Winning Chess Combinations (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Winning Chess Combinations (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either

Winning Chess Tactics, revised edition (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possiblychange the course of a game in a single move. Why

Play Winning Chess (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear explanations of the games, fundamental and instructive examples, question-and-answer sections, sample games and psychological

Endings (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Winning Chess Endings teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way--by putting the player in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair and watch the world's most exciting chess endings. Then become an endgame master Winning Chess

Winning Chess Strategies, revised edition (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Readers will gain the advantage over their opponents with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players! Strategy--it's the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster

Brilliancies (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating

Openings (Seirawan Yasser)(Paperback)

Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining,

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations (Reinfeld Fred)(Paperback)

Enhance Your Tactical Weapons 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combination is the companion volume to Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate. Of course each book can be taken on its own, but together they make a wonderful collection, and cover the full range of tactical chess. And they are

Modern Chess Strategy (Pachman Ludek)(Paperback)

Every chess player hopes to set off brilliant combinations and win games in a blaze of glory. Such combinations do not come into being by themselves, however; they appear only as the result of proper chess strategy. It is therefore surprising that so few books deal with this highly important

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Pandolfini Bruce)(Paperback)

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique

My System: Winning Chess Strategies (Nimzowitsch Aron)(Paperback)

Nimzowitschs ideas about how to play better chess have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. It is commonly agreed that almost every chess master in the world has studied Nimzowitschs

Winning Chess: How to Perfect Your Attacking Play (Chernev Irving)(Paperback)

Winning Chess is a classic, beloved for more than 40 years. This updated edition, now in algebraic format, remains as lively, conversational, and appealing as ever. Written by two extremely popular chess authors, it's aimed at advanced beginners and intermediates eager to take their game to a new

Chess Rules of Thumb (Alburt Lev)(Paperback)

Chess Rules of Thumb gives you the winning principles of chess in clear, short statements. Three-time US Champion Lev Alburt and World Chess Hall of Fame Curator Al Lawrence have put together three centuries of insights from the masters. Fun to browse or to read from cover-to-cover, it's a book

Simple Checkmates (Gillam A. J.)(Paperback)

Here is the classic guide to winning chess for beginners. Recommended by chess coaches the world over, it presents a wide range of specific chess positions and asks the reader to find the next move or series of moves that lead to checkmate -- with two diagrams per page and the answers spelled out

A Guide to Chess Improvement: The Best of Novice Nook (Heisman Dan)(Paperback)

A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman s multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects:

Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1.e4 (Alburt Lev)(Paperback)

Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player (Alburt Lev)(Paperback)

Chess strategy is the long-term planning at the heart of winning chess. Each important idea is clearly explained using games carefully chosen for their instructive clarity and power. This is the fifth but stand-alone volume of the Comprehensive Chess Course, the series that brings readers of

The Complete Chess Course: From Beginning to Winning Chess (Reinfeld Fred)(Paperback)

Generations of chess players have grown up on Fred Reinfeld's books. He has a way of reducing the most intricate, complicated combinations to their basic components. After Reinfeld explains a combination, it makes sense. Reinfeld not only taught us how to play the game well, but also implanted in

Test Your Chess IQ: First Challenge (Livshitz August)(Paperback)

Is the ability to make combinations something you are born with or can it be acquired by practice? Russian chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the

Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 5: Finding Winning Moves! (Polgar Susan)(Paperback)

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played (Chernev Irving)(Paperback)

Here are 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess, compiled and annotated by one of the game's most admired and respected writers. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagrammed in the clearest possible

Tarot Card Combinations (Kelly Dorothy)(Paperback)

Tarot Card Combinations is a unique, comprehensive, and highly practical presentation of interpreting the tarot that has helped thousands master the ancient divination. Dorothy Kelly's easy-to-understand approach shares everything one needs to know to unlock the story presented when the cards are

Farrow & Ball Recipes for Decorating (Studholme Joa)(Pevná vazba)

An inspirational sourcebook of winning colour combinations using Farrow & Ball's internationally renowned paint range, from the co-author of the bestselling Farrow & Ball How to

Type Team - Perfect Typeface Combinations (Seddon Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Typeface combinations dont always work together naturally. Developed with typographers, graphic designers and font geeks in mind, this is a guide for anyone wishing to get to grips with the best techniques for combining individual typefaces from all classifications and styles for any category of