{"title":"Clearance Sale - Puzzles, Games, Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eSave up to 70% with our September Steals. Hurry, ends September 28. To shop the Clearance by discount or category, \u003ca title=\"All Clearance Sale\" href=\"https:\/\/store.doverpublications.com\/pages\/clearance\"\u003eclick here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780486217550","title":"Expert Card Technique","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever tried to do a card trick and failed, you know what it is to be embarrassed. You may try to cover up by doing a more difficult trick and fail again. The way out of this dilemma, however, is not immediate, but it is reliable: a surer mastery of technique. This means the proper instruction book, and practice.\u003cbr\u003eIn this definitive work on card technique, step-by-step instructions teach you the correct methods for the basic manipulations and the more advanced flourishes, and only then allow you to learn tricks. Offering the most foolproof methods available, Jean Hugard and Fredrick Braue explain such basic manipulations as the palm, the shuffle, the lift, the side slip, the pass, the glimpse, the jog, and the reverse. They detail various false deals, crimps, and changes and the more advanced execution needed for forces, fans, and the use of the prearranged deck. Also presented is a wide variety of tricks, including discoveries, self-working tricks, one-handed tricks, stranger cards, and such individually famous tricks as the four aces, the rising cards, and the Zingone spread. In addition, the authors include a complete compendium of shakedown sleights — to warn the card player and aid the entertainer — and a performer's guide to misdirection and patter.\u003cbr\u003eMany of the methods explained were revealed here for the first time, while many previously known tricks are presented in improved versions. In every case the aim is simplicity of technique for the purpose of mystifying an audience, not technique for the sake of technique. An unsurpassed collection of methods and manipulations, this classic work will help any aspiring magician to achieve expert card technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the 1940 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e Magic performance presentation foundation methods tutorial instruction; card magic tricks; Magic tricks for adults; conjuring; magic book; Deception; Trickery; How to; DIY; Card deck dealer gaming table; discovery; magic playing cards; Step by step; palm; faro; shuffle; cut; slip; Pass; changes; force; compendium; routines; simple; hustle; cheating; gambler; theory; Illusion; Card sleights revelation mastery control; intro; impromptu; beginner; Gambling; slight sleight of hand; kid; game; playing; fool; secrets; invisible; bridge; bet; practice; learning; basics; holds; flips; switches; steals; sleeve; professional amateur magicians; amaze; Classic; Vanish; hide; hidden; teacher; Entertainment; conversation; foolproof; turnover; misdirection; false; reverse; flourish; Crimp; manipulation; cardistry; artifice; speech; revealed   ","brand":"Jean Hugard and Frederick Braué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159293968705,"sku":"9780486217550","price":7.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/files\/9780486217550.jpg?v=1751994105"},{"product_id":"9780486242491","title":"Capablanca's Best Chess Endings","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eChess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. José Raúl Capablanca (1888–1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions — he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius — intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical — all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. \"In order to improve your game,\" he said, \"you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe best way to follow Capablanca's advice is through this — the only book devoted to his great endings, 60 complete games emphasizing the grand \u003ci\u003efinale\u003c\/i\u003e but annotated throughout.\u003cbr\u003eIrving Chernev communicates in his notes the mystery and wonder as well as the delight in discovering again and again the original, fertile mind of chess's greatest born player. \"Virtuoso,\" \"exquisite,\" \"profound,\" \"inspired,\" \"elegant,\" and \"fiendish ingenuity\" describe match and tournament games and endings against Alekhine, Steiner, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Lasker, Réti, and others, the best in the contemporary chess world. Capablanca's eleventh game in the 1901 Cuban championship (which he won, aged 12) \"surpasses any accomplishment by such other prodigies as Morphy, Reshevsky, and Fischer.\" From age 12 through the last game in the book (nearly four decades later against Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936), Capablanca fashions endgames in tense tournament atmosphere that seem like delicate, precise instruments dreamt at leisure.\u003cbr\u003eHere then is the essence of Capablanca, analyzed for the instruction of players and the pleasure of chess connoisseurs. Included are indexes of openings, themes in the endings, and opponents, as well as a bibliography and record of tournament and match play. 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