As paid work becomes increasingly central in women's lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women's labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relation[...]
Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the attack and defense of the king, with hundreds of game illustrations, dozens of problems and exercises, and instructive explanations and solutions. These practical exercises take the reader from beginner to t[...]
The Pirc rewards understanding its ideas over rote memorisation. Grandmaster Lev Alburt, a three-time US champion and one of the world's most sought-after chess teachers, and grandmaster Alex Chernin, a world-championship candidate and the leading expert on the Pirc, give you the most thorough expla[...]
Endorsed by world champion Gary Kasparov as revealing "the once-secret Russian method of chess training", this new edition of the fifth volume in Grandmaster Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course series contains material on the 2006 Absolute World Championship match.[...]
Studies tout the many benefits of chess for all ages. Want to learn chess or teach it to your child but are busy with lots of other activities as well? This innovative book is designed for you. You choose the level you want to achieve. Want to go from absolute beginner to neighborhood champ? Complet[...]
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Building Up Your Chess makes use of colorful graphs and a new, more logical method of expressing the evaluation of a chess position to teach the critical skill of assessing how you stand. Lev Alburt's unique experience as both a top-level champion and a world-renowned teacher allow him to explain in[...]
Laying open the once strictly guarded, time-tested Soviet training methods, this book brings all the endgame wisdom into one essential volume players can use to win games for the rest of their lives.[...]
Chess Training Pocket Book II is a sequel to the best-selling Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas. In the same tradition, this follow-up volume will save you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together for you the crucial, game-wi[...]
Chess Openings for Black, Explained gives you a complete repertoire of carefully selected, interrelated openings. Three-time U.S. champion and master teacher Lev Alburt, along with his grandmaster co-authors, provides everything you need to know to defend with confidence against each and every one o[...]
Every chess player needs a set of openings he can trust. Use Bobby Fischer's favourite first move, 1. e2-e4, to begin your games as White - and know the ideas and moves that follow, no matter how Black defends! White moves first in chess and can, if he's well prepared, immediately put the pressure o[...]
This book saves you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together the crucial, game-winning knowledge in one easy-to-carry volume. Each position gives you an important piece of practical chess knowledge. This time-efficient approach leads to the deepest understan[...]
This book provides readers with all the essential information they need to learn chess and to start winning-quickly! The contents-tested and proven to work-leave little to chance. The reader learns the rules, how to apply them efficiently, the principles of winning chess, and how to visualize the bo[...]
Two of the most renowned chess trainers in the world, introduce and explain the revolutionary ideas of their old friend and mentor, Igor Platonov. Platonov was one of the most profound thinkers and theoreticians in the old Soviet Union, which held a grip on the world chess championship for decades, [...]
It's been said that "tactics are 99% of chess." This third volume of the Comprehensive Chess Course teaches you the basic tools of winning chess with instructive and memorable examples. Grandmasters Alburt and Palatnik thoroughly explain hundreds of key positions arranged by difficulty and designed [...]