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This title, suitable for both novices and children, allows readers to find the right way to deliver a checkmate in one, two or more moves from hundreds of positions provided by the author. By tackling these puzzles, they can begin to think like chessplayers and visualize, calculate and advance.

Originally published in 1898. Contents Include: I. How the Brigadier came to the Castle of Gloom, II. How the Brigadier slew the Brothers of Ajaccio, III. How the Brigadier held the King, IV. How the King held the Brigadier, V. How the Brigadier took the field against the Marshal Millefleurs, VI....

This is a book for the amateur chess player. For players graded 20100.

Informal intermediate introduction, quite strong in explaining reasons for moves. Covers basic material, tactics, important openings, traps, positional play in middle game, end game. Attempts to isolate patterns and recurrent configurations. 58 figures.

An essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Rather than attempting to cover every theoretical possible endgame position, Paul Keres deals with the basic types of position into which all other endgames will eventually be resolved. He examines these...

Find the Winning Move contains hundreds of chess positions in which the reader must find the right way to deliver a winner in one, two or more moves. International Master Gary Lane uses his teaching skill and experience to present a fun but educational puzzle book that helps players develop recognition...

The Mark of a Master Instructor Mark Dvoretsky has long been considered one of the premier chess coaches and trainers in the world. He is renowned for taking talented masters and forging them into world-class grandmasters and champions. His literary achievements are also quite distinguished. For example,...

The computer has changed the way top players think about chess. The silicon mind has no psychological barriers. It is "willing" to check moves that most humans, including top players, consider absurd and reject instantly. Thus this brave, new computer era inevitably leads to a reassessment of old...

Practice Makes Permanent! You have no doubt heard the saying that practice makes perfect. Actually, practice makes permanent. If you practice badly, you will perform badly. It is practice in the pursuit of perfection that leads to better performance. Accurate practice is the essential ingredient in...

Every chessplayer who aspires to achieve chess mastery must learn the techniques for winning a won game. It is the perennial problem which confronts players at all levels of play. This book will enable chessplayers to better recognize their positional advantages and the ways in which these can be used in order to bring them closer to victory.

Ce livre d'échecs epub contient toutes les règles du jeu d'échecs avec les considérations techniques,les trucs et astuces et plein de diagrammes pour illustrer toutes les règles; plus devinez 25 tests d'échecs et mat (5 coups et moins) avec les diagrammes correspondants à chaque test, plus...

Toutes les règles du jeu d'échecs avec les considérations techniques, les trucs et astuces et plein de diagrammes pour illustrer toutes les règles; plus devinez 100 tests d'échecs, plus 100  parties d'échecs rapides gagnées contre l'ordinateur. L'auteur a gagne 808 parties d'échecs, dont...

Many chess players act intimidated and overly cautious when they have the Black pieces. They are so preoccupied with White's advantage of the first move, that their predominant urge is to defend against possible threats and to safeguard their position.With his iconoclastic ‘Black is OK' books, Andras...

Questo non è un classico libro,lo si può leggere come tale,certo,ma non è il suo principale uso. Il motivo per cui è stato scritto è giocarci in gruppo. Giocare con un libro? Si,non un classico libro-game come andavano ai miei tempi; ma un libro che vi farà divertire in compagnia, un libro per...