Chess Mazes: Increase Your Piece Awareness by Seeing Ahead Further

Chess Mazes: Increase Your Piece Awareness by Seeing Ahead Further

A completely new kind of chess puzzle helps you develop the necessary skills to take your game to the next level. Excellent training to avoid one-move blunders.
To master Chess Mazes you have to exert better control and command of the full potential of all your pieces and you have to visualize their movements in your mind's eye. 
This sounds more difficult than it is: Alberston's unique method takes you by the hand.
Very good for beginners and improving chess players. With hundreds of exercises.
American Master Bruce Alberston is a popular chess author. His books have been instructing amateur chess players all over the world for two decades.
 

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Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School If you want to amaze your friends with your chess skills, this is exactly the book you have been looking for. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to play Power Moves, winning tactics that require thinking ahead.  But how do you find Power Moves? Experienced chess trainer Charles Hertan will show you and help you to become a very dangerous player! You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just

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The King is a Powerful Piece: More than 100 Illustrative Games

The King is a Powerful Piece: More than 100 Illustrative Games

Cowering in the middlegame, towering in the endgame: chess theory teaches that the king needs protection from enemy pieces until the ending, when finally it can come out from hiding to decisive effect. But what if the king can take care of itself, and even march out to battle with its army? FIDE Master and coach Tigran Gyozalyan fills a gap in the chess literature with the first systematic exploration of the kings role and capabilities in the opening and the middlegame. Relying on a selection of more tha

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After Magnus

After Magnus

Twenty more years? Magnus Carlsen has said that he may stay at the top for another 20 years. And who can argue with the World Champion? He's been dominating top-level chess with an iron fist and has rightly highlighted the lack of consistency from his potential rivals. When Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen burst onto the chess scene, there was no doubt whatsoever about their future destiny: sooner or later they were going to become World Champion. How different is the situation today

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Back to Basics: Tactics

Back to Basics: Tactics

Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun!  This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about – and benefiting from – the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you cant win! And if you capture each of your opponents pieces, winning should be easy.  Even if you just get ahead by a small amount of material, your chances of winning soar. The way to win your opponents pieces is through the use of tactics. This book is about all types of beginning tactics. 

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Chess Evolution 2 by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Chess Evolution 2 by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Chess Evolution 2 continues Yusupov's award-winning instructional series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles. Detailed information on Yusupov's award-winning training course.  Gra

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Chess Evolution 2 by Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Chess Evolution 2 by Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Chess Evolution 2 continues Yusupov's award-winning instructional series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles. Detailed information on Yusupov's award-winning training course.  Gra

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Pump Up Your Rating by Axel Smith (miękka okładka)

Pump Up Your Rating by Axel Smith (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating. Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves

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Pump Up Your Rating (twarda okładka) by Axel Smith

Pump Up Your Rating (twarda okładka) by Axel Smith

 Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows how you can Pump Up Your Rating. Every area of chess is covered - opening preparation, through middlegame play, to endgame technique. Smith delves

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Tragicomedy in the Endgame: Instructive Mistakes of the Masters

Tragicomedy in the Endgame: Instructive Mistakes of the Masters

CP (Association of Chess Professionals) Book of the Year 2012 When it was released in 2003, "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manua"l became an instant classic. Now the chess instructor extraordinaire offers an introduction to the fascinating world of chess endings. This book is designed to highlight the key concepts of the most common chess endgames and will prove quite instructive to chessplayers of all levels.   Topics include: The King in the Endgame Pawn play Zugzwang Saving Methods Tactics in the E

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212 Surprising Checkmates

212 Surprising Checkmates

With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations.   Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining exercises represent game-like positions for checkmates in two and three moves.  All are designed to increase a players skill and speed analy

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Decision Making in Major Piece Endings by Boris Gelfand (twarda okładka)

Decision Making in Major Piece Endings by Boris Gelfand (twarda okładka)

Książka w języku angielskim. Twarda okładka.   In Decision Making in Major Piece Endings former World Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand discusses his path to decision making in endgames involving rooks or queens, as well as the often neglected 4th Phase. Countless games are decided by good or bad technique in such endgames, so readers are certain to benefit from the insights of a world-class Grandmaster on this vital topic. Grandmaster Boris Gelfand has been an elite player for over 30 years, win

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Chess Camp Volume 5, Two Move Checkmates

Chess Camp Volume 5, Two Move Checkmates

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 Two-Move Checkmates, the fifth volume in the Chess Camp series, the student will be introduced to t

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Chess Camp Volume 5, Two Move Checkmates

Chess Camp Volume 5, Two Move Checkmates

Chess Campis 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. InTwo-Move Checkmates,the fifth volume in theChess Campseries, the student will be introduced to the elements of planning, aiming at

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Chess training Pocket Book II

Chess training Pocket Book II

320 Key Positions to improve your chess skills.  'The Chess Training Pocket Book II: How to spot tactics and how far ahead to calculate' gives you the knowledge and training you need to become a master-strength player. It will test, train, and sharpen your thinking skills. The first chapter has a number of extremely useful, no-nonsense tips on how to think about a position, such as: how to battle tunnel-vision, handle candidate moves, use 'support positions', and switch perspective. The bulk of the boo

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Chess Camp: Volume 1

Chess Camp: Volume 1

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; start to get a feel for the c

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