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We are pleased to announce the launch of the ChessMaine.net Lending Library. We currently have over one hundred chess-related titles in our collection with more to be added. Patrons can borrow up to three titles for eight weeks. To borrow books, use the links below to add the titles you want to ChessMaine's PayPal shopping cart. You'll be charged a small fee to account for both shipping to you and return shipping to ChessMaine. When your books arrive, be sure to save the enclosed return envelope. When you're finished reading, just mail the books back. Please consider making a literary donation to the ChessMaine.net Lending Library--we welcome single titles or entire collections and will make these books available to the Maine chess community--thanks!
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Author: Max Euwe, David Hooper
Copyright Date: 1976
ISBN: 0-486-23332-4
Notation Used: Descriptive
This clear and thorough coverage of the most important, most frequently encountered endgame situations is one of the finest modern works on chess endings.
Paperback: 248 pages
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Author: Fred Wolson
Copyright Date: 1981
ISBN: 0-486-23856-3
Notation Used: Not Notated
The 295 illustrations in this Picture History of Chess presents a panorama of the game's most important moments and players.
Paperback: 182 pages
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Author: Vladimir Vukovic
Copyright Date: 1993
ISBN: 1-85744-400-0
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
One of the finest chess books ever written, the Art of Attack has been transcribed into algebraic notation for the first time.
Paperback: 352 pages
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Author: Eric Shiller
Copyright Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-931462-52-5
Notation Used: Algebraic
This book is for the chess player who likes to attack from the first move. In these pages you will find exciting, tactical chess.
Paperback: 81 pages
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Blunders and How to Avoid Them
Author: Angus Dunnington
Copyright Date: 2004
ISBN: 1-85744-344-6
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Experienced chess player and writer Angus Dunnington takes a look at why the good, the bad and the indifferent all make errors, from small positional misjudgements to simply leaving a queen en prise.
Paperback: 144 pages
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Capablanca's Eighteen Select Chess Games
Author: Fernando Napoles Tapia
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 959-09-0127-1
Notation Used: Algebraic
This volume includes, in chronological order, eighteen games selected among the more than six
hundred recorded ones that Capablanca played in his lifetime. They are not necessarily his best
games--although most of them are--but significant highlights in his career as a professional chess
player.
Paperback: 111 pages
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Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illustrations, and Other Rare Archival Materials on the Cuban Chess Genius Jose Raul Capablanca, 1888-1942
Author: Edward Winter
Copyright Date: 1989
ISBN: 0-89950-455-8
Notation Used: Algebraic
Although there is no shortage of books about Capablanca, most authors have concentrated on his
main tournament and match games and have carried out relatively little research into his life. The
present work--less a biography than a compilation of documents and data--aims to repair that
imbalance by presenting a substantial amount of neglected material.
Hardcover: 349 pages
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Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
Author: Thomas Glavinic
Copyright Date: 1999
ISBN: 1860466761
Notation Used: Algebraic
Carl Haffner is modelled on the Austrian grandmaster Karl Schlechter, and in his brilliant first novel Thomas Glavinic brings to life both the events surrounding the ten-match world championship and the atmosphere of the cafes and chess clubs of Vienna and Berlin in the years before the First World War.
Paperback: 184 pages
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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge
Author: Yuri Averbakh
Copyright Date: 1966
ISBN: 08-011823-2
Notation Used: Descriptive
As its title implies, this book brings together all the information which the author considers necessary to provide the average chess player with a working knowledge of the endgame.
Hardcover: 135 pages
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Chess Exam and Training Guide: Rate Yourself and Learn How to Improve!
Author: Igor Khmelnitsky
Copyright Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-9754761-2-2
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Would you like to know how good you really are at chess? Whether you are a beginner or a
seasoned master, this book will help you to evaluate your current level, identify your weaknesses
and get training advice.
Paperback: 318 pages
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Author: Rolf Wetzell
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-938650-58-0
Notation Used: Algebraic
Reaching a plateau of chess strength after many years of playing, Rolf Wetzel devised new and revolutionary methods of study.
Paperback: 300 pages
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Chess Openings: Theory and Practice
Author: I. A. Horowitz
Copyright Date: 1964
ISBN: 0-671-20553-6
Notation Used: Descriptive
A definitive study of all the important openings, with 2,660 fully analyzed variations and 439 complete illustrative games.
