Chess Catalogue 2006

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wooden chess boards

Tel: 020 7388 2404 Fax: 020 7388 2407 Email: [email protected] Order online at www.chess.co.uk

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When buying pieces and boards to match, it is essential to choose the right size board. Here is a general guide to help you purchase

the correct one first time: Guide: 76mm (3”) sets fit comfortably on our 45mm boards. 95mm (3.75”) sets fit our 50mm or 55mm

boards. 115mm (Broadbase 3.75”) sets fit our 55mm or 60mm boards. 150mm (6”) sets fit our 60mm boards.

Which size board

should I choose?

SUP 4 Black Anegre/Whitening Erablewith Black Anegre Border

LUX 1 Macassar Ebony/AshEbony-Black Edging LUX 2

Walnut/MapleWalnut-Black Edging LUX 3 High Gloss Ebony/Maple

Ebony-Black Edging

REG 1Mahogany/Maple with

Mahogany Border SUP 1Mahogany/Maple with

Mahogany Border SUP 2Wenge/Maple with

Diagonal Wenge Border

SUP 3 Nut/Maple with Diagonal Nut border

SUP 5 Teak/Maple with Teak border

50mm £199.95 55mm £249.95 45mm £99.95 50mm £119.95 55mm £139.95 50mm £99.95 55mm £119.95

45mm £19.95 50mm £24.95

55mm £29.95 60mm £34.95

45mm £29.95 50mm £34.95

55mm £39.95 60mm £44.95

45mm £34.95 50mm £39.95

55mm £44.95 60mm £49.95

45mm £34.95 50mm £39.95

55mm £44.95 60mm £49.95

45mm £39.95 50mm £44.95

55mm £49.95 60mm £54.95

45mm £39.95 50mm £44.95

55mm £49.95 60mm £54.95

Luxury Wooden BoxMedium £99.95

Treasure Chest Wooden BoxLarge £49.99

Deluxe Wooden Tray BoxLarge £49.99

Leather BoxLarge £49.99

Mahogany boxwith brass clasp

and hinges.Green felt

lining.

Sheesham boxwith brasshinges and

embellishments.

Individualcompartmentsfor each pieceand space for

two extraqueens. Burl

wood.

Real leatherbox with

green velvetstyle lining.

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wooden chess sets


EXCLUSIVE RANGEOur top of the range Staunton type set design

BROADBASE RANGEBeautifully crafted broad based sets.

TOURNAMENT RANGEExquisitely carved stained set at an affordable price.

CLASSIC RANGEA traditional, well designed set. Simple yet clear.

COLOSSUS RANGEImpressive set for play or display.

Order code Dark PiecesKing Height

(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

EXC/95-R Rosewood - £25 off 95 3.75 £74.95

EXC/95-ES Striped Ebony - £50 off 95 3.75 £99.95

EXC/95-E Ebony - £50 off 95 3.75 £149.95


(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

BRO/95-S Sheesham 95 3.75 £49.95

BRO/95-R Rosewood - £10 off 95 3.75 £59.95

BRO/95-E Ebony 95 3.75 £99.95


(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

CLA/76-A Antiqued Brown 76 3 £19.95

CLA/76-B Black 76 3 £19.95

CLA/95-A Antiqued Brown 95 3.75 £29.95

CLA/95-B Black 95 3.75 £29.95

STANDARD RANGEEntry level set with simple design.


(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

COL/150-A Antiqued Brown - £25 off 150 6 £74.95

COL/150-B Black - £25 off 150 6 £74.95


(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

STA/76-A Antiqued Brown 76 3 £9.95

STA/110-A Antiqued Brown 110 150 £19.95


(mm)

King Height

(inches)Price

TOU/76-A Antiqued Brown - New for 2006 76 3 £34.95

TOU/76-B Black - New for 2006 76 3 £34.95

TOU/95-A Antiqued Brown 95 3.75 £49.95

TOU/95-B Black 95 3.75 £49.95

A little more information about the chess sets...Each of the sets include 32 pieces, with the exception of the Tournament Range, which comes with an extra queen in each colour. All sets are supplied in card

boxes. The white pieces are made of boxwood unless otherwise stated. As natural materials vary in shade and grain, the set you receive may differ slightly in appear-

ance. Ebony is a mature, robust wood which is black in colour. Striped Ebony has flecks of rich brown graining showing through the Ebony black. Rosewood is a

reddish brown wood, with a pronounced grain. Sheesham is a very natural coloured wood, medium brown with some graining, although not as pronounced as

Rosewood. Antiqued Brown or Black indicates that the pieces are made of boxwood, with the black chessmen being stained to achieve the desired effect.

Felted and triple-weighted Felted and double-weighted

Felted and weighted Felted and weighted

Felted and unweightedFelted and triple-weighted

Leatherette Chess BoxMedium £29.95

Standard Wooden Chess BoxSmall£14.95 Medium £19.95 Large £24.95

Light Wooden Chess BoxMedium £24.95

CHESS BOXSize Guide

Our Small boxes will take sets

with a maximum king height of 3

inches. Medium Size boxes are

designed for sets up to 3.75 inch-

es (excluding Broadbase) and

Large boxes can hold anything up

to 4” or Broadbase design chess-

men.

LeatheretteBox withgreen felt

lining.

Pinewoodbox, with

metal hingesand clasp.

Lined.

Burl woodbox, with

black velvetstyle lining.Available inthree sizes.

Prices down for 2006Prices down for 2006

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chess sets from Jaques of London


Staunton Reintroduction Set 4 inch king £995

Limited edition of 500 sets only. A collector’s set to treasure. Hand carved in selected black Ebony and Boxwood as a detailed replica of Jaques original 1899 Club Staunton Set.

Supplied in a superb baized lined polished Mahogany cabinet with lock, and fitted with numbered and signed Original Staunton certificate.

Staunton Reintroduction Set 3.5 inch king £695

Limited edition of 500 sets only. Hand carved in selected black Ebony and Boxwood as a detailed replica of Jaques original 1899 Club Staunton Set. Supplied in a superb baized lined

polished Mahogany cabinet with lock, and fitted with numbered and signed Original Staunton certificate.

This board is manufactured exclusively for Chess &

Bridge in Britain. As well as being a suitable board for

the Jaques range, it also ideally compliments the

Championship Staunton or London Chess Centre

Ebony Tower Set, which can be found on page 7. The

Luxury 1 board has large 55mm squares and is inlaid

with Macassar Ebony and Ash. It is finished with a

stepped black edging to elevate the playing area.

Also available with 50mm squares for £199.95

Luxury 1 Chess Board (55mm) £249.95

Original Fischer/Spassky Set 3.5 inch king £449.95

Beautifully hand crafted set that was made famous by its use during the famous

Fischer - Spassky match in 1972. It is made from the finest Boxwood and is pre-

sented in a Mahogany baize lined box that is fitted with brass hinges and lock.

1850 Original Staunton Sets

Limited edition, with 250 of the 4.4” and 500 4” sets only. Finely detailed Ebony and Boxwood set,

these men are a reintroduction of a design produced by John Jaques between 1850 and 1851. The

pieces are very heavily weighted and finished with rich English leather bases with beautiful gold block

Jaques branding. The chest supplied is made from a superb polished mahogany, and comes complete

with fitted trays, a miniature brass lock and numbered signed ‘Original Staunton’ certificate.

1850 Original Staunton 4.4” King £2995.00

Comes with specially made inlaid board from Jaques - not pictured

1850 Original Staunton 4” King £1995.00

Comes with specially made inlaid board from Jaques - not pictured

1850 Original Staunton Set

Staunton Reintroduction 4” Staunton Reintroduction 3.5”

left: Original

Fischer/Spassky Set

All of our luxury chess sets can be found online atwww.chess.co.uk

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LONDON CHESS CENTRE EBONY TOWER SET £275

The pieces are triple weighted with felted bases, the king height being 4 inches with the other pieces to scale.

The design is based on that developed by the English world champion Howard Staunton over 150 years ago.

The black pieces are made from the highest quality ebony, while the white pieces are in boxwood. The pieces

have broad, bevelled bases. The box is our very own London Chess Centre branded leather box, with a green

felt lining, and comes free with this set (r.r.p of the box £49.99)

LONDON EBONYCOMBINATION £300

One of the finest chess sets coupled with our Superior 2 board with 55mm squares (rrp £44.95) is made of

Wenge and Maple, with an diagonal Wenge border.


BUD ROSEWOOD CHESS SET £250

This exquisite Boxwood and Bud Rosewood set features a 4" (115mm) King with a 1.75" (45mm) diameter base.

The 32 chessmen weigh in at 1.75 Kg. Bud Rosewood has a distinctive and attractive red colouring, the wood is very

resilient and the set comes complete with four queens. All the pieces have raised bevelled bases with the under-side

being finished in leather. The Treasure Chest box (r.r.p. £49.99) is made of solid sheesham brown wood,

with brass hinges and embellishments and comes free with the set.

BUD ROSEWOOD COMBINATION £350

The ideal package for the Bud Rosewood Chess Set. The board is our Luxury 2 Walnut and Maple board (see page

4), with each square measuring 55mm. The bevelled edges and warm colourings compliment the red colouring of

the pieces (combination pictured far right).

LONDON CHESS CENTRE

CHAMPIONSHIP STAUNTON *

£500

Limited Edition

Designed by the London Chess Centre, in cooperation with some of the finest craftsmen, to commemorate the World

Chess Championships in London 2000.

Beautifully hand carved from top quality Ebony and Boxwood. We believe it to be the highest qual-

ity Staunton pattern set. The pieces are triple weighted. The king measures 4 inches (115mm) with a

base diameter of 1.75 inches (45mm). Each set requires over 100 hours of expert craftmanship, and

there is an attention to detail which is unrivalled. For example: the teeth on the knight are carved out,

the queen’s crown is exquisitely carved producing an angular effect, and the bishop’s mitre is deeply

cut into the piece.

The Treasure Chest box (r.r.p. £49.99) is made of solid Sheesham brown wood, with brass hinges

and embellishments and comes free with the set.

This set will become a collector’s item to be

treasured for years to come.

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luxury chess combinations - 4” king

BUD ROSEWOOD CHESS SET £250LUXURY 2 WALNUT/MAPLE BOARD £139.95

(RRP £389.95)A SAVING OF £39.95

LONDON CHESS CENTRE EBONY TOWER SET £275SUPERIOR 2 WALNUT/MAPLE BOARD £44.95

(RRP £319.95)A SAVING OF £19.95

* Does not include board. For our board selection, please see page 4.Pictured on Luxury 1 Board, 55mm (rrp £249.95) Buy the Luxury 1

Board with the Championship Staunton set for £699.95 (save £50)

see page 4

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Upgrade the London Ebony Combination to the Luxury 1 55mm Board and pay £475 (save £49.95)


luxury chess combinations - 3.75” king


EXCLUSIVE EBONY COMBINATION £350

We have coupled our Exclusive Ebony Chess Set and our most luxurious Ebony chess

board to create this high quality Ebony Combination. The 3.75" king set fits snugly on the

50 mm squared Ebony Luxury 1 board, making a combination which oozes style.

BROADBASE ROSEWOOD COMBINATION

£125

A combination full of grain and rich colour. Our traditional broadbased Rosewood set

produces a great contrast with our light Teak board. Comes complete with our Black

Leatherette box.

BROADBASE EBONY COMBINATION £175

Match this traditional broadbased chess set, made from the finest Ebony with our Superior

4 Black Anegre chess board. We believe this creates an artistic treat with real style. Comes

complete with our lockable black leather box.

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(sav(save £25)e £25)

Broadbase Ebony Pieces £99.95Sup 4 Black Anegre Board (55mm) £49.95

Black Leather Box £49.95(rrp £199.85)

Broadbase Ebony Combination £175SAVE £24.85

Broadbase Rosewood Pieces £59.95Sup 5 Teak Board (55mm) £49.95

Black Leatherette Box £29.95(rrp £139.85)

Broadbase Rosewood Combination £125SAVE £14.85

rrp £99.99

UUpgrade to the pgrade to the LLuxuruxuryy WWooden Boooden Box for £25x for £25


rrp £99.99

UUpgrade to the pgrade to the TTrreasureasure Chest Boe Chest Box for £15x for £15


rrp £49.99

Exclusive Ebony Pieces £149.95Luxury 1 Ebony Board (50mm) £199.95

Black Leather Box £49.95(rrp £399.85)

Exclusive Ebony Combination £350 SAVE £49.85

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TOURNAMENTPLAYERSCOMBINATION £80

Quality wooden carved chess set in boxwood and dyed black boxwood combined with our

regular mahogany board, produces a stunning contrast. Comes complete with our stan-

dard wooden box.

CLASSIC COMBINATION £65

Entry level wooden combination. The Classic Range chess set is paired with our standard

wooden mahogany board with algebraic notation around the edging to help with reading

and recording your games. The package is completed with a medium-sized wooden box.

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£30 POSTAGE TO EUROPE, £50 TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

BROADBASESHEESHAMCOMBINATION £100

Combine our traditional Broadbase Sheesham Set and Walnut board for £100! The real

value choice. Comes complete with our Black

Leatherette box.

chess set combinations






Broadbase Sheesham Chess Pieces (95mm) £49.95Standard Wooden Box - Large (see page 5) £24.95

Sup 3 Nut and Maple Board (55mm) £44.95Broadbase Sheesham Combination £100

SAVE £19.85

Tournament Player Chess Pieces (95mm) £49.95Standard Wooden Box - Medium £19.95Reg 1 Mahogany Board (50mm) £24.95

Tournament Players Combination £80SAVE £14.85

Classic Pieces - Black (95mm) £29.95Standard Wooden Box - Medium £19.95Reg 2 Mahogany Board (50mm) £24.95

Classic Combination £65SAVE £9.85


rrp £49.99


rrp £49.99


rrp £49.99

The 3” Tournament Player Combo is also availablefor £60 - see page 32 for more details

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Robust three legged

chess table, with

pull-out drawer

for storage of

pieces. The table

base is made of

Linden wood,

whilst the top is

made of Maple and

Mahogany.

60mm squares, with

overall board size of

540mm x 540mm, 750mm

high.

New Chess TablesNew Chess Tables

SAN LUIS CHESS TABLE £79.99Walnut & Maple Diagonal Chessboard with 50mm squares (50x500x13)

Matt Finish. Table Height 62 cm (24.4”).

LINARES CHESS TABLE £99.99Moulded Walnut & Maple Chessboard with 45mm squares and a gloss

finish. Table height 62 cms (24.4”).

chess tables and ornate sets


Arabian Chess Set £99.95A set with a difference. One of the most unusual materials to be used in chess

sets, camelbone provides a unique chess set every time. The level of workman-

ship is apparent on every piece; from the delicate details on the knights to the

flowery embellishments on each and every piece. Despite its dainty appearance,

the camelbone material is in fact very durable, meaning this is a set to both

treasure and use! The king stands 3.75” tall, and weighs a mere 38 grams.

Craftmanship at it’s finest.

King Richard Brass Chess Set £199.95Finding a satisfactory metal chess set is always a challenge, and with this and the

Boethia sets shown on page 11, we are now spoilt for choice. This super-heavy-

weight brass chess set is as impressive as they come. The king is 4” high, with the

levels of craftsmanship on the set being as good as many of our high range wood-

en sets. The colours are easy to distinguish from each other, and over years the

brass will take on a new appearance simply through it’s exposure to natural condi-

tions. Sure to make a fantastic show piece or simply an amazing set to play with.

