Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690100 ISBN 13: 9781888690101
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Demystifies the techniques of chess thinking: don't just memorize moves, learn how to think in chess.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 15.19
Used offers from £ 8.70
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Schneider Enterprises, 1996
ISBN 10: 0964981319 ISBN 13: 9780964981317
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Schneider, Russell.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 17.12
Used offers from £ 10.76
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690216 ISBN 13: 9781888690217
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Combines clear discussions of tactical themes with over 600 well-chosen positions to test, challenge and teach. Although the classic combinations are not ignored, the emphasis here is on positions from modern tournament practice of the last decade. Tactics is a very important part of the game of chess and conscientious study and application of tactical principles is crucial to success. This book offers every type of tactical motif imaginable, from the more common back rank mates, pins, skewers, forks, up to and including some beautiful and rare combinations. This tactical book will prove exceptionally useful for a wide range of players, intermediate through master strength and beyond.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 39.32
Used offers from £ 12.99
Also find Softcover First Edition
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2007
ISBN 10: 1888690348 ISBN 13: 9781888690347
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. In chess, if you lose all your pieces you can't win! And if you capture each of your opponent's pieces, winning should be easy. Even if you just get ahead by a small amount of material, your chances of winning soar. The way to win your opponent's pieces is through the use of tactics. This book is about all types of beginning tactics. The author covers comprehensively the subject with basic instructional material, examples, and problems of all types - about 500 examples and problems ranging from too easy to very difficult! Back to Basics: Tactics - the first in the ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess Series - should enhance your enjoyment in learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics.It does not matter who gets the advantage out of the opening if one of the players is likely to lose a piece to a simple tactic in the middlegame. Losing a piece from an advantageous position will almost always result in a lost position. So study tactics, not openings, until you almost never lose pieces to simple tactical motifs.This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from easy to challenging!.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 20.34
Used offers from £ 13.26
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690143 ISBN 13: 9781888690149
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Chess is 99% tactics. So to be a good chess player, you have to spend a lot of your training time on tactics. Although basic tactics are explained in a number good books, complicated tactics the kind that separate tournament winners from the pack require intuition, imagination and precision. The Magic of Chess Tactics helps you develop these qualities.Aimed primarily at aspiring chess players from club to master level who seriously want to improve their chess understanding, The Magic of Chess Tactics provides examples selected for both their entertainment and instructional value as well as detailed explanations and exercises.Claus Dieter Meyer, chess author and FIDE Master, is a well known analyst and professional chess trainer. Karsten Mller is an International Grandmaster and co-author, along with Frank Lamprecht, of the highly acclaimed Secrets of Pawn Endings and Fundamental Chess Endings. His popular monthly column Endgame Corner appears right here at ChessCafe.com."I have come to realise that there are basically two types of chess tactics. First, simple kinds of combinations you need to know when you start to play chess. I still believe they are the basis of everything. Things that computers see in a half-second. But the book is not about them. For those simple tactics, old Koblentz books are more than enough. This book is about *complicated* chess tactics, the kind you sometimes need hours of analysis just to discover the truth of the position. It's hard to see and calculate perfectly on the board; one needs intuition, imagination and precision."It's not easy to develop these qualities but I believe that the present book, full of examples and high quality analyses, will help you achieve that objective."Welcome to the magical world of tactics!" From the Foreword by Alexei Shirov.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 60
Used offers from £ 14.97
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, 2001
ISBN 10: 1888690062 ISBN 13: 9781888690064
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. Brilliant, first-hand essays on Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and dozens of other famous and not-so-famous chess players. Hans Ree, the leading international chess journalist, provides fascinating insight into recent chess developments.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 36.90
Used offers from £ 15.73
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, 2001
ISBN 10: 1888690119 ISBN 13: 9781888690118
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Every chess player needs a defense to 1 e4, the most popular first move for White. The ideal response is the easy-to-learn, unrefuted and surprising Scandinavian Defense: The Dynamic 3 Qd6 is such a system. It gives players room for creativity and offers strategic ideas they can understand quickly. With brand-new analysis, correspondence master Michael Melts shows that this long-nelglected line is a little-known but venomous response lying in wait for unsuspecting players of White. For beginners, to master- and international-level competitors, the opening covered in this volume offers a complete system against 1 e4. GMs Roman Dzindzichashvili, Kiril Georgiev, legendary world championship contender David Bronstein and dozens of other top players have called on this variation for important encounters. Forty complete and deeply annotated games are presented along with the relevant portions of hundreds of other contests.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2009
