the Bible of Poker, the book that every serious poker player has read and studied.
The Education of A Poker Player

The Education of a Poker Player

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This is the Bible of Poker, the book that every serious poker player has read and studied. Walter Browne, chess grandmaster and professional poker player, read and studied this book. Herbert O...
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How To be a Winner at Checkers
The checkers tactics that add up to a winning game - from that shrewd opening to the last triumphant jump - are all revealed in this book by Fred Reinfeld. Mr. Reinfeld shows how the unexpected complexity of checkers makes possible subtle strategies that
How To be a Winner at Checkers

How to Be a Winner at Checkers

$12.95
The checkers tactics that add up to a winning game - from that shrewd opening to the last triumphant jump - are all revealed in this book by Fred Reinfeld. Mr. Reinfeld shows how the unexpected...
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Minnesota Fats on Pool
On these pages “Fats” gives you instructions on the Fundamentals of Pool with photographs showing the proper stance, bridge, stroke and follow through.
Minnesota Fats on Pool

Minnesota Fats on Pool

$14.95
The movie The Hustler was without doubt the greatest movie ever made about the game of pool and was one of the greatest movies ever made about any subject. It was nominated for multiple Academy...
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A Short History of Chess
Among the papers left by the late H. J. R. Murray was the typeset of A Short History of Chess which he wrote in 1917. This was not an abridgment of the standard work he had published some years earlier but a new and original brief history of the game from
A Short History of Chess

A Short History of Chess

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Among the papers left by the late H. J. R. Murray was the typeset of A Short History of Chess which he wrote in 1917. This was not an abridgment of the standard work he had published some years...
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Reshevsky Teaches Chess
This is one of the few chess books by Samuel Reshevsky, the greatest child prodigy of chess the world has ever known. This book starts as a basic beginners book, teaching how to move the pieces. It advances to important and instructive endgame positions w
Reshevsky Teaches Chess

Reshevsky Teaches Chess

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This is one of the few chess books by Samuel Reshevsky, the greatest child prodigy of chess the world has ever known. This book starts as a basic beginners book, teaching how to move the pieces. It...
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Imagination in Chess
This is a collection of problems and puzzles selected by Charles Dealtry Locock, a British Amateur Chess Champion, which he found to be the most valuable in teaching his students how to attack. These are problems which have a practical application. The au
Imagination in Chess

Imagination in Chess

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This is a collection of problems and puzzles selected by Charles Dealtry Locock, a British Amateur Chess Champion, which he found to be the most valuable in teaching his students how to attack. These...
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Chessboard Magic
To the chessplayer, composed endings are an inexhaustible source of entertainment-and this book contains 160 of the most beautiful, most brilliant endings ever composed. These compositions are remarkable enough to justify the title of the volume - Cbessbo
Chessboard Magic

Chessboard Magic

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To the chessplayer, composed endings are an inexhaustible source of entertainment-and this book contains 160 of the most beautiful, most brilliant endings ever composed. These compositions are...
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Chess Mastery
The master chess teacher Fred Reinfeld takes 16 great and instructivre master games This book is different from most others in that here Fred Reinfeld adopts a variety of the Socratic method. Instead of annotating the games by telling what each player did
Chess Mastery

Chess Mastery

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The master chess teacher Fred Reinfeld takes 16 great and instructivre master games This book is different from most others in that here Fred Reinfeld adopts a variety of the Socratic method. Instead...
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Chess Openings - Theory and Practice
Chess Openings Theory and Practice is a remarkable book, unequaled by any book of that era or since. It is not a mere openings book with long columns of moves followed at the end by punctuation marks such as + -- or =. It presents opening ideas and games,
Chess Openings - Theory and Practice

Chess Openings - Theory and Practice

$39.95
“Speaking for myself and for players of my strength, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice is the greatest aid I have ever seen for preparing for a tournament. Speaking for all other players, the...
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The Personality of Chess
Once the game of kings, chess now intrigues, fascinates, and experates millions of enthusiasts from all walks of life. What is it in the nature of this unique game that has appealed to so many people for so many centuries?
The Personality of Chess

The Personality of Chess

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Once the game of kings, chess now intrigues, fascinates, and experates millions of enthusiasts from all walks of life. What is it in the nature of this unique game that has appealed to so many people...
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The Teenage Chess Book
This book is a lively result of a chess authority's attempts to help his teenage son improve his play. In writing this book, the author kept in mind the player who has little or no previous knowledge of chess. His aim has been to provide a useful practica
The Teenage Chess Book

The Teenage Chess Book

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This book is a lively result of a chess authority's attempts to help his teenage son improve his play. Young Benjamin Fine proved to be an invaluable assistant in preparing the text, presenting the...
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The Chess Players
The Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the game. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in Ne
The Chess Players

The Chess Players

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The Chess Players is a historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the...
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The Study of Games
This is a comprehensive study of all games, board games, card games, strategy games, children's games and sporting games such as baseball. What is the history of games? Why do people play games? The authors, Elliott Morton Avedon and Brian Sutton-Smith ar
The Study of Games

The Study of Games

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This is a comprehensive study of all games, board games, card games, strategy games, children's games and sporting games such as baseball. What is the history of games? Why do people play games? The...
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British Chess Masters
A sparkling little anthology of great games by British Masters from 1821 to 1946, with full annotations. The games, most of them from international chess, have been selected to give a birds eye view, to provide a pleasing diversity of contents, style and
British Chess Masters

British Chess Masters

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A sparkling little anthology of great games by British Masters from 1821 to 1946, with full annotations. The games, most of them from international chess, have been selected to give a birds eye view,...
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Nimzovich the Hypermodern
Nimzovich the Hypermodern
Nimzovich the Hypermodern

Nimzovich the Hypermodern

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Fred Reinfeld is the most prolific chess writer in the United States if not the world. He has achieved eminence as a player as well as an author and has defeated many of America's leading chess...
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Practical Chess Endings

Practical Chess Endings

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    This is an essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Rather than attempting to cover every theoretical possible endgame position,...
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The Immortal Games of Capablanca

The Immortal Games of Capablanca

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This is the biography of Jose R. Capablanca, famous grandmaster of Chess, with 113 of his greatest games.   The fame of the great Cuban Master Chess champion of the world from 1921 to 1927, is...
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The Best Move
The Best Move
The Best Move

The Best Move

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The Best Move is a collection of very hard Chess problems based on actual grandmaster games.  The reader is asked who has the advantage and why.  Points are awarded not only for getting the...
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The Middle Game in Chess
The Middle Game in Chess
The Middle Game in Chess

The Middle Game in Chess

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The Middle Game in Chess by Reuben Fine completes the trilogy between Practical Chess Openings and Basic Chess Endings, both by Fine, so that the three major aspects of chess are discussed. The...
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