The London Chess CentreThe London Chess Centre

Recommends...Recommends...Both of these sets would look fantastic on our Teak

and Maple Superior 5 Board. The King Richard set

should sit on a 55mm square, which is available in

this board for £49.95. The Arabian Set, being a

more slender set, would be ideally complimented by

the 50mm square Teak and Maple board, which

retails at £44.95. Details on all of our boards can be

found on page 4.

New Chess Sets for 2006New Chess Sets for 2006

All of our chess sets, books, software and

more can be found online atwww.chess.co.uk

TRADITIONAL CHESS TABLEEarly chess sets made in ivory by master carvers and

turners were often in red and white combinations.

Our game is an exact reproduction of an

original made by John Calvert, a

Master of the Worshipful

Company of Turners

in London in 1795.

The faux-ivory set of 32

pieces comes in a beau-

tiful hardwood box with an

inlaid chessboard top. Drawers

on both sides hold the pieces securely.

Measures 38 x 38 x 10.75 cms

Traditional ChessTable with BroadbaseSheesham Pieces (as

shown) £239.99

Calvert Chess Set £174.99Traditional ChessTable without pieces

£199.99

CALVERT CHESS SET

San Luis Chess Table Linares

Chess Table

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silver and pewter chess sets from Boethia


Corinthian Chess SetThe Corinthian Order of architecture first came to prominence

circa 400 BC and became prevalent thereafter throughout the

Grecian and then Roman world. The style has lent itself to creat-

ing an aesthetically beautiful set, whilst maintaining the practical

definition of each piece, characterised by its strong linear features

and angular segmentation.

Made from either solid sterling silver or solid antimony pewter,

the set is made of 34 individually hand cast chessmen, with

each piece hand etched & worked to further enhance the

detailing. The king stands at 2 ½ inches. Recommended board:

35mm squares - see below.

Pewter Corinthian Chess Set £699 - includes boxSilver Corinthian Chess Set £3500 - includes box

Glen Mor Chess SetNestled within the Grampian Mountain range in Scotland, Glen

Mor remains a place of hidden and unspoilt beauty. With its lush

valleys and loch it is a place that captures an atmosphere that is

undeniably Celtic. It is this Celtic nature that is very much the

inspiration for the Glen Mor pieces.

It is this diversity that Boethia have sought to capture in the set

under the unifying Celtic banner; each piece carries a subtly dif-

ferent style, such as the runic symbolism on the Bishop, the angu-

lar architecture of the King, and the organic leafing on the pawn.

The king stands at 3 ½ inches. Recommended board: 40mm

squares - see below.

Pewter Glen Mor Chess Set £999 - includes boxSilver Glen Mor Chess Set £6500 - includes box

Tudor Chess SetThe Tudor period in England brought about an unusual evo-

lution of design that so often fused very robust forms with

intricate elements to create something distinctive and iconic.

Our Tudor chessmen have been inspired by the style of the

period, from its architecture to its jewellery. The pieces main-

tain a simplicity in their form and are each adorned with roses,

symbolic of the era.

Each set, made from either solid sterling silver or solid antimo-

ny pewter, has 34 individually hand cast chessmen, with each

piece hand etched & worked to further enhance the detailing.

The king stands at 3 inches. Recommended board: 40mm

squares - see below.

Pewter Tudor Chess Set £999 - includes boxSilver Tudor Chess Set £6500 - includes box

Safari Chess SetThis Safari set is inspired by African wildlife, with the Lion,

Lioness, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant & Monkey. Around the base of

each piece, different jungle and savannah detail has been carved in.

The piece type has also been etched on, to allow for the recogni-

tion of each piece. The king stands at 2 ½ inches. Recommended

board: 35mm squares.

Pewter Safari Chess Set £749 - includes boxSilver Safari Chess Set £6000 - includes box

Boethia

Chess Sets

Boethia Chess Boards 35mm Squares £225 40mm Squares £249The boards (sold separately) are exclusive to the Boethia

Collection, and are beautifully made from Emboya and Maple,

with a fully leathered base. The 35mm square board stands

40mm high, whilst the 40mm square board stands 50mm high.

Again it bears the pewter Boethia Knight insignia. See Boethia

chess set descriptions for required board size.

Boethia Chess Box All of the sets are presented in a solid

Emboya wood box made specifically for

the set. The interior is fully leathered with

a cushioned lid, with the pieces them-

selves resting on shelves made to size. The

box itself bears the pewter Boethia

Knight clasp.Please alloPlease allow 3 ww 3 weeks feeks for delior delivverery ofy of all silvall silver setser sets..

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decorative chess sets


BRITISH MUSEUM ISLE OF LEBRITISH MUSEUM ISLE OF LEWIS SETWIS SET

LLORD OF ORD OF THE RINGSTHE RINGS

King Height 3.75” (95mm) £249.95 King Height 3” (75mm) £149.95

STUDIO ANN CARLSTUDIO ANN CARLTTON CHESS SETON CHESS SETSSA richness of finish and attention to detail characterise these top quality sets

made by Studio Anne Carlton. The decorative pieces are unsurpassed in their

level of craftsmanship and set the definitive standard by which all other sets

are measured. Prices do not include board.

HARRHARRYY POPOTTERTTER

£29.95£29.95

The giant-sized Wizard Chess

battle from ‘Harry Potter and the

Sorcerer's Stone’ was one of the

most memorable moments

from the film. The pieces

are finely detailed replicas

of the figures that Ron and

Harry battle with in the

movie.

DISNEY HERDISNEY HEROESOES

&& VILLAINSVILLAINS

£29.95

Disney comes to life in your liv-

ing room, with the characters

you love against the characters

you love to hate! Mickey Mouse,

the Lion King, Peter Pan &

Baloo join forces to take on

the likes of Captain Hook,

Cruella DeVil and Scar.

STSTARAR WWARSARS

£29.95

Highly detailed Chess Set com-

prising of nineteen sculpted

characters from all six Star Wars

films including 'Episode III'

- All pieces are finished in 'Sith

Black' and 'Antique Wash'

to give each set its own

unique look. Characters include

Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Darth

Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi

LLORDORD OFOF THETHE

RINGSRINGS

£29.95

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the

Rings has proved to be a classic

for generations. This set con-

tains all of the famous charac-

ters, such as Gandalf the

Wizard, Strider, and

Saruman, each of the pieces

painted with authentic detail.

This set is limited edition.

BABATTTLETLE OFOF WWAATERLTERLOOOO

Normal Decorated Height (mm) Height (inch)

American Civil War £72.95 £147.95 125 5

Art Deco £72.95 £147.95 95 3.75

Bannockburn £72.95 £147.95 120 4.75

Battle of Hastings £72.95 £147.95 115 4.5

Battle of Waterloo £72.95 £147.95 110 4.5

Canterbury £82.95 £162.95 135 5.25

Celtic £72.95 £147.95 115 4.5

Crusades £72.95 £147.95 125 5

Gods of Mythology £77.95 - 160 6.25

History of Golf £72.95 £147.95 130 5.25

Isle of Lewis Replica £47.95 - 95 3.75

Mini Isle of Lewis Replica £31.50 - 65 2.5

Lord of the Rings £79.95 £162.95 110 4.25

Peter Rabbit £72.95 - 95 3.75

Robin Hood £72.95 £147.95 115 4.5

Roman £47.95 - 100 4

Shakespeare £72.95 £147.95 135 5.25

Sherlock Holmes £72.95 £147.95 125 5

White Tower £82.95 £162.95 140 5.5

Trafalgar £82.95 £162.95 135 5.25

Tudor Kings and Queens £47.95 £162.95 110 4.25

Westminster Abbey £94.95 £249.95 200 8

1966 World Cup £72.95 - 150 6

THE SIMPSONSTHE SIMPSONS

CHESS SETCHESS SET

£29.95

All of Springfield’s most

loved characters are here.

Bart, Homer, Marge, Maggie,

Lisa and Krusty are all featured,

with the set made from durable

plastic. And this set is something

of a rarity, as its the only one we sell

where the queen is the tallest piece - that’s

due to Marge’s hair! Comes in a collector’s tin.

This unique set has been made using

moulds derived directly from the

original ivory pieces which were

discovered on the Isle of Lewis

off the west coast of

Scotland and which are

now in the collections of

the British Museum. This is

the only authentic

replica set available.

HUGE PRICE REDUCTIONS

ON SAC SETS FOR 2006

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giant chess sets


Wooden Giant Chess Sets

These brand new wooden chess sets are the ultimate

in outdoor chess. Made from tropical hard wood and

available in varying sizes, this set is the showpiece of

many parks, gardens and schools. Each piece is indi-

vidually hand crafted, and with the process being

totally natural each set is unique. Individual pieces are

also available on request.

Giant Plastic SetsOur plastic giant chess sets have been a popular summer seller for years. Ideal for

schools, parks and gardens. the pieces are made of resilient waterproof plastic.

The Giant Chess Men have detachable bases which can be weighted for added

stability. The mats are also made from durable grid-locking plastic. Our Mini

Giant Chess Men are made from the same durable plastic. We also stock Giant

Plastic Draughts Sets.

GS1 Giant Chess Set (illustrated; back row) £349.95

King Height 600mm Base diameter of pieces 220mm

GS2 Mat for Giant Pieces £149.95

Squares of Board 350mm

GS4 Mini-Giant Set (illustrated; front row) £99.95

King Height 290mm Base Diameter of Pieces 120mm

GS5 Mat for Mini Giant Sets £79.95

Squares of Board 150mm

GS6 Giant Draughts Set £99.95

Diameter of Pieces 250mm

GS7 Mini-Giant Draughts Set £49.95

Diameter of Pieces 120mm

PRICE LISTWCS1 72” King Set £4995

WCS2 48” King Set £2995

WCS3 36” King Set £1995 WCB3 Board for 36” set £1495





SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY ON THIS ITEMAS ORDERS AND DELIVERY TIMES CAN VARY. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR THE BEST POSTAGE

AND PACKING RATES.

SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY ON THIS ITEMUK: ADD £20 FOR ITEMS GS1 AND GS2. ADD £10 FOR GS4,GS5, GS6, GS7. FOR OVERSEAS DELIVERY, PLEASE ENQUIRE.

Mini Garden Chess Set was £99.95 now £49.95

This giant chess set can be used either indoors or outdoors, it contains a full set

of plastic chess pieces with a gloss finish and felt bases. The size of the set is

based on a 20.6cm tall king. The board is a 90cm square PVC chess mat.

Mini Garden Draughts Set was £49.95 now £24.95

This giant draughts set includes 12 black foam draughts pieces and 12 white

foam pieces, the pieces are 8 cms in diameter. The board is 4 ft x 4 ft and is

created from 64 black and white interlocking foam pieces.

SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY ON THESE ITEMS


The ideal centrepiece for parks, schools or homes.

Mini Garden Chess & Garden Draughts Sets

Boards for 48” and 72” king Sets availableon request - please contact us for details.

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travel chess sets


Travel ‘F’ £14.99

Folding Wooden Set

Beautifully crafted from dark

wood with plug in wooden

pieces. Closed 180mm x

120mm x 30mm. Playing

area 100 mm sq.

Travel ‘A’ £9.99

London Chess Centre

Pocket Set

Green plastic with flat,

magnetic pieces. This

slimline design is ideal

for slipping into your

pocket.

150mm x 95mm folded.

150mm x 190mm open.

Travel ‘B’ £14.99

London Chess Centre Fold Flat

Larger version of Travel 1 -

240mm x 150mm folded.

300mm x 240mm open.

Travel ‘C’ £22.99

London Chess Centre

Clipboard Set

As Travel 2, with a clipboard on the

opposite side. 330mm x 245mm

folded. 330mm x 490mm open.

Travel ‘D’ £6.99

Slim ‘Playground’ Pocket Set

Plastic with flat magnetic pieces.

Folds to 95mm x 150mm.

Playing area 125mm square.

Travel ‘G’ £19.99

Wooden Magnetic Set

Magnetic wooden pieces

which can be stored

in the folded

board. Closed

175mm x 90mm x

30mm. Playing area 150mm

square.

Travel ‘I’ £14.99

Wooden Round

Pocket Set

Plug in wooden carved

pieces on an 80mm

square board with a

wooden lid. Diameter

130mm.

Travel ‘J’ £16.99

Drueke Chess Set

This great travel set has

a 150mm square

metal board with a

25mm border.

Magnetised pieces lessen the

chance of losing the position

during travel. King height 25mm.

FFolding Polding Prresentation Boesentation Boxxed Chess Sed Chess Setsets

The pieces are designed in a Staunton pattern, while the hinged wooden folding

board has a traditional feel, with algebraic notation around the side. They are ideal

for carrying around, with the pieces stored inside the board. The Luxury range

comes in four different sizes; Ambassador, Consul, Senator and Major.

Tra12: Folding Ambassador 530mm squares - King 110mm £59.99

Tra13: Folding Consul 480mm squares - King 90mm £49.99

Tra14: Folding Senator 410mm squares - King 75mm £39.99

Tra15: Folding Major Magnetic 280mm squares - King 45mm £29.99

Tra16: Folding Major Non-Magnetic 280mm squares - King 45mm £19.99

DDeluxeluxe Fe Folding Chess Solding Chess Setet £49.99£49.99

Our brand new travel

chess set, and one which

has all the quality of a full

sized set. The detail in the

carving on the knight. is very

high for a set of this size, and the

pieces are even weighted. King

height: 2.75” (7cms)

Travel ‘E’ £14.99

Folding Wooden Set

Beautifully crafted, all wooden

pocket set with plug in wooden

pieces. Closed 180mm x


area 100 mm sq.

Travel ‘H’ £24.99

Large Wooden

Magnetic Set

Larger version of Travel

G. Closed 250mm x


area 215mm square.

Chess and Backgammon Chess and Backgammon

Travel SetsTravel Sets

Aluminium Backgammon/Chess Travel Set £24.99

Stylish aluminium travel compendium, featuring chess on one side and backgammon

on the other. The set has a moulded inlay for the pieces to be stored when not in use.

Magnetic as well, making this an ideal gift for those who like to play on the move!

NEW FOR2006

NEWFOR2006

NEWFOR2006

Backgammon/Chess Travel Sets

Three games in one! Chess and draughts on the

outside, backgammon on the inside. All the

pieces can be stored inside the folded board.

Small 270mm x 135mm x 40mm £29.95

Large 410mm x 205mm x 45mm £49.95

Large Chess/Backgammon Travel Set

Small Chess/Backgammon Travel Set

Interested in Backgammon? See the rest of our Backgammon products on page 47

NEWFOR2006

NEWFOR2006

20 x 20 x 4cm

40.5 x 40.5 x 6cms

(open)

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chess clocks


DGT TIMER£59.95 each £49.95 each if 6+

DGT XL TIMER£69.95 each £59.95 each if 6+

DIGIBLITZTIMER

ECONOMY DIGITAL TIMER

SAITEK TIMER£49.95 each £44.95 each if 6+

The superior FIDE-approved timer. Links to DGT

Board. Mix timing systems (e.g start with a normal

countdown period followed by a "Fischer" or

"Bronstein Delay" period). Increased display size: dig-

its are 0.75” in height. Uses 2 x AA batteries.

Includes 6 timing modes, including Hourglass, Blitz,

Bonus Time, Bronstein, Game and Tournament, with

a total of 23 different timing combinations and meth-

ods to suit all needs. Large clear display shows count-

down, number of moves, and timing method in use.

Uses 2 x C batteries.