ISBN 10: 1888690631 ISBN 13: 9781888690637
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. An Historic Clash of Generations! The great international chess tournament at Nottingham, 1936 has taken its place next to other legendary tournaments such as St. Petersburg 1909, London 1922 and New York 1924. It set a record by featuring, for the first time, four men who had held the world championship title Jose Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe (the then reigning champion) and Emanuel Lasker. The champions were expected to be challenged if not surpassed at Nottingham by four young candidates, Sam Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr and, in only his second trip to a foreign tournament, Mikhail Botvinnik, who turned 25 mid-tournament. There were some historic firsts: Botvinnik had never before played Alekhine, Fine, Reshevsky, Vidmar or Bogolyubov. Reshevsky had never faced Euwe, Lasker, Flohr, Tartakower, Vidmar or Bogolyubov over the board. Also, Nottingham saw the first game between Alekhine and Capablanca since their world championship match nine years before and their ensuing bitterness over a rematch. The tournament was, in short, a very rare event. In his great tournament book, Alexander Alekhine devotes attention to playing the board as well as to playing the man. This new 21st Century Edition has preserved Alekhine s original masterful text and annotations, using figurine algebraic notation and adding many diagrams.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 27.43
Used offers from £ 22.29
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2012
ISBN 10: 193649048X ISBN 13: 9781936490486
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. The Treaty that Ended the World Revolution.For decades, historians have been trying to understand why the "world communist revolution" that broke out in Europe in 1917-1919 in the wake of the horror of the First World War ended in defeat. The overthrow of the Russian monarchy in March 1917 and the Bolshevik coup eight months later was followed by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a separate peace between Russia and the Central Powers, with unprecedented annexations and reparations.Vladimir Lenin called for the conclusion of a separate peace with Germany. Nikolai Bukharin called for immediate revolutionary war. Lev Trotsky adhered to a middle position, which has entered history under the slogan "neither peace nor war." What is clear is that by forming a separate peace with Germany and her allies in order to stabilize Soviet rule in Russia, Lenin's government delivered a stab in the back to the German socialist revolution.As a result, by 1919, the Soviet government, headed by Lenin, had survived in Russia, and it became the global center of the Communist International movement. Join scholar and noted Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky as he examines existing and newly discovered source material for a fresh look at this pivotal turning point in world history.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 24.37
Used offers from £ 24.37
Also find Hardcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690283 ISBN 13: 9781888690286
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 37.02
Used offers from £ 22.72
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2010
ISBN 10: 1888690755 ISBN 13: 9781888690750
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2008
ISBN 10: 1888690445 ISBN 13: 9781888690446
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 24.29
Used offers from £ 29.09
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2011
ISBN 10: 1936490048 ISBN 13: 9781936490042
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. The Key Concepts of Chess EndingsIn 2003 when it was released, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual became an instant classic. Now the chess instructor extraordinaire offers an introduction to the fascinating world of chess endings. This book is designed to highlight the key concepts of the most common chess endgames and will prove quite instructive to chessplayers of all levels.Topics include:- The King in the Endgame- Pawn play- Zugzwang- Saving Methods- Tactics in the Endgame- Piece Maneuvering- Piece Exchanges- "Technique".and much more!The author has countless practical suggestions for improving your endgame play in this era of rapid-time controls so that you don't end up "drowning" in the ocean of endgame theory. Let Mark Dvoretsky help you win more games as he examines some elementary endgame errors from master play and shows you how to avoid making the same mistakes.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from £ 48.69
Used offers from £ 32.09
Also find Softcover
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2008
ISBN 10: 1888690429 ISBN 13: 9781888690422
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: new. The game of chess has challenged and delighted the world for centuries In Back to Basics Fundamentals the essential building blocks of the royal game are presented simply and in an easytounderstand formatWith the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski you will learn how the chess pieces move and capture the underlying principles of the game how to spot and carry out simple checkmates and understand the basic tactical ideas that are so important to playing and winningIn this book I try to emphasize and clarify the chess fundamentals that young players need to know as a strong grasp of the basics will eventually lead to the strategic thinking that is necessary for advanced play From the Authors PrefaceFundamental concepts tactical themes and other significant points of the game are underscored by over 800 diagrams and positions Solutions and clear explanations are supplemented by important principles highlighted in blueWhether used alone or with an instructor Back to Basic Fundamentals will put you on the road to good chess.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, 2001
ISBN 10: 1888690046 ISBN 13: 9781888690040
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690186 ISBN 13: 9781888690187
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2012
ISBN 10: 1936490439 ISBN 13: 9781936490431
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2004
ISBN 10: 1888690224 ISBN 13: 9781888690224
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.