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

Whether they're beasts, spirits, demons, or even aliens, most fantasy worlds are filled with monsters.

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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.

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

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.

When I am to be involved in a project or some other activity, either personal or involving other people, and whether I am in charge or a contributor, my brain wants me to be fully prepared.

Learn light infantry tactics and test your skill on the ground with this interactive exercise manual by the military historian and leadership expert.

Becoming a Grandmaster is the ultimate aim for serious chess players, but whatever your chess abilities, this book will take you to the next level.

Strategies and examples for beating a superior opponent in chess.

It's a fact of chess life that if you want to win, you have to put a bit of study in.

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

Every chess player loves to win early in the opening.

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen’s brilliant endgame play has been one of the key reasons for his success.

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

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

Beat the Players describes ways casinos have abused card counters and other patrons who win by legal skill, and some of the ensuing lawsuits.

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

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

In chess, you will not get very far without the right equipment.

Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess - be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top!

In this intimate profile of an unlikely poker champion, the life story of Yang is laid out--from his difficult Hmong childhood to his success as a professional poker player.

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen’s brilliant endgame play has been one of the key reasons for his success.

Garry Kasparov is a fighter, both in chess and in life.

Poker has never been more popular.

Weighing the Odds in Hold'Em Poker explains how to win at hold'em poker by reading opponents, counting outs to find pot odds, bluffing, etc.

The Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid French Defence.

In chess, you will not get very far without the right equipment.

The Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid French Defence.

Every chess player loves to win early in the opening.

This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate.

The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics!

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

The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics!

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

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

Alexander Kotov's trilogy, of which this is the second volume and now available in digital format for the first time, marks a landmark in chess literature.