FIDE endorsed timer, with Bronstein and

Fischer Timings, hourglass, etc. Still one of the

most widely used digital clocks in Europe. Uses 4

x AAA batteries

THE TURNIER RANGE - the makers of Europe’s finest handmade clocksAll our Turnier chess clocks have the same reliable German precision mechanisms and come with a 1 year

guarantee. Each clock is distinguished by its different casing, varying from the durable Standard Turnier, to

the beautiful wooden clocks. Discounts are now available if you are buying for a club or school too.

Dimensions are:- 6” x 3.25” x 1.5”.

- as used in Kasparov - Short 1993This is the finest analogue chess clock available. Its

robust casing and reliable German mechanism have

such a good reputation that Chief Arbiter at the

Kasparov - Short World Championship match in

1993, Yuri Averbakh, came into the store and virtually

demanded two!

BLUE TURNIER£34.95 each £29.95 each if 6+

BLACK TURNIER £34.95 each £29.95 each if 6+

LIGHT WOOD TURNIER £39.95 each £34.95 each if 6+

DARK WOOD TURNIER£39.95 each £34.95 each if 6+

GARDE CLOCK£49.95 each £44.95 each if 6+

Digital Chess Clocks

New Timers For 2006...

STANDARD TURNIER£32.95 each £25 each if 6+

DIGIBLITZ TIMER £29.95 each £24.95 each if 6+

The DiGiBlitz is a great personal digital clock.

* Two big five-digit displays * Simple settings

* Buzzer (optional) * LED indicators (optional)

* Pause button * Programmable default time

* One-button game restart * 3 AA batteries

.

* Variable volume settings. * Pause button

* Large clear display, showing time and number of moves

to be made. * Simple to use. * Uses 2 x C batteries

NEW FOR2006

NEW FOR2006

ECONOMY DIGITAL TIMER £24.95 each £19.95 each if 6+An inexpensive way to start using digital timers

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club equipment


CLUB 1 GAMBIT PIECES : Plastic. 95mm (3.75”) King. Very durable. As used in clubs, schools, and tournaments. £7.50

CLUB 2 MINI GAMBIT PIECES : Plastic. 63mm (2.5”) King. Especially good value for schools and juniors. £4.95

CLUB 3 BOX FOR CLUB 1 AND CLUB 2 : Virtually indestructible plastic. Very easy to carry and store. £1.50

CLUB 4 ROLL UP CHESS MAT : Made of durable plastic. Very easy to carry. 50mm squares - ideal size for CLUB 1 gambit pieces. £2.95

CLUB 5 FOLDING CHESS BOARD : Rigid plastic folding board. 50mm squares - ideal size for CLUB 1 pieces. £6.95

CLUB 6 SMALL FOLDING CHESS BOARD : Same as CLUB 5 but with 38mm squares. Ideal size for CLUB 2 pieces. £4.95

CLUB 7 SEMI-RIGID CHESS MAT : Durable plastic board. Always stays flat, never creases or wrinkles. 50mm squares. was £3.95 now £2.95

CLUB 8 SMALL ROLL UP CHESS MAT : Easy to carry, same as CLUB 4, but with 38mm squares. Ideal size for CLUB 2 pieces. £1.95

CLUB 9 WEIGHTED GAMBIT PIECES : Plastic. 95mm (3.75”) King. with single weighting, making this ideal for tournaments and blitz. £14.95

NEW! CLUB 10 ‘SUPER’ GAMBIT PIECES (RED): Plastic, 4” King. Comes with a roll up mat ideal for this set. The black chessmen are burgundy coloured. £14.95

NEW! CLUB 11 ‘SUPER’ GAMBIT PIECES (BLACK): Plastic, 4” King. Comes with a roll up mat with 55mm squares. Black and white coloured chessmen. £14.95

TURNIER CHESS CLOCK : The Standard Turnier is the common choice for schools and clubs. See page 18 for more information. £32.95

CLUB 1 PIECES & CLUB 4 BOARD

CLUB 3CLUB 5/CLUB 6

CLUB 1/CLUB 2/CLUB 9 GAMBIT PIECES

CLUB COMBO 1 CLUB COMBO 2 CLUB COMBO 3

MEGA CLUB COMBO 1 MEGA CLUB COMBO 2 MEGA CLUB COMBO 3

ADD TURNIER CLOCKS TO ANY OF THE COMBINATIONS FOR JUST £25 EACH!

6 x Gambit Pieces (Club 1)6 x Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 4)

6 x Boxes (Club 3)JUST £49.95 - SAVE OVER 30% (rrp £71.70)

6 x Mini Gambit Pieces (Club 2)6 x Small Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 8)


6 x Weighted Gambit Pieces (Club 9)6 x Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 4)


15 x Gambit Pieces (Club 1)15 x Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 4)


15 x Mini Gambit Pieces (Club 2)15 x Small Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 8)


15 x Weighted Gambit Pieces (Club 9)15 x Vinyl Roll Up Mats (Club 4)


UPGRADE TO FOLDING BOARDS:£69.95






CLUB 11

BOTHSETSINCLUDEA60mmROLLUPBOARDNEW FOR2006

CLUB 10

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demonstration boards


DEMO 2

SLOT-IN DEMONSTRATION

BOARD

Light, compact and portable. Overall 740mm x 600mm,

with 70mm squares. Plastic pieces slot into canvass board.

50 game softback

scorebooks £2.50 ea.

Chess Binders £9.95 each

CHESS TEACHERCHESS TEACHERPACKAGEPACKAGE

CHESS STATIONERY

£ . p

STAT 1 HARDBACK 100 GAME SCOREBOOK 4.95

Fully indexed - see illustration below

STAT2 SOFTBACK - 50 GAME SCOREBOOK 2.50

Fully indexed - see illustration below

STAT 3 SCORESHEETS 500 for 7.50 1000 for 12.50

(Please add postage and packing at £2.50 per 500)

STAT 4 BINDER for CHESS MONTHLY 9.95

See illustration below

STAT 5 SWISS PAIRING CARDS 100 for 3.95

STAT6 RESULTS CHARTSeach 0.99

STAT7 ADJOURNMENT ENVELOPES 100 for 9.95

STAT8 PEEL &STICK SETS4.95

800 pieces and 40 boards

STAT9 FOLDING CORRESPONDENCE 30 for 3.95

SCORE CARDS

STAT10 WINDOW ENVELOPES for use 100 for 4.95

with above

STAT11 INTERNATIONAL 100 for 6.95

CORRESPONDENCECARDS

DEMO 1

LONDON CHESS CENTRE

DEMONSTRATION BOARD

This green/pastel board is the largest in our range at

940mm x 915mm overall with 85mm squares. Easy to

roll up for carriage & storage.

Chess Ties £9.99

Please specify either red or

blue/gold tie when ordering.

CHESS TROPHIES & MEDALSTRO1 7.5” (19cm) £14.99

TRO2 6.25” (16cm) £12.99

TRO3 6” (15cm) £9.99

TRO4 3.5” (9cm) £6.99

TRO5 5.5” (14cm) £9.99

TRO6 6” (15cm) £9.99

MEDALS £2.99 each

£25 for 10

BADGES £1 each

£9 for 10

TRO4

TRO5

TRO1

TRO2

TRO3

REMEMBERREMEMBER ::

Schools & Clubs are eligible for

a 10% discount on all orders

over £50!

1 x Demo 1 Board (rrp £89.95)

1 x Comprehensive Chess Course Vol. 1

by Alburt (rrp £14.99)

1 x Standard Turnier Clock (rrp £32.95)

1 x Club Combo 1 (rrp £49.95)

Recommended Retail Price: £187.84

OONLYONLY £150£150

London

Chess Centre

Hardback

Scorebooks

Space for 100 games

£4.95 each

Chess Book Ends (set of 2) £14.95

Made from wood with metal bases

TRO6

£89.95 was £59.95 now £39.95

Badges

Available in four

different colours

Red, Blue, Green &

Yellow

SETTING UP YOURSCHOOL CHESS CLUB?

Why not take a look at ourrecommeded books and

software for beginners on page 32

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chess computers


Novag Star Ruby £79.95 (165 BCF) Touch screen LCD chessboard.

Pen input provides easy

access to many

game options

and chess pieces

cannot be lost.

A d j u s t a b l e

contrast for

improved visi-

bility. 112 pre-

set playing levels with

large openings book.

Take back (up to 104 half

moves) function for easy

correction of weak or wrong

moves as well as a hint feature if

you need advice. Position set-up for problem solving.

Uses 3 x AAA batteries (not included)

LCD Chess £29.99 (80 BCF)Fits in the palm of your hand! An LCD display shows

the board and pieces. 73 strength levels ideal for begin-

ners & improvers. 3 x AAA batteries (not included).

Talking LCD Chess £39.99 (110 BCF)Same compact design as above, but with speech and

increased strength! 136 levels ideal for players up to inter-

mediate standard. 3 x AAA batteries (not included).

Saitek Aria £14.99 (70 BCF) - was £19.99A great choice for those who are starting out in

chess and want a computer to spar with. Peg senso-

ry board, with an LCD display showing clock times,

level setting and position verification. Will keep the

position in memory should you need to stop the

game for any length of time.

2 x AAA batteries (not included).

Dimensions: 16 x10.5cms

Dimensions:9 x 13cms

Expert Travel £99.95 (180 BCF)Top quality peg sensory portable. Strong

playing standard with over 500

level/settings combinations.

‘Guardian Angel’ warns

against tactical

blunders. User

s e l e c t a b l e

p l a y i n g

styles and

openings.

Large LCD

d i s p l a y ,

position evalua-

tion, clock times

and more. 4 x AA

batteries (not included).Dimensions: 23 x 18cms


AdvancedTravel Computer £49.99 (160 BCF)Hand-held chess computer which uses plug in

pieces. Scroll-option display for game analysis,

evaluation of who is winning and by how much,

clock times and other information 6,000 position

opening book, piece storage compartment and

game stored in memory should you need to switch

off in a hurry! 3 x AAA batteries (not included).

Saitek Maestro £49.99 (125 BCF)Superb styling, backlit screen and extended range of

player strengths makes this an attractive computer for

hobby players. See your game develop on the blue

backlit screen and make moves at the touch of a stylus.

With 100 playing levels to choose from, this is a great

choice for the intermediate player. Pop it in your

pocket and play anywhere! Auto power-down to save

your battery life. 3 x AAA batteries (not included).


Systema Meteor £19.99 (80 BCF)Over 300 level setting combinations (72 skill levels

each with 1 standard and 5 teaching modes) peg

sensory board with moves shown on LCD screen.

Position verify, set-up and take back functions,

remembers unfinished games when switched off.

Detects draws by 3-fold repetition, 50 move rule

and stalemate. 4 x AAA batteries (not included).

Dimensions:13 x 8.5cms

Dimensions:18 x 12.5cms

Chess Explorer £49.99 (165 BCF)An attractive tabletop computer with 64 levels. The

openings book covers all of the main openings, and the

Explorer also has take back (up to 30 moves), as well as

an Info Mode, which allows you to see inside the com-

puters analysis. There is also a set up facility allowing

you to examine new positions simply.

3 x AA batteries (not included)

BCF CODES? The BCF rating is an indication of the computer’s playing strength - the higher it’s rating, the bet-ter it plays! As a rough guide, anything up to 100 BCF caters for recreational players, club players should aim for a150-170 BCF computer, whilst stronger players may wish to buy a higher rated computer.

The Novag Beryl caters for complete beginners up

to intermediate level. There are many training fea-

tures to improve your game. The 32 move take

back function enables you to test different strategies

and if you need advice, the computer helps you

with its hint and training function. Position verifica-

tion and set-up for problem solving. Saves game

position in memory when switched off. Uses 6 x AA

batteries (not included) or optional adapter.

Dimensions: 32 x 25cms

Novag Beryl Plus£49.95 (100 BCF) - was £69.95


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Obsidian £129.99 BCF175Large LCD for game analysis, evaluations, clock times, etc.

Multiple time control levels. Features include: large 8,900 position

opening book. 8 user-selectable end game playing modes for your

choice of different playing style. Comprehensive coaching system

which includes 8 built-in classical mate studies. Comes with fitted

fabric carry case for the board and pieces! Uses 6 x C batteries

(not included) or optional mains adaptor (£9.99 each)


Excalibur Grandmaster £199.99 BCF 150Fully auto-sensory. The large board has 2" green and white

vinyl squares with weighted Staunton pieces, king nearly 4".

100 levels, plus teaching modes, opening book trainer, dual

display for clock times, analysis, evaluations etc. Dual display

means both players have clocks when playing each other.

One of the players can even be computer assisted during

the game! Mains or 4 x AA batteries (not included).

TTOPOP OFOF THETHE RANGERANGECHESSCHESS COMPUTERCOMPUTERExclusive Senator

200 BCF £499.99With the strong Franz Morsch 32-bit Senator program and a 50,000 position openings

library, this is the creme de la creme of chess computers. The Mephisto Exclusive is a

superb wooden auto sensory board with matching, felted wooden pieces. Features include

user-selectable info display, giving evaluations, analysis, hints and clock times. Overall board

dimensions are 400 x 400mm; king height 70mm. Mains powered.

Dimensions: 40 x 40 cms

Star Diamond £199.99 BCF 200Comes with quality fitted fabric carry case for the board,

with front pocket for pieces, manual and adaptor!

Multiple time control levels for tournament, blitz, casu-

al and training, including mate solving. Soft-touch play-

ing surface and Staunton style pieces. Large 123,000

position opening book. Mains or 4 x AA batteries

(not included)

Chess Challenger £69.95 BCF 170Handy display for game analysis, evaluations, clock

times and other information. 64 main time control

levels, plus style variations and coaching;. Other fea-

tures include: 6,000 position Opening Book, Coach

& Teaching modes, piece storage compartment;

game memory retention. Mains (included) or 4 x

C batteries (not included)

Dimensions:

33 x 25cms


Dimensions:

33 x 25cms

Dimensions:

37 x 27 cms

Extra large size!Dimensions: 52 x 52 cms

Carnelian£79.99 135 BCFThe Carnelian is a technically advanced computer and yet it retains

a classic look with its beautifully carved wooden chess pieces.

Learn basic moves and tactics with the ‘teach mode’ function and

progress quickly in your game with the integrated training system.

This computer will give novice players a chance to win and at the

same time will be a challenge for all regular players. Uses 6 x AA

batteries (not included) or optional mains adaptor (£9.99 )

Chess Academy £99.99 BCF 160The world’s best talking chess computer with over 20

hours of speech. 100 voice commentary lessons.

LED light on every square makes the learning process

easy. 100 levels of play to keep pace with your

progress. 10 "Teach Topics", each containing no less

than 10 individual interactive voice prompted lessons.

Mains (included) or 6 x C batteries (not included)

Dimensions:

27 x 30 cms

The computer sets each piece aglow with scarlet light!

LEDs on its 64 squares highlight the piece on move and

mark its path across the board. Program includes four

playing styles and 64 levels of difficulty, as well as a hint

key for beginners and takeback function.

4 x AA batteries (not included).

Talking tabletop chess game

features: Over 768 level setting combinations make this

suited to all levels and abilities. Dual chess clocks that

times both players as if in a real tournament. Large 4 digit

LCD display shows moves, chessboard and times - easy to

use and informative. 2 x AAA batteries (not included).

