What is the best way to improve your chess results?
Memorizing an opening encyclopedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions … there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent? In a new and enlarged edition of a highly popular work, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that. Drawing upon more than three decades of experience, he provides advice that will help players of all standards, playing styles and temperaments to achieve improved results. His methods take into account psychological factors and are firmly based on good common sense and the objectivity that has made John Nunn one of the world’s favorite writers on chess.
This new enlarged edition contains 45% more material than the first edition, published nine years ago. It includes a greatly expanded section on chess computers, and how their use can assist over-the-board players in opening preparation.
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A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
The c3 Sicilian is one of White’s most popular and poisonous ways to avoid the main lines of the Sicilian. White denies his opponent the chance to demonstrate his preparation in some chaotic system; instead he will have to fight carefully for equality in a more rational position of White’s choosing. There are plenty of tricks and traps in the c3 Sicilian, and the open piece-play that often results can lead to quick attacks and means that careless play will rarely go unpunished.
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Sam Collins is a young International Master from Ireland who won the Irish Championship in 2002. He competed in several World and European junior championships and has represented Ireland in four Olympiads, winning a gold medal at Bled in 2002. He is also an experienced chess teacher who has lectured at the Berkeley Chess School in California. His previous book for Gambit was the highly successful general opening work Understanding the Chess Openings.
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Golden Nuggets of Endgame Wisdom
Popular author Steve Giddins presents 101 ideas that are vital to successful endgame play. By absorbing and understanding these concepts and methods, you will ensure that you will spot them when they are possible in your own games. The tips include both pithy rules of thumb and general thinking methods.
This is an ideal book to read without using a chess set, as the abundant diagrams guide you through the analysis and illustrate the key points.
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Steve Giddins is a FIDE Chess Master from England who plays regularly in international events and has frequently contributed to the British Chess Magazine. This is his fourth book for Gambit. He has gained a reputation as a writer who provides useful, no-nonsense advice on topics of genuine practical importance.
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Now at the beginning of the 21st century, the aggressive style of the over 70-year-old is undiminished and as awe-inspiring as ever. At tournaments with numerous entrants, the naturalized Swiss citizen leaves world-class players young enough to be his grandchildren far behind him.
It is high time therefore, to update Victor Kortshnoi’s autobiography Chess Is My Life, which met with great interest on its publication more than 20 years ago. In long interviews, Korchnoi has completely retold his life story. The memories of his childhood in the besieged Leningrad, his time as a student of the university of his hometown (now St. Petersburg), his rise to the top of the major chess power USSR and the years before and after his defection to the West in 1976 are also of significance as contemporary documents of a life spent in the former Soviet Union. The volume also includes many photographs as well as a number of games with comments in typical Korchnoi-style and which are of decisive importance in his brilliant chess career.
In all of chess history you cannot find another player with his long-lived discipline, vigor, and ferocity.
–Garry Kasparov
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This workbook is based on lesson plans and is a great tool for the player looking to improve and for teachers and coaches! 200 pages of outstanding chess instruction material for scholastic players. There are many workbooks available, but this one is designed to present the material in a way which slowly reinforces the same patterns until that pattern has been mastered by the student. This workbook is a useful teaching aid in the classroom and will challenge but not frustrate the majority of scholastic players.
While some parts of this workbook will be challenging for tournaent players with ratings as high as 1800, it is geared more for players up to a strength of 1400. Themes range from tactics to endgames. There is a 3 page test at the beginning. Based on your score, you can determine where to start in the book in case the first section is too easy.
Dean Ippolito has been one of the foremost chess teachers and recognized players in the United States for over a decade. Dean’s chess teaching skills are highly regarded. He has tuahgt three of the youngest National Champions in history and has tuahgt more than 20 nationally ranked students
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On the Attack - Timman
The modern style of attacking chess explained to amateur chess players by a world famous grandmaster.
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This book explains how to build up an advantage in the game and how to convert that advantage into an aggressive strategy and into great attacking moves. It teaches the best way to exploit weaknesses in the opponent’s position.
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Timman has selected the most instructive attacking games of great players like Kasparov, Topalov, Karpov, Shirov, and Judit Polgar in order to explain to amateur chess players the basic ideas of modern attacks and their successful execution.
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On the Attack will increase your imagination and your confidence, and will lead to more wins be cause you know when, where and how to at tack in chess.
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Jan Timman has for twenty years been one of the top players of the world. He contested many Candidates Matches for the world title. He wrote several highly acclaimed books, among which are Chess the Adventurous Way, Power Play with Pieces, and Curaçao 1962.
Jan Timman is editor-in-chief ofNew In Chess, the world’s premier chess magazine. Get IT
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The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. This magnificent compilation of play from the early days of chess forms the basis of the first part of Garry Kasparov’s definitive history of the World Chess Championship.
Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play of his early predecessors to a rigorous analysis. However, this book more than just a compilation of play of the early greats of chess. His biographies of the early champions places them in a fascinating historical, political and cultural context. He explains how each champion brought his own distinctive style to the chessboard and enriched the theory of the game with new ideas.
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