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A Complete Guide to Practical Play by John Emms 9781781944967
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49Experts agree that regularly solving tactical exercises is a vital component of chess training. However, it's also widely acknowledged that there is one major drawback to traditional chess puzzles -... -
Meeting 1d4 & 1e4 by Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard 9781781944509
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.09Brought together for the first time in one book Meeting 1d4 and 1e4 International Master Jacob Aagaard and Esben Lund provide an all-in-one solution to the popular opening move 1 d4 and other White... -
Improve Your Chess at Any Age by Andres Hortillosa 9781857446180
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74In August 2008 Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for an unrated player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an inspired decision; he... -
Play Chess Like the Pros by Danny Gormally 9781857446272
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74What separates the greatest chess players from mere mortals? Grandmaster Danny Gormally believes that understanding, preparation and will to win are three crucial factors. In Play Chess Like the Pros... -
Your Best Move: A Structured Approach to Move Selection in Chess by Per Ostman 9781857446609
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74I look one move ahead...the best!A", Siegbert Tarrasch Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as finding the best move, time after time. If... -
American Grandmaster: Four Decades of Chess Adventures by Joel Benjamin 9781857445527
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05In American Grandmaster, Joel Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the 'Fischer... -
The Scotch Game by Yelena Dembo 9781857446326
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Yelena Dembo takes a modern-day look at the Scotch Game, providing thorough coverage of the critical main lines and studying the key tactical and positional ideas for White and Black.About the... -
Easy Guide to Chesss by B. H. Wood 9781781943298
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05First published in 1942, the late B.H. Wood's classic Easy Guide to Chess has been successfully used by thousands of chess players around the world. Topics covered include: the men, their moves,... -
The Soviet Championships by Edmar Mednis 9781781943373
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43This instructive book for competitive players, based on Edmar Mednis' classic Practical Endgame Lessons, provides the reader with a wealth of useful instruction in endgame play, reinforced by a a... -
Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch by Richard Palliser 9781857446241
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at the ambitious Dutch Defence and select a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both White and Black.About the AuthorInternational Master Richard... -
The Catalan, the by Alex Raetsky 9781857443462
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favorite of many of the world's leading players. Its rich tactical and positional subtleties provide an excellent platform for players wishing to... -
How to Play Against 1d4 & 1e4 by Richard Palliser 9781781944493
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.79Brought together for the first time in one volume, How to play against 1 d4 and 1 e4.Book InformationISBN 9781781944493Author Richard PalliserFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Everyman... -
How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White by Gawain Jones 9781857446630
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.79The Sicilian Defence is by far the most popular chess opening. If you play 1 e4 as White, on average you are likely to meet the Sicilian in virtually every other game! You need to be prepared to face... -
Play the Sicilian Kan: A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoire for Black by Johan Hellsten 9781857445817
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.31The Kan is an ideal choice against 1 e4, as it is one of the easiest variations of the Sicilian to learn and play. It's relatively theory free, and success is more likely to occur through the... -
Play the Grunfeld: Detailed Coverage of This Kasparov Favourite by Yelena Dembo 9781857445213
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The Grunfeld is an exciting and dynamic answer to 1 d4, and has become very popular at all levels of chess. A major reason for this is that it has been a long-time favourite of the World's... -
Play the Catalan by Nigel Davies 9781857445916
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43The Catalan is a sophisticated and wide-ranging opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has... -
Play the Dutch: An Opening Repertoire for Black Based on the Leningrad Variation by Neil McDonald 9781857446418
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.89The Dutch Defence is one of Black's most enterprising answers to 1 d4. Black strives to unbalance the position by creating an asymmetrical pawn structure on the very first move, giving himself every... -
Beating the Kings Indian and Grunfeld by Timothy Taylor 9781857444285
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05In this book, Timothy Taylor gets to grips with the King's Indian and Grunfeld, providing White with a number of easy-to-learn and effective weapons which are specially designed to cause Black... -
French Winawer by Neil McDonald 9781857442762
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05A modern look at the highly fashionable French Winawer, which remains the sharpest variation of the French Defence. It leads to the kind of dynamic positions in which the better prepared and more... -
