MAURICE ASHLEY; THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRANDMASTER.

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  • Official Chess Scorebook (Wine Red): Beautifully Designed 90 Moves Chess Notebook (Notation Book) | You Can Play 50 Games | Score Sheets For Your ... Chess Set) (White on Black Chess Board)

    • ASIN: 1691632848
    • ISBN: 1691632848
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Official Chess Scorebook:Garry Kasparov once said:“Typically, however, the winner is just the player who made the next-to-last mistake.”•So DO NOT Make the Last Mistake in THIS Chess Score Sheet!”•BE THE ONE with the Next-to-Last Mistake!The ADVANTAGES of This Chess Notebook are:USABILITY:In this well-structured chess notation book, you c... [Read More]

  • Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

    • UPC: 768821255497
    • ASIN: 1579125549
    • ISBN: 1579125549
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

  • Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition

    • ASIN: 0713484640
    • ISBN: 0713484640
    • Brand: US Chess Federation
    • Manufacturer: Batsford

    "The novice who plays through Logical Chess can learn an ocean of basic chess wisdom."—Leonard Barden, Engilsh chess master and broadcaster “Entertains . . . as it reinforces strategic lessons gleaned from chess titans. Illustrates effective middle-game plans.”—Library Journal Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player impr... [Read More]

  • Opening Repertoire: ...c6: Playing the Caro-Kann and Slav as Black (Everyman Chess)

    • ASIN: 1781943877
    • ISBN: 9781781943878
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: Everyman Chess

    This book provides a rock solid opening repertoire for Black, using systems based on the move ...c6. The backbone of this repertoire is the Caro-Kann versus 1 e4 and the Semi-Slav (via a Slav move order) versus 1 d4. In general these systems aim to neutralise White’s early initiative. They aim for success by the gradual accumulation of small adva... [Read More]

  • The Black Lion: The Chess Predator's Choice Against Both 1.e4 and 1.d4

    • ASIN: 9056912577
    • ISBN: 9056912577
    • Brand: Brand: New In Chess,Csi
    • Manufacturer: New In Chess

    More than 85% of all chess games start with either 1.e4 or 1.d4, and The Black Lion presents a flexible, logical and sensible way for Black to meet both of these moves. This robust, multipurpose opening system looks quiet, like a sleeping lion, but when this predator is provoked, and the game heats up, Black eats its prey in an extremely swift and ... [Read More]

  • Best Chess Set Ever - Chess Board Game with Triple Weight Pieces, Black Silicone Board

    • UPC: 719936819937
    • ASIN: B01BSDILBC
    • Brand: Chess Geeks
    • Size: Triple Weighted
    • Manufacturer: Best Chess Set Ever

    ULTRA COOL CHESS SET: Designed for modern appeal; displays and stacks neatly with any game collection. DURABLE, OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT-SIZED BOARD: Available in green or black pattern; lies flat and wipes clean; impervious to spills, stains, creases and chips. PREMIUM GAME PIECES: 34 triple weighted Staunton pieces with classic ivory color and felt bo... [Read More]

  • Opening Repertoire: The Caro-Kann (Everyman Chess: Opening Repertoire)

    • ASIN: 1781942102
    • ISBN: 9781781942109
    • Brand: Everyman Chess
    • Manufacturer: Everyman Chess

    The Caro-Kann Defense remains a very popular option for Black at all levels of chess. It has always enjoyed a solid reputation, but if anything its popularity has increased in recent years with the realization that the Caro-Kann can also be employed with the intention of reaching sharp dynamic positions, rich in possibilities for both sides and wit... [Read More]

  • Bologan's Black Weapons in the Open Games: How to Play for a Win if White Avoids the Ruy Lopez

    • ASIN: 9056915436
    • ISBN: 9056915436
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: New In Chess,Csi

    If you are ready to play the Ruy Lopez with Black, you also need to be prepared if white avoids the Ruy. In this book Victor Bologan covers all relevant lines with a well laid-out, clearly explained and eminently playable set of responses. But this is not just another chess opening repertoire book. Bologan presents TWO different options against eve... [Read More]

