Puzzles and Games

Why is playing games a universal human instinct? Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations? And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more...

Matisse or Kahlo - Hirst or Emin - whose artworks have been the most influential? The most shocking? The most expensive? These cards allow art lovers of all ages to...

The book titled Hoyle's Rules of Games: Descriptions of Indoor Games of Skill And by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow. Chess Opening Essentials has exactly the right balance and is an accessible primer and a reference book at the...

In this highly-acclaimed series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but...

For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a...

For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a...

For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a...

This new 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 book titled The King's Gambit as White by the author Lou Maser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A completely revised and updated edition of the classic English language reference on chess openings, first published more than fifty years ago Modern Chess Openings is the best and most...

Celebrate the beauty and inspiration of angels and words of faith-with 500+ stickers and 50+ activity and coloring pages. Scrapbookers, crafters, and anyone with a love of spiritual imagery will...

The Leningrad System is one of the sharpest and most interesting replies to 1 d4, and since this typical set-up is also playable against the flank openings 1 c4 and...

These books are perfect for enthusiastic chess players who are starting out in the game, and who are seeking to understand the basic principles behind these important openings: the Pirc/Modern...

The No. 1 challenger for the world championship title reveals the secrets of the finest of his games, offering clear explanations of grandmaster tactics and strategies from which players of...

It's no secret why the London System is such a popular opening, especially at club level. White's development plan is very easy to learn, and it can be employed against...

The Scotch Game is one of the oldest openings in chess and has a great history, but more recently it was catapulted back into the limelight due to the enterprise...

Until a few years ago, the Petroff was opening that was favored by a few top Grandmasters, including Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov. However, the last few years have seen...

Mikhail Tal, the 'magician from Riga, ' was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. Dazzling games...

In Magic Made Real, you'll journey to worlds unknown, full of dragons, unicorns, fairies, mermaids, and more, with 96 double-sided pages of intricate designs and imaginative illustrations. Each page invites...

The book titled Nigel Short: World Chess Challenger by the author Raymond Keene, OBE. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Choice of World Champions, not least Karpov and Anand, the Petroff is one of the most solid and popular defences to 1.e4. Here we have a repertoire chess book that...

The accelerated development of the White queen's bishop after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 was for many years considered a bizarre chess opening, practised only by a few individual 'eccentric'...

The Dutch Defence is a popular strategy in chess. The book concentrates on the main winning plans for both sides, giving complete coverage of the Dutch Defence. Strategic ideas, including...

A brilliantly engaging and richly rewarding puzzle book from one of Britain's oldest and most respected institutions Sharpen your wit and delve into the fascinating world of British currency with...

International Chess Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, middlegames (both positional and tactical), and endgames. As a player completes a problem,...

THE ideal chess book for the beginner THE ideal chess book for the improving player THE ideal chess book for the teacher. Absolute beginners can learn everything they need to...

Chess was invented more than 1,500 years ago, and is played in every country in the world. Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of...

Building on the earlier 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles, this collection of fun chess exercises provides a rigorous practice regimen designed to develop players' strategic abilities. One hundred scenarios for each...

'Like The Queen's Gambit , this isn't really about chess, but power ... Shahade is up for the fight' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the...

Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer.A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was...

While there are plenty of books dealing with chess openings, and no shortage of helpful volumes on the endgame, there are far fewer available on the all-important middle game. And...

These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Reti, the best. Here are real games from match...

**DRAFT blurb only** f all games of strategy, chess is the queen. Not even bridge has quite the kudos attached to chess; it is no coincidence that one of the...

The book titled Think About it!: Puzzling Tales from Goonaloo, Zoologica and Cinema by the author Geoffrey R. Marnell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

By the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the...

'That's the trouble with the real world. Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old.' Walt Disney How many men...

The book titled Ainslie's Complete Hoyle: Rules, Strategies, Scoring, Bidding, Betting by the author Tom Ainslie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 The Van der Wiel Attack in the Advance Variation of the Caro Kann Defence is a quite aggressive system. if you...

The Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5, is one of the popular chess openings. In this book several chess grandmasters present state-of-the-art analysis of lines where White meets the Sicilian by avoiding...

The Najdorf is the most popular line of the Sicilian Defence for a very good reason: Black can play for a win without taking undue risks. The Najdorf's fundamental soundness...

The Sicilian is far and away the most popular chess opening, and many players prefer to side-step the Open Sicilian with one of the Anti-Sicilian systems at White's disposal. This...

The Advance variation is one of the most logical and popular ways for White to combat the popular French Defence. Here, Grandmaster Tony Kosten explains the strategy and tactics of...

International chess master Byron Jacobs explains the basic elements, strategies, and tactics of the Advance variation of the Caro-Kann Defense. Long popular with competitive players, it's been revived and added...