TalkingChess Trainer£29.99 100 BCF

Master Chess £139.99 BCF 19050,000 position opening book. 64 playing levels plus coach-

ing functions. User-adjustable scrolling information display

which assists in accessing functions, setting-up and verifying

positions, as well as giving position evaluations, forward

analysis, clock times etc. Current game held in memory.

Coach mode gives blunder and tactical alert warnings.

Mains (included) or 6 x AA batteries (not included)

FREE ADAPTOR WITH THIS COMPUTER

Dimensions: 32 x

25.5cms

Dimensions

30.5 x 25 cms

Glass Chess£59.99 130 BCF

chess computers 19

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chess dvds from Roman


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TTurbocurbocharhargge e YYour Plaour Playing Prying Prooggrram! - am! - TTurbo Furbo Fritz ritz £99.95£99.95

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Consists of 5 DVDs with endgame databases (Nalimov Tablebases). With the

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For years Deep Junior has been highly

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DeepFritz 8 is the multi-processor version of Fritz

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fritz sensory board & pocket fritz


FRITZ SENSORY BOARD £349.95

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Pocket Fritz 2 is a chess partner with mobility built in. Take it with you wherever you go and leave boredom behind.

Pocket Fritz 2 is much stronger than its predecessor and has an estimated blitz performance rating of 2450 Elo. The

younger brother of the world’s strongest chess program has made great strides in the area of design, functionality and

user friendliness. New pieces and board colours, formatted, colour-coded notation, all contribute to optimum clarity, even

in deeply annotated games. The moves of the computer as well as hints and threats are displayed with coloured arrows.

Pocket Fritz 2 has many diverse playing levels that make it an entertaining opponent, while the database functions and

new commentary options fulfil the needs of even strong professional players. The program gives you mobile access to

the ChessBase Online database with well over two million games. Other new functions: extended user-friendly move entry

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fun, play chess, anywhere and everywhere with Pocket Fritz!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pocket Fritz 2 runs on Pocket PCs (not included) with Windows CE 3.0 or Pocket PC

2002 or better. Installation of the program requires a PC with CD-ROM drive (desktop computer).

Pocket Fritz 2 - for pocket PCs £39.95

The DGT Fritz sensory board gives you the opportunity to play the

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+ Modern, reliable, sensor technology recognizes each piece

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Compatible with:Internet Chess Club ChessBase Products

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Screenshot from Pocket Fritz 2.

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Hiarcs 9 (CD) £39.95

Scoring a solid 2:2 draw against super-GM

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chess programs. In the years of developing

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of calculation apart from it’s counterparts.

Junior 9 (CD) £39.95

The special strength of Junior is its under-

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Tiger 15 (CD) £39.95

Tiger by name, ferocious by nature. Chess

Tiger 15 is one of the most aggressive

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Shredder 9 (CD) £39.95

For computer chess experts Shredder is

the number one choice. Winner of the

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times, Shredder is one of the strongest

commercial programs available. In com-

parison to other programs, Shredder is

positionally very sophisticated, spotting

some ‘quiet moves’ which other pro-

grams may take longer to consider.

With so many different programs out on the market, it is sometimes a little confusing choosing which is right for you. The way we like to think of it at

Chess &Bridge is that they are members of the same family. The functions and design of the programs are virtually identical, but what does differ is

their ‘chess personality’. Below is a summary of each of the program’s ‘character traits’, which should allow you to choose the program you feel suits you best.

Meet the family...Meet the family...

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With the new ‘Fritz Media System’ chess training has never been so

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GOOD MOVE SCHOOLS SOFTWARE £69.95A fun way to introduce chess to students. Over 750 small graphic movies show many of the key ideas of the game including: 'En

Passant', 'Castling', 'X-Rays', 'Zugzwang', 'The opposition' and much more. Students can work through the lessons at their own pace,

recording their progress as they go. Can be used on up to 16 machines across a school. Each program can be used to record the

progress of up to 32 students. A school can therefore keep track of the work of 16 x 32 students, and the teacher may also use the

program at home.

GOOD MOVE BIG BOOK £19.95The Big Book is a fabulous chess resource for schools. It is a book of 64 A4 pages and features just one big diagram per page. The

pages can be photocopied, blown up to A3 size and posted around the library or chess room - you may even want to paste them

along a corridor.

CHESS MATES (CD) MAC/PC £29.95Wigby the Wizard helps you through the maze of different chess concepts. Teaching you all the tricks of the trade in this

animated production, combining sound chess instruction with the sort of presentation that grabs both children and adults

alike. Excellent teaching package with good tests and a mean playing program. Recommended for all beginners.

FRITZ & CHESSTER £29.95 Recommended for 5-12 year oldsUse your wits, learn to think ahead, have fun and excitement AND learn a whole lot about chess: this great chess

adventure has all of this and more in store for you! Together with Prince Fritz and his cousin Bianca learn how

to play chess, then test and increase your knowledge in a whole range of exciting games and situations. How do

you set up the board? What’s stalemate? When do you call it a draw? What does opposition mean? And what’s “up

the stairs mate”? Find the answers to these ques-

tions and many more in animated games and contests.

FRITZ & CHESSTER 2 £29.95Fritz, Bianca and Chesster are back after the best selling

‘Fritz & Chesster’ in a new chess adventure! Jump into

chess action to rescue Chesster from deep within the

walls of King Black's Castle in Learn to Play Chess with

Fritz and Chesster 2, ‘Chess in the Black Castle.’ You'll

have lots of fun learning move by move about openings,

middle game strategy and tactics, endgames, pinning,

delivering check, attacking, protecting - and much more.

Try out over 20 mini games, like the ‘Pin-o-matic’ to

practice what you've learned and see if you can get the

high score. Chesster, the most amazing ‘Chesshire Rat’

chess coach, is always ready with lots of tips on strategy

and tactics!

System requirements: Pentium II 233 processor, 32 MB RAM. WIN 95/WIN 98/2000/ME/XP.

NEW

NEWScreenshot: ChessMaster 10th Edition

CHESS MENTOR: COMPREHENSIVE CHESS COURSE: £59.95867 challenges ranked in difficulty from levels 1-6, the user is invited to find the best move in Danny King's ‘How

Good is Your Chess’ style and the program will comment upon the choice. The course is divided into sets (ie 'Basic

Checkmates' or 'Intermediate Tactics'), with assessments at the end of each. Many of the challenges are levels 1-3

(up to 130 BCF/1640 Elo) but the last 250 or so (at least a month's work!) go right up to 200 BCF/2200 Elo level.

CHESS MENTOR: CHESS MENTOR FOR ADVANCED PLAYERS: 140+ BCF £59.95Designed for accomplished players wanting advanced chess challenges. Comprises: Lessons in Strategy (Silman),

Master Your Technique (Wolski) and World Champions at their Best 2 (Silman) that are taken exclusively from

advanced course material (level 3+).

CHESS MENTOR: MENTOR DELUXE SAVE £100!!! £224.95The ultimate in Chess Mentor products. Includes the Comprehensive Course and all 12 Supplementary Courses.

CHESS MENTOR: EXPLORING AND APPRECIATING CHESS £29.95Great software for beginners using the Chess Mentor interface.

System requirements: Pentium II 233 processor, 32 MB RAM. WIN 95/WIN 98/2000/ME/XP.

System requirements: PC: 8MB RAM Win 3.1/9/ 98/ME/2000/XP

Training for all ages...

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CHESS INFORMATORCompatible with ChessBase products. (PGN format)

The Chess Informants contain many fully annotated

games played between the greats. Contributors include

11 World Champions: Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal,

Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand

& Khalifman. Contains Chess Informant Reader, mak-

ing this a great value for money database.

Chess Informator 1-91. £149.95

Chess Informator Issues 1-40 £44.95






Chess Informator Combinations 5-91 £24.95

PICKARD CD ROMSBlackmar Diemer Gambit Mega CD - Mayer £19.95

All the material you could want on this popular gambit.

Bogolyubov’s Best Games - Charushin £19.95

Games collection with annotations, cross-tables & quizzes.

Traxler Counterattack - Heisman £19.95

54 in-depth surveys, 1650 games and training database.

Chess Machine, Capablanca - Sawyer & Pickard £24.95

No collection is complete without the games of

Capablanca.

Big Bird Powerbase - Pickard £19.95

1. f4, 35,438 games, 500+ annotated.

Ultimate Tarrasch Defence - Schiller £19.95

Schiller presents 15,591 games, 300+ annotated.

NEW Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz £59.95

Biographical collection containing 1,072 games with 288

annotated by Steinitz, plus 22 text documents.

CHESS MULTIMEDIA SERIESChess Endings - Essential Knowledge - Averbakh £24.95

All you need to know about the endgame from the leading

ending theoretician Yuri Averbakh.

Understanding Chess Strategy - Raetsky £24.95

IM Raetsky guides you through 20 lessons to improve your

strategic thinking.

OTHEROPENING& TRAININGCDsTotal Marsall £24.95

A study of the Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez, 1 e4 e5

2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3

0-0 8 c3 d5. The Total Marshall takes the form of an elec-

tronic book (PDF format) and database.

Mega Corr 4 £24.95

The definitive CC database with over 700,000 games from

correspondence play. Compatible with ChessBase or

Chess Assistant.

chess assistant


Chess Assistant 8.1 £79.95

Chess Assistant 8 is the unique tool for managing chess

games and databases, playing chess on the ICC, viewing

electronic texts in CA or PGN format, studying openings,

analysing games, or playing chess against the computer.

About 10.000 new games per month can be downloaded

for free via the Internet for all purchasers at their conven-

ience! Includes a database of 2,710,000 games and CA

Opening Encyclopedia 2004.

Chess Assistant 8.1 Mega Package £119.95

All the functions of the Chess Assistant 8.1 package

detailed above, but with the following additions:

* Correspondence Database containing 260,000 games

* Endgame Tablebases for 3-5 piece endings (DVD)

* Endgame Tablebases for selected 6 piece endings on 2 (2 DVDs)

* Commented Game Service 2004-2006; keep your database up to

date with this subscription service.

Chess Assistant produces other training software for all

areas and levels of chess. Openings, middlegame and

endgame study along with tactics, strategies and player col-

lections are some of the subjects covered. Every level of

chess player can benefit from Chess Assistant's Training

Software collection.

Total Chess Training £74.95

Includes 5 programs: Studies 2.0, Strategy 2.0, CT Art 3.0,

Encyc. of Middlegame and Encyc. of Opening Blunders.

Total Chess Training 2 £74.95

Includes 5 programs: Encyclopedia of Middlegame 2,

Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players, Mate Studies,

Theory and Practice of Chess Endings and Chess

Endgame Training.

Chess Endgame Training £24.95

2,450+ endgame exercises from games and studies.

Theory & Practice of Chess Endings £24.95

700 exercises illustrating theoretical and practical methods.

Studies 2.0 £24.95

Training course based on best chess studies.

Strategy 2.0 £24.95

1800 instructive positions on strategic themes.

CT-Art 3.0 £24.95

1,250 tactical exercises split by theme and difficulty.

Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders £24.95

Study blunders in various openings.

Encyclopedia of Middlegames £24.95

Typical structures & themes split by difficulty.

Ency. of Middlegames II £24.95

Following on from volume one with ‘000s more examples.

Ency. of Middlegames III £24.95

How to play the middlegame against various opening

set-ups.

Chess School for Beginners £24.95

Intended for beginners, both children and adults.

Chess Tactics for Beginners £24.95

Tactics testing and training program for beginners.

Advanced Chess School £24.95

Instructive tutorial for the more experienced players.

Advanced Chess School for Networks £69.95

Tal - 8th World Champion £24.95

Collection of Tal’s games, many annotated.

Alekhine - 4th World Champion £24.95

Games of Alekhine, with Play as Alekhine feature.

Capablanca - 3rd World Champion £24.95

640 commented games played by Capablanca.

Lasker - 2nd World Champion £24.95

Collection of Lasker’s games, many annotated

Botvinnik - 6th World Champion £24.95

1,069 games played by Botvinnik from 1924 till 1970

Great Players Kit (the five CDs above) £74.95

Games of Capablanca, Lasker, Tal, Alekhine & Botvinnik

Comprehensive Chess Endings £24.95

Instructive material from endgame guru Averbakh.

Mate Studies £24.95

Hone your skills and mate like a master.

Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players £24.95

1,100 puzzles categorized by theme and difficulty

Modern Chess Openings - French £24.95

50,000 games, 550 + annotated.

Modern Chess Openings - Sicilian £24.95


NEWNEW FORFOR 2006...2006...

Pocket CT-ART £24.95

is the first training program on chess tactics for Pocket PC.

Now on your Pocket PC you can solve chess combinations

and improve your chess skills. The material was chosen for

a wide variety of player strengths from beginner to

advanced players, with 1200 exercises classified into 3 cri-

teria: Tactical methods, Combination motifs, & Difficulty.

Pocket Chess Strategy £24.95

This program presents 18 important strategic themes,

including: pawn structure, weak square, central squares,

exchange, plan, prophylaxis, hanging pawns etc.

Pocket Chess Endings £24.95

Over 700 studies and 300 exercises for use on a pocket PC.

Pocket Encyclopedia of Middlegame £24.95

Studies opening structures illustrated with 600 examples

and more than 1000 exercises. For use on Pocket PCs.

Comprehensive Chess Openings £29.95

Theoretical review of all chess openings. This compact

opening manual contains a detailed classification, which

makes it useful to players of any level. One million games

with 8,000 keys.

Modern Chess Openings. Slav Defense £24.95

500 commented grandmaster games, over 200 additional

tasks for solving and much more.

Ency. of Middlegames IV £24.95

Fourth volume studying varying middlegame motifs.

Chess Combinations Encyclopedia £24.95

A fundamental program on chess tactics including more

than 4000 training examples and exercises classified by

more than 100 tactical methods and motifs.

Comprehensive Chess Endings £24.95

This is a fundamental program for studying endgame the-

ory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theo-

retician GM Yuri Averbakh.

Chess School for Networks £99.95

The solution for all chess teachers. Not only does it help a

coach to give lessons, it also makes learning easier, quicker

and much more interesting. A coach teaches in real time,

able to perform the following tasks for a student or a

group of students:

* View results and statistics in an easy, convenient manner

* Prepare exercises and set tests

* Filter student settings so themes are only available when

you decide.

Modern Chess Openings - King’s Indian Def. £24.95


Modern Chess Openings - 1...Nc6!? £24.95


(The user-friendly Chess Assistant interface)

BUY ANY TWO CHESS ASSISTANT CDS AND DEDUCT £5Keep up to date with all the new software releases at www.chess.co.uk

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kasparov: my great predecessors


The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only

of chess enthusiasts but also of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world

champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. These magnificent compilations of play from the early days of chess

form the basis of the first first parts of Garry Kasparov's definitive history of the World Chess Championship.

Part One features the play of champions Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.

Part Two features the play of champions Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal.

Part Three looks at the reigns of Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky, as well as examining their chief rivals.

Part Four is possibly the most anticipated chess book of all time: Garry Kasparov on Bobby Fischer.

Part Five catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the 1970's and early 1980's This period was dominated by Anatoly Karpov

(world champion from 1975-1985) and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi.

In this book, a must for all serious chessplayers, Kasparov analyses deeply Karpov's greatest games and assesses the legacy of this

great Russian genius. Also under the microscope are the games of Viktor Korchnoi, who was at his peak during this period.

Kasparov's biographies place them in a fascinating historical and political context. Kasparov explains how each champion

brought his own distinctive style to the chessboard and enriched the theory of the game with new ideas.

