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Quality Chess Books - General
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Practical Chess Defence
by Jacob Aagaard
Publication Date: 31 July 2006
Editorial Rewiew:
Chess is developing faster now than ever before in history, and the appearance of strong chess computers has changed the way players think. In the past many positions would have been rejected on principle as impossible to defend, and even the best players would shy away from capturing material if it meant that they would have to face a difficult defence. This attitude has changed, and today’s top players are not afraid of walking a fine line in defence. This book gives practical advice on various methods of defence, offering readers the chance to test and train with 200 challenging examples. While not for the faint-hearted, this book will help the reader greatly improve in this vital part of the game.
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Understanding Chess Tactics
by Martin Weteschnik
Publication Date: 28 May 2006
Editorial Rewiew:
"Chess is 99% tactics" is an old saying. This may be an exaggeration, but even the remaining 1% still depends on tactics. When Martin Weteschnik started working as a trainer in his local chess club, he quickly realized that even the stronger club players had great weaknesses in their tactical play. He also discovered that simply asking them to solve a huge number of puzzles did not fix the problem. These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself.
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Learn from the Legends 2nd edition
by Mihail Marin
Publication Date: 31 March 2006
Editorial Rewiew:
Winner of ChessCafe.com Book of the Year 2005, nominee for BCF Book of the Year 2005 and the best chess book in the last two decades according to Jeremy Silman. In this ambitious work Mihail Marin examines and explains the contribution from the chess legends who influenced him strongly in his own development. This personal and sympathetic journey into the best chess of yesterday is guaranteed to help the readers in their games. As we all know: those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Chess for Kids and Parents
by Heinz Brunthaler
Publication Date: 29 May 2006
Editorial Rewiew:
It is widely accepted that learning chess has a very positive effect on children. Many parents want to help their children to study chess, but don’t know how to do it. This book is the solution. It is a practical handbook that teaches the mysteries of chess with a light touch.
All rules and aspects of the game are covered. This book will help children progress from absolute beginners to playing in tournaments.
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Excelling at Technical Chess
by Jacob Aagaard
Editorial Rewiew:
Most endgame books deal with positions where each player have only one piece, and seems to presume that the reader will memorise long variations and hundres of positions. This book is an exception to these. While focussing on the basic rules governing endgame play, and demonstrating them with deeply annotated practical examples, this book helps the reader to understand endgames, instead of memorising them. This "learn a man to fish" approach is characteristic for Jacob Aagaard's books, but never more apparent than in this book, which both the author himself and his regular proof reader Danny Kristiansen considers his best work.
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Excelling at Chess Calculation
by Jacob Aagaard
Editorial Rewiew:
What are the most important tools we need for calculating variations? In this book acclaimed author Jacob Aagaard gives his suggestions and explains with great clarity exactly which ideas are the crucial, and which are mainly helpful, starting with the chapter "Before you can think, you need to learn how to see." Building on known theoreticians like Kotov and Dvoretsky, Aagaard uses his reader-friendly style to make the simple essential ideas grandmasters use in their game remain simple for the reader to understand. The 100 exercises in the end of the book will help the reader improve his calculation in practice as well. As a companion to this book Jacob Aagaard & Esben Lund has released the CD "Right Decisions" from Chessbase with 4000 training questions.
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Excelling at Combinational Play
by Jacob Aagaard
Editorial Rewiew:
Though carrying almost the same name of the first two Excelling books, there is really talk about a new series starting with this book. Still the book is structured very much like Excelling at Positional Chess. First there are a few chapters about tactical indicators, typical sacrifices in the Sicilian and classical ways of organising books on combinations. The second part of the book contains 500 combinations, most of which has never been seen in chess books before, all taken from the Sicilian Defence and organised after Informant Code. All positions have been carefully checked with computers.
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Excelling at Positional Chess
by Jacob Aagaard
Editorial Rewiew:
The follow up to award winning Excelling at Chess. This book is divided into two parts. The first covers some basic positional ideas in various articles, while the second part includes 108 strategic exercises, where the combination of creative thinking and positional understanding is tested. If you for some reason don't want the book ruined by the authors signature, please send us an e-mail with your order.
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Excelling at Chess
by Jacob Aagaard
Editorial Rewiew:
Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. In this book Jacob Aagaard identified the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. In Excelling at Chess, he includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame and when to force the position. Anyone who follows the advice in this book cannot fail to improve their feel for the game.
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