Paperback: 789 pages
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Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player
Author: Lev Alburt, Sam Palatnik
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 1-889323-05-5
Notation Used: Algebraic
Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player demystifies chessboard planning, giving you the practical, game-winning strategic techniques you could spend years gathering on your own.
Paperback: 335 pages
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Chess Tactics for Advanced Players
Author: Yuri Averbach
Copyright Date: 1986
ISBN: 3-328-00173-5
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
The well-known Soviet international grandmaster and chess author Yuri Averbach has developed an entirely novel approach to studying tactics which is expounded in this work.
Paperback: 328 pages
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Author: John Bain
Copyright Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-9639614-0-3
Notation Used: Algebraic
Chess Tactics for Students is a one-of-a-kind instructional workbook designed to help beginners acquire the skills of strong intermediate players.
Paperback: 252 pages
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Author: Fred Reinfeld
Copyright Date: 1958
ISBN: 0-8069-4904-X
Notation Used: Descriptive
What better way for a boy or girl to learn chess than from a world-famous master and teacher? This
easy-to-understand book with each important position illustrated with diagram and photo gives the
beginner the unique chance to see actual pieces on a board, and how they relate to the
corresponding diagram.
Hardcover: 61 pages
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Author: Robert Snyder
Copyright Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-8129-1867-3
Notation Used: Algebraic
Robert Snyder, national chess master and noted teacher, introduces this timeless game to the young beginner. Snyder teaches the basic principles and then builds on students' knowledge, giving clear instructions on how to choose and employ opening, middle, and endgame strategies to win.
Paperback: 237 pages
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Author: Fred Reinfeld
Copyright Date: 1958
Notation Used: Descriptive
In addition to the primary moves and rules, Chess in a Nutshell includes all the laws of the International Chess Federation pertaining to amateur play--explained and annotated by a chess master.
Hardcover: 143 pages
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Author: John Walker
Copyright Date: 1976
ISBN: 1-85260-220
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
First published in 1976 and immediately hailed as the regicide manual for players from 9-90, John Walker's clear, practical guide is a vital extra piece in any player's armoury.
Paperback: 173 pages
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume 1: Learn Chess in 12 Lessons
Author: Roman Pelts, Lev Alburt
Copyright Date: 1996
ISBN: 1-889323-00-4
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
Comprehensive Chess Course is primarily intended to serve as a manual for those teaching chess in schools and colleges and for parents teaching chess to their children or, for that matter, to
themselves.
Paperback: 124 pages
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume 2: From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons
Author: Roman Pelts, Lev Alburt
Copyright Date: 1996
ISBN: 1-889323-01-2
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
Welcome to Volume 2, the second level, of our Comprehensive Chess Course. It is aimed at those
students who have completed and mastered the lessons in Volume 1.
Paperback: 303 pages
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Dynamic Chess: The Modern Style of Agressive Play
Author: R.N. Coles
Copyright Date: 1966
ISBN: 486-21676-4
Notation Used: Descriptive
This book relates, in clear, simple language, the development of chess strategy from its beginnings in the period of Morphy, Steinitz, and Tarrasch, when the classic style prevailed, through its midgame stage when the Hypermoderns advanced their new ideas, to the present stage of Russian chess supremacy.
Paperback: 195 pages
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Easy Guide to the Reti Opening
Author: Angus Dunnington
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-85744-518-X
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
The Reti Opening is one of the most subtle ways for White to open a chess game. At very little risk to himself, White prepares to chip away at Black's position.
Paperback: 128 pages
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Emanuel Lasker: Games 1889-1903
Author: Sergei Soloviov
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 9548782073
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Lasker's tournament and match games during the period 1889-1903.
Paperback: 335 pages
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Emanuel Lasker: Games 1904-1940
Author: Sergei Soloviov
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 954-8782-10-3
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Lasker's tournament and match games during the period 1904-1940.
Paperback: 303 pages
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Author: Dan Heisman
Copyright Date: 2005
ISBN: 1-888710-26-8
Notation Used: Algebraic
Are you tired of making the same old errors in chess? Do you want to know more about Board Vision? Are you somewhat impatient? Dan has solutions!
Paperback: 124 pages
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Author: Andrew Soltis
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-938650-66-1
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Soltis elaborates on such secrets as the "mismatch", "elbowing", odds, Capablanca's and Botvinnik's "rules", the "Rule of Five", and other comments to make you the best player you can be.