Watch www.chess.co.uk for Garry Kasparov visits to the London Chess Centre

BUY ANY TWO VOLUMES FOR £45*

BUY ALL FIVE VOLUMES FOR £100*

*offer only applies to unsigned volumes

Please note that the signed copies are labels from Garry’s visit to Chess & Bridge in 2005. For this reason personal dedications are only available in store.

DUE OUT

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Due Feb. ‘06

Kasparov - His Career from Opening to Endgame

DVD DVD

DVD

Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Chess Games Vol 1 - Stohl £22.50

Seventy four games from the first half of Kasparov’s career analysed.

Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Chess Games Vol 2 - Stohl £22.50

Stohl looks at the latter years of Kasparov’s competitive career. DUE FEB 2006

BOTH STOHL BOOKS for £39.95

Kasparov’s Fighting Chess 1993 - 1998 - Karolyi £15.99

Kasparov’s Fighting Chess 1998 - ‘05 - Karolyi & Aplin £15.99

Two part chronological examination of Kasparov’s finest games. DUE FEB 2006

The Day Kasparov Quit - Dirk Jan Geuzendam £22.50

Eye witness accounts of the fateful day at Linares 2005. DUE MAR 2006

Garry Kasparov: My Story Vol 1 - DVD £24.95

Teenage Prodigy (104 mins)


Joining the Elite (113 mins)


Rebels and Renegades (86 mins)


Hitting the Wall (110 mins)


Rite of Passage (89 mins)

SPECIAL OFFER BUY ALL 5 My Story DVDs for £100

How to Play the Queens Gambit (DVD) - Kasparov £24.95

Fritz Media System based DVD explains this venerable opening.

How to Play the Najdorf (DVD) - Kasparov £24.95

Kasparov teaches you how to play his preferred Sicilian setup.

Game Over (DVD) £19.95

Award winning documentary on Kasparov’s match in 1995 with his bete noir, ‘Deep

Blue’. The result was one of the most controversial moments in recent times.

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chess recommendations for beginners


Starting Out in Chess

£9.99

The ideal book for

beginners. Learn how to

read the moves, how the

pieces move, all of the

rules and some simple

tactics and checkmates.

Clearly laid out and suit-

able for all ages.

Comprehensive Chess

Course Vol. 1 £14.99

Learn chess is twelve lessons with

Lev Alburt, a three time US

Champion who brought over the

secrets of the Russian Chess

School.There are lessons,exercis-

es and homework in this book

designed for clear learning of the

basics. Vol 2 is also available for

£22.

Buy Comprehensive Chess

Course Volumes 1 and 2 for £32.

Fritz and Chesster

CD ROM £29.95

The most popular choice

amongst our customers who are

looking for software to teach

chess. Story line based games

show you how to move the pieces

and the basic rules and tricks.

Once completed, you can move

onto Fritz and Chesster 2, also

£29.95. Buy Fritz and Chesster 1

and 2 now for £50 - save £10

The Essentials...for juniorsThe Essentials...for juniors

The Essentials...for adultsThe Essentials...for adultsFritz 9 (CD ROM)

£36.99

The most popular chess pro-

gram on the market, and for

good reason. Great playing

strength is now coupled with

the new Fritz Media System,

and on Fritz 9 there is now

video footage teaching you

how to play chess. The ideal

tool for learning the game and

beyond.

Play Winning Chess

£12.99

Yasser Seirwan’s ‘Winning

Chess’ series is written in a

clear, enthuisiastic style, allow-

ing you to take in the infor-

mation that much more easi-

ly. Play Winning Chess is no

exception - learn the basics

from a player who places

emphasis on understanding.

Disney Guide to Chess

£7.99

A great way to introduce young

children to the game with all

their favourite Disney charac-

ters. Each piece is carefully

explained as are the rules and

basic tactics. The glossary of

terms is particularly useful for

the adults and there is even a

cartoon entitled ‘Goofy in the

Land of Chess’.

Mastering

Checkmates £11.99

SAVE £2 (rrp £13.99)

GM Neil McDonald is a pop-

ular chess writer and teacher,

and here he guides us through

the most thrilling aspect of tac-

tical play: the art of checkmat-

ing. Each chapter covers a

theme, including back rank

checkmates and how to catch a

fleeing king.

Mastering Chess

Tactics £12.99

SAVE £2 (rrp £14.99)

Over the board a player needs

to be alert to tactics which

effectively decide the outcome

of most chess games. Not only

does this book provide a wealth

of practical advice, but it pro-

vides challenging exercises in

which the reader can test their

newly-acquired tactical skills.

Starting Chess

£11.99

Simple design and layout,

dealing with how the chess-

men move and capture, the

objects of the game and the

values of the chess pieces.The

latter half of the book moves

onto very simple tactical ideas.

Also available: Simple Chess

Tactics and Checkmates, £5

How to Beat Your

Dad at Chess £9.99

...and what is the point of

learning to play chess if you

can’t beat your Dad?! Here

Grandmaster Murray

Chandler explains fifty of the

most cunning checkmate pat-

terns, which should help any

child inflict their first piece of

parental chess misery!

Checkmate! My First

Chess Book £9.99

Learn to play chess with none

other than Garry Kasparov,

the most famous chess player

of all time. Learn the rules, the

values of pieces, attack and

defence, as well as some of the

numerous tricks and traps that

Kasparov used on his way to

becoming a chess champion.

Chess for Absolute

Beginners (DVD) £24.95

Susan is one third of chess’

most prodigious sisterhood:

the Polgars. Here the four

time Women’s World

Champion spends over four

hoursshowing you how to

master the basics, as well as

introducing tactical ideas

which will soon have you win-

ning games.

SPECIAL OFFER: Both ‘Mastering...’ books for £20 - save £9.98!

...and the ideal chess set to learn on....and the ideal chess set to learn on.3” Tournament Player Combination.

Ok, so you might not be a tournament player just

yet, but there is nothing wrong with a little ambi-

tion! This superbly carved 3 inch set comes on a

Mahogany and Maple 45mm board and a small

Standard Wooden Box.

3” Tournament Range Pieces (Black) £34.95

Reg 1 Mahogany & Maple Board (45mm) £19.95

Small Standard Wooden Box £14.95

3” Tournament Player Combination

£60 - save £9.85!

Pro Chess DVD

was £34.95 now £29.95

The amiable Grandmaster

Yasser Seirawan introduces a

staggering 3hrs 46mins of

footage covering all ele-

ments of the Royal Game.

The DVD covers everything

from how to set the men up

to discussions of Space,

Force and Time in chess. Pro

Chess is the ideal way to reinforce and improve your

chess knowledge. Buy Pro Chess AND Play

Winning Chess by Seirawan for just £39.95

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chess books for improvers


Amateur's Mind £14.99 Complete Book of Chess Strategy £15.99

How to Reassess Your Chess £14.99 Reassess Your Chess Workbook £15.99

The Complete Silman - all four books only £50.00 - SAVE £12

Chess Rules of Thumb £9.99

Opening Repertoire for White Explained £19.99

Opening Repertoire for Black Explained £19.99

Building Up Your Chess £22.95

The King in Jeopardy £15.99

Chess Training Pocket Book £13.95

Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player £15.95

Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player £17.95

Just the Facts £18.95

Three Days with Bobby Fischer £16.99

The Complete Alburt - all 10 books only £150.00 (save over £22.00!)

STARTING OUT: OPENING GUIDESSTARTING OUT: OPENING GUIDESBored of getting beaten with the Benoni? Fed up with the French or just plain terrified of the Trompowsky?

If you’re nodding your head then the Starting Out: series is probably what you need! All the titles in the

series are written in a user-friendly style with an abundance of notes, tips and warnings scattered

throughout, while key strategies, ideas and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.

Starting Out: Alekhine’s Defence - John Cox £12.99

Starting Out: Benoni Systems - Raetsky & Chetverik £13.99

Starting Out: the Caro Kann - Joe Gallagher £12.99

Starting Out: the Dutch Defence - Neil McDonald £12.99

Starting Out: the English - Neil McDonald £12.99

Starting Out: the French - Byron Jacobs £12.99

Starting Out: the Grunfeld - Jacob Aagard £12.99

Starting Out: the King’s Indian - Joe Gallagher £12.99

Starting Out: Modern Benoni - Endre Vegh £12.99

Starting Out: King’s Indian Attack - Angus Dunnington £13.99

Starting Out: the Najdorf - Joe Gallagher £13.99

Starting Out: Nimzo Indian - Chris Ward £12.99

Starting Out: the Pirc/Modern - Joe Gallagher £12.99

Starting Out: the Queen’s Indian - John Emms £12.99

Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit - John Shaw £12.99

Starting Out: the Ruy Lopez - John Shaw £12.99

Starting Out: the Scotch game - John Emms £13.99

Starting Out: the Sicilian - John Emms £12.99

Starting Out: Slav & Semi-Slav - Glenn Flear £13.99

OTHER STARTING OUT: GUIDES

Starting Out: Attacking Play - James Plaskett £13.99

Starting Out: Defensive Play - Dunnington £13.99

Starting Out: Minor Piece Endgames - Emms £12.99

Starting Out: Pawn Endgames - Glenn Flear £12.99

Starting Out: Rook Endgames - Chris Ward £13.99

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N TH E ALBUR T COLLECTIO NLev Alburt is a Grandmaster and three-time US chess champion. The Alburt

collection, aimed at the intermediate level player, offers a friendly and accessi-

ble series of instructional books, incorporating the inside secrets of the leg-

endary Russian method of chess development. Alburt has streamlined and

adapted this program in a series of books that will help readers develop, step

by step, from beginner status to the expert level.

IM Jeremy Silman, is a world-class teacher, writer and player who has won the

American Open, the National Open and the U.S. Open. In this series of four

books aimed at the intermediate level player he tackles the strategies and tactics

that will transform the way you play and analyse a game. The material is split

into bite-size chunks with test exercises to reinforce what is being taught.

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Winning Chess Openings

Seirawan £14.99

The two greatest challenges for begin-

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formations in the process. In Seirawan's

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are shown formations that can be used

with either White or Black --a unique

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Wnning Chess Strategies

Seirawan £14.99

The art of being able to devise and

execute a long-term plan is essential

to becoming a better chess player.

In his infectious style, International

Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan

guides you to find the right types of

move for any given position, as well

as how to follow the plan through

to its conclusion.

Winning Chess Tactics

Seirawan £14.99

Learn sure-fire tactics and combina-

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an opponent and change the course of

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Winning Chess Brilliancies

Seirawan £14.99

This book by International Grand

Master Yasser Seirawan provides a

move-by-move account of the best

chess games of the last 25 years by the

world's most formidable chess players.

Seirawan serves as host on a fascinating

excursion through these historical chess

games, providing insights into and

explanations of the significant moves

Winning Chess Endings

Seirawan £14.99

A gripping introduction to what you

need to know to win chess endings,

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BATSFORD4…Qh4 in the Scotch Game Gutman £5.0040 Lessons for the Club Player Kostyev £11.99Alekhine's Best Games Alekhine £17.99Analyse to Win Jacobs £5.00Analysing the Endgame Speelman £12.99An Attacking Repertoire for White Collins £15.99Art of the King's Indian Gufeld £14.99Art of Logical Thinking McDonald £14.99Attack & Defence Dvoretsky £17.99Batsford Book of Chess Records Damsky £17.99Batsford Chess Puzzles Barden £14.99Beating King's Indian/Benoni Vaiser £5.00Beating the Anti Sicilians Gallagher £13.99Beating the Indian Defences Burgess £13.99Beating the Petroff Kotronias £7.50Benko Gambit Revealed McDonald £14.99Bishop’s Opening Explained Lane £14.99 Black Knight's Tango Orlov £12.99Black is Still OK! Adorjan £15.99Black is OK forever! Adorjan £8.00Bobby Fischer Rediscovered Soltis £15.99Bobby Fischer the Wandering King Bohm £12.99Budapest Fajarowicz Gutman £8.00Capablanca's Best Games Golombek £16.99Chess Choice Challenge Ward £12.99Chess Choice Challenge 2 Ward £12.99Chess Choice Challenge 3 Ward £5.00Chess for Tigers (3rd edition) Webb £15.99Chess on the Web (2nd ed) Hurst £9.99Chess Players Battle Manual Davies £11.99Chess Strategy Gufeld £8.00Chess Tactics Littlewood £12.99Chess Under the Microscope Motwani £5.00Chess Wizardry Rice £5.00Chess: the Complete Self Tutor Lasker £17.99Chinese School of Chess Liu Wenzhe £16.99Classical French Gufeld £13.99Complete Benoni Psakhis £15.99Complete Defence for Black Keene/Jacobs£13.99Complete Najdorf 6. Bg5 Nunn £17.99Contenders for the Crown Keene £5.00Controversial Saemisch KID Ward £15.99COOL Chess Motwani £5.00Dynamics of Chess Strategy Jansa £8.50Disney Chess Guide Karpov £7.99Endgame Magic Beasley £9.99Endgame Play Ward £10.99Endgame Secrets Lutz £5.00English Attack (vs Sicilian) De Firmian £8.50Essential Chess Endings Howell £11.99Exploiting Small Advantages Gufeld £15.99Find the Checkmate Lane £7.50Find the Winning Move Lane £7.50French Defence 3. Nd2 Psakhis £15.99French Defence 3. Nc3 Bb4 Psakhis £15.99French Defence Advance & Anti French Psakhis £14.99French Defence Steinitz / Classical etc Psakhis £15.99Complete French - All 4 £55.00Gruenfeld Defence Revealed Khodarkovsky£7.50Giuoco Piano Gufeld £5.00Hedgehog Suba £14.99HOT Chess Motwani £5.00How to Choose a Chess Move Soltis £15.99How to Play: Middlegame Littlewood £14.99Ideas Behind MCO: White Lane £14.99Ideas Behind MCO: Black Lane £14.99Imagination in Chess Gaprindashvili £15.99I Play Against Pieces Gligoric £15.99Judit Polgar Karolyi £14.99Kasparov v Deeper Blue King £5.00King's Gambit McDonald £14.99King's Indian Defence: Mar Del Plata Gligoric £5.00Latvian Gambit Lives Kosten £5.00Learn From Your Chess Mistakes Baker £14.99Learn From the Grandmasters Keene £5.00Logical Chess Move by Move (Alg) Chernev £14.99Main Line Kings Indian Nunn/Burgess£17.99Mastering Checkmate McDonald £13.99Mastering Chess Tactics McDonald £14.99Mastering the Nimzo-Indian Kosten £5.00Mastering the Sicilian Kopec £13.99Modern Benoni Revealed Palliser £14.99Modern Chess Openings MCO De Firmian £19.99

