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This is the 1st in the American Contract Bridge Leagues series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players.

This book is a complete guide to the art of shadow puppetry, with detailed instructions on how to create 75 unique creatures using just your hands.

Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game.

For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action.

Are you a dove or a hawk?

Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that's next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids.

Jesus de la Villa’s worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and endgame books are necessarily tedious.

Go Fundamentals is the easy-to-follow guidebook explaining the fundamental principles of the ancient Asian game of Go, the oldest game in the world.

Master the fascinating and rewarding game of American Mahjong with this guide for beginners.

Is it possible to learn how to attack your opponent's king from a book?

Raise the stakes in the popular drinking game with prompts that will make your friends spill the juiciest details of their lives.

What goes on in some of the sharpest minds on earth?

The most complete guide ever to taking up poker and winningComprehensive and easy to follow, The Mammoth Book of Poker enables even those new to the game to begin and win at home, in casinos, in tournaments and online.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Don't have the time to study opening theory, or to figure out where you're going wrong with your games?

This book is aimed at assisting those new or unfamiliar with historical figure modelling and wargaming by providing them with a range of simple tips and techniques to assist them in putting together good looking collections using methods that won't take an age.

The best resource for projecting future performance of minor league athletes- essential for fantasy league baseball players The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2024 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players.

My name is Joel Mawhinney, though I go by the name Joel M.

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.

Learn how to think three moves ahead Chess is a complex and challenging game-but that's what makes it so much fun.

Learn the fascinating game of Go with this expert guide.

This collection of games, most of them annotated, features the United States Chess Federation's premiere invitational tournament--the Absolute Championship.

The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Federation Internationale des Echecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles.

The English Opening (1.

This vintage book contains an interesting and detailed treatise on the history of billiards.

In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

You are one of the thirty Knights Templar who awoke on Friday, 13 October 1307, only to find themselves wanted criminals and branded heretics by the King of France.

“Master terrainer Harwood offer[s] advice on 10 projects, from the mosque on the cover to mud-brick buildings to grass huts .

TIER The Enhanced Role-Playing Game 2nd Edition is a revolutionary tabletop RPG game that offers D&D style gameplay, but there are NO CLASSES!

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

Now in paperback comes the first and authorized biography of Stuey Ungar, the greatest card player of all time, who was backed by the Mob in New York before moving to Las Vegas where he won the World Series of Poker three times, then died mysteriously in a seedy motel on the Vegas strip at the age of 45.

This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of the game, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction.

With over 90 million monthly users and counting, Roblox is one of the most popular games on the planet!

THE CON50LE is a comprehensive yet conversational account of 50 years of home video gaming history, leaving no rarely sighted system unturned and providing a chronological account of the evolution of the biggest entertainment medium in the world.

Had enough of the same old queen's pawn openings?

Do masters methodically cut their way through the branches of a tree of analysis?

This classic instructional book explains how to recognise and execute 'end plays' in the game of bridge, and is aimed at the average contract bridge player.

Computer Chess deals with the history of computer chess games and the programming of computer chess.

If youre looking to learn about the game of chess--and win--The Everything Chess Basics Book provides you with the perfect introduction.

This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world--individual and team matches, from 1951 through 1955--with sources.

This antiquarian volume contains an easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide to learning card tricks, with descriptions and instructions designed to teach the reader a number of shuffling techniques and related tricks.

Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world.