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21 produkter
Reveal Your Chess Style
Häftad, 2025
192 kr
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Are you a Kasparov, a Carlsen or a Fischer? Use this book to identify your own unique chess style and discover how it aligns with the tactics of the game’s greatest players. Then explore tips and tricks that help you avoid pitfalls, improve your strengths and become the best player you can be.Every …
Deadline Grandmaster
A Chess Memoir
Häftad, 2024
503 kr
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This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of chess, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction. It describes how chess and journalism fought for his time for more than 60 years and how he …
100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked
Häftad, 2006
396 kr
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How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But "best"? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work …
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi
A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games
Häftad, 2020
625 kr
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This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English. Mikhail Tal, the roguish, doomed …
What It Takes to Become a Chess Master
chess strategies that get results
Häftad, 2012
168 kr
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So you're a fairly decent chess player. You compete in tournaments, you play on the Internet. But you would love to make that leap to become a chess master. What do you need to know, how much do you have to practise, and how much of the success of the masters is simply a matter of innate talent, …
David vs Goliath Chess
How to Beat a Stronger Player
Häftad, 2016
163 kr
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Strategies and examples for beating a superior opponent in chess.Chess history is littered with David vs Goliath chess struggles where the weaker player has prevailed. Chess masters, even international grandmasters, can be defeated by young, improving players who use the right techniques and proper …
How to Swindle in Chess
snatch victory from a losing position
Häftad, 2020
173 kr
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A book by stalwart chess writer on an aspect of chess that is quite common, but little is written about, swindling in chess. In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. Renown chess …
Bobby Fischer Rediscovered
Revised and Updated Edition
Häftad, 2020
180 kr
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An updated, expanded edition of the 2003 classic, with all 100 games reanalyzed, along with six additional gamesThis book covers the entire career of an American chess grandmaster and eleventh World Chess Champion, going well beyond his My 60 Memorable Games, and includes rarely seen"lost"Fischer …
500 Chess Questions Answered
for all new chess players
Häftad, 2021
150 kr
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An insightful new book that is perfect for newcomers to chess inspired by Netflix's Queen's Gambit.Written by one of the best chess communicators in the business, chess master and chess journalist Andy Soltis divulges practical advice and explains technical terms that chess books often overlook. …
Chessmaster Checklist
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
173 kr
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An instructional book about the crucial questions that masters ask themselves before committing to a move – a checklist for all players to ask themselves before making their own moves.Beginners learn to ask themselves the key questions. As they improve, they ask more sophisticated questions: 'What …
Fabiano Caruana: 60 Memorable Games
Häftad, 2022
173 kr
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Following on from the enduring success of one of the most important chess books ever written, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, and the recently released Magnus Carlsen: 50 Memorable Games, celebrated chess writer Andrew Soltis delivers a book on Fabiano Caruana, the Grandmaster set to rival …
Inner Game of Chess
How to Calculate and Win
E-bok, 2015
218 kr
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Do masters methodically cut their way through the branches of a tree of analysis? Is it true that attacking players calculate a dozen moves ahead, while positional specialists rely on abstract principles? What exactly does it mean to “calculate,” anyway? In The Inner Game of Chess, GM Andy Soltis …
Magnus Carlsen: 60 Memorable Games
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
189 kr
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Following on from the long success of one of the most important chess books ever written, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis delivers a book on today's blockbuster chess player Magnus Carlsen.Magnus Carlsen has been the world’s number one player for more than …
Soviet Chess 1917-1991
Häftad, 2014
553 kr
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This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the …
Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh
A Chess Multibiography with 220 Games
Inbunden, 2021
717 kr
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A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim …
Pawn Structure Chess
Häftad, 2013
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
193 kr
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Every chess player needs to know how to handle his pawns. Pawns form the 'playing fields' of chess games, a semi-permanent 'structure' that can determine whether a player wins or loses. This comprehensive guide to pawn structure teaches the reader where pieces are best placed, which pawns should be …
New Art of Defence in Chess
chess defence tactics classic
Häftad, 2014
179 kr
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Most chess games are not won – they are lost. Many instructional chess books tell you how to improve a position when it is already (or may be) favourable. This book offers help when you definitely do not have the advantage. Every chess player needs a sound arsenal of defensive techniques. This book …
Your Kingdom for My Horse: When to Exchange in Chess
tips to improve your chess strategy
Häftad, 2015
178 kr
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The great Mikhail Botvinnik, world champion said: 'The foundation of chess is exchanging/' Knowing when and what to exchange or trade in chess is essential to improve your game, and this is the only book to help you do that.In chess an exchange or trade of chessmen is a series of closely related …
What it Takes to Become a Grandmaster
Häftad, 2016
175 kr
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Becoming a Grandmaster is the ultimate aim for serious chess players, but whatever your chess abilities, this book will take you to the next level.Packed with tips, tricks and practical exercises aimed at players of all skill levels who aspire to greatness.Even an average chess player can find the …
365 Chess Master Lessons
Take One a Day to Be a Better Chess Player
Häftad, 2017
183 kr
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Increase your chess knowledge within the year! In this book, Andrew Soltis analyzes 365 key chess games in an easy way for busy people. In this book, 365 of the most instructive short games of chess are analyzed, step by step, by well-respected author Andrew Soltis. Arranged as daily lessons, this …
How to Choose a Chess Move
Häftad, 2024
192 kr
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There are more than 30 moves you can choose from a typical chess position, yet Masters regularly manage to select the best moves – and they do it faster, more confidently and with less calculation than other players. This is because Masters have shortcuts that enable them to think more efficiently. …
