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By: Burgess, Graham
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Gambit: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282524
First edition. Light crease. 1998 Trade Paperback. Most chess players are fed a set of dogmatic rules about how the opening must be played. The result: stereotyped, unimaginative play. The opening surprises in this book land like bombshells in the apparent calm of standard openings and disorientate your opponents as they grapple with original problems. This book is a treasure-trove of unusual ideas at an early stage of the opening, yet running against the grain of conven... View more info
By: Lasker, Emanuel
Price: $7.00
Publisher: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company:
Seller ID: 2277114
No jacket, no publisher date (circa early 1900s), spine faintly toned, spine edges lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 139 pp. From the day when he won the World's Chess Championship from Steinitz in 1894 to his defeat by Capablanca in 1921, Emanuel Lasker reigned as the undisputed chess genius of the world. Though surely his unique talent cannot be transmitted, the basic principles upon which his chess mastery was based are outlined clearly and succinctly for the benef... View more info
By: Reinfeld, Fred
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1959
Seller ID: 2282523
Jacket rubbed. 1959 Hard Cover. Combining eight volumes into one, the most comprehensive book on chess ever published. From opening gambit to endgame, this home-study chess course is the classic in the field. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: David McKay Co., Publishers: 1935
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2277116
Third edition. No jacket. 1935 Hard Cover. 233 pp. In preparing this volume for the third printing, we have omitted a number of the games that have an historic rather than a practical value. In their stead we have given examples of notable performances of the past three years. View more info