Modern Endgame Practice Belyavsky £14.99Najdorf: Life and Games Belyavsky £14.99 New Classical King's Indian Nunn/Burgess £17.99New Ideas in the Sveshnikov Neverov £5.00Nigel Short World Chess Challenger Keene £5.00Opening Play Ward £8.99Paul Keres : Quest for Perfection Keres £15.99Paul Keres : Road to the Top Keres £15.99Planning McDonald £8.99Play 1.d4! Palliser £15.99Popular Chess Variants Pritchard £14.99Positional Play Dvoretsky £17.99Power Chess Program 2 Davies £16.99Practical Chess Psychology Avni £14.99QID Kasparov System Gurevich £5.00Queen’s Bishop Attack Revealed Plaskett £14.99Queens Gambit Accepted Ward £14.99Rethinking the Chess Pieces Soltis £14.99Rocking The Ramparts Christiansen £8.00Scandinavian Defence Plaskett £15.99Scotch Game Explained Lane £14.99Search for the Mona Lisa Gufeld £5.00Secrets of Grandmaster Chess Nunn £17.99Secrets of Minor Piece Endings Nunn £17.99Secrets of Pawnless Endings Nunn £9.99Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? Gligoric £12.99Sicilian Bb5 Revealed McDonald £15.99Sicilian with …Qb6 Ilic £5.00Simple Chess Tactics and Checkmates Gillam £5.00Spanish Exchange Kinsman £14.99Starting Chess Gillam £11.99Startling Castling Timmer £5.00Steve Davis Plays Chess Davis £5.00Sveshnikov Sicilian McDonald £5.00Tactical Chess Endings Nunn £13.99Test Your Chess King £14.99Test Your Positional Play Bellin/Ponzetto£13.99Think like a Grandmaster Kotov £14.99Tony Miles Its Only Me Lawton £17.99Training For The Tournament Player Dvoretsky £14.99Two Knights Defence Belyavsky £12.99Ultimate Dragon Vol 1 Gufeld £5.00Ultimate Dragon Vol 2 Gufeld £5.00Understanding the Spanish Taulbut £12.99Victory in the Opening Lane £5.00Winning the Won Game Kopec £13.99Winning with the Catalan Dunnington £12.99Winning with the Najdorf King £14.99Winning with the Sicilian Dragon 2 Ward £15.99Winning with the Trompovsky Wells £15.99Your Chess Questions Answered S Lalic £5.00

CAISSA EDITIONSBaden Baden 1925 Adams £34.95Budapest 1896 Owen £22.95Buffalo 1894/1901 Hilbert £22.95Carl Schlechter Goldman £44.95Essays on American Chess History Hilbert £29.95First Anglo Pacific Invitational Osbun £5.00Napier: Forgotten Chessmaster Hilbert £29.99Nezmetdinov's Best Games of Chess Nezhmetdinov £17.95New York 1940 Hilbert £25.99Nimzovich Defense to 1.e4 Myers £14.95Notes of A Soviet Master Genevsky £19.95Nuremberg 1896 Tarrasch £34.99Schlechter's Chess Games Crain £24.99Shady Side of Norman Whittaker Hilbert £34.9960 Years with Caissa and Friends Philipps £14.99St. Petersburg 1914 Tarrasch £24.95Temesvar 1912 Goldman £9.95Vienna 1890 Goldman £15.95Vladimir Petrovs Fride £14.99War of the Chessmen del Rio £22.95

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CARDOZAComplete Def. to King Pawn Openings Schiller £12.95Complete Def. to Queen Pawn Openings Schiller £5.00Development of a Chess Master Schiller £9.95Encyclopaedia of Chess Wisdom Schiller £14.95Gambit Chess Openings Schiller £18.99Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black Schiller £9.95Gambit Opening Repertoire for White Schiller £9.95Hypermodern Opening Prep for White Schiller £12.95Learn from Fischer’s Greatest Games Schiller £10.95Learn from Kasparov’s Greatest Games Schiller £10.95Secrets of the Kings Indian Gufeld £9.95Secrets of the Sicilian Dragon Gufeld £5.00Standard Chess Openings Schiller £18.95Survive and Beat Annoying Chess OpeningsWatson £14.95Unorthodox Chess Openings Schiller £18.95World Champion Combinations Shamkovich £5.00World Champion Openings Schiller £5.00World Champion Tactics Schiller £13.95

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DOVER (Descriptive Notation) - Old Classics at Great Value100 Selected Games Botvinnik £8.95100 Soviet Chess Miniatures Clarke £6.95107 Great Chess Battles, 1938-1945 Alekhine £7.99200 Brilliant Endgames Chernev £9.95200 Open Games Bronstein £7.99500 Master Games Of Chess Tartakower £12.9512 Great Players & Their Best Games Chernev £12.99A Guide To Chess Endings Euwe £6.95Art of Checkmate Renaud £6.95Art of Chess Combinations Znosko-Bor £6.95Art of Sacrifice in Chess Spielmann £7.95Art of The Middlegame Keres/Kotov £7.95Basis of Combinations in Chess Du Mont £8.95Better Chess for Average Players Harding £7.95Bobby Fischer : Profile of a Prodigy Brady £10.95Capablanca's Best Chess Endings Chernev £7.95Carlsbad 1929 Nimzowitsch £8.95Chess For Fun and Chess For Blood Lasker £6.95Chess Master v Chess Amateur Euwe £8.95Chess Openings for Average Players Harding £7.95Chess Strategy Lasker £7.95Chess World Title Contenders Kopec £6.95Classic Chess Problems Howard £6.95Combinations: The Heart Of Chess Chernev £7.95Common Sense In Chess Lasker £6.95Danger in Chess Avni £6.95Decisive Games in Chess History Pachman £7.95Emanuel Lasker- Life of Chess Master Hannak £7.95How Karpov Wins 2nd Ed Mednis £10.95How Not To Play Chess Znosko-Bor £6.95How to Beat Bobby Fischer Mednis £6.99How to Force Checkmate Reinfeld £6.95How To Play Chess Endings Znosko £7.95How To Play The Chess Openings Znosko £7.95How To Solve Chess Problems Howard £7.95Immortal Games of Capablanca Reinfeld £7.95Lasker's Manual of Chess Lasker £7.95Learn Chess from the Greats Tamburro £7.95Logical Approach To Chess Euwe £6.95

Mathematics and Chess Petkovic £5.95Middlegame in Chess Znosko-Bor £6.95Modern Chess Strategy Pachman £8.95Morphy's Games Of Chess Sergeant £9.95Morphy: Evaluation of Chess Theory Shibut £9.95Most Instructive Games Ever Played Chernev £7.95My Best Games Of Chess 1908-37 Alekhine £12.95My Chess Career Capablanca £11.95Pawn Power Kmoch £8.95Positional Chess Handbook Gelfer £8.95Practical Chess Endings Chernev £8.95Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces Rubinstein £6.95Simple Chess Stean £7.95Strategic Chess Master Closed Game Mednis £8.99Tactics of Endgames Bán £8.95Technique In Chess Abrahams £7.95The Immortal Games of Capablancca Reinfeld £7.95The World's Great Chess Games Fine £9.95Unknown Capablanca Hooper £8.95Why You Lose at Chess Harding £6.95Zurich International 1953 Bronstein £9.95

EDITION OLMSBotvinnik-Bronstein 1951 Botvinnik £12.99Botvinnik-Tal 1961 Botvinnik £12.99Korchnoi Best Games with White Korchnoi £19.99Korchnoi Best Games with Black Korchnoi £19.99Both Korchnoi £37.50Learn Chess in 40 Hours Teschner £12.99Leningrad System Kindermann £18.00My Most Memorable Games Gelfand £18.00School of Chess Excellence Vol1 Dvoretsky £18.00School of Chess Excellence Vol2 Dvoretsky £18.00School of Chess Excellence Vol3 Dvoretsky £18.00School of Chess Excellence Vol4 Dvoretsky £18.00Any 2 Dvoretsky £35.00All 4 Dvoretsky £68.00Spanish Exchange Variation Kindermann £14.99Winning in the Opening Neistadt £14.99

EVERYMANAccelerated Dragons Donaldson £17.99Alekhine's Defence Davies £14.99Archangel & New Archangel Panczyk £12.99Art of Attack (Algebraic) Vukovic £16.99Art of Chess Analysis Timman £14.99Art of Defence In Chess Damsky £12.99Attacking with 1.e4 Emms £14.99Attacking with 1.d4 Dunnington £14.99Attack With Mikhail Tal Tal £12.99Averbakh's Selected Games Averbakh £16.99Basic Chess Openings Kallai £12.99Blumenfeld Gambit Prewoznik £5.00Blunders and How to Avoid Them Dunnington £14.99Bobby Fischer : His Approach to Chess Agur £14.99Bronstein on the King's Indian Bronstein £14.99Breaking Through (Hb) Polgar £20c3 Sicilian Gallagher £14.99Can You Be A Tactical Genius? Plaskett £14.99Can You Be A Positional Chess Genius? Dunnington £14.99Pure Genius - both £27.50Catalan Raetsky £14.99Caro Kann Main Lines McDonald £14.99Caro Kann 4…Nd7 Smyslov £9.99Caro Kann Advance Jacobs £14.99Catalan Raetsky £14.99Catastrophe in the Opening Plaskett £15.99Checkmate! Kasparov £9.99Chess Brilliancy Damsky £15.99Chess Endings Essential Knowledge Averbakh £9.99Chess Fundamentals Capablanca £10.99Chess Middlegame Essential Knowledge Averbakh £10.99Chess on the Net Crowther £12.99Chess Psychology Dunnington £14.99Chess Software A Users Guide Jacobs £7.50Chess Training Povah £12.99Chess Travellers Quiz Book Hodgson £5.00Choose the Right Move King/Duncan £12.99Classical Dutch Pinski £14.99Classical Nimzo Indian Lalic £14.99Closed Sicilian King £14.99Concise Chess Endings McDonald £11.99Concise Chess Openings McDonald £11.99Concise Chess Middlegames McDonald £11.99All 3 Concise £30.00Creative Chess Avni £12.99

Danger In Chess Avni £9.99Dutch Leningrad McDonald £14.99Dutch Stonewall Aagaard £14.99Dynamic Reti Davies £14.99Easy Guide to 5.Nge2 King's Indian Forintos £12.99Easy Guide to Chess Wood £8.99Easy Guide to Queen's Gambit Accepted Buckley £12.99Easy Guide to the Bb5 Sicilian Pedersen £12.99Easy Guide to the Classical Sicilian Yrjola £12.99Easy Guide to the Dragon Golubev £13.99Easy Guide to the Najdorf Kosten £12.99Easy Guide to the Nimzo-Indian Emms £12.99Easy Guide to the Panov Botvinnik Att. Aagaard £12.99Easy Guide to the Ruy Lopez Emms £12.99Easy Guide to the Sicilian Scheveningen Pedersen £6.50Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian Aagaard £7.00Any 5 Easy Guides for the price of 4 £52.00Encyclopedia of Chess Variants Pritchard £19.99Endgame Strategy Shereshevsky£14.99Endgame Virtuoso Smyslov £14.99English Defence King £14.99English Opening : Symmetrical Bagirov £13.99English …e5 Raetsky £7.50Excelling at Chess Aagaard £16.99Excelling at Positional Chess Aagaard £16.99Excelling at Combinational Play Aagaard £16.99Excelling at Chess Calculation Aagaard £16.99Excelling at Technical Chess Aagaard £16.99Excel ! - Any two Aagaard £30.00Fianchetto Grunfeld Belyavsky £14.99Final Countdown Hajenius £10.99Fire on Board:Shirov's Best Games Shirov £17.99Fire on Board:Shirov's Best Games Pt 2 Shirov £17.99Four Knights Pinski £14.99French Advance Kosten £14.99French Defence Classical Jacobs £14.99French Winawer McDonald £14.99From Opening into Endgame Mednis £14.99Gambit Play Dunnington £14.99Garry Kasparov's Chess Puzzle Book Kasparov £8.99Grunfeld Defence Davies £14.99Heavy Pieces in Action Damsky £12.99How Good Is Your Chess? King £12.99How to Defend in chess Crouch £15.99How to Win at Chess King £9.99Improve Your Chess Now Tisdall £14.99Improve Your Endgame Play Flear £10.99Improve Your Middlegame Play Kinsman £10.99Improve Your Opening Play Ward £10.99All three Improve £30.00Inside the Chess Mind Aagaard £8.50Interview with a GM Summerscale £14.99Italian Game and Evans Gambit Pinski £14.99 Its Your Move! Ward £14.99Its Your Move! Improvers Ward £12.99Its Your Move! Tough Puzzles Ward £12.99All three Its Your Move Ward £30.00Khalifman: Life and Games Nesis £16.99Killer Opening Repertoire Summerscale £13.99King's Indian Defence Averbakh System Averbakh £12.99Kramnik: Life and Games Kramnik £17.99Life and Games of Mikhail Tal Tal £17.99Magic of Mikhail Tal Gallagher £16.99Marshall Attack Lalic £14.99Mastering Chess Kopec £12.99Mastering the Opening Jacobs £14.99Mastering the Middlegame Dunnington £14.99Mastering the Endgame Flear £14.99Mastering all three £40.00Masters:Tal - Tactical Genius Raetsky £12.99Masters: Alekhine - Master of Attack Raetsky £12.99Meeting 1.d4 Aagaard £14.99Meeting 1.e4 Raetsky £14.99Modern Benoni Kinsman £14.99Modern Chess Miniatures McDonald £5.00Modern Chess Self Tutor Bronstein £10.99Modern Defence Speelman £14.99More Basic Chess Openings Kallai £12.99More Simple Chess Emms £14.99Most Instructive Games of Young GMs Motwani £14.99Multiple Choice Chess Buckley £14.99Multiple Choice Chess 2 Buckley £7.50My Great Predecessors Vol 1 Kasparov £25.00My Great Predecessors Vol 1 signed Kasparov £35.00My Great Predecessors Vol 2 Kasparov £25.00My Great Predecessors Vol 2 signed Kasparov £35.00

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My Great Predecessors Vol 3 Kasparov £25.00My Great Predecessors Vol 3 signed Kasparov £35.00My Great Predecessors Vol 4 Kasparov £25.00My Great Predecessors Vol 4 signed Kasparov £35.00My Great Predecessors Vol 5 Kasparov £25.00My Great Predecessors Vol 5 signed Kasparov £35.00Complete My Great Predecessors - Special Offers on Page 31Nunn's Chess Openings Nunn £19.99Nimzo Indian Rubinstein 4.e3 Dunnington £7.50Nimzo Indian Kasparov 4.Nf3 Ward £14.99Nimzo-Larsen Attack Jacobs £14.99Offbeat King's Indian Panczyk £14.99Offbeat Nimzo Indian Ward £14.99Open Ruy Lopez Flear £14.99Opening Rep for the Attacking Player Gufeld £14.99Opening Rep for the Positional Player Gufeld £12.99Petroff Defence Raetsky £7.50Play the French 3rd Edition Watson £16.99Play the King's Indian Gallagher £14.99Play the Najdorf Scheveningen Style Emms £14.99Play Winning Chess Seirawan £12.99Practical Endgame Tips Mednis £13.99Practical Middlegame Techniques Kopec £14.99Practical Middlegame Tips Mednis £14.99Practical Opening Tips Mednis £12.99Primer Of Chess Capablanca £10.99Queens Gambit Dec. Bg5 Systems B.Lalic £14.99Queens Gambit Declined Sadler £14.99Queen's Gambit Declined 5.Bf4! Crouch £15.99Queen’s Indian Defence Aagaard £7.50Quick Chess Knockouts Hodgson £10.99Quickest Chess Victories of all Time Burgess £14.99Rapid Chess Improvement De La Maza £12.99Russians v Fischer (Hb - New ed.) Plisetsky £25Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation Panczyk £14.99Ruy Lopez: Mainline Flear £14.99Scandinavian (2nd ed.) Emms £14.99Secrets of Pawn Endings Muller £17.99Semi Slav Sadler £14.99Simple Winning Chess Baker £12.99Simple Chess Emms £14.99More Simple Chess Emms £14.99Sicilian Grand Prix Attack Plaskett £14.99Sicilian Kalashnikov Pinski £14.99Sicilian Kan Emms £14.99Sicilian Taimanov Plaskett £14.99Slav …a6 Flear £14.99Soft Pawn Hartston £2.50Sokolov's Best Games Sokolov £14.99Sorcerer's Apprentice Bronstein £15.99Soviet Championships HB Cafferty £19.99Starting Out: Alekhine's Defence Cox £12.99Starting Out: Attacking Play Plaskett £12.99Starting Out: Benoni Systems Raetsky £13.99Starting Out: Caro Kann Gallagher £12.99Starting Out: Defensive Play Dunnington £12.99Starting Out: Dutch Defence McDonald £12.99Starting Out: The English McDonald £12.99Starting Out: French Defence Jacobs £12.99Starting Out: The Gruenfeld Aagaard £12.99Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Shaw £12.99Starting Out: Kings Indian Gallagher £12.99Starting Out: Kings Indian Attack Dunnington £12.99Starting Out: Minor Piece Endgames Emms £12.99Starting Out: Modern Benoni Vegh £12.99Starting Out: The Najdorf Gallagher £12.99Starting Out: Nimzo-Indian Ward £12.99Starting Out: Pawn Endgames Flear £12.99Starting Out: Queen's Indian Emms £12.99Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern Gallagher £12.99Starting Out: Rook Endgames Ward £12.99Starting Out: Ruy Lopez Shaw £12.99Starting Out: Slav & Semi-Slav Aagaard £13.99Starting Out: The Sicilian Emms £12.99Any two Starting Out £25.00Any four Starting Out £45.00Starting Out in Chess Jacobs £9.99Startling Opening Repertoire Baker £13.99Surprise in Chess Avni £10.99Survival Guide for Chess Parents Jones £7.50Survival Guide to Rook Endings Emms £13.99Symmetrical English Cummings £14.99Taimanov's Selected Games Taimanov £14.99Taming the Sicilian Davies £7.50Tango! a Dynamic Answer to 1.d4 Palliser £14.99Test Your Chess IQ 1st Challenge Livshitz £12.99

