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"In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the prince's pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world championship and humiliating the British colonialists. His skills as a refined strategist eventually drag him into a strange game of...
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This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank. The first authoritative, English translation from the Russian, this volume was, written by one of the leading competitors. Its perceptive coverage includes games by Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
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Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. 80 illustrations.
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The ideas & plans behind ALL chess openings!
Volume 2 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...
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* La edad no es ningún impedimento para aprender a jugar al ajedrez: un juego apasionante que ayuda a desarrollar, incluso en los más pequeños, lógica, estrategia, táctica e intuición. Sin olvidar, naturalmente, las horas de diversión que proporciona.
* A partir de las reglas básicas el manual desvela, mediante innumerables diagramas que explican paso a paso todas las posibles dificultades que pueden aparecer durante una partida, los secretos...
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What's the best way to start learning a new opening? You can either fill your head with masses of variations and then try to keep it all straight at the chessboard, or you can absorb key patterns and themes that crop up over and over again in your chosen variation.
In The Fighting Dragon, NM Paul Powell takes the second approach. Using a carefully selected collection of short games from international play, Powell shows the dangers that lurk for...
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Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It's all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.
Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored, but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into 4 main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities. With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level...
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If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool, when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game.
Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern training manual focuses on. Experienced chess teacher Grandmaster Jörg Hickl helps you to recognize...
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Updated chess classic shows how to learn from losses by recognizing the warning signals and by analyzing what went wrong in losing games. Revised chapters focus on shift from correspondence chess to play based on e-mail and internet; benefits of computer chess, plus analysis of face-off between Kasparov and Deep Blue.
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Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. This is well known. But what does pattern recognition actually mean? And how can you improve at it?
If you realize a position has similarities with something you have seen before, you are recognizing a pattern. This helps you to get to the essence of a position quickly and find the most promising continuation. To get better at recognizing chess patterns, knowing which...
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El ajedrez nos somete a una constante puesta a prueba de hipótesis que debemos verificar o descartar. Bien sea para iniciarnos en este juego-ciencia o para perfeccionarlo, este gran libro es el manual indispensable que incluye todas las reglas y preceptos para progresar con seguridad en el juego. Para redactarlo se han examinado, con la ayuda de la tecnología más actual, cientos de patrones de conocimiento atesorados durante siglos de práctica...
14) Alekhine
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The fourth world champion of chess, Alexander Alekhine (1892—1946) was one of the greatest chess players ever. This interactive book contains 50 chess diagrams, each showing a critical position in which a very strong Alekhine move follows. You can also take part in the interesting chess fights by trying to find the moves in question. The game itself is shown on the page after the diagram. And the chess great whose games you can review is Alekhine,...
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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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The Grand Prix Attack is one of White's deadliest weapons against the Sicilian Defence. It continues to be highly popular with tournament chess players all over the world. While earlier publications mainly focused on tactics, this book the finally gives the GPA the coverage it deserves.
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'Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy. He tries to fulfil the duties of the host and shakes hands, but his nervously darting eyes betray his unease with the situation. This is not a man accustomed to receiving visitors.'
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam's gripping encounter with the legendary American recluse, a journalist's dream come true, is the worthy apotheosis of this unique collection of interviews which were first published...
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This book describes the Double Set game played on an Advance game board, Model III, the Longitudinal Star Gate 14 Model. This book uses Diagrams, Illustrations, Drawings and Photos to describe the game and the movement of the chess pieces. In order to win this Double Set game a player needs to Checkmate his/her opponent's(s') Kings twice. Equations or Statements of the movement of the chess pieces are used to describe the movement of the chess pieces...
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El ajedrez está considerado como un arte y una ciencia, por lo que todas las estrategias que se suelen emplear se pueden transcribir y estudiar después de haberlas puesto en práctica.
Muchas veces puede darse el caso de que una partida se arruine por una serie de movimientos inadecuados, por ello es conveniente repasarlos para encontrar el fallo
y darse cuenta de las consecuencias que han tenido.
Con el paso del tiempo, si se ha puesto en...
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This book marks the start of a series of four on 1.d4 in which Ivan will share the secrets from two decades spent analyzing and playing it at the pinnacle of world chess. This volume in particular deals with two of the most popular replies Black can play after 1.d4: the King's Indian & Grûnfeld Defense. This repertoire book is cutting-edge theory, recommending f3 for White against the fianchet to systems.
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