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Publisher: New In Chess, 2011
Edition: Miscellaneous
Pages: 434
Language: English

Top chess instruction, journalism & entertainment for on the beach!

1. Coffeehouse Chess Tactics
An Astonishing Trip into the World of Competitive Chess: 136 pages 

With refreshing simplicity, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics shows how to turn bad, even seemingly hopeless positions to our advantage. How to distinguish the essential from the trivial. How to adapt according to the situation on the board.

Each game sparkles with some unusual tactical or defensive motif. Along with the games the author describes in eloquent but brutal language the beautiful, sometimes terrible, world of chess “where sport, art and science merge.

Where adrenalin gives such a high. Where hours pass, many, many of them so that we do not know what time it is any more!” Fascinating and compelling, 'Coffeehouse Chess Tactics' takes the reader on an astonishing trip into the world of competitive chess.

>>>> Shortlisted for the Guardian 2010 Chess Book of the Year Award! <<<<

2. New In Chess Magazine 2011/4
The World's Premier Chess Magazine: 106 pages

Including: an in-depth look at Bobby Fischer - Candidates Matches: Anand's dream come true - an unobjective portrait of Boris Gelfand - Garry Kasparov's exclusive column - Gata Kamsky, finally, tells all - Yasser Seirawan on the stupidest rule - and much more

3. You vs. Bobby Fischer
Chess Exam: Match Your Wits with Bobby Fischer: 190 pages

This book offers chess fans of all levels a chance to match their wits with the legendary chess champion Bobby Fischer! Best-selling and award-winning author Igor Khmelnitsky gathers examples from Fischer's games that are educational, and entertaining, and can be studied without a board.

In each of the examples the readers will take the seat of Fischer's opponent and be asked to come up with an assessment and a move. Based on the response they are assigned points towards their rating evaluation and a game score towards their “match.”

Once finished, the readers will learn how well they have done in the “match,” have an estimate of their rating, and know what they need to work on to improve their game.

      

The Holiday Package in short:
   -- 3 volumes
   -- with more than 400 pages
   -- of top chess instruction, journalism and entertainment
   -- no board and pieces needed
   -- with a 45% discount!