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  • Life & Games of Mikhail Tal

    by Mikhail Tal ...
    Mikhail Tal, the 'magician from Riga,' was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Attack with Mikhail Tal

    by Mikhail Tal, Iakov Damsky ...
    The legendary Mikhail Tal was the finest ever exponent of attacking chess. His all-out sacrificial style took him all the way to the World Championship title. Dogged by ill-health, Tal's reign was a short one, and he was never able to regain his crown, but Tal remained an outstanding player right up to his death in 1992. His departure has taken away one of the chess world's most charismatic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match for the World Chess Championship

    Match for the World Chess Championship

    by Tal Mikhail ...
    One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match.In 1960 Mikhail Botvinnik was the pillar of "scientific " chess and the ironwilled champion of the world. The young attacking genius Mihail Tal the "Wizard of Riga" put the magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik with spectacular tactics in one of the most dramatic and celebrated world championship matches of all time ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Draw!

    The Art of the Half-Point in Chess

    by Leonid Verkhovsky ...
    The Luck of the Draw!? We have all seen games – and perhaps even played them – in which a difficult or lost game is salvaged by a brilliant drawing combination. In the early 1970s, Soviet International Master Leonid Verkhovsky collected some of the most fantastic draws ever played. You will be captivated by combinations and threats, as inexhaustible imagination in defense and attack ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

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  • Think Like a Grandmaster

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  • The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games

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    by Graham Burgess, John Emms, Dr John Nunn ...
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    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.The 125 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with over 1,000 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the ... Read more

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  • Lasker's Manual of Chess

    by Lasker Emanuel ...
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  • The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games .

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    by Graham Burgess, John Emms, Wesley So, Michael Adams, Dr John Nunn ...
    Series Book 200 - Mammoth Books
    Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories**, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand.**This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. ... Read more

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  • The Blue Book of Chess (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Fundamentals of the Game and an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings

    by Howard Staunton, Willa Merynford ...
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