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Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's play continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two centuries later.
This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games) based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped bring championships to Kasparov and Spassky. Black learns the Classical Tarrasch, Symmetrical Tarrasch, Asymmetrical Tarrasch, Marshall ...
This is a book for players who want to play killer chess using the insights, concepts and moves of the greatest tactics and combinations ever by the greatest players who ever lived. This fascinating book teaches you how to learn from the incredible combinations and brilliant sacrifices of 14 World Champions, how the champions used these brilliant ...
Garry Kasparov has held the number one position in chess for almost twenty years. He is considered the greatest player of all time. Now, beginning and intermediate players - 90 per cent of the chess playing audience - can benefit from his wisdom. Packed with diagrams and easy-to-understand pointers showing what Kasparov was thinking and how ...
For players that like exciting no-holds-barred chess, this versatile gambit repertoire shows Black how to take charge with aggressive attacking defenses against any orthodox first White opening move: 1.e4, 1.d4 and 1.c4. Learn the Scandinavian Gambit against 1.e4, the Schara Gambit and Queen's Gambit Declined variations against 1.d4, and some ...
This exciting guide to all the major unorthodox openings used by chess players, contains more than 1,500 contentious, unconventional, arrogant, and outright strange opening strategies. From their tricky tactical surprises to their bizarre names, these openings fly in the face of tradition. You'll meet such openings as the Orangutang, Halloween ...
The new definitive standard on opening play, this comprehensive guide covers every important chess opening and variation ever played and currently in vogue. It includes more than three thousand opening strategies! Differing from books that rely exclusively on bare notation, SCO features substantial discussion and analysis on each opening so that ...
A comprehensive guide to opening chess play for players at all levels. The book covers 1000 important chess openings and variations and features discussion and analysis on each so that players can learn to understand the concepts behind them. It includes 365 completely annotated games.
A complete defence system for black against the advance of the king pawn. This defence repertoire limits white's ability to obtain a significant advantage in the opening and allows black to adopt the flexible Caro-Kann formation. All of white's options and a defence for each of them is explained.
Learn to improve your play by cutting down on tactical and strategic mistakes. Using examples of his own games, Schiller illustrates the types of errors typically found at each stage of chess development, from early scholastic games to professional encounters with Grandmasters. Learn from the author's mistakes and you won't suffer the terrible ...
Endorsed by the Chess Education Association (CEA), the official body for scholastic chess in the U.S., this rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, players learn everything they need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person ...
This complete repertoire shows White how to reject the classical principles of opening play; instead of placing pawns in the center, White allows Black to build the "ideal" pawn center. As Black tries to hold the center, White prepares to smash the center apart with Black's slightest mistake. Plentiful diagrams and explanations illustrate every ...
This book tells you all about the game of chess from the elementary rules to sophisticated strategies. You'll learn how to attack and defend, set devious traps, win material, and checkmate the opponent. Schiller shows you how to plan moves in advance, anticipate opponents' moves, and get the most out of your pieces. The many ways of beginning each ...
This serious reference work covers the essential opening theory and moves of every major chess opening and variation as played by the world champions. Reading as much like an encyclopedia of the must-know openings crucial to every chess player's knowledge as a powerful tool showing the insights, concepts and secrets as used by the greatest players ...
Learn the insights, concepts and moves of the greatest combinations ever by the greatest players of all time. From Alekhine to Morphy, from Fischer to Kasparov, the incredible combinations and brilliant sacrifices of 13 World Champions are collected here in the most insightful combinations book written. Packed with fascinating stratagems, fifty ...
Learn how the champions used their entire arsenal of tactical weapons to bring opponents to their knees. Packed with fascinating stratagems, fifty annotated games, and more than two hundred diagrams, players learn the thinking and game plan behind the moves of the champions and the insights that will allow them to use these brilliancies in their ...
The mighty Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defense is one of the most exciting openings in chess. Everything from the opening piece formation to the endgame, including key strategic and tactical ideas, is covered in conceptual detail. Instead of memorizing a jungle of variations, you learn the important ideas behind the opening, and how to adapt ...
From opening, middlegame, and endgame strategy, to psychological warfare and tournament tactics, the reader is taken through the thinking behind each essential concept, and through examples, discussions, and diagrams, shown the full impact on the game's direction. Tons of diagrams, examples, sidebars, and sample games illustrating the concepts, ...
A reference work covering the essential opening theory and moves of every major chess opening and variation, as played by the world champions. The book covers 100 openings in conceptual detail, gives insights and explores secrets used by some of the great chess players.
This is the first book about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer that is written for novice and beginning players - 90 per cent of the chess playing audience - that is focused on the lessons one can learn from his games. Packed with diagrams and easy-to-understand pointers showing what Fischer was thinking and how players can apply ...
This guide to playing and winning with the Hypermodern assesses the contribution of each major Hypermodern figure. Over 100 annotated games are included, with chess players such as Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Reti featured.
This great book for beginning players and children covers the most elemental of all mates-the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where the reader must find the move that wins the game instantly. Readers learn how to make the final move with all the pieces-knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This is a ...
Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess! This book contains every important gambit opening and variation ever played and currently in vogue - more than two thousand opening strategies in all! Each gambit is covered in detail with a diagram showing the standard ...
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