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Chambers Card Games for Families explains how to play more than 50 family card games.

Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces the development of the International Chess Tournaments in Gijon from 1944 to 1965.

Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.

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

With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world.

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.

The invitation-only Professional Poker Tour is strictly limited to the top 200 players in the world.

Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there.

What do Martina Navratilova, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have in common?

A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship.

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the gameMaria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel - Poker Hall of Fame inductee, winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings - and asked him to be her mentor.

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players.

Wet weekend?

What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games?

Take poker online the fun and easy way!

Dive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos.

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player.

Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880.

"e;The greatest dissection of high-stakes Vegas poker and the madness that surrounds it ever written.

The world of fantasy sports is no longer the purview of nerds and stat geeks.

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades.

Starting his reign in 1927, Alexander Alekhine dominated the world of elite chess for more than a decade.

Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there.

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

The Games Are Virtual-The Profits Are Real!

Understanding games—whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports—by analyzing certain common traits.

This continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world--individual and team matches.

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

All In: Poker Night Lessons for Winning Big at Your Career goes beyond any of the other bestselling poker books on the market and at last tells you how to put your poker playing skills to use in the business world.

Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems.

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

Most people playing online poker think they are winning players when they're actually losing month after month.

How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities?

Want to play and win poker's hottest game?

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess match of all time.

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.

Do you ever wish you watched less and played more?

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

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?

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.

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

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

Want to play chess like a champ?

If you find yourself coming down with a case of rainy-day boredom or "e;I can't watch another rerun on TV"e; syndrome, grab the closest deck of cards and get ready for some serious fun!