Paperback: 214 pages
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Author: Harold Schonberg
Copyright Date: 1973
ISBN: 0-397-01004-4
Notation Used: Descriptive
A history of great players from Francois Andre Danican Philidor to Bobby Fisher.
Hardcover: 317 pages
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Author: C.J.S. Purdy
Copyright Date: 1996
ISBN: 0-938650-77-7
Notation Used: Algebraic
Purdy fills you in on the details, explains the whys, and makes it easier for you to improve to be a very good player without vasts amounts of memorization.
Paperback: 143 pages
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How to Force Checkmate: 300 Practical Immediate Checkmates that Your Opponent Cannot Escape, Selected from Master Play
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Copyright Date: 1947
ISBN: 0-486-20439-1
Notation Used: Descriptive
If you have difficulty finding the finishing stroke when your opponent is in trouble, then How to Force Checkmate is designed for you. This is not a tedious, scholarly work requiring hours of
concentrated study. It is a collection of 300 lightning strokes, combinations secected from actual
masters' play in tournaments, which will form an invaluable background for your game.
Paperback: 112 pages
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Author: Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 1993
ISBN: 1-890085-00-6
Notation Used: Algebraic
How to Reassess Your Chess offers the chess student a step-by-step course that is designed to create a marked improvement in anyone's game.
Paperback: 402 pages
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Author: Jonathan Tisdall
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 1-85744-156-7
Notation Used: Algebraic
In an important and strikingly original self-improvement manual, Jonathan Tosdall draws upon many years of experience as both player and trainer to explain a new approach to chess thinking.
Paperback: 221 pages
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Jose Raul Capablanca: Games 1901-1926
Author: Sergei Soloviev
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 954-8782-05-7
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
All Capablanca's tournament and match games (more than 640), annotated by famous
Garndmasters and Masters are collected in volumes, this being the first.
Paperback: 287 pages
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Just the Facts!: Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume
Author: Lev Alburt, Nikolay Krogius
Copyright Date: 2000
ISBN: 1889323063
Notation Used: Algebraic
Just the Facts! boils down all the essential endgame wisdom into one volume you can use to win games for the rest of your life.
Paperback: 408 pages
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Kasparov's Winning Chess Tactics
Author: Bruce Pandolfini
Copyright Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-671-61985-3
Notation Used: Algebraic
This tactical chess bible traces the world champion's development from school days to world-class competition, analyzing both the actual moves and traps and dead-ends he or his opponent sidestepped in more than 140 carefully selected tournament positions.
Paperback: 200 pages
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King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game
Author: Paul Hoffman
Copyright Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4013-0097-5
Notation Used: Not Notated
As a child, Paul Hoffman lost himself in chess. The award-winning author of the international
bestseller The Man Who Loved Only Numbers played to escape the dissolution of his
parents' marriage, happily passing weekends with his brilliant bohemian father in New York's
Greenwich Village, the epicenter of American chess. But he soon learned that such single-minded
focus came at a steep price, as the pressure of competition drove him to the edge of madness.
Hardcover: 433 pages
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Author: Bill Robertie
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-940685-66-3
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
The powerful secrets of forcing opponents to bow before your crushing attacks and brilliant sacrifices are revealed in this no-nonsense book on checkmating opponents.
Paperback: 152 pages
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Mastering The French: With the Read and Play Method
Author: Neil McDonald, Andrew harley
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-7134-5716-3
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
The best way to negotiate such a minefield as the French is in terms of the typical pawn structures.
This book provides a deep understanding of the themes that underpin the French, giving the reader a firm foundation for a lifetime of success with the French.
Paperback: 191 pages
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Modern Chess Openings 14th Edition
Author: Nick de Firmian
Copyright Date: 1999
ISBN: 0-8129-3084-3
Notation Used: Algebraic
MCO has been the best and most trusted tool in learning the chess openings since it was first published over a half-century ago.
Paperback: 734 pages
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Author: Graeme Buckley
Copyright Date: 2001
ISBN: 1-85744-248-2
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Are you realising your chess potential? In this book international master Graeme Buckley helps you to find out. Through a series of instructive games where you must work out the next move and the tactics and strategies surrounding it, you can assess your own chess strength.
