Indoor games

This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the various types of Notrump bridge hands one might expect to encounter in a tournament.

From the author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes an introduction to combat tactics for Dungeons & Dragons players.

The ';must-have' (R.

"e;In writing about poker Jim McManus has managed to write about everything, and it's glorious.

The seconds tick down relentlessly toward zero just as your game approaches the critical stage.

Building on the tremendous success of Openings for Amateurs in 2014, Pete Tamburro offers a new collection of practical tips to help club-level and young chessplayers to play the opening on their own terms.

More opening outrage and mayhem!

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

Will memorizing a mountain of related chess positions help you to learn?

In many ways, the Najdorf Sicilian is the ideal defense against 1.

You've just read a chess beginners' manual and learned the rules of the game, some simple tactics, maybe a few opening moves.

You have limited time to devote to chess study, and most of that goes to reviewing your openings to move 25, with all their sidelines.

Cowering in the middlegame, towering in the endgame: chess theory teaches that the king needs protection from enemy pieces until the ending, when finally it can come out from hiding to decisive effect.

What's the best way to learn chess?

You're booked up on your openings and know the Philidor and Lucena positions hands down, but how to convert all that theoretical knowledge into points against flesh-and-blood opponents?

What's the best way to start learning a new opening?

Safety first!

Chess is Childs Play is a book written by parents, for parents.

What's the best way to teach chess to children?

';I had a fantastic position, but I couldn't figure out what to do next!

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

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

How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title?

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

The Grunfeld is one of the most topical openings in modern chess practice.

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge.

Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings.

Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs?

Back to the future!

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

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

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

Annotating your own games can help you to play better chess.

The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz was one of the most feared players in the U.

Jose Raul Capablanca is renowned for his exquisite positional play and flawless endgame technique.

Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time.

Strip poker - the game of games, the sport of kings.

When Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy.

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Anand versus Kramnik 2008, and featuring a foreword by World Champion Vishy Anand.

With a foreword by Dr John Nunn, Grandmaster and four times Olypic gold medallist'The Mammoth Book of Chess is a cracker .

Paul Mendelson offers an indispensable guide to beating the odds in just about every gambling game, both in casinos and online.

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.

Winning at Poker is a handbook for all card players, from the budding card shark eager to learn the game from scratch to the practised poker bandit keen to unlock the secrets of poker-playing legends.

One good thing about a recession is that we need to go back to making our own fun.

In bridge, there are thousands of rules, guidelines, and understandings - but which are golden?