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Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Schachspiels - mit Frederic Friedel und Christian Hesse als kundigen Führern!

Au poker, qu'est-ce qui distingue le vainqueur occasionnel du gagnant régulier?

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der antiken Brettspiele, die einst Könige, Krieger und Götter begeisterten.

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

From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters.

The first in a series of books designed to turn aspiring players into good players.

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

This is the 2nd in the American Contract Bridge Leagues series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players.

There are many books and articles about how to improve your play, but there are few that focus on being a better partner, having fun and playing bridge the right way.

There are many books and articles about how to improve your play, but there are few that focus on being a better partner, having fun and playing bridge the right way.

The "e;over-my-shoulder"e; genre in bridge literature became prominent in the writing of Terence Reese -- he was unsurpassed at it -- and continued in the work of writers such as Mike Lawrence, Larry Cohen and myself.

Many elements contribute to success at bridge.

My second book was Judgment at Bridge, a book that looked at judgment, a quality that goes beyond mere rules.

This books contains articles adapted into book form that have been designed for all levels of player: by starting with the basics on the topic and gradually filling in details up to expert level, I hope to frame the issues in a way all can understand and also raise issues for a partnership to discuss.

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

Do you play 1.

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?

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

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.