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If you play chess for blood, it makes sense to learn the violent tactics that feature in the openings that you play.

Judit Polgar is known for her aggressive chess style, which makes her a perfect role model for this tactics training series.

CHESS is a profound reflection of intention, embodying strategicthought, foresight, and decision-making.

Legendary Swedish chess grandmaster Ulf Andersson was a Top 10 player who almost never lost a game and kept scoring wins from quiet positions.

Many chess players act intimidated and overly cautious when they have the Black pieces.

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The Chess Traveler and Pioneer by Michael Abron__________________________________

The Tarrasch Defence is a highly ambitious way to play against 1.

Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play.

Jeder Vereinsspieler kennt das Problem: Die Eröffnung ist vorbei, was nun?

A world famous grandmaster explains the modern style of attacking chess to amateur chess players.

Many chess players act intimidated and overly cautious when they have the Black pieces.

No time to study but want to win more chess games?

Chess Grandmaster Anish Giri sketches his rise to the chess elite and presents 20 fondly remembered games in his trademark style: instructive, witty and delightfully unimpressed by reputations.

The Sicilian Defence is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level as well as among grandmasters.

If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations.

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Always wanted to play backgammon but haven't much time to learn?

In chess, a transposition is a known position reached by a different move order than usual - a less obvious way of getting to somewhere you want to go, leading to confusion for your opponent.

The Sicilian Defence is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level as well as among grandmasters.

All the average club player needs is a small and manageable chess opening repertoire.

The King’s Indian Defence is arguably the most ambitious and exciting way to play against 1.

Against the widely played Queen's Indian Defense White's most ambitious and most popular choice is the Fianchetto Variation.

It is not difficult to understand why The London System is such a popular chess opening with club players.

This book contains 71 deeply annotated chess victories of Tigran Petrosian (World Champion from 1963 to 1969) against the leading players of his day, some of which are in print for the first time.