101 Chess Opening Traps
101 Chess Opening Traps

Author: Steve Giddins

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901983135

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The only thing more humiliating than losing a game quickly is to lose a game quickly to a known opening trap. On the other hand, the easy point scored by the trapper is a great confidence booster, and allows the winner a good rest before the next game in a competition. This book shows that no-one should feel safe from an opponent armed to the teeth with cunning traps. Steve Giddins (who lived in Russia for a time) has collected his material from a wide variety of sources, some not normally available in the West.

700 Opening Traps
700 Opening Traps

Author: Bill Wall

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-17

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781708915124

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700 Opening Traps is a unique collection of chess moves which set up the opponent to fall into a mating traps. All the games have been derived from practical play, from amateur to Grandmaster level. Opening traps are useful in blitz play, Internet play, and usually with players who do not study opening theory. And at one time or another, all players, from Grandmaster to novice, have fallen for a chess trap or sprung one on some unsuspecting opponent. This books contains basic chess instructions for the novice as well as hundreds of chess positions that will help even the most experience chess players master the art of the chess trap. Another great publication from notable chess Master and author Bill Wall!

More Chess Openings
More Chess Openings

Author: Bruce Pandolfini

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993-12-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 067179499X

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Pandolfini, who will be the commentator for the 1993 World Chess Championships in Los Angeles this fall, illustrates 200 new and effective moves for the challenging first phase of the game, explaining strategies and principles in a clear and understandable way. 200 line drawings.

Savage Chess Openings Traps
Savage Chess Openings Traps

Author: Bruce Alberston

Publisher: Cardoza

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781580423540

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Great for beginning and intermediate players who love challenges and are ready to learn the fundamental and tricky chess opening traps—how to pull them off or how to avoid them! Great for beginners ready to improve their game and intermediate players who love challenges, readers learn the most fundamental and tricky chess opening traps—and how to pull them off or to avoid them! This book combines the correct way to play mistake-free openings with the fundamental tactical tricks that belong in the arsenal of every chess player. Packed tight with 649 diagrams and 217 opening traps, this book is a perfect and painless way for beginning and intermediate players to learn the everyday mistakes made by amateurs and how to punish those that haven’t learned these lessons. Readers learn the traps for more than 40 opening systems!

The Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit

Author: Walter Tevis

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 079534306X

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Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​ When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient

The Quickest Chess Victories of All Time
The Quickest Chess Victories of All Time

Author: Graham Burgess

Publisher: Everyman Chess

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781857445381

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This book contains a comprehensive collection of the shortest decisive games in chess history. It is an indispensable guide to the pitfalls and traps that lurk in every opening system. An ability to punish errors in the opening is an essential aspect of modern opening play. All too often players fail to seize their chances to win a crisp miniature game. The thousands of games featured in this book show how to detect the opponent's errors and take maximum advantage. The text includes an outstanding and comprehensive collection of games won in 13 moves or fewer, as well as explanations of the errors made and how to avoid them. This indispensable volume will help sharpen your killer instinct! FIDE Master Graham Burgess is a highly accomplished and versatile writer on chess, whose 'Mammoth Book of Chess' won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award in 1997. He holds the world record for marathon blitz chess-playing.

101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures

Author: John Nunn

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901983166

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A collection of games of 25 moves or fewer by a grandmaster. The accent is on instruction, discussing both how the loser could have avoided disaster and how the winner was able to take advantage so effectively.

Understanding the Chess Openings
Understanding the Chess Openings

Author: Sam Collins

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904600282

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An invaluable guide to how modern chess openings are played. This major new work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring extensive descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides. These commentaries will be welcomed by all club and tournament players, as they will better help them handle middlegame positions arising from each opening.

How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire
How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire

Author: Steve Giddins

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901983890

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In this book, the first to focus on these issues, Steve Giddins provides common-sense guidance on one of the perennial problems facing chess-players. He tackles questions such as: whether to play main lines, offbeat openings or 'universal' systems; how to avoid being 'move-ordered'; how to use computers; if and when to depart from or change your repertoire. Giddins argues that from novice to grandmaster, a player's basic task when choosing a repertoire is the same: he needs to select openings that suit his playing style and that he can play with confidence. The repertoire should not require more memory work and study than he is capable of, or has time for. The book is rounded off with a look at the use of 'role models' and an investigation of the repertoires of leading players past and present.

Best Lessons of a Chess Coach
Best Lessons of a Chess Coach

Author: Sunil Weeramantry

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781936277902

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In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills. Questions such as: - "Who has the better position?"- "Should I resolve the tension in the center?"- "How can I improve the placement of my pieces?"In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, the reader is invited to take a seat in the classroom of a renowned chess teacher, and learn how to answer such questions while experiencing the beauty, logic, and artistry of great chess games. When Sunil Weeramantry lectures on the games of top grandmasters, one can imagine making decisions alongside them. When he lectures on his own games, one can also experience the personal excitement, disappointment, and satisfaction of a well-contested game of chess. The cumulative effect of studying these lessons is to give the aspiring player a wide range of tools with which to win.