Twenty-five chess games chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs learn how to avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. Selected, with comme

Chess players often reach a certain level and subsequently seem unable to become any stronger. They attain solid and even promising positions without having any

This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a signi

A First Book of Morphy aims to illustrate the teachings of three great chessplayers with games played by the first American chess champion, Paul Morphy. The boo

A multinational array of top grandmasters explain the difference in thinking between professional and amateur chess players, and how the amateur can bridge the