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Although his career lasted barely ten years, Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a highly successful and imaginative chess player.

Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know (and want to know) about mobilizing their pawns and pieces.

Bent Larsen (1935-2010) was one of the greatest fighters chess has ever seen.

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

';Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy.

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

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

';I started working with Fabiano when he was only five', remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini.

In amateur chess games, the most popular opening move for White is 1.

Finding strong moves does not simply depend on how much you know about chess.

New and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic.

Genna Sosonko lived the first 29 years of his life in Leningrad.

Books on chess exercises are usually about tactics.

A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead.

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

Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest geniuses of chess history.

In 1988, his autobiography ?

Beginners of all ages will win more games after studying this easy-to-follow book.

Are you a dove or a hawk?

Dive into a world of mind-blowing facts that may defy belief, but they are all absolutely true!

The Great Canadian Cottage Book is the guide every cottage-goer needs for a weekend or a week, rain or shineFilled with ideas of what to do, drink and eat, along with great did-you-know facts and loads of stories to tell by the campfire, readers will find themselves turning to The Great Canadian Cottage Book again and again.

As a celebration of dimwits, lunkheads, bad ideas, and just plain wrongheaded foolishness, dive into the shallow end with Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb.

The trivia gurus behind the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series plumb the depths of history in this compendium of easily digestible diversions.

Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings.

In amateur chess games, the most popular opening move for White is 1.

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

Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko shakes up the lines of yet another chess opening!

';I started working with Fabiano when he was only five', remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini.

Bestselling author Viktor Moskalenko takes on another important chess opening!

Young Daniel Naroditsky (1995) has picked the most instructive examples of endgames in which you have to use ideas and plans in order to outplay your opponent.

Alexander M nninghoff tells the unforgettable tale of the fifth World Chess Champion.

They did it!

Finding strong moves does not simply depend on how much you know about chess.

New and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic.

Genna Sosonko lived the first 29 years of his life in Leningrad.

Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia.

The Catalan is a solid yet flexible chess opening system that is popular on all levels.

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

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

The Bible has inflamed the hearts of poets and martyrs, spawned revolutions and reformations, and influenced cultures and personal lives in sometimes small, sometimes dramatic ways.

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

Opening, middlegame and endgame are the three universally recognized stages of a game of chess, but what about the art of preparation?

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!

Tantalizing math puzzles and cooking recipes that show how mathematical thinking is like the culinary artsTie on your apron and step into Jim Henle's kitchen as he demonstrates how two equally savory pursuits-cooking and mathematics-have more in common than you realize.

A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian mathThe mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today.

A step-by-step illustrated introduction to the astounding mathematics of symmetryThis lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry.

Look beneath the surface of the worlds most interesting people--past and present--to uncover what makes them tick.

The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that's flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics.

A follow-up to Helterbrans popular Why Flamingos Are Pink: and 250 other Things You Should Know, this entertaining volume identifies more of the surprising explanations for the facts, tales, and lore associated with day-to-day living and the world around us.