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Refine your game with these captivating retrospectives of famous tournaments between chess superstars. Their move-by-move analyses will also improve your problem-solving skills, memory, and brain function.
Recommendations... How to Beat Bobby Fischer
by Edmar Mednis
Examines the rare defeats of a legendary player. 61 losing battles hold valuable lessons for all players, and text-and-diagram analyses offer a fascinating look at strategy, tactics.
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by Dr. S. Tartakower, J. du Mont
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
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Products in Great Chess Battles | | |  | 107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945
by Alexander Alekhine
One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Keres, Reshevsky, others. Included are many of Alekhine's own games, plus candid commentary on fellow masters, rivals.
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|  | 200 Brilliant Endgames
by Irving Chernev
Appropriate for players at every level. Each of the 200 examples features a clear diagram with an algebraic grid and the winning variation presented in algebraic notion.
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| | 500 Master Games of Chess
by Dr. S. Tartakower, J. du Mont
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
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|  | Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
by Mikhail Botvinnik
World champion who dominated chess in the 1940s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams.
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|  | Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
by Irving Chernev
These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Réti, the best. Here are real games from match and tournament play.
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|  | Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929
by Aron Nimzovich, Jim Marfia
The tournament's victor offers a captivating retrospective of his triumph over Capablanca, Euwe, Bogolyubov, Tartakower, Sämisch, and others, with a tart analysis of Carlsbad's 30 best games.
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|  | Chess World Title Contenders and Their Styles
by Danny Kopec, Craig Pritchett
Rich selection includes games by Kasparov, Timman, Browne, Hübner, Ribli, more. Profiles of careers, personalities, styles; also, thoroughly annotated selection of finest and most characteristic games. 8 halftones. 108 figures.
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|  | Counter Gambits
by T. D. Harding
Expert analysis of such topics as dynamic counterplay, counter-gambits in open games, Black sacrifices in the half-open games, counters to the Queen's Gambit, and Indian counter-gambits. 67 fully annotated games.
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|  | Emanuel Lasker: The Life of a Chess Master
by Dr. J. Hannak
Standard biography of perhaps greatest player of all time: childhood, education, matches against Tarrasch, Marshall, other greats. 100 annotated games. Foreword by Albert Einstein.
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|  | Epic Battles of the Chessboard
by R. N. Coles
Enjoy and learn from 50 of the greatest games ever played, 1834–1951, featuring a roster of chess immortals: Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, others. 99 diagrams. Index of openings.
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|  | How Karpov Wins: Second, Enlarged Edition
by Edmar Mednis
Revised, enlarged edition of book focusing on Russian chess master's tactics and strategy against Bronstein, Smyslov, Spassky, Korchnoi, other greats. 100 games analyzed. Over 300 chess diagrams.
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| | How to Beat Bobby Fischer
by Edmar Mednis
Examines the rare defeats of a legendary player. 61 losing battles hold valuable lessons for all players, and text-and-diagram analyses offer a fascinating look at strategy, tactics.
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|  | The Immortal Games of Capablanca
by Fred Reinfeld
Superbly annotated treasury contains 113 of the Cuban master's greatest games, including many previously unavailable in book form. Biography of Capablanca, tournament and match record, Index of Openings.
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|  | Learn Chess from the Greats
by Peter J. Tamburro, Jr.
Elementary ideas for immediate practical use by beginners; how to attack; challenging chess problems; and 60 complete games by Blackburne, Marshall, Spielmann, and other immortals.
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|  | Morphy's Games of Chess
by Philip Sergeant
300 games by the greatest player of all time: 54 against such masters as Anderssen, Harrwitz, Mongredien, Bird, Paulsen, and others; 52 of the best blindfold games; 52 games at odds; and 142 in consultation, informally.
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|  | My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
by Alexander Alekhine
The best games of one of the best players in chess history. 220 games with Alekhine’s own accounts. Spans 30 years of tournament play.
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by David Bronstein
Perceptive coverage of all 210 games from the legendary tournament, which featured Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others, including the author. Suitable for players at all levels. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
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