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Secrets of Chess Opening Surprises (SOS)
volume 2 Jeroen Bosch
£12.95/$19.95
144 pages, New in Chess Tired of main lines? Looking for a weapon to perplex your opponent? Here’s a refreshing source overflowing with baffling ideas and stunning finds. A follow-up to his highly successful SOS volume 1. Jeroen Bosch prevents a further 17 opening lines form a wide range of openings to bewilder, bamboozle and baffle your opponent.
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Play the 4 f3 Nimzo Indian
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Checkmate - My First Chess Book Garry Kasparov £9.99/$17.95 Learn to play the great game of chess with none other than Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as your teacher. Discover all the various pieces - the king, the queen, the knights, the bishops and the pawns. |
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Reuben Fine Aidan Woodger £49.95/$90 This comprehensive collection of 659 of Reuben Fine’s tournament and match games is presented chronologically, in context, and with annotations from contemporary sources. More than 180 other games and game fragments (rapid transit, correspondence, exhibition, blitz, and others) are also included. The work also includes a biography of Fine, and notes aspects of his career that merit further study: his contribution to endgame and middlegame theory, his methods and style of play, and his exhibition play. Fine’s career results, brief biographical data about his opponents, a comprehensive bibliography that includes his contributions to journals, and indexes of players and of openings complete the work. |
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Bogoljubow - The fate of a Chess Player
Soloviov
£15.99/$29.95
Efim Bogoljubow was one of the great players of the first half of the twentieth century. Over a period of more than 15 years he was permanently among the challengers for the world title. You'll find in this book a detailed biography and 200 extensively analysed wins of Efim Bogoljubow, complemented with cross tables and full index.
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The Scandinavian Defence James Plaskett £15.99/$22.95 192 pages, Batsford The Scandinavian Defence, previously thought to be a sub-standard response to 1 e4, has now emerged from the doldrums and been employed with success by some of the world's strongest GM's, including Larsen, Hansen, Rogers, Shirov and Anand. The traditional form of the opening is 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 Qa5, with a subsequent deployment of Black's Queen's bishop at f5 or g4, and indeed the current theoretical status of this line remains good. However, in recent years many alternative schemes have been tried. There has, for example, been a marked increase in the popularity of 3…Qd6!?, in conjunction with a swift …a6 and …b5, or …Bg4, …Nc6 and …0-0-0, and sometimes even an early foray by the Black queen into the White kingside – all of which offers a radically different middlegame from the stonewalling so frequently associated with the older type of Scandinavian middlegames. Recent play also suggests that 3…Qe5, cheekily dubbed 'The Patzer Variation', might also not be so naive. Equally important are the latest lines arising from 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6, including the dangerous Icelandic Gambit and the aggressive Portuguese Variation which is currently at the cutting edge of chess theory. |
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Chess Lessons Arthur Yusupov £14.99/$28.95 204 pages (hardcover) Between 1999 and 2002 Artur Yusupov produced and published in Germany a small series of ten training booklets, each one covering a particular chess theme. This experimental project proved quite popular, not only with German-speaking readers. Many of his chess colleagues liked this form of individual training, and some of them used the material in their classes too. This favourable reaction prompted the idea of an English translation. Although the booklets were aimed at players of differing abilities, most wanted the complete set. And that's how these different themes have ended up in one book. You could also look on this diversity as a strength if a reader, with chess ambitions, wants to test his overall ability. Moreover, for chess trainers this book provides several ready-made lectures, and many useful exercises covering different aspects of the game, already sorted in terms of their level of difficulty. |
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Quarterly for Chess History - Spring 9/2004
£24.95/$44.95
Moravian Chess, 508 pages (hardcover)
Over 500 pages of quality annotated games from the annals of chess history. Covering: Reshevsky's tours of the US (1920-22),
James Jellett champion of North America,
Biogrpahies of Hromadka, Szen and Geffe,
Paris 1930 and Illinois 1951,
Flohr-Stoltz 1931,
As well as sections on correspondence chess, chess problems and book reviews.
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The Philidorian
Edited by George Walker
£24.95/$44.95
Moravian Chess, 256 pages (hardcover)
A veritable cornucopia of chess and all things cerebral. Including opening analysis, annotate games, chess problems (as well as checkers, bridge, poetry and much more!) Incidentally, the Philidorian was the first english-language chess magazine, first published in 1837. |
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Chess Reader Volume I-VI (1955-66)
Edited by Ken Whyld
£24.95/$44.95
Moravian Chess, 458 pages (hardcover)
In the 1950s, Ken was busily collecting chess books. He began a magazine (The Chess Reader, 1955-63 and two later issues published by The Chess Player in 1965 and 1966) devoted to reviewing new chess books and during its lifetime he wrote over 500 reviews. This was not only a clever way of getting free copies from the publishers but it gave him an outlet for his writing skills. This magazine is completely unobtainable, even on the secondhand market, which is a great shame as it means that Ken's beautifully crafted reviews are also unavailable. However, a reprint (minus the last issue) was recently circulated to members of the Ken Whyld Association and a full reprint is also now available. Tony Gillam, Nottingham 2004 |
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