Paperback: 160 pages
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Author: Aron Nimzovich
Copyright Date: 1930
Notation Used: Descriptive
My System describes a theory of chess; it also describes the character and genius of its author. It is a very readable book, for Nimzovich's methods sparkle with humor, pungent originality and witty explanations.
Paperback: 372 pages
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New Ideas in the Alekhine Defence
Author: Graham Burgess
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-7134-7833-0
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
This book, by one of the world's leading authorities on the Alekhine, surveys how this ever-evolving opening is being treated in the 1990's.
Paperback: 128 pages
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Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory
Author: Macon Shibut
Copyright Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-939433-16-8
Notation Used: Algebraic
A detailed study of the life and games of Paul Morphy
Hardcover: 341 pages
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Author: Alexander Kotov
Copyright Date: 1978
ISBN: 0-7134-1807-9
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Alexander Kotov's trilogy, of which this is the second volume, marks a landmark in chess literature. For the first time, a leading player managed to tackle the important elements of chess mastery in a methodical way which all chess players could understand, spiced with insight and colorful observation.
Paperback: 221 pages
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Author: D. Marovic
Copyright Date: 1991
ISBN: 1-85744-016-1
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Commentaries to over 150 classic games, each carefully selected for instructional value, will give
insight and confidence to all those who play the Queen's Gambit with Black or White.
Paperback: 370 pages
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Author: Amatzia Anvi
Copyright Date: 2001
ISBN: 0-7134-8713-5
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
This book deals exclusively with the human factors in chess. It relies on research findings, strong
players' candid descriptions and the writer's own views.
Paperback: 160 pages
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Author: Susan Polgar, Jacob Shutzman
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-9657059-7-8
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Queen of the King's Game is not only about chess. It is the story of a young girl who fought a war against powerful enemies.
Paperback: 352 pages
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Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players
Author: Michael de la Maza
Copyright Date: 2002
ISBN: 1-85744-269-5
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
This is the ideal book for serious adult players who want to improve. It describes a study plan which
came about thanks to a re-evaluation of standard chess teaching and includes several unique
components aimed at improving the deficiencies in the play of adult players.
Paperback: 126 pages
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Author: Harry Golombek
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN: 1-879479-68-0
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
A new edition of Golombek's in-depth look at the chess of one of the most influential chess theoriticians of the twentieth century.
Paperback: 205 pages
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Author: Fred Waitzkin
Copyright Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-394-54455-2
Notation Used: Not Notated
This is the story of three years in the lives of father and son, from the moment when Josh Waitzkin first sits at a board at the age of six until he wins the National Primary Championship three years later.
Hardcover: 226 pages
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course
Author: Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-890085-10-0
Notation Used: Algebraic
A revolutionary book on chess endgames, designed to ensure that players understand everything they need to know at their rating levels, and prepare them to advance to the next.
Paperback: 530 pages
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Author: M. Thomas, A. J. Gillam
Copyright Date: 1981
ISBN: 0-906042-402
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
An examination of 1. b4 and Black's major responses.
Paperback: 64 pages
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Strategic Chess: Mastering the Closed Game
Author: Edmar Mednis
Copyright Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-486-40617-2
Notation Used: Algebraic
Highly instructive, fun to read, and full of revealing insights into the intracacies of the game, Strategic Chess is an invaluable guide to playing strategically clear openings more successfully,
and achieving a higher level of play.
Paperback: 236 pages
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The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery
Author: Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 1999
ISBN: 1-890085-02-2
Notation Used: Algebraic
The Amateur's Mind takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns
him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a significant gain in strength.
Paperback: 443 pages
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The Art and Science of Chess: A Step-By-Step Approach
Author: Robert Robinson, Raymond Edwards
Copyright Date: 1973
ISBN: 06-013578-6
Notation Used: Albebraic and Descriptive
This book is meant for the reader who knows nothing about chess, or who, having an elementary knowledge of the moves, wishes to learn something of the principles behind the game.
Hardcover: 137 pages
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Author: James Mason, Fred Reinfeld, Sidney Bernstein
Copyright Date: 1947
Notation Used: Descriptive
Revised and updated by Fred Reinfeld and Sidney Bernstein, this book will explain and make easy for you more than 90 different openings, ranging from the classical Ruy Lopez up to the work of Alekhine, Reti, Nimzovich and others.
Paperback: 373 pages
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Author: Georges Renaud, Victor Kahn
Copyright Date: 1953
ISBN: 0-486-20106-6
Notation Used: Descriptive
This book by two former national chess champions of France provides a rational classification of
mating situations and shows how each possible type of mate has emerged with its variants in actual
play.
