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Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume 3

Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume 3

The final, and eagerly awaited, volume of the series will complete the opening repertoire for White according to Wojo. The Grünfeld is one of the most topical openings in modern chess practice. Many club players fear it, and top GMs often struggle to get an advantage when facing it as White. But is it really a theoretically sound defense? In this third and final volume of the acclaimed Wojos Weapons series, IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton claim to have found a sure route to an advantage against t

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The Russian Endgame Handbook

The Russian Endgame Handbook

An old Soviet quip has it that Western amateurs play the opening like grandmasters, the middlegame like experts, and the endgame like beginners. Soviet-trained players would fearlessly steer the game toward the final phase, confident of their superior endgame skill. Ilya Rabinovichs Russian Endgame Manual is a major reason for this. Rabinovich raises the beginners understanding of the endgame to a sophisticated level, starting with elementary checkmates and then moving on to the principles for handling c

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Best Play: A New Method to Find the Strongest Move

Best Play: A New Method to Find the Strongest Move

With a foreword by Alexander Morozevich: Have you ever wished for a formula to help you decide what move to make in any given chess position? In this ambitious and groundbreaking work, physicist and chess master Alexander Shashin presents the fruit of three decades of research into the elements of the game. He breaks down the position into mathematical ratios that compare the fundamental factors ofmaterial, mobility, safety,andspacefor each side, leading you to the proper plan and the mental attitude to

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Thinking With Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

Thinking With Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

 Whats the best way to teach chess to children? Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 is a handbook for teachers, librarians, after-school instructors, chess coaches, counselors, and parents that requires no prior knowledge of the game. Both novices and veteran chess players can use its innovative lesson plans for teaching groups of children. InThinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, crea

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Winning Pawn Play in the Indian Defense

Winning Pawn Play in the Indian Defense

 The Kings Indian and Benoni defenses may look similar, but they lead to vastly different strategies for each player. Why does White usually attack on the queenside in the Kings Indian but on the kingside in the Benoni, while Black does the opposite? Do you know when and where to launch your pawns forward, and when to rely on piece play? Can you stop your opponent from blocking up the position? Are you mystified by the subtle differences that totally change the game? In Winning Pawn Play in the Indian De

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Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods

Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods

 International Master Jonathan Hawkins was a relatively slow starter in the world of chess.Learning the game at the age of eight, he was a keen junior who won a number of local tournaments. But by his own admission, by the time I was in my mid-teens my age-to-playing-strength ratio was distinctly average. He started to study chess very seriously in his late teens and achieved a rapid rise through the ranks. He became a FIDE Master in 2008 and earned the title of International Master in 2010. 2011 broug

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Chess is Childs Play: Teaching Techniques That Work

Chess is Childs Play: Teaching Techniques That Work

 Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU! Chess is one of the oldest strategy games known to man. Studies show that children who learn chess at an early age gain such valuable life skills as:  Problem-solving ability  Enhanced imagination Improved patience and focus Greater self-confidence. Chess educators Laura Sherman and Bill Kilpatrick have created an easy, step-by-step method for teaching chess that parents of all skill levels can use to teach 

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The Improving Annotator: From Beginner to Master

The Improving Annotator: From Beginner to Master

Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess. By examining the choices you made during the game – and how they turned out – you can pinpoint the flaws in your thinking process so that you can work on them. Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman shows you the whys and the hows of annotating your games. Using entertaining clashes from four decades of tournament play, Heisman traces his own development as a player and analyst, illustrating how his method works in pract

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The Amazing Chess Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Amazing Chess Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The legendary Baron Munchausen was famous for telling incredible stories about his astounding happenings and astonishing feats. Munchausen was both a fearless, bold adventurer and a fun, inspiring companion. Now, imagine the Baron playing chess! This book presents a series of extraordinary chess tales, describing Munchausen's captivating chess adventures, as told by the great Baron to Amatzia Avni, his diligent biographer. Prepare to be amazed as the Baron engages in chess battles with a range of

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Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame

Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame

Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks – the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to little-known gems of Russian chess, the author challenges you to form your own impression and then see how the masters honed in o

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Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate

Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate

José Raúl Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique. But The Chess Machine was also a master of that other way to deliver mate: the attack on the enemy king. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning chess coach and author Frisco Del Rosario shines a long-overdue light on this neglected aspect of Capablancas record. He illustrates how the Cuban genius used positional concepts to build up irresistible king hunts, embodying the principles of good play ad

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Chess Camp: Volume 1

Chess Camp: Volume 1

Wersja angielska, twarda oprawa. Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board. In this first volume, Move, Attack, and Capture, the student will discover how the chess pieces move;

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Chess Camp: Volume 2

Chess Camp: Volume 2

Wersja angielska, twarda oprawa. Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board. The second volume in this series, Simple Checkmates, contains 618 structured problems, exercises, and

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Chess Camp: Volume 3

Chess Camp: Volume 3

Wersja angielska, twarda oprawa. Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board. In Checkmates with Many Pieces, the third volume in the series, the student will: 1) find his or her w

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Chess Camp Volume 4, Elementary Endgames

Chess Camp Volume 4, Elementary Endgames

Wersja angielska, twarda oprawa. Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board. In this fourth volume, Elementary Endgames, the student will: 1) learn how to deliver fundamental chec

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