I. A. Horowitz

This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes. The books included in this volume are: How to Win in the Middle Game of Chess How to Win in the Chess Endings This may well be the nearest approach to the complete chess book yet devised. It brings together four books previously written by the author under these titles: How to Win in the Chess Openings, Modern Ideas in the Chess Openings, How to Win in the Middle Game of Chess, and How to Win in the Chess Endings. These four books constitute a Short Course in Chess Play particularly adapted to the beginner who has learned how to make the moves and how to read chess notation but is groping for signposts in the vast range of chess knowledge and literature. In the first two books the most popular openings are classified by their individual moves and by their grand strategy. Each opening discussion is followed by a "Chess Movie," a game so profusely illustrated with Diagrams as to reveal clearly the effect of the plan on the opening. The third book deals with middle game complexities - thrust and riposte, sacrificial brilliance, tactical surprise, masterly combination, attack against the King, and over-all strategy. Here, as in the final book, the writer has foremost in mind the learner, who must take one step at a time. The Chess Endings book shows the player working under a time limit how to reduce the most complex position to an easy ending in a fraction of the time that an over-the-board analysis takes. It abounds with time-saving devices, ways of projecting and planning, tricks, traps, and combinations, all designed to give immediate control. For the player who is sitting down at a chessboard for the first time, this volume starts out with a "Picture Guide for Beginners." Fifty-five years of playing experience and thirty-six years of teaching have gone into this monumental work.

How to Win at Chess

A Complete Chess Course, Volume II

Fred Reinfeld

Shows how to avoid and capitalize on the playing errors and psychological problems experienced by most chess enthusiasts

Pitfalls And Swindles

Chess Traps

Sam Sloan

This book is the original and much imitated Solitaire Chess by I.A. Horowitz. Sixty two master games are presented. The reader is asked to guess the next move by the player of the white pieces. If he guesses correctly, he is awarded points. At the end of the game, his score is graded according to how many points he has earned. All the great grandmasters of chess, from Bobby Fischer on down, have used and have recommended the "Solitaire Chess" method to study and improve their play. This book presents a collection of 62 of the greatest attacking games ever played. Games by Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Steinitz, Reti, Marshall, Pillsbury and almost all the other great masters are included here. The author, International Master I.A. Horowitz, provides notes to every game. In addition, the book has been expanded. All the games have been translated into algebraic notation, although the notes are in descriptive.

Solitaire Chess

This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.

First Book of Chess

The former U.S. Open Champion offers novices an introduction to chess that stresses ideas and method's for opening play

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