The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked
 A lifetime of love ..... plus great chess too!: I first want to say this is a very fine hard-back book. (It was also a little on the expensive side. Maybe it will be cheaper when - and if - it comes out in paperback.) But it is a great book and may be [... more]
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More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2
Trap and Zap your Wallet 2!: That is right this is Trap and Zap your Wallet part 2!!! The first book was bad enough to say the very least. Some Patzers talked good about the first book is the funy part. Even those Patzers seemed to realize that this book [... more]
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Seduction
Lushly written prose: I really want to give this book 5 stars (the prose blew me away; one of the best written romances I've read) but I can't. I'm giving it a 4 (when the story is really a 3) just because the language is so wonderful. I was a little put [... more]
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Basic Chess Endings
a classic masterwork on chess endings: This is a great but also a difficult book. Because it deals with a very complex subject, moreover is not an approachable text for chess newbies, therefore I should not award it more than four stars-- it's not for [... more]
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Petrosian's Best Games of Chess: 1946-1963
OK/Descriptive notation: Clarke's analysis is a bit superficial, and the games are all in descriptive notation (when will they stop publishing chess books with that clunky method?) The games are exceptional; it's hard to find books on Petrosian's games, [... more]
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Chess Brilliancy: 300 Historic Games from the Masters
Yes, Five stars!: One of the first chess books I still remember that I actually purchased myself when I was ten years old was Fred Reinfeld's 50 Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters (descriptive notation), which included "brilliant" [... more]
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Mammoth Book of Chess
Chessboard or smorgasbord?: This is sort of a buffet of a chess book. There's a little of everything, and not a lot of depth in anything, but what's there is fun, though in some spots Burgess seems to be writing for everybody: there are arcane references [... more]
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games, Volume 1
Author: Igor Stohl Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 794.159 EAN: 9781904600329 ISBN: 1904600328 Number Of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 2005-07 [... more]
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The World's Great Chess Games
Author: Reuben Fine Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 794.15 EAN: 9780486245126 ISBN: 0486245128 Number Of Pages: 397 Publication Date: 1984-03-12 [... more]
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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games, Volume 2
Author: Igor Stohl Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 794.159 EAN: 9781904600435 ISBN: 1904600433 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006-07 [... more]
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Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902-1946: 2543 Games ...
Terrific, colossal tome!: This book is everything Amazon's desription says. And it's a very solid hard-cover job, with excellent layout and printing. Some interesting biography bits prefacing each chapter were new even to a die-hard Alekhinbe fan like me. [... more]
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Samuel Reshevsky: A Compendium of 1768 Chess Games, with ...
ALL of Reshevsky's games.: I have had this book for probably more than a year now. I have spent many hours perusing it ... and many, many more going over the games. First a word on the quality of this book: It really is superb. A beautiful hard-back, [... more]
CDN$78.14
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