Fighting the Anti-King's Indians: How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines by Yelena Dembo 9781857445756
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'I love playing the King's Indian, but no-one ever allows me to reach my favourite opening!' Does this sound like an all too familiar complaint? The answer to this problem lies here. The truth is you... -
Can You be a Positional Chess Genius by Angus Dunnington 9781857442649
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Test your positional chess expertise with a quiz book with a difference! International Master and experienced chess teacher Angus Dunnington has carefully assembled an abundance of positional chess... -
Pawn Sacrifice!: Winning at Chess the Adventurous Way by Timothy Taylor 9781857445657
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature...until now. In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor uncovers... -
English...E5: the Reversed Sic by Maxim Chetverik 9781857443394
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The 1...e5 variation of the English Opening, sometimes referred to as the reversed Sicilian, leads to a diversity of stimulating positions. From wild tactical melees to slow positional battles, there... -
Anti-Sicilians: Dazzle Your Opponents! by John Emms 9781857445855
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at a popular group of openings - the Anti-Sicilians - and select a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both Black and White.About the... -
The Pirc and Modern: Dazzle Your Opponents! by Richard Palliser 9781857445947
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Prominent opening specialists take a revolutionary look at the Pirc and Modern Defences and select a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both White and Black.About the AuthorRichard Palliser, Colin... -
A Complete Guide to Flank Openings by Neil McDonald 9781781944929
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49Two great books by Neil McDonald from the Everyman Chess Library, Starting Out the Reti and Starting Out: The English, brought together in one volume. ----- The Reti is a popular opening at all... -
Opening Repertoire: the Fianchetto System: Weapons for White Against the King's Indian and Grunfeld by Damian Lemos 9781781941607
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Grandmaster Damian Lemos presents a repertoire for White against both the King's Indian and Grunfeld defences. Many players struggle to find suitable lines to challenge these two popular and dynamic... -
Who Dares Wins!: Attacking the King on Opposite Sides by Lorin D'Costa 9781857446296
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Picture a typical scenario in which both players are gunning for each other's kings. Whose attack will break through first? Often it's a case of 'who dares wins', but it's not enough to throw your... -
Starting Out: 1e4: A Reliable Repertoire For The Opening Player by Neil McDonald 9781857444162
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Building and maintaining an opening repertoire can be a demanding task - for a start there are an enormous number of different lines to choose from. There's a strong temptation amongst beginners and... -
The Veresov: Surprise Your Opponents with the Tricky 2 Nc3 by Nigel Davies 9781857443356
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The Veresov is a surprisingly tricky system that, in the right hands, can be a powerful attacking weapon. White forgoes the normal queen's pawn opening ideas in favor of speedy development of the... -
Positional Sacrifices by Neil McDonald 9781857441109
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGrandmaster Neil McDonald is an experienced player on the international chess circuit and has a string of... -
Counterattacking Systems Versus 1 e4 and 1d4 by Nicolai Pedersen 9781781944936
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11Two great books from the Everyman Chess Library, Play The Accelerated Dragon by Peter Lalic and Play the Benko Gambit by Nicolai Pedersen , brought together in one volume. The Accelerated Dragon... -
Slay the Spanish! by Timothy Taylor 9781857446371
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents weapons for Black against the hugely popular Spanish Opening, basing his repertoire on the Modern Steinitz Defence. This opening can lead to... -
Catalan: Move by Move by Neil McDonald
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.87This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the... -
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part 2: 1985-1993 by Garry Kasparov
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781945254Author Garry KasparovFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Everyman ChessPublisher... -
Winning Chess Tactics Yasser Seirawan 9781857443868
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world's top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term... -
Irrational Chess by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49The vast majority of chess games witness familiar strategies and well known tactical motifs. These are the games that you will find in the anthologies and opening repertoires. Sometimes however,... -
The Chess Tactics Detection Workbook by Volker Schleputz
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.41Experts agree that regularly solving tactics is a vital component of chess training. However, it's also widely acknowledged that there is one drawback of traditional chess puzzleswhen solving them... -
The Sicilian Dragon: Move by Move by Carsten Hansen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.52This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the... -
First Steps: 1 e4 e5 by John Emms
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11Starting a chess game with 1 e4 e5 is so common that the resulting complex of opening systems traditionally commands its own sobriquet, "The Open Games" (1 e4 met by other replies are "Semi-Open...