Test Your Chess IQ Master Challenge Livshitz £12.99Test Your Chess IQ GM Challenge Livshitz £12.99All Three Test Your IQ save £5 £34.00Test Your Endgame Thinking Flear £7.50Timman's Selected Games Timman £14.99Tips for Young Players Sadler £9.99Trompowsky Gallagher £14.99Trompowsky (2nd ed) Davies £7.50Two Knights Defence Pinski £14.99Uncompromising Chess Belyavsky £15.99Understanding the Sacrifice Dunnington £7.50Unusual Queen's Gambit Declined Ward £7.50Veresov Davies £14.99Vienna Game Lane £14.99Winning Chess Brilliancies Seirawan £14.99Winning Chess Strategies Seirawan £14.99Winning Chess Tactics Seirawan £14.99Winning Chess Openings Seirawan £14.99Winning Chess Endings Seirawan £14.99Any 2 Winning Chess Seirawan £25.00All 5 Winning Chess Seirawan £60.00Winning Moves The Times Keene £12.99Winning Quickly With Black Neishtadt £12.99Winning Quickly With White Neishtadt £12.99Winning Unorthodox Openings Dunnington £13.99

GAMBIT101 Attacking Ideas in Chess Gallagher £12.99101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures Nunn £13.99101 Chess Opening Surprises Burgess £12.99101 Chess Opening Traps Giddins £10.99101 Winning Chess Strategies Dunnington £12.99Room 101 all 5 save £10 £54.00365 Ways to Checkmate Gallagher £13.99Anti Sicilians: A Guide for Black Rogozenko £15.99Beat the Grandmasters Kongsted £14.99Botvinnik Semi-Slav Pedersen £14.99Cambridge Springs Panczyk £13.99Chess Endings Made Simple Snape £12.99Chess Endgame Training Rosen £13.99Chess for Children Chandler £9.99Chess for Zebras Rowson £17.99Chess Recipes from the GM's Kitchen Beim £12.99Chess Highlights of the 20th Century Burgess £19.99Chess Strategy in Action Watson £19.99Chess Self-Improvement Franco £16.99Chess Tactics for Kids Chandler £9.99Chess Training for Budding Champions Hall £14.99Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian Grivas £13.99Complete Sveshnikov Sicilian Yakovich £15.99Creative Chess Strategy Romero £17.99Decision-Making at the Chessboard Eingorn £15.99Dynamic English Kosten £12.99Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess Marovic £14.99Endgame Challenge Nunn £17.99English Attack Sammalvuo £16.99Essential Chess Sacrifices LeMoir £15.99Explosive Opening Repertoire for Black Yrjölä & Tella £15.99Foundations of Chess Strategy Bo Hansen £15.99French: Advance and Other Lines Pedersen £16.99French: Tarrasch Pedersen £16.99Fundamental Chess Endings Müller £19.99Gambit Guide to Bogo-Indian Pedersen £14.99Gambit Guide to English 1…e5 Hansen £15.99Gambit Guide to the Benko Gambit Pedersen £14.99Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni Watson £15.99Gambit Guide to Torre Attack Burgess £14.99Grandmaster Chess: Move by Move Nunn £15.99Improve Your Positional Chess Hansen £14.99How to Beat 1. d4 Rizzitano £15.99How to Beat Your Dad at Chess Chandler £9.99How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician LeMoir £14.99How to be Lucky in Chess LeMoir £13.99How to Use Computers to Improve your Chess Kongsted £14.99How to Build Your Opening Repertoire Giddins £13.99How to Play Dynamic Chess Beim £15.99Improve Your Attacking Chess Williams £13.99Improve Your Positional Chess Hansen £14.99Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces Stohl £17.99John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book Nunn £13.99Kasparov’s Greatest Games 1973-93 (Hb)Stohl £22.50King's Indian & Grünfeld: Fianchetto LinesJanjgava £15.99Learn Chess Nunn £7.99Learn Chess Tactics Nunn £12.99Lessons in Chess Strategy Beim £13.99Main Line French 3.Nc3 Pedersen £15.99

Mastering the Najdorf Arizmendi £15.99Meran System Pedersen £14.99Modern Chess Analysis Smith £15.99Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time Emms £13.99Nimzo Indian 4.e3 Hansen £16.99Petroff Janjgava £14.99Play the Classical Dutch Williams £12.99Play the Open Games as Black Emms £15.99Play the Sicilian Dragon Dearing £15.99Play the 2 c3 Sicilian Rozentalis £14.99Play the 4 f3 Nimzo-Indian Yakovich £13.99Queen's Indian Yrjola&Tella £16.99Queen's Gambit & Catalan for Black Janjgava £14.99S.T.A.R Chess Motwani £7.99Secrets of Attacking Chess Marin £16.99Secrets of Chess Intuition Beliavsky £13.99Secrets of Chess Defence Marin £15.99Secrets of Chess Transformations Marovic £15.99Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy Watson £19.99Secrets of Pawnless Endings Nunn £14.99Secrets of Positional Chess Marovic £16.99Secrets of Practical Chess Nunn £14.99Secrets of Rook Endings Nunn £14.99Sicilian Sozin Golubev £14.99Slav Burgess £15.99Solving in Style Nunn £12.99Storming the Barricades Christiansen £13.99Symmetrical English Hansen £15.99Taimanov Sicilian Burgess £14.99Test Your Chess Pedersen £13.99The Grandmaster's Mind Avni £13.99The Seven Deadly Chess Sins Rowson £16.99The Road to Chess Improvement Yermolinsky £17.99The System Berliner £14.99Understanding Chess Move by Move Nunn £14.99Understanding the Chess Openings Collins £16.99Understanding the Grünfeld Rowson £15.99Understanding Pawn Play in Chess Marovic £14.99Understanding Your Chess Rizzitano £15.99Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book Emms £16.99Understanding the Chess Openings Collins £16.99Understanding the Leningrad Dutch Beim £14.99Win with the London System Johnsen £14.99World Champion at the 3rd Attempt Sanakoev £15.99Vishy Anand My Best Games (new ed) Anand £15.99Xie Jun: Chess Champion from China Xie Jun £7.99

HARDINGE SIMPOLE100 Master Games of Modern Chess Tartakower £15.95Analysis of the Game of Chess Philidor £24.95 Battle of the Titans Keene £12.95Best Games of Sultan Khan Coles £13.95Best Larsen's Bent Games of Chess Larsen £16.95BGN World Chess Championship 2000 Keene £14.95Brighton 1979-85 Keene £10.95Brussels OHRA Tournament, 1986 Keene £19.95 Candidates' Tournament - Zurich 1953 Wood (editor) £24.95Candidates' Tournament - Holland 1956 Wood (editor) £14.95Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess Golombek £19.95Centenary Match : Karpov-Kasparov III Keene £12.95Championship Chess Botvinnik £19.95Chess and Chess Masters Stahlberg £14.95Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik Koenig £16.95Chess: History of the Game Eales £22.95Chess Masterpieces Watts £9.95 Chess Openings Your Choice Reuben £17.95Chess Player's Bedside Book Edwards £13.95Chess Player's Handbook Staunton £24.95Chess Terminators Keene £10.95Combinations from Philidor to Karpov Keene £16.95Complete King's Indian Keene/Jacobs£19.95Delights of Chess Assiac £19.95Dynamic Chess Coles £17.95Dynamic Chess Openings Keene £9.95Emanuel Lasker: Chess Colossus Hannak £17.95English 1...P-K4 Watson £19.95English 1...N-KB3 Systems Watson £12.95English 1...P-QB4 Watson £24.95English: Franco, Slav & Flank Defences Watson £12.95Symmetrical English 1...c5 Watson £17.95Evolution of Chess Opening Theory Keene £22.95The Fischer I Knew and other stories Denker/Parr £24.95 Games of Robert J. Fischer Wade £29.95Grandmaster Strategy Keene £16.95Handbook of Tricky Opening Strategies Watson £22.95How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence Keene/Taulbut£14.95

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How to Play the Ruy Lopez Taulbut £12.95How To Win With Hypermodern Strategy Keene/Schiller£16.95David Janowski Cherniaev £15.99Junior Chess Training Simpole £24.95Karpov - Korchnoi, WCC 1978 Keene £14.95 Karpov - Korchnoi, WCC 1981 Keene £12.95Kings of Chess Winter £19.95Leonid Stein Keene £14.95London 1851 Staunton £22.95London 1899 Hoffer £17.95London 1932 Alekhine £9.95 Manoeuvres in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II Keene £12.95Manual of the Endgame Mieses £10.95Masters of the Chess Board Reti £19.95Meet the Masters Euwe £19.95 Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess Clarke £18.95Modern Chess Brilliancies Evans £29.50Modern Defence Keene £15.95Modern Ideas in Chess Reti £15.95Modern Opening Chess Strategy Golombek £22.95Moscow Challenge Keene £12.95My Best Games, 1920 - 1937 Euwe £18.95My Best Games of Chess 1931-1954 Tartakower £14.95My Chess Career Capablanca £17.50New York 1924 Alekhine £19.95Openings in Modern Theory and Practice Keene £16.95Petrosian's Best Games of Chess Vol 1 Clarke £18.95Petrosian's Best Games of Chess Vol 2 Clarke £18.95Pillsbury's Chess Career Sergeant £22.95Positional Chess Taulbut £14.95Reshevsky's Best Games Vol 1 Reshevsky £19.95Reshevsky's Best Games Vol 2 Reshevsky £19.95Reuben Fine's Best Games Fine £18.95Showdown in Seville : Kasparov-Karpov IV Keene £12.95 Smyslov's Best Games of Chess Smyslov £16.95Soviet Chess Wade £24.95Soviet School of Chess Kotov £27.50Spassky's 100 Best Games Cafferty £19.95Spectator Book of Chess Keene £10.95St Petersburg 1895-96 Mason £9.95St. Petersburg 1914 Lasker £10.95Staunton's City Keene £16.95 Sunday Times Book of Chess Keene £10.95Tal's Hundred Best Games Cafferty £18.95Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess Reinfeld £25.00Two Opening Repertoires for White - Vol 1 Keene £14.95Two Opening Repertoires for White - Vol 2 Keene £13.95Unconventional King's Indian Watson £17.95Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense Keene £14.95Warriors of the Mind Keene £19.95Winning Chess Keene £16.95World Chess Championship 1951 Winter/Wade £13.95World Chess Championship 1954 Golombek £19.95 World Chess Championship 1948 Golombek £23.95 World Chess Championship 1957/58 Golombek £19.95World Chess Championship 1963 Wade £23.95World Championships: Steinitz - Alekhine Moran £17.95World Ch: Botvinnik - Kasparov Wade £22.50World Championship: Kramnik v Leko Keene £11.95

INFORMATORAnthology of Chess Combinations £26.99Chess: Knowledge, Training & Mastery Zlotnik £14.99Endgame EncyclopediasEncyclopedia Endgames N & B £24.95Encyclopedia Endgames Queen £24.95Encyclopedia Endgames Rook Vol 1 £24.95Encyclopedia Endgames All 3 £70.00Encyclopedia OpeningsMini Encycl. Chess Openings (A,B,C,D and E) £24.95Encycl. of Chess Openings A 4th ed. £24.95Encycl. of Chess Openings B 4th ed £24.95Encycl. of Chess Openings C 4th ed £24.95Encycl. of Chess Openings D 4th ed £24.95Encycl. of Chess Openings E 3rd ed £24.95Encycl. Chess Openings - All 5 £100.00Informator 93-95 each £20.95Informator 93-95 + CD each £24.95SubscriptionsInformator Sub 3 times a year UK £65.00Informator + CD Sub 3 times a year UK £80.00Informator Sub 3 times a year EU £70.00Informator + CD Sub 3 times a year EU £85.00Informator Sub 3 times a year ROW £75.00Informator + CD Sub 3 times a year ROW £90.00

Lev Alburt's Training books - the best !Comprehensive Chess Course Vol 1 Alburt £14.99Comprehensive Chess Course Vol 2 Alburt £22.00Chess Openings for Black Explained Alburt £19.99Chess Openings for White Explained Alburt £19.99Chess Strategy for the Tmt Player Alburt £17.95Chess Tactics for the Tmt Player Alburt £15.95Chess Training Pocket Book Alburt £13.95Just the Facts Alburt £18.95King in Jeopardy Alburt £15.99SPECIAL OFFERS ON LEV ALBURT BOOKS - SEE PAGE 33Secrets of Russian Chess Masters Vol1 Alburt £18.95Secrets of Russian Chess Masters Vol2 Alburt £18.95Both Secrets £35.00Building up your Chess Alburt £22.95Chess Rules of Thumb Alburt £9.95Pirc Alert Alburt £26.95Three Days with Bobby Fischer Alburt £16.99

McFARLAND100 Best Games of the 20th Century Soltis £29.95Alekhine Agony of a Chess Genius Moran £34.99Alekhine's Anguish Yaffe £16.99Alekhine's Chess Games 1902-46 Skinner £64.99Amos Burn Forster £55.00Capablanca Winter £34.99Chess Lists 2nd ed Soltis £24.95Chess Personalia Gaige £29.99Chess Results 1747-1900 de Felice £25.00Chess World Championships 2nd ed SB Gelo £24.95Correspondence Chess in America Avery £39.95De la Bourdonnais v Macdonnell 1834 Utterberg £39.95Frank Marshall US Chess Champion Soltis £34.95Great Chess Books of the 21st Century Dunne £19.95Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps Berkovich £34.95Los Voraces 2019 Soltis £24.95Reshevsky Gordon £49.95Reuben Fine Woodger £49.95Soviet Chess 1917-91 Gordon £44.95Steinitz Chess Champion Soltis £44.95Steinitz Papers Soltis £44.95The Turk Chess Automaton Levitt £39.95The Book of Chess Lists 2nd Edition Soltis £29.95US Chess Championships 1845-1996 (2nd ed) Soltis £39.95Walter Penn Shipley Hilbert £34.95

