Search Results
Showing
1 - 13
of 13
query time: 0.11s
Publisher:
Winning Moves, Inc
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
"Finally, a way to learn to play Chess--the world's greatest game--quickly, excitingly and without stress! The secret? An innovative deck of action cards. Each card depicts a chess piece and how it moves. You move only this piece on your turn. This eliminates the need to memorize all the chess pieces and their moves in advance. After a few turns, you'll instinctively know how to move and capture with your knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, king and queen!...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
The chess playing mind does not work like a machine. Selecting a move results from rather chaotic thought processes and is not the logical outcome of applying a rational method. The only problem with that, says International Master Willy Hendriks, is that most books and courses on improving at chess claim exactly the opposite. The dogma of the chess instruction establishment is that if you only take a good look at certain 'characteristics' of a position,...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
In this follow-up to his acclaimed 1001 Chess Exercise for Club Players, FIDE Master Frank Erwich teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich repeats the themes of his previous book, focusing on exercises in which the key move is less obvious. He also introduces new, more sophisticated tactical weapons....
Author:
Publisher:
Tim Sawyer
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
This book shows you 60 games using the Fool's Mate themes. Once you learn this checkmate skill, it helps you win fast. If the opportunity arises, there's no faster way to win. Fool's Mate is the shortest possible chess game. Black can win in two moves. White can win in three. Two-move games are rare, but Fool's Mate themes occur in many openings. The longest games here are 11 moves. This book is a short read with lots of diagrams. I illustrate the...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
The ideas & plans behind ALL chess openings! Volume 2 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study. * Comprehensive: covers all main variations likely to arise * Easy-to-use: important moves and key positions are highlighted in colour * Long-lasting: it doesn't outdate because...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Every chess player loves to attack the enemy King. Your goal is clear, your thinking is concrete, your creativity is in gear and direct victory is just around the corner. Few things in life are better than a conducting a blistering King's attack! But how good are you actually at attacking? Have you ever analysed your efforts? Looked at calculation errors, missed chances and derailed efforts? Highly experienced chess trainer Herman Grooten finds that...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
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 Adorjan has consistently been fighting this negative mindset. In Black is Back!, the Hungarian grandmaster continues his crusade. He shows that White's...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Jan Timman (1951) is a former World Championship Candidate who rose to the number two spot of the FIDE world rankings. The Dutch grandmaster was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and is still playing actively in open tournaments and in club leagues. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as 'The Best of the West'. In 1993 he qualified for the final of the FIDE...
Author:
Publisher:
New in Chess
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
If you are aware of endgame patterns, you spot key moves quicker, analyse and calculate better, avoid making errors and memorize what you have studied more fully. Most of the patterns Jesus de la Villa presents in this new book are from the phase of the game just before a theoretical endgame turns up. Knowing these practical endgame fundamentals will enable you to fully reap the benefits of what you learned in De la Villa's widely acclaimed classic...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Attacking your opponent's king is not just a shortcut to victory, it's also one of the most enjoyable and gratifying experiences in chess. If you want to win more games you should become a better attacker. Studying typical attacking motifs and ideas easily brings dividends while you are having a good time. Michael Prusikin presents the prerequisites and the rules for a King attack in a lucid and attractive manner. In 15 thematic chapters he teaches...
12. Endgame Strategy
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In this widely acclaimed chess classic, Russian trainer Mikhail Shereshevsky explains how to master the most important endgame principles. Where other endgame manuals focus on the basics and theoretical endgames, this book teaches the 'big ideas' that will help you find the most promising and most practical moves in any endgame. Even in endgames, it helps to think schematically instead of trying to calculate every move. To maximize your winning chances,...
Author:
Publisher:
Continental Sales, Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
One of the best and most popular ways to meet White's first move 1.e4 remains the tried and tested e5. After this move the majority of games steer for the Ruy Lopez. A perfectly fine choice for White, but one that requires you to study the countless different setups and follow the continuously evolving theory in that opening. Karsten Müller and Georgios Souleidis present an alternative that is ideal for the average club player: a complete repertoire...