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In Chess Yearbook 66 £15 / $22.50 New In Chess Yearbooks have become an important addition to any aspiring chess players book shelves, and so we always look forward to the latest offering. The sixty-sixth edition sees all of the usual features - Sosonko's Corner, the New In Chess Forum, Book reviews by Glenn Flear - as well as 36 detailed surveys on openings including the Sicilian Najdorf, Caro-Kann Advance, French Winawer, Nizmo and Kings Indians. |
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Winning Chess Yasser Seirawan £12.99 / $14.95 'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do on holidays, the real purpose of this book is to teach you to understand the four major principles of my Seirawan method: force, time, space and pawn structure. Each is easy to understand and each is a weapon that will enable you to defeat most anyone you challenge to a game' - Y.Seirawan Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear explanations of the games, fundamental and instructive examples, question-and-answer sections, sample games and psychological hints. |
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Winning
Chess Strategies Yasser Seirawan £14.99 / $19.95 A complete overview of proven chess principles that teaches you how to deploy your pieces using the right moves at the right time to build small advantages into effective, long-range strategies. |
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Winning
Chess Tactics Yasser Seirawan £14.99 / $19.95 The essential guide to the use of tactics, the hand-to-hand fighting that takes advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush an opponent and change the course of a game in a single move. |
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Shirov's
One Hundred Wins Sergei Soloviov. New Chess Stars £17.99/$26.95 The style of Alexei Shirov can be called a "professional chess romanticism". It is the style of a player who believes in his fortunate star, in the triumph of his ideas and principles, of a player who is always ready to launch a challenge against logic on the board. Features interviews, photos & well annotated games. |
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Chinese
School of Chess Liu Wenzhe £ 16.99/$25.95 This important work reveals the unique approach, training methods and secrets of the Chinese School of Chess. Based on the 'Art of Thinking', it has given Chinese players a distinct style from their western counterparts and helped them become major players on the world chess scene. |
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2010:
Chess Oddities Alex Dunne £ 14.95/$18.95 Journey into the weirder side of chess with maestro Alex Dunne. Instructive games and quick crushes are brought together with unusual facts and bizarrities. |
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Play
the Classical Dutch Simon Williams £12.99/$18.95 In this book, one of the most enthusiastic adherents of the Classical Dutch explains the workings of his favourite opening, and provides Black with a complete repertoire against 1 d4. Few opponents will be ready to take on the Classical Dutch, since it has received little attention in chess literature in recent decades. Simon Williams shows how Black can obtain counter-chances against each of White's main options. He also provides recommendations against all of White's alternative approaches against the Dutch, including a variety of sharp possibilities after 1 d4 f5. |
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How
to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire Steve Giddins £13.99/$19.95 In this book, the first to focus on these issues, Steve Giddins provides common-sense guidance on one of the perennial problems facing chess-players. He tackles questions such as: whether to play main lines, offbeat openings or 'universal' systems; how to avoid being 'move-ordered'; how to use computers; if and when to depart from or change your repertoire. Giddins argues that from novice to grandmaster, a player's basic task when choosing a repertoire is the same: he needs to select openings that suit his playing style and that he can play with confidence. The repertoire should not require more memory work and study than he is capable of, or has time for. The book is rounded off with a look at the use of 'role models' and an investigation of the repertoires of leading players past and present. |
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Kings
Indian and Grunfeld: Fianchetto Lines Lasha Janjgava £14.99/$19.99 By calmly fianchettoing his king's bishop in reply to the King's Indian and Grünfeld, White seeks to draw the sting from these dynamic defences and exert positional pressure throughout the middlegame. By refusing to create a massive pawn-centre, he offers Black no target for counterplay. Some of the lines become very sharp, especially if Black makes an all-out attempt to generate counterplay and provokes White into hand-to-hand fighting. These lines in particular call for accurate, detailed analysis, and Janjgava provides this in abundance. |
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Walter
Penn Shipley John S. Hilbert £34.95/$45 Walter Penn Shipley stands, along with Herman Helms and very few others, as one of the most important men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century chess development in the United States. A talented player, and a very respected member of the chess fraternity, Shipley ranks high among those who have given all they could to the game. |
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Curse
of Kirsan Sarah Hurst £14.95/$19.95 Chess can be an obsession that takes over your life, whether you are a wood-pushing novice or a superstar grandmaster. British journalist Sarah Hurst was infected with chess fever at the age of 20 and spent seven years exploring the mysterious world of the amateur and professional player. In pursuit of interviews she slid down an icy hill in Hastings to catch a Chinese women’s world champion, chased Garry Kasparov around London, chatted cheerfully with a manic depressive in Budapest, and roamed the Russian steppe with Kalmyk Buddhists. Read about some of the dark sides to chess as Hurst perceives it, and enjoy some thoroughly entertaining chess writing. |
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Colle
Plays the Colle System Adam Harvey £11.95/$14.95 This book contains 116 games played by Eduard Colle in which he used the Colle System, or variations deviating from the opening in an attempt to avoid the Colle. The games are arranged so that it can be utilised as an opening study manual. Many brilliancies are included, as well as games where Colle was not at his best, useful to students wishing examples of good and bad play in the variation. |
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Modern
Endgame Practice Beliavsky & Mikhalchishin £14.99/$19.95 The quality of endgame play by chess players has deteriorated in recent years - as faster time limits and a general neglect of serious study takes its toll. By identifying mistakes made by grandmasters in tournament play, the authors show players - at all levels - the need for correct technique. Included in this practical guide to endgame play are chapters on: * realising an advantage * shameful mistakes * clever drawing devices * the difficulties of defence * bishop against knight * the connection of the opening and the endgame * the role of computers A very thorough book which is guaranteed to improve the readers technique in this tricky area of the game. |
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New
York 1940 Hilbert £25.99/$37 Another thoroughly researched book from Caissa Editions, Hilbert covers the 1940 US Chess Championships. The first Championship to be held under the auspices of the United States Chess Federation, the book details not only the finals of the Mens and Womens Championships, but also the preliminary events. Intriguing for chess players, but also insightful for those who don't play and merely want to gain an insight into the players and events involved in what is now simply known as New York 1940. |
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