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101 Questions on How to Play Chess by Fred Wilson
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
What is the object of the game of chess? What is chess notation? How does the King move and capture? These and a host of other chess questions are answered simply and clearly in this indispensable guide for beginning players.Chess expert Fred Wilson has distilled an enormous amount of information into a ...Show more
Better Chess for Average Players by HARDING T
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
Clear, straightforward guide by noted expert coaches readers through fundamentals of attacking and positional play, as well as how to approach the endgame. Crucial processes of assessing positions and choosing moves are examined in depth; also, how to cope with difficult positions and time-trouble. 384 ...Show more
Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Max Euwe; Walter Meiden
Category: Game Books | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
25 chess games chosen, arranged, annotated to help amateurs avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. With commentary by 1935- 36 World Chess Champion Max Euwe. 1963 edition.
How Not to Play Chess by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky; Fred Reinfeld (Editor)
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
Beginners and even fairly advanced players agree on one thing: analyzing the strength or weakness of a position (material being equal) is the hardest part of chess to learn. It is also one of the hardest elements to teach, and there are some who claim it is unteachable. But this wonderfully lucid book ...Show more
How to Play the Chess Openings by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Category: Game Books | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
Clear, profound examinations of just what each opening is intended to do and how opponent can counter. Many sample games. With this book, all one needs to know are the fundamental rules of chess and ordinary chess notation in order to gain a thorough understanding of the all-important opening game in it ...Show more
Learn Chess from the Greats by Peter Tamburro
Category: Gifts | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
Beginning students of the game as well as veterans of the board will find this chess guide offers a wealth of inspiration, enjoyment, and practical chess advice. In providing valuable instruction for players at all levels, noted chess writer and teacher Peter Tamburro initially presents elementary ideas ...Show more
Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman; Alan S. Russell (Translator)
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
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 subject, an ...Show more
Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch
Category: Games & Puzzles | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
"One of the few books...which, at a glance, one can recognize as an immortal." -- Chess. The proper use of pawns -- of paramount importance in chess strategy -- sometimes even puzzles experienced players. This profoundly original and stimulating book by an International Master and prolific chess writer ...Show more
The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann; Fred Reinfeld (Revised by, Editor); J. Du Mont (Revised by, Editor, Translator); I. A. Horowitz (Translator, Editor, Revised by)
Category: Games & Puzzles | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
The 21st Century Edition of Spielmann's Classic Work Austrian Grandmaster Rudolf Spielmann's The Art of Sacrifice in Chess first appeared in the mid-1930s. It was immediately recognized as a classic, a masterpiece that examined the nature of chess sacrifices. In this modernized, 21st century edition, al ...Show more
The Game of Chess by Siegbert Tarrasch
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. The way to this happiness I have tried to show in this book." -- Author's Preface While there ...Show more
Why You Lose at Chess by Tim Harding
Category: Games & Puzzles | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
This updated chess classic demonstrates how to learn from your losses by recognizing the warning signs as they develop and by analyzing games gone wrong. In addition to expert analysis of each stage of the game, this guide offers insights into why players lose from good positions as well as weak ones, a ...Show more
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein
Category: Sport | Series: Dover Chess Ser.
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 perceptive and thorough, but also a veritable textbook on how to play the middle game.
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