Paperback: 208 pages
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Author: Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov
Copyright Date: 1964
ISBN: 0-486-26154-9
Notation Used: Algebraic
In this excellent study, two great grandmasters combine their talents in a masterly analysis of attack and defense in the middle game.
Paperback: 238 pages
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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession and the World's Oldest Game
Author: J. C. Hallman
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 0312272936
Notation Used: Algebraic
The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities.
Hardcover: 333 pages
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The Chess Kid's Book of Checkmate
Author: David MacEnulty
Copyright Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-8129-3594-2
Notation Used: Algebraic
Checkmate is the ultimate goal in chess. To get to checkmate, you need to know basic checkmate patterns.
Paperback: 191 pages
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The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame
Author: David MacEnulty
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 0-8129-3510-1
Notation Used: Algebraic
The chess endgame begins when the Kings come out to play. The outcome of a game can come down to who knows more about Kings and Pawns--you, or your opponent.
Paperback: 118 pages
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The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
Author: Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-890085-01-4
Notation Used: Algebraic
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy is an amateur's dream come true! Due to the overwhelming
amount of strategic and tactical ideas in chess, students of the game buy dozens of chess books but still find it impossible to isolate key points. Seeing the problems his students faced, Mr. Silman has
created the first comprehensive strategic guide in dictionary form.
Paperback: 360 pages
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Author: Anthony Glyn
Copyright Date: 1969
ISBN: 671204882
Notation Used: Not Notated
In this highly original and dramatic novel, the reader doesn't need to know a bishop from a pawn to be held from first to last by this story.
Hardcover: 319 pages
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The French Defense: New and Forgotten Ideas!
Author: Nikolay Minev
Copyright Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-938650-36-X
Notation Used: Algebraic
This book presents the French Defense in a new format. The text is structured around the
internationally accepted ECO opening code system and the variations are supplemented
with many short, illustrative games.
Paperback: 254 pages
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Author: Siegbert Tarrasch
Copyright Date: 1935
ISBN: 0-486-25447-X
Notation Used: Descriptive
An immediate success upon its first publication, The Game of Chess has become one of the game's enduring classics, considered by some critics the finest book ever written on the game.
Paperback: 423 pages
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Author: Max Euwe, M. Blaine, J.F.S. Rumble
Copyright Date: 1958
ISBN: 0-486-24353-2
Notation Used: Descriptive Notation
Amateurs and even field-tested chess warriors should be prepared to clarify their vision of the game through this book; veteran campaigners would do well to brush up their tactics and strategy via this logical approach to chess.
Paperback 217 pages
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The Luneburg Variation: A Novel
Author: Paolo Maurensig
Copyright Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-374-19435-1
Notation Used: Not Notated
At the opening of this gripping book--"the best debut novel of the year," critics called it when it
appeared in Italy in 1995--a cadaver is discovered, the body of an impeccable businessman from
Munich, in a elaborate garden where topiary shrubs delineate a hidden chessboard behind the
hedges.
Hardcover: 140 pages
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Author: Iossif Dorfman
Copyright Date: 2001
ISBN: 2-957-2890-2-4
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
On the pages of this book the reader will see a number of rules being formulated for the first time,
generalising the process taking place during play. Rules enabling certain well-known postulates to
be explained, and others to be looked at more critically.
Paperback: 208 pages
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The Polgar Sisters: Training of Genius?
Author: Cathy Forbes
Copyright Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-8050-2426-3
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
This is the story of Susan, Sofia, and Judith Polgar, three Hungarian sisters who have taken the world by storm.
Paperback: 177 pages
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Author: W.R. Hartson, P.C. Watson
Copyright Date: 1984
ISBN: 0-87196-226-8
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
The Psychology of Chess explores the popularity of chess and offers engaging, readable discussions of topics often neglected in other books on chess.
Hardcover: 138 pages
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Author: Walter Tevis
Copyright Date: 1983
ISBN: 0394528018
Notation Used: Not Notated
Orphaned at eight, Beth Harmon is sent to the Methuen Home. One day she is sent to the basement to clean the blackboard erasers, and she sees the janitor sitting over a checkerboard, moving strange little pieces on it.
