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By Subject > Chess
One of the finest lists of chess books anywhere! Books on strategy, great tournaments, games collections featuring the super stars of chess history: Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Tartakower, Fischer, others.
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| |  202 Surprising Checkmates
by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston
These one- and two-move checkmate drills help players keep alert to new possibilities. Queen sacrifices, "smothered" mates, "quiet moves," castling, en passant pawn capture, much more. 202 exercises. Solutions included.
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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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| |  Killer Chess
by Dover
Three great books — Danger in Chess: How to Avoid Making Blunders, How Good Is Your Chess?, and Why You Lose at Chess — and a travel-sized magnetic chess set.
 WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD–Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
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 How to Play the Chess Openings
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Clear, profound examinations of just what each opening is intended to do and how opponent can counter. Many sample games.
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| Products in Chess | | | |  | 107 Great Chess Battles, 1938–1945
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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|  | 200 Open Games
by David Bronstein
Russian grandmaster's finest games, presented in full with wealth of illustrative diagrams. Lively, amusing commentary emphasizes ideas behind moves, influence of 1P-K4-P-K4 on subsequent game. 207 illustrations. Index.
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| | 202 Surprising Checkmates
by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston
These one- and two-move checkmate drills help players keep alert to new possibilities. Queen sacrifices, "smothered" mates, "quiet moves," castling, en passant pawn capture, much more. 202 exercises. Solutions included.
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|  | 500 Master Games of Chess
by Dr. S. Tartakower, J. du Mont
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798–1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
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|  | The Art of Checkmate
by Georges Renaud, Victor Kahn
All mating situations in basic classification, how tactics adjust to each. 127 games analyzed. 80 quiz examples, answers.
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|  | The Art of Chess Combination
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Modern explanation of principles, varieties, techniques and ideas behind them, illustrasted with many examples from great players. 200 diagrams.
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|  | The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
by Rudolf Spielmann
Grandmaster shows how to win games by giving up pieces. Describes games against Réti, Tarrasch, and other masters. Introduction. 91 diagrams.
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|  | The Art of the Middle Game
by Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov
Two grandmasters offer masterly analysis of neglected area: attacking the king, defense, pawn structure, much more. Introduction by Harry Golombek.
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|  | Better Chess for Average Players
by Tim Harding
Clear, straightforward guide covers fundamentals of attacking and positional play, the endgame, assessing positions and choosing moves, difficult positions, time-trouble, much more. 384 diagrams.
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| |  | Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
by Mikhail Botvinnik
World champion who dominated chess in the 1940's and 50's selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams.
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|  | Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings
by Irving Chernev
60 complete games, annotated throughout but emphasizing endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art.
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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 Master vs. Chess Amateur
by Max Euwe, Walter Meiden
25 chess games chosen, arranged, annotated to help amateurs avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. With commentary by 1935–36 World Chess Champion Max Euwe. 1963 edition.
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|  | Chess Openings
by Tim Harding, Leonard Barden
Indispensable resource for players at all levels provides expert coverage of all openings, among them the Benko Gambit, Bird's Opening, Centre Game, and Stonewall Attack. Updated edition incorporates universal algebraic notation.
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|  | Chess Strategy
by Edward Lasker
One of a half-dozen great theoretical works in chess, shows principles of action above and beyond moves. Acclaimed by Capablanca, Keres, and other greats.
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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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