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  • Mayhem in the Morra - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Mayhem in the Morra - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    Mayhem in the Morra! (E-Book Download) Chess players are offered a complete fighting repertoire for White against the Sicilian with 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3. The Morra Gambit is a popular weapon at club level, but can it be effective at Grandmaster level?...
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  • Side-Stepping Mainline Theory - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Side-Stepping Mainline Theory - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $15.29
    Side-Stepping Mainline TheoryE-Book for Download Spend more study time on what’s really decisive in your games! The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day, World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker argued that...
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  • Kings of the Chessboard - Chess E-Book Download

    Kings of the Chessboard - Chess E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    Kings of the ChessboardE-Book for Download This book is about the greatest chess players who ever lived, who dominated their era and were looked upon as World Champions even at a time when this term, this very concept, did not yet exist. On the basis of...
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    $19.99
  • The Modern Scotch - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    The Modern Scotch - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    The Modern ScotchE-Book for Download The Scotch Game is the most “open” of all the Open Games. In fact this is the only really Open Game, in its essence, which matches the traditional terminology. The move 3.d4 breaks immediately the...
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  • Chess Informant 140 - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Chess Informant 140 - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $24.99
    Chess Informant 140E-Book for Download Chess Informant's 140th Issue, with 350 pages of the very best in chess!     Navara – The Czech Championship     Artemiev – Champion’s Report from...
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  • Opening Simulator: King's Indian Defense - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Opening Simulator: King's Indian Defense - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    Opening Simulator: King's Indian DefenseE-Book for Download The King’s Indian Defense is a popular opening at all levels. Fischer, Kasparov, Bronstein, Nunn, Radjabov, and Nakamura are just a few of the many leading GMs who have played it...
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  • The Modern English: Volume 2 - Chess Opening E-Book for Download

    The Modern English: Volume 2 - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $17.99
    The Modern English: Volume 2E-Book for Download This volume completes the coverage of the Modern English Opening with a repertoire against 1...c5, 1...Nf6, and 1...e6. It is based on active fight for the center by e2-e3 and d2-d4. It is written from...
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  • Grandmaster Repertoire with 1.d4: Dynamic Systems - Chess Opening E-Book for Download

    Grandmaster Repertoire with 1.d4: Dynamic Systems - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $21.99
    Grandmaster Repertoire with 1.d4 - Dynamic SystemsE-Book for Download Volume 2B completes the series by providing cutting-edge antidotes to tricky defenses such as the Dutch, various Benoni set-ups, Benko and Budapest Gambits, and anything else not...
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  • The Agile London System - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    The Agile London System - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $17.99
    The Agile London SystemE-Book for Download It is not difficult to understand why the London System is such a popular chess opening with club players all over the world. Against virtually every Black defense after 1.d4 it offers White an easy-to-learn...
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  • Playing 1.e4 e5: A Classical Repertoire - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Playing 1.e4 e5: A Classical Repertoire - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    Playing 1.e4 e5 - A Classical RepertoireE-Book for Download This chess e-book offers the best of both worlds: a complete repertoire against 1.e4, built on sound positional principles - but one which does not require excessive memorization. After 1...e5...
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  • The Modernized French Defense, Vol. 1: The Winawer - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    The Modernized French Defense, Vol. 1: The Winawer - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    The Modernized French Defense, Volume 1: The WinawerE-Book for Download Here we are, together on this page, both interested in the French Defense with 3.Nc3 Bb4. Before telling you what you can learn from this opening, let me tell you a little story...
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  • The Sicilian Taimanov - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    The Sicilian Taimanov - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    The Sicilian TaimanovE-Book for Download The Sicilian Taimanov arises after the opening moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6, and is an perfect weapon for Black in the modern era. It is theoretically sound, and strikes a perfect balance between...
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  • The Modernized Colle-Zukertort Attack - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    The Modernized Colle-Zukertort Attack - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $19.99
    The Modernized Colle-Zukertort AttackE-Book for Download The Colle-Zukertort Attack is a deep and independent chess opening in its own right, but also very flexible. Transpositions to the Queen’s Indian or Slav are often possible. The...
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  • An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 - Chess Opening E-Book Download

    Forward Chess

    $21.99
    An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 E-Book for Download Best-selling author Viktor Moskalenko presents an extremely powerful set of lines for White. The guiding principle of his 1.d4 repertoire is: be bold and put pressure on your opponent as...
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  • Opening Repertoire: 1.d4 with 2.c4 - Chess E-Book for Download

    Opening Repertoire: 1.d4 with 2.c4 - Chess E-Book for Download

    Everyman

    $21.95
    Opening Repertoire: 1.d4 with 2.c4E-Book for Download These days the move 1.d4 is often used as the precursor to quieter opening choices such as the London System, the Colle System or the Trompovsky. In this book the highly experienced chess author and...
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    $21.95
  • Coach Yourself: A Complete Guide to Self-Improvement at Chess - E-Book for Download

    Coach Yourself - Chess Training E-Book

    Everyman

    $21.95
    Coach Yourself: A Complete Guide to Self-Improvement at Chess Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It’s rarely a lack of talent or practice or opening knowledge that holds them back...
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    $21.95
  • Zurich 1953:
15 Contenders for the World Chess Championship

    Zurich 1953: Fifteen Contenders for the World Chess Championship

    Russell Enterprises

    $19.95
    Zurich 1953: 15 Contenders for the World Chess Championship The Stuff of Legend A great tournament deserves a great book. That’s what Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf produced in his account of one of the greatest and most important chess events of...
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    $19.95
  • Chess Analytics E-book for Download

    Chess Analytics E-book for Download

    Russell Enterprises

    $19.95
    Chess AnalyticsTraining with a Grandmasterby Efstratios Grivas Analytics The Method of Logical Analysis You are invited to take an instructive journey with one of the most successful chess coaches of our era, Greek grandmaster Efstratios Grivas. Over...
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    $19.95
  • Danish Dynamite: Explosive Gambits in the Danish, Göring, Scotch and Urusov

    Danish Dynamite: Explosive Gambits - Chess E-Book Download

    Russell Enterprises

    $19.95
    Danish Dynamite:Explosive Gambits in the Danish, Göring, Scotch and Urusovby Karsten Müller and Martin Voigt (.PDF Download) White goes for the jugular! The Danish Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3), is one of the most aggressive chess openings...
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  •  Instructive Positions from Master Chess - Classic E-Book Download

    Instructive Positions from Master Chess - Classic Training E-Book

    ChessCentral E-Books

    $12.95
    Instructive Positions from Master Chessby Jacques Mieses What if someone could present the critical point of chess games between top-level players, and demonstrate the key ideas and mechanics of winning or drawing. Imagine an experienced Grandmaster...
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