MCKAYArt of Defense in Chess Soltis £12.99Art of Positional Play Reshevsky £11.99Basic Chess Endings Fine £16.99Best Lessons of a Chess Coach Weeramantry £12.99Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Fischer £6.99Chess Advantage in Black and White Kaufman £13.99Chess for Juniors Snyder £9.99Chess Openings the Easy Way De Firmian £12.95How to Play Good Opening Moves Mednis £9.99Inner Game of Chess Soltis £12.99Middlegame in Chess Fine £14.99More Unbeatable Chess for Juniors Snyder £10.99Pawn Structure Chess Soltis £12.99Power Chess Keres £12.99The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings Fine £11.99Turning Advantage into Victory Soltis £12.99Unbeatable Lessons for Juniors Snyder £10.99Winning Chess Tournaments for Juniors Snyder £12.95

MORAVIAN CHESSAmerican Chess Bulletin Vol I-XXXXXI each £19.99Complete Games of Alekhine I 1892-1921Kalendovsky £24.95Complete Games of Alekhine II 1921-4 Olomouc £24.95Complete Games of Alekhine III 1925-7 Fiala £24.95All 3 £70.00Botvinnik's Best Games I HB 1925-42 Botvinnik £29.99Botvinnik's Best Games II HB 1943-56 Botvinnik £29.99Botvinnik's Best Games III HB 1957-70 Botvinnik £29.99All 3 Botvinnik save £10 £80.00101 of My Best Games Yates £22.50Smyslov's Best Games Vol 1 Smyslov £24.95Smyslov's Best Games Vol 2 Smyslov £24.95Quart. for Chess History I-IX each Various £24.95Pollock's Memories Rowland £24.95Chess: Fathering a Nation Urcan £24.95The Philidorian Walker £24.95Philidor & Contemps. Selection of games Walker £19.95Celebrated Analysis and Game of Chess Philidor £19.95

Chess Reader Vol I-VI 1955-66 Whyld £24.95Blackburne's Games of Chess Blackburne £24.95Exploits and Triumphs of Morphy Various £24.95Chess Columns Whyld £39.95Young Marshall Hilbert £26.95Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp Fiala £24.95Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp Vol 2 Fiala £24.95Both Duchamp £47.00Modern Chess & Chess Masterpeices Bird £19.95Chess Literature Before 1850 Whyld £34.95City of London Chess Magazine 1875+1876 each £24.95

NEW IN CHESSCuracao 1962 Timman £15.99Fischer World Champion! Timman £14.95Linares! Geuzendam £10.95Max Euwe Biography Meuninghoff £18.99Power Chess with Pieces Timman £16.95Russian Silhouettes Sosonko £14.95The Reliable Past Sosonko £14.95Secrets of Opening Surprises Bosch £14.95Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 2 Bosch £14.95Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 3 Bosch £12.95Tactics in Chess Openings - Sicilian Van der Tak £13.95Tactics in Chess Openings 2 - Open Games Van der Tak £13.95Tactics in Chess Openings 3 - French Nijboer £13.95Wonderboy - Magnus Carlsen Agdestein £14.95New in Chess Magazine 8 times a year £48.00NIC Yearbooks Softback each £16.95NIC Yearbooks Hardback each £19.50Yearbook Subscriptions 4 per year £60.00Yearbook Subscription: 4 in a Year Europe £70.00Yearbook Subscription: 4 in a Year ROW £75.00

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QUALITY CHESSBenko Gambit Pinski £13.99Challenging the Grunfeld Dearing £17.99Experts vs. the Sicilian Aagaard/Shaw £15.99Learn from the Legends Marin £17.99Rook vs. Two Minor Pieces Lund £15.99The Sveshnikov Reloaded Rogozenko £16.99Tiger’s Modern Persson £15.99

RUSSELL ENTERPRISESA Legend on the Road Donaldson £12.95Carlos Torre Velasco £18.95Chess Mazes Albertson £9.99Chess Omnibus Winter £18.99Curse of Kirsan Hurst £14.95Danish Dynamite Muller £13.99Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual Dvoretsky £22.95First Century of Studies Pogosyants £8.95How to Think in Chess Przewoznik £18.99Hugh Blandford Works & Notebooks Roycroft £10.99Human Comedy of Chess Ree £18.99King's Commoners & Knaves Winter £19.99Looking for Trouble Heisman £12.99Magic of Chess Tactics Muller £16.99Mastering Tactical Ideas Minev £14.95Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective Beim £12.95Practical Guide to Rook Endgames Minev £9.99Scandinavian 3…Qd6 Melts £14.99Tal-Botvinnik:1960 Tal £15.95The Complete Studies of Kasparyan Roycroft £29.99

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SILES PRESSAmateur's Mind Silman £14.99A-Z of Chess Strategy Silman £15.99Chess Bitch Shahade £19.99How to Reassess Your Chess Silman £14.99Reassess Your Chess Workbook Silman £15.99Any three Silman £40.00All four Silman save £12 £50.00Pal Benko Benko £35.00

THINKERS PRESS2010: Chess Oddities Dunne £14.95Guide to Good Chess Purdy £13.99How Purdy Won Purdy £13.99Purdy's Fine Art of Annotation Vol 2 Purdy £16.99Purdy's Fine Art of Annotation Vol 3 Purdy £16.99Alapin French Sawyer £9.95Bobby Fischer from Genius to Legend Gufeld et al £15.95Chess Analyst Edwards £13.99Chess in the the Movies Basalla £22.95Colle Plays the Colle System Harvey £11.95Complete Guide to Correspond. Chess Dunne £11.95Dutch Defence New & Forgotten Ideas Minev £14.99Essential Center Counter Martin £14.99Everyone's 2nd Chess Book Heisman £11.95The Great Evans Gambit Debate Rohde £11.95French Defence II Minev £19.95GM Ram Ziyatdinov £14.95Grandmaster Secrets Endings Soltis £16.99Grandmaster Secrets Openings Soltis £16.99How to Become a Candidate Master Dunne £4.99Journal of a Chess Original Gerzadowicz £5.00Kings Gambit as White Raingruber £15.95King's Indian Battle Plans Martin £17.99Lasker & Contemporaries Hilbert £14.99Leonid Stein Master of Risk Strategy Lazarev £18.95Mecking Latin Genius Gordon £11.95Modern Postal Masterpieces Dunne £11.95Olaf Ulvestad - American Original Donaldson £7.99Persona non Grata Kortchnoi £6.95Practical Chess Analysis Buckley £13.99Richter Veresov Gufeld £14.99Some Interesting Memories Smullyan £12.99Super Nezh Chess Assassin Pyshkin £16.99

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GAMES COLLECTIONSA Gnat May Drink - Hardback Hinton £19.99Anthology of Chess Beauty Belov £15.9950 Golden Chess Games Harding £16.99The Write Move Harding £16.99

CHESS ASSISTANTCombinational Motifs Blokh £13.99Manual of Chess Combinations Vol 1 Ivaschenko £14.99Manual of Chess Combinations Vol 2 Ivaschenko £14.99Manual of Chess Combinations Vol 3 Ivaschenko £14.99Manual of Chess Endings Vol 1 Ivaschenko £14.991…Nc6!? Berdichevsky £13.99

MIDDLEGAMEAttack with Hodgson vol 1 Hodgson £9.99Attack with Hodgson vol 2 Hodgson £9.99Chess Exam and Training Guide Khmelnitsky £15.99Chess Lessons Yusupov £14.99The Critical Moment Dorfman £12.99Grand Strategy van Reek £13.99Method in Chess Dorfman £15.99Tarrasch Formula Palatnik £14.95Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess Kopec £9.99

BEGINNERSCheckmate! Kasparov £9.99Chess for Children Chandler £9.99Disney Chess Guide Karpov £7.99How I Became a Grandmaster at 14 Kosteniuk £12.99Pocket Guide to Chess Berry £4.99Winning Chess Exercises for Kids Coakley £16.99Winning Chess Strategies for Kids Coakley £16.99The Winning Way Pandolfini £5.00

CHESS HISTORYBobby Fischer Goes to War (hb) Edmonds £14.99The English Morphy - Cecil de Vere Hindle £12.99Endgame (HB) Lawson £9.99

Emil Joseph Diemer Dommett £12.95Kasparov Against the World (HB) Kasparov £9.99Kramnik Vs Leko 2004 Leko £14.99Man Vs Machine Keene £5.00New York 1936 Hilbert £13.99Elmars Zemgalis Donaldson £12.99Unknown Bobby Fischer Donaldson £13.99

OTHERThe Art of Bisguier Bisguier £17.99Barnes about Chess Problems Barnes £9.99Blitz Theory Maxwell £8.95Chess Organisers Handbook 3rd ed. Reuben £15.00Complete Mansfield vol 1 Barnes £10.99Complete Mansfield vol 2 Barnes £10.99Complete Mansfield vol 3 Barnes £10.99Complete Chess Server Guide Schmaltz £13.99Encyclopedia of Chess Variants Pritchard £21.99Fascinating King’s Gambit Johanssen £22.95A First Book of Morphy Del Rosario £14.99Fischer, Kasparov and Others Schulz £9.95Focus on Hocus Pocus Brecher/Roth £11.95Italian Gambit System Acers £22.95Leonid Kubbel's Endgame Studies Whitworth £25.00Mammoth Book of Chess Burgess £7.99Mammoth:World's Greatest Games of Chess Burgess £9.99Silver Queen Ivanka £16.99Starting out in Draughts Pask £9.99Starting out in Poker Reuben £9.99Starting out in Backgammon Lamford £9.99Still More Fun with Chess Miniatures Lincoln £10.99Story of a Chess Player Ehlvest £14.99

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best of 2005 and coming soon


2005 was another busy year for chess publishing. Here we showcase some of the best books to comeout in the previous year, as well as give you a glimpse of the titles we are looking forward to in 2006.

My Great Predecessors

Part 4 - Kasparov £25

This book brings together the

two greatest names in the his-

tory of chess. The author,

Garry Kasparov, is the world

number one and, by common

consent, the greatest player

ever. The subject of the book,

Bobby Fischer, is the only

American to have become

world champion and is proba-

bly the greatest natural talent

the world has ever seen.

Curacao 1962 - Timman

£17.99

In Curaçao 1962 Jan Timman

returns to the 1962 Candidates

Tournament featuring Fischer,

Petrosian, Tal, Kortchnoi and

many other giants who battled it

out to earn the right to challenge

world champion Botvinnik.

Timman takes a fresh look at

the games, annotates the most

important ones (including 16 of

Fischer's!) and describes the

course of the tournament.

Play the Sicilian Dragon

Dearing £17.99

The Dragon is one of the key

battlegrounds of modern chess,

and a favourite of ambitious

chess-players of all standards. In

the Dragon, many Sicilian

themes are seen in their clearest

form, with the ...Rxc3 exchange

sacrifice particularly important.

In this in-depth work from the

young IMEdward Dearing, the

multitude of possibilities are

examined with verve and vigour.

Najdorf: Life and Games

Lissowski, Mikhailchishin

and Najdorf £14.99

Miguel Najdorf has been

described as a flamboyant poet

of the chessboard whose career

spanned six decades. He won

many International tournaments

although never played for the

World Championship.This is an

informed biography comple-

mented by one hundred selected

games that demonstrate his orig-

inality and brilliance.

Breaking Through

Polgar £20

Susan Polgar provides a candid

inside view of the lives of the

Polgar sisters, each with their

own goals and aspirations. She

takes readers through the incred-

ible development of the three

sisters as they pursued their

dreams: becoming chess prodi-

gies, growing into contenders,

winning World titles and

Olympiad gold medals.

Chess for Tigers

Webb £15.99

Do you want to win more

games? Chess for Tigers tells you

how to make the most of your

playing strength, how to play

upon your opponents weakness-

es, how to steer the game into a

position which suits you and not

your opponent,how to get results

against strong opposition and

how to avoid silly mistakes.Full of

common-sense advice, this book

is an acknowledged chess classic.

Experts vs. The Sicilian.

ed. by Aagaard & Shaw

£15.99

In this book a multinational

line-up of leading experts give

recommendations against their

own pets lines. The line-up of

writers is impressive: Peter

Heine-Nielsen, Peter Wells,

Thomas Luther and Jacob

Aagaard are amongst a team of

writers who write both intelli-

gently and thoroughly on an

otherwise intimidating subject.

Opening for White according

to Anand Vol. 4 £15.99

This eagerly awaited 4th volume

covers Khalifman’s recommen-

dations against the Pirc and

Modern Defences, as well as the

slightly more offbeat Czech sys-

tem. The repertoire is based

around the critical Austrian

Attack with 4.f4, where precise

knowledge of variations is

essential. This is the main reason

why the book runs into an

incredible 400 pages!

Chess Openings for Black,

Explained - Alburt £19.99

A complete repertoire of open-

ing play-as well as a review of all

openings and an explanation of

the principles of playing this cru-

cial stage of the game. While the

books concentrate on the first 20

moves or so of a game, they

never leave you hanging without

a plan. Fully illustrated with two-

colour chess diagrams through-

out. Chess Openings for White,

Explained due early 06, £19.99.

Buy both for £37.50

Fritz 9 (CDROM) £36.99

The best just got better. For the

last decade Fritz has been the lead-

ing chess software package, with

over 100,000 copies being sold

worldwide. The new edition

incorporates sleek graphics,

increased playing strength,a larger

database...in fact, it became

stronger in all fields. More details

can be found on page 26,but suf-

fice to say, everyone at the

London Chess Centre is delighted

with it!

My Great Predecessors

Part 5 - Kasparov £25

In this book, a must for all seri-

ous chess players Kasparov ana-

lyzes deeply his great adversary

Anatoly Karpov's greatest games

and assesses the legacy of this

great Russian genius. Also under

the microscope are the games of

Viktor Korchnoi who was at his

peak during this period and twice

challenged Karpov for his world

title.

Chess for Zebras

Rowson £17.99

In a strikingly original work,

Rowson makes use of his academ-

ic background in philosophy and

psychology in an entertaining and

instructive way.This book assists all

players in their efforts to improve,

and provides fresh insights into the

opening and early middlegame.

Rowson presents many new ideas

on how Black should best combat

White's early initiative, and make

use of the information that he

gains as a result of moving second.

Chess Bitch - Shahade

£19.99

Written by the 2004 U.S.

Women’s champion, Chess

Bitch is an eye opening account

of how today’s young female

chessplayers are successfully

knocking down the doors to a

traditionally male dominated

game. Through interviews and

observations, Shahade paints a

colourful world that most chess

fans didn’t know existed.

The Day Kasparov Quit

ten Geuzendam £TBA

March 11th, 2005. The world’s

number 1 rated player retired from

international chess, leaving a void

at the top which many are now

fighting to fill. What caused Garry

to walk away from chess?

This collection of interviews writ-

ten by the New in Chess editor are

sure to be captivating in both their

content and insight into one of

chess’most significant retirements.

The Unknown Book...

Of course, with so much

coming out every month,

it’s hard for even us to tell

you about everything that is

coming out. Keep up to

date with all the new releas-

es on our website:

www.chess.co.uk

/newbooks.html

The Best of 2005The Best of 2005

The Tips for 2006The Tips for 2006

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