Hardcover: 243 pages
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The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances
Author: Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 2001
ISBN: 1-890085-05-7
Notation Used: Algebraic
In this comprehensive workbook, International Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and
weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, tactical and positional middlegames, and
endgames.
Paperback: 423 pages
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The Road to Chess Improvement: A US Champion provides solutions to real-life chess problems
Author: Alex Yermolinsky
Copyright Date: 1999
ISBN: 1901983242
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
In this book the author passes on many of the insights he has gained over the years. He steers the reader away from "quick-fix" approaches, and focuses on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making.
Paperback: 224 pages
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Author: John Emms
Copyright Date: 1999
ISBN: 1-901259-02-1
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
In this book for club and tournament players Grandmaster John Emms explains the strategy and tactics of this dynamic and fashionable opening.
Paperback: 144 pages
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Author: Jonathan Rowson
Copyright Date: 2000
ISBN: 1-901983-36-6
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Scotland's youngest grandmaster discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess.
Paperback: 208 pages
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The Simon & Schuster Pocket Book of Chess
Author: Raymond Keene
Copyright Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-671-67924-4
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
The Pocket Book of Chess provides a clear, brightly illustrated introduction to this
ancient and fascinating game.
Paperback: 192 pages
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Author: Joe Gallagher
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-901259-09-9
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
In this book Grandmaster Joe Gallagher explains the strategy and tactics of this exciting opening.
Paperback: 144 pages
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The Usborne Guide to Playing Chess
Author: Susan Caldwell
Copyright Date: 1987
ISBN: 0-7460-0135-5
Notation Used: Algebraic
This book is a basic guide for beginners of all ages. Colorful step-by-step pictures and instructions
clearly and simply explain the different moves of each of the chess pieces, the rules of the game and how to play.
Paperback: 64 pages
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Author: Bruce Pandolfini
Copyright Date: 1998
ISBN: 0684839490
Notation Used: Algebraic
In The Winning Way, Bruce Pandolfini, America's foremost chess teacher and author, reveals the pivotal moves that allow you to gain the winning advantage quickly and decisively.
Paperback: 188 pages
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White Opening System Combining Stonewall Attack, Colle System, Torre Attack
Author: Andrew Soltis
Copyright Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-87568-205-7
Notation Used: Algebraic
A detailed study of three related opening systems
Paperback: 131 pages
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Author: Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld
Copyright Date: 1948
ISBN: 671-21114-5
Notation Used: Descriptive
Winning Chess not only tells you, but graphically and forcefully shows you, how to recognize the elements of winning tactical combinations and how to apply them to actual game positions.
Paperback: 231 pages
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Author: Yasser Seirawan
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 1857443489
Notation Used: Algebraic
Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. Winning Chess Endings is a great
one--a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan.
Paperback: 239 pages
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Author: Yasser Seirawan
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 1857443947
Notation Used: Algebraic
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.
Paperback: 257 pages
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Author: Yasser Seirawan, Jeremy Silman
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 1-85744-332-2
Notation Used: Algebraic
Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players.
Paperback: 257 pages
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Winning Chess Tactics Illustrated
Author: I.A. Horowitz
Copyright Date: 1963
Notation Used: Descriptive
This is a practical chess book for all players from beginner to expert. This book contains over 300 actual game situations in diagram form to test the player's chess proficiency.
Paperback: 100 pages
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Author: Pal Benko, Burt Hochberg
Copyright Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-8129-1866-5
Notation Used: Algebraic
"What's the best move?" As World Champion Emanuel Lasker established long ago, it is the one that
disturbs the opponent the most. Winning with Chess Psychology will show you how
Lasker's weapon was developed by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer, and Kasparov, and how you
can use it to win more more games--regardless of your playing strength.
Paperback 264 pages
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Author: Tony Kosten
Copyright Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-8050-2428-X
Notation Used: Figurine Algebraic
Philidor's Defense is an unusual and dynamic opening for players of all standards of play. Black surprises his opponent as early as the second move.
Paperback: 144 pages
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Zurich Internation Chess Tournament 1953
Author: David Bronstein
Copyright Date: 1979
ISBN: 0-486-23800-8
Notation Used: Long Algebraic
Advanced players will want this book for the games alone. Beginning and intermediate players, concerned more immediately with instruction, will find David Bronstein's annotations not only preceptive and thorough, but also a veritable textbook on how to play the middlegame.
Paperback: 349 pages
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