  • Marshall's Best Games of Chess

    • ASIN: 1447472519
    • ISBN: 1447472519
    • Manufacturer: Read Books

    Originally entitled “My Fifty Years of Chess”, this volume presents an account of the career of Frank J. Marshall, who was a United States Chess Champion between 1909-1936. With autobiographical information and detailed, move-by-move accounts of some of his more notable games, “Marshall's Best Games of Chess” is not to be missed by chess en... [Read More]

  • Leningrad System: A Complete Weapon Against 1 d4: Black Repertoire for Tournament Players (Progress in Chess)

    • ASIN: 3283004781
    • ISBN: 3283004781
    • Brand: Edition Olms
    • Manufacturer: Edition Olms

    The Leningrad System is one of the sharpest and most interesting replies to 1 d4, and since this typical set-up is also playable against the flank openings 1 c4 and 1 If3, it provides the Black player with a genuine universal weapon. Ee8 in the main line of the Leningrad System is presented here, but since the typical motifs and ideas for both side... [Read More]

  • My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White: A Turn-key Package for Ambitious Beginners

    • ASIN: 9056916335
    • ISBN: 9056916335
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: New In Chess

    Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs.Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Trying to win in 20 moves, copying what's in fashion among top-GM's or memorizing variations are a waste ... [Read More]

  • Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess

    • ASIN: 0939433559
    • ISBN: 0939433559
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: The House of Staunton

    Although Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974) was not widely known in the West, his games have a great reputation among connoisseurs of attacking play. Among his many distinctions in chess are his score of six wins, nine draws and five losses against World Champions.

  • Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics

    • ASIN: 1537353675
    • ISBN: 1537353675
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    The purpose of this book is simple – it is intended to raise your rating (or just greatly improve your game if you’re not a rated player). Rather than go into a lengthy explanation of why practicing tactics is so critical to improvement, I’ll just tell you about my own experience. I started playing tournament chess in the 1980’s and spent a... [Read More]

  • The Modern Defence: Move by Move (Everyman Chess)

    • ASIN: 185744986X
    • ISBN: 185744986X
    • Brand: Everyman Chess
    • Manufacturer: Everyman Chess

    Cyrus Lakdawala examines the many different variations of the Modern Defence, studies the typical plans and tactics, offers repertoire options and provides answers to all the key questions

  • My Best Games, Vol. 2: Games with Black

    • ASIN: 3283004056
    • ISBN: 3283004056
    • Brand: Brand: Edition Olms
    • Manufacturer: Olms

    In this second volume of My Best Games, grandmaster Victor Korchnoi presents fifty of his best games with Black, with which he has always excelled as a determined defender, ready, when the opportunity presents itself, to switch to counterattack.

  • John N. Hansen: Chess 4

    • UPC: 772223799879
    • ASIN: B000BNLVBS
    • Brand: John N. Hansen
    • Size: 1.75
    • Manufacturer: John N. Hansen Co. Inc.

    Chess is no longer just a battle, now it's war! The rules are the same, but the game is dangerously different. Players are able to use new military strategies never seen before.

  • Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z

    • ASIN: 1890085014
    • ISBN: 1890085014
    • Brand: The House of Staunton
    • Manufacturer: Siles Pr

    This comprehensive guide, in dictionary form, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice.

  • Knight on the Left: 1.Nc3: Studies of an Unorthodox Chess Opening

    • ASIN: 3931192296
    • ISBN: 3931192296
    • Manufacturer: Schachverlag Kania

    Clean and in very good condition. hardly read.

  • Chess and the Art of War: Ancient Wisdom to Make You a Better Player

    • ASIN: 0785832815
    • ISBN: 0785832815
    • Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

    Inside Chess and the Art of War, you'll find an ancient military history drawn from and adapted into a helpful guide on how to become a chess master at any skill level. 2,500 years ago Sun Tzu wrote a military treatise called The Art of War. Since then, the book has been used not just by military tacticians but by business leaders, planners, trader... [Read More]

  • Gata Kamsky - Chess Gamer Volume 1: Awakening 1989-1996: Volume 1: Awakening 1989-1996

    • ASIN: 9492510286
    • ISBN: 9492510286
    • Manufacturer: Thinkers Publishing

    Gata will share in his first volume how he became one of the world elite class players and contender for the title of World Chess Champion. Why and how he used different styles of play and will reveal how this learning process helped him to become a chess professional.

  • MAURICE ASHLEY; THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRANDMASTER.

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