Gary Lane

A Study of E. E. Cummings' Poems

I Am

A Concordance to The Poems of Dylan Thomas

No time to study but want to win more chess games? "Improve Your Chess in 7 Days" is packed with practical tips, hints on how to improve, learn from the champions and find out how to beat them - in just a week. With one short chapter for each day of the week, the book is ideal for social chess players and includes a sprinkling of chess cartoons to keep you smiling as you read. With comments and advice after each move, this is as clear a guide to improving your chess as you will ever need.

Improve Your Chess in 7 Days

In the chess world, there are the fewthe dedicated, competitive expertsand the many, the millions of social players who are totally unaware of chess theory. Now there s a quick and easy way to bridge the gap. In just one week, the unschooled player will gain access to the principles that guide the masters: On the first day, the basic concepts of strategy and tactics are introduced. On the second, the reader learns some of the more popular openings and the ideas behind them. And so on, until, by the seventh day, the rapidly advancing student will be able to pull off sophisticated swindles Illustrated with sidesplitting cartoons, it s a quick, entertaining, and extraordinarily direct road to chess mastery."

This work deals with that most popular of chess openings: the Colle system. It provides lucid explanations of strategy and tactics.

The Ultimate Colle

There is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap. Similarly, there s nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the opening phase of the game, and many battles can be won or saved simply through learning and mastering the most important ones.In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back though chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favourite tricks and traps. Selecting from hundreds of contenders, Lane examines a variety of factors in order to decide which ideas are most worthy of inclusion. Discover the stories behind the most cunning tricks and traps of all time; how you can utilize them to score easy wins; and how you can avoid being tricked yourself. *An entertaining guide to the best ever tricks and traps*Invaluable advice from a seasoned tournament player*Ideal for players of all levels Gary Lane is an International Master and an experienced and successful player on the international tournament circuit. He qualified to compete at the World Cup in 2005 and is a former Commonwealth Champion. A prolific and popular chess writer, he is also a respected chess coach who has been involved in training some of England and Australia s top junior players."

The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps

Theodore Roethke

Roland Dedekind

A Concordance to the Poems of Theodore Roethke

Provides detailed analyses of twenty-five poems and illuminates Cummings' imagination and technique by looking at his themes, creative methods, philosophy, and visions

This title, suitable for both novices and children, allows readers to find the right way to deliver a checkmate in one, two or more moves from hundreds of positions provided by the author. By tackling these puzzles, they can begin to think like chessplayers and visualize, calculate and advance.

Find the Checkmate

These essays offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide at age thirty continues to fascinate and trouble us.

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