The only thing more humiliating than losing a game quickly is to lose a game quickly to a known opening trap. On the other hand, the easy point scored by the trapper is a great confidence booster, and allows the winner a good rest before the next game in a competition.This book shows that no-one should feel safe from an opponent armed to the teeth with cunning traps. Steve Giddins (who lived in Russia for a time) has collected his material from a wide variety of sources, some not normally available in the West.
In Winning Chess Traps nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Everyone book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps. Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings.Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition.Challengea at various points to find the best move.Written for the beginner to intermediate player.Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings.Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern... [Read More]
Inside Chess and the Art of War, you'll find an ancient military history drawn from and adapted into a helpful guide on how to become a chess master at any skill level. 2,500 years ago Sun Tzu wrote a military treatise called The Art of War. Since then, the book has been used not just by military tacticians but by business leaders, planners, traders, politicians, and even sports coaches. Here, Sun Tzu's lessons are applied to how to play a winning game of chess.Chess is not an easy game to learn, nor an easy game to master, even if you've been playing chess for years. In Chess and the Art of W... [Read More]
Goes beyond memorization and imitation to explain the reasons behind the moves made by chess masters. Under the author's instruction, players learn to initiate moves, try out new ideas and evaluate their progress and ingenuity.
Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world. The Complete Manual of Positional Chess, probably the most thorough grounding in the history of teaching chess, was recently created for chess teachers at the DYSS, the special sports school for young talents in Russia.Konstantin Sakaev and Konstantin Landa present a complete set of instructions and tips for trainers and self-improvers. You will learn not only how to enhance your fundamental knowledge and technical skills, but also how to work on your physical a... [Read More]
Réti produces a penetrating thumbnail sketch of each of the great masters who contributed decisively to the progress of chess thinking from the days of Morphy and Anderssen up to the time of Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch and the hypermoderns, amongst whom Réti numbered himself.
Improve your game or learn checkers from Millard Hopper, the Unrestricted Checker Champion of the World. Here is a book that will appeal to all your questions — often even before you ask them — and impart many of the championship secrets of a perennially popular recreation.The book actually presents, in simple terms, a lifetime of checker experience by one of the greatest players of all time. Individual chapters discuss the basic principles of the game, experts' shots and traps, how the beginner loses, standard openings, locating your best move, the end game, opening "blitzkrieg" moves, wa... [Read More]
The Fajarowicz Gambit suffers from a dubious reputation, but as FIDE Senior Trainer and IM Andrew Martin shows, that assessment is not justified at all. If Black shows common sense and a knowledge of the variations, then he may well get a very good or even winning position right out of the opening. The unorthodox Fajarowicz Gambit is perfect for all those who enjoy chess and wish to explore the tactical richness of our noble game.
In this DVD, chess coach IM Valeri Lilov has chosen to present a number of unique traps in some of the most common openings nowadays. Learning these traps will let you set some tricky and often invisible traps to your opponents at the early stage of the game. In more than four hours of video instruction, you will learn a great deal about how to set traps and take advantage of when your opponent falls into them. There is nothing more exciting than learning some cool trap lines and using them to catch your opponents in a tournament or a nice sparring game at your club or online! Start collecti... [Read More]
Volume 4 in Susan Polgar's "Winning Chess the Easy Way" series. It is always nice to win a game quickly. But some opening traps are based only on hopes that the opponent will make a serious mistake. If the opponents play correctly, the trap could backfire. On this DVD, Susan will take you through a number of opening traps and short games. By knowing what to do and what to avoid, you can turn the tables on your opponent, giving you the win instead of becoming the falling to a "cheapo." Approximate runtime: 1 Hour and 49 Minutes
Tricks and traps, especially in the opening, are a dangerous reality of competitive chess. All sorts of surprises await the unwary player, from devastating sacrifices to cunning move order ploys. A knowledge of such ideas is essential if a player wants to be the hunter rather than the victim. On this DVD Davies presents a variety of tricks and traps that can arise after 1.d4 by White, breaking them down into a number of different categories. The examples are designed to appeal to players of every level and feature a wide variety of systems. Besides coverage of some of the classics, Davies rev... [Read More]
IMs Andrew Martin and Gary Lane have assemble a devastating array of shock weapons in the Sicilian Defense which will make you better prepared in the Sicilian than you ever had been before. You will not only beat your opponent but will knock him off his chair with some of the most amazing moves ever played in the Sicilian. There are lots of novelities and suprise traps, along with good lines for Black against the Morra Gambit and Closed Sicilian, and for White against the Najdorf.
Tricks and traps, especially in the opening, are a dangerous reality of competitive chess. All sorts of surprises await the unwary player, from devastating sacrifices to cunning move order ploys. A knowledge of such ideas is essential if a player wants to be the hunter rather than the victim. On this DVD Davies presents thematic tricks and traps that can arise in Flank Openings such as the English, Reti, Larsen's Opening (1.b3) and the Bird (1.f4), breaking them down into a different categories. The examples are designed to appeal to players of every level and feature a wide variety of system... [Read More]
Practical Killer Traps and Super Sharp Lines for the 1.e4 Player. There are numerous winning traps which often occur in the King's Pawn (1.e4) Openings. On this DVD, GM Roman Dzindzichashvilli enlists the analytical powers of the Rybka chess engine to explain and verify winning traps in openings such as the Alekhine, the Center-Counter (Scandinavian), Caro-Kann Panov, and the French Defense. Roman using Rybka to verify his own analysis has again revolutionized opening theory. The traps that you will learn are against popular lines which, thanks to Roman and unknown to your opponent, have just... [Read More]
Tricks and traps, especially in the opening, are a dangerous reality of competitive chess. All sorts of surprises await the unwary player, from devastating sacrifices to cunning move order ploys A knowledge of such ideas is essential if a player wants to be the hunter rather than the victim Davies presents a variety of tricks and traps that can arise after 1.e4 by White, breaking them down into a number of different categories The examples are designed to appeal to players of every level and feature all of Black's main defences Besides coverage of some of the classics, Davies reveals some litt... [Read More]
Fireside Chess LibraryIn the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.Of the three traditional phases of chess
In Winning Chess Traps nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Everyone book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps. Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of
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