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Analyzes twenty chess games, discusses strategy, and includes advice on how to analyze a position

Product Description: Far from being a rather slow strategic phase, the endgame in chess is in fact highly tactical, requiring accurate calculation and constant alertness. This guide to the tactics of the endgame is by a grandmaster, and is intended for players of all levels.

Product Description: A complete survey of the modern Pirc defence, whereby Black tempts White to build up a big pawn centre which then becomes the target for counter-attack, this is written by John Nunn, a Grandmaster ranked tenth in the world and author of several books on chess.

Explains in detail how to use the Marshall attack, and also describes methods of defense

Product Description: The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1e4 and players of the white pieces need to know how to win against it. The author provides a complete armoury of aggressive lines that take into account recent developments and which will defeat the antidotes that Black developed recently...read more

Product Description: The King's Indian defence is a favourite with attacking players, and has formed a major part of the repertoires of many great players, including Bobby Fisher and Gary Kasparov. The classical variation is the most popular line in the King's Indian, and it leads to complex positions in which good preparation is vital...read more

Product Description: Out of Print First Edition 1993 LIKE NEW Paperback * practically LIKE NEW, but with minute shelf wear. Pages mint, binding mint. Not a remainder or ex-library. * If we're shipping to a USA address (sorry, but International shipping costs increases every 4 ounces), the purchase of this item also qualifies you to receive ONE (1) FREE 'Thank you' Gifts from LabateChessPlus,...read more

Product Description: The first edition of this book ushered in a new era in chess publishing. It was the first book based on computer-generated position databases that are guaranteed to provide the actual result of a position. However, this book is no computer print-out...read more

Product Description: The Pirc Defence is a sharp hypermodern opening in which Black tempts White into establishing a pawn centre with the idea of rapidly undermining it. Its unbalanced nature ensures exciting play and invariably this leads to a decisive result...read more

Product Description: Endings without pawns occur frequently, yet even Grandmasters often fail to handle them accurately. Aided by a computer database, the author explains the underlying ideas and provides the definitive truth about the most important endgames without pawns.

The author includes forty of his best games at the grandmaster level

Product Description: This third edition is aimed at club and tournament chess players and provides ideas to overcome Black's latest counter-attacking ploys in the ever-changing Sicilian Defence.

Product Description: Following his successful volumes on rook endings and pawnless endings, John Nunn and his computer database turn their attention to the intricacies of endings with just knights, bishops, and pawns -- tricky endings of great practical importance.

Product Description: The Najdorf Sicilian is synonymous with the all-time great chess openings--and is one of the sharpest and most hotly contested. The companion volume to The Complete Najdorf 6 Bg5, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date coverage available anywhere in the world today.Expert

Product Description: This is a revised edition of an established chess book which serves as a manual of strategy and tactics, with advice on how to think at the board, and also offers insights into the world of professional chess. Twenty-four of the author's best and most instructive games are included...read more

Product Description: Max Euwe was the fifth official world champion, and met many of the other champions in chessboard battles. Here, he assesses the contributions of each to the way chess is played and approached. John Nunn has brought the book fully up to date by discussing the contributions of Karpoc, Kasparov, and the new generation of professionals and the supercomputers...read more

Product Description: This chess book focuses on the King's Indian variations that have undergone the most dramatic change in the last decade: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0. The system with ...Na6 receives full coverage, together with the traditional main lines of 7...read more

What is the best way to improve your chess results? Memorizing an opening encyclopaedia, learning endgame theory, solving puzzle positions ... there must be an easier way. How about making the most of your existing talent? In a new and enlarged edition of a highly popular work, John Nunn helps you to do precisely that. Drawing upon more than three decades of experience, he provides advice that will help players of all standards, playing styles and temperaments to achieve improved results. His methods take into account psychological factors and are firmly based on good common sense and the objectivity that has made John Nunn one of the world's favourite writers on chess. This new enlarged edition (published 2007) contains 45% more material than the first edition, published nine years ago. It includes a greatly expanded section on chess computers, and how their use can assist over-the-board players in opening preparation.

An edition of a work first published in the 1950s, updated and converted to modern chess notation, in which Max Euwe, World Champion 1935-37, provides instruction on key elements of chess strategy. The editor of this edition, a grandmaster, has added analytical footnotes.

Product Description: The Pirc is a modern chess opening whose unbalanced nature usually leads to eventful play and a decisive outcome. A perfect complement to John Nunn's earlier work, The Complete Pirc, a guide to pawn structures and their importance in forming and executing plans. Expert