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By: David Hooper and Dale Brandreth
Price: $11.05
Publisher: New York, Dover: 1993
Seller ID: 891
Over 200 games by the great Cuban champion drawn from lesser matches and exhibition events. Included are games against Corzo, which earned Capablanca the Cuban Championship at the age of 12, as well as match and exhibition games, consultation games, simultaneous games with clocks, more. Bibliography. 151 diagrams. View more info
By: Emanuel Lasker
Price: $1.55
Publisher: New York, Gramercy Books:
Seller ID: 010294
By: Emanuel Lasker
Price: $2.55
Publisher: London, England, Cadogan Books: 9951
Seller ID: 011369
By: Eric Schiller
Price: $5.84
Publisher: New York, Cardoza Publishing: 1999
Seller ID: 4040367
One of the world's foremost chess experts shows White how to substitute an entirely unconventional approach for the classical principals of opening play. View more info
By: Eric Schiller
Price: $9.54
Publisher: New York, Cardoza Publishing: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4545678
Clean and sturdy. Unmarked. "Complete Defense To Queen Pawn Openings" covers Black's opening systems against virtually every chess opening, including most flank games, based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense. This great defensive system will have chessplayers completely prepared to sway the direction of Closed Games in their favor . View more info
By: Fred M. Wood
Price: $1.35
Publisher: New York, Barnes and Noble Books: 1955
Seller ID: 005141
By: Gary Lane
Price: $2.05
Publisher: New York, NY, Mud Puddle Books: 2004
Seller ID: 2293
TIME TO MAKE YOUR FIRST MOVE! - Chess is known to be at least 1500years old. It is first mentioned in a 6th century Persian story and is similar to the Indian game Chaturanga which has pieces resembling an Indian army of chariots, cavalry, elephants and foot soldiers. The Morrish conquests in the 10th century introduced the game to Spain where it spread to the rest of Europe. Chess is a fun and easy game to learn. It is a mind game between two people and an excellent way... View more info
By: Harvey Kidder
Price: $1.55
Publisher: New York, Workman: 1990
Seller ID: 003579
Fantasy art captures the energy and excitement of chess's origins-the medieval battlefield-while a direct, lively text explains the game and its pieces in light of history. Readers are led through the fundamentals of beginning, middle, and end game, and shown winning strategies for offense and defense. View more info
By: I. A. Horowitz & Fred Reinfeld
Price: $1.58
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1979
Seller ID: 003044
By: John Emms
Price: $3.80
Publisher: London, Gloucester Publishing: 2003
Seller ID: 004477
Beginning with the very basics, this pocket-sized book is a step-by-step guide to learning chess. Assuming no prior knowledge, Grandmaster John Emms steers readers through all the crucial aspects of learning the game: the rules, the pieces, check and checkmate, chess notation, how to win material, attacking and defending, and the opening, middlegame, and endgame. From this book, chess players will acquire the confidence and knowledge they need to tackle an opponent over ... View more info
By: Leonard Barden
Price: $1.35
Publisher: New York, NY, Dover Publications: 1976
Seller ID: 005118
How good is your chess? Find out with this collection of 35 master games arranged and scored for self-quizzing. You can score a maximum of 50 points in any one game and by averaging your scores over a number of games, you can rate your skill on a scale from beginner to master. The games, selected by author Leonard Barden, are models of strategy and tactics. View more info
By: Nich DeFirmian and Walter Korn
Price: $1.55
Publisher: New York, NY, David McKay Company: 1990
Seller ID: 15209
By: Raymond Keene
Price: $2.05
Publisher: NY, Aladdin Paperbacks: 1988
Seller ID: 999757
Beginning with basic rules and moves, international grand-master Raymond Keene describes each stage of the game of chess, advising readers on how to avoid common mistakes and develop effective methods of attack and defense. View more info
By: Raymond Smullyan
Price: $2.30
Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979
Seller ID: 20110
Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move. View more info
By: Reuben Fine
Price: $4.55
Publisher: New York, David McKay Company: 1958
Seller ID: 377
Price: $5.55
Publisher: Atlanta, GA, Teachable Tech: 2005
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 5252527
Clean, sturdy and unmarked. Chess Openings 1 is for anyone who knows the basics of chess and would like to learn more about chess strategies. Every game starts with an opening plan. Chess Openings 1 begins with openings most popular with scholastic players — how to play them, how to stop them. Challenging puzzles and instructional games demonstrate opening strategies for three main openings (The Queen's Raid; Two Knights Defense; The Stonewall) plus popular variations... View more info
Price: $7.15
Publisher: Atlanta, GA, Teachable Tech: 2006
Seller ID: 5252528
Sturdy. No writing. Light staining on page edges. In chess, tactics are specific moves meant to gain a material or positional advantage. Different from strategies, tactics take a quick advantage in a short sequence of moves. Using more than 200 puzzles taken from actual games, Chess Tactics 1 builds a strong foundation for the use of tactics to improve your chess game by helping you identify and exploit free pieces; set up and execute pins, skewers and forks; set up doub... View more info