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Chess players! Are you having trouble facing 1.e4? Is your Spanish too sticky and your Sicilian too sickly? Wrongfoot White with the Nimzowitsch Defence. Correspondence Chess Master and experienced author Marek Soszynski analyses 1.e4 Nc6 in detail, including sidelines and novelties, to give you a complete deviant repertoire against White's most popular first move.
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Le système de Londres est un système d'ouverture qui a gagné une popularité notable aussi bien parmi les grands maîtres que parmi les joueurs amateurs ces dernières années. Il existe plusieurs raisons principales à cette situation. La plus importante est probablement que, avec le soutien des programmes informatiques, la théorie des ouvertures est aujourd'hui incroyablement profonde, et les joueurs cherchent des moyens d'échapper à de longues...
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The ideas & plans behind all chess openings.
Volume 3 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Comprehensive: covers all main variations likely to arise
Easy-to-use: important moves and key positions are highlighted in colour
Long-lasting: it doesn't outdate because...
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Chess would consecrate a match to select its best player called the World Chess Championship. It would begin with Steinitz and last for ages down to the present time. Here in this book, we will discuss this epic title, its match, and also the grandmaster star Fabiano Caruana. Here we will explore chess for the meaning of its best player, highest title, and greatest institution to the grandeur of the game.
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Sammy Reshevsky was a child prodigy who became a World Chess Championship contender. In this book, Correspondence Chess Master Marek Soszynski discusses Reshevsky's playing style, annotates 20 of his games (9 of them not in Gordon's Compendium) and adds contemporary newspaper accounts and other reports to give a full and frank picture of the ruthless American Grandmaster.
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Henry (Harry) Nelson Pillsbury is one of the strongest players to have never received the title of "World Champion". Captivating with his extraordinary memory and blind multi-table displays, he soon became one of the strongest players of his era, although he started chess at a relatively late age. Pillsbury, whose entire career lasted a total of eleven years, is, according to many commentators, the 3rd strongest ever.He was an American player who...
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La variante Dragón de la Defensa Siciliana es una apertura extremadamente instructiva y emocionante debido a las ricas posibilidades tácticas e ideas posicionales que incorpora. Los juegos a menudo están en un filo de navaja para ambos oponentes, y una ligera desviación de la teoría o un error aparentemente insignificante puede resultar en una pérdida inmediata de la partida.Hay ciertas razones por las cuales el autor prefiere escribir un libro...
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Whether you're an American Mah Jongg newbie or an intermediate player looking to gain an edge over your opponents, American Mah Jongg for Everyone is the perfect book to help you start practicing your game! Experienced international Mah Jongg instructors Gregg Swain and Toby Salk walk you through the basics of American Mah Jongg-introducing readers to the tiles, rituals, history, rules and winning strategies of the game. Using the humor, warmth and...
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A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first African American Chess Grandmaster.
At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.
In “Move by Move”, Ashley guides readers through...
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