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  • Chess in the year of the King
    Keene D. Raymond / Raymond D. Keene
    Grandmaster Ray Keene OBE has enjoyed a career which spans many aspects of chess, including numerous victories in international competitions across five continents, organisation of three world chess championships involving Garry Kasparov, creation of the first ever world championship in any Mind Sport between a human and a computer (Dr Marion Tinsley v Chinook in draughts, Lond...
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    26,75 €

  • Chess in the year of the King
    Keene D. Raymond / Raymond D. Keene
    Grandmaster Ray Keene OBE has enjoyed a career which spans many aspects of chess, including numerous victories in international competitions across five continents, organisation of three world chess championships involving Garry Kasparov, creation of the first ever world championship in any Mind Sport between a human and a computer (Dr Marion Tinsley v Chinook in draughts, Lond...
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    69,43 €

  • Chess for Absolute Beginners
    Raymond Keene
    A new edition of Ray Keene and Barry Martin’s lucid presentation of how to start on the stimulating path of playing chess. It features: a clear explanation of the legal moves for each piece; a straightforward guide to special rules, such as castling and en passant; and a discussion of how to begin - basic openings - and how to finish - endgames. There is also an updated gallery...
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    25,58 €

  • Fifty Shades of Ray
    Raymond Keene
    Inspired by both Daniel Defoe’s ’A Journal of the Plague Year’ (1722) and ’The King’, an anthology of the witty and provocative chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in chess and the wider world.  His reflections include the impact of Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable ...
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    51,67 €

  • Fifty Shades of Ray
    Raymond Keene
    Inspired by both Daniel Defoe’s ’A Journal of the Plague Year’ (1722) and ’The King’, an anthology of the witty and provocative chess columns of the Dutch Grandmaster, Jan Hein Donner, Ray Keene here collects his thoughts and writings on the year 2020 - both in chess and the wider world.  His reflections include the impact of Covid-19 on the popularity of chess, the remarkable ...
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    30,89 €

  • Tony Buzan
    Raymond Keene OBE
    Tony Buzan achieved global fame as the inventor of Mind Mapping, a technique for note taking and creative ideas which has transformed educational theory and practice around the world. In the course of his career, promoting Mental Literacy and the belief that Genius is present in every one of us, Tony has encountered numerous giant personalities. These include the eccentric sing...
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    14,73 €

  • Grandmaster Tactics
    Raymond D. Keene / Raymond DKeene
    Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (Nice Olympiad, 1974). He has the rare distinction of having achieved the UK grand slam, winning the British Championship, the Lloyds Bank Masters and the Hastings Challengers, as well as being the highest-placed British player in the Hastings Premier tournament on two occasions. ...
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    33,04 €

  • Kasparov’s Sicilian Strategies
    Raymond Keene
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    27,96 €

  • Tony Miles - England’s Chess Gladiator
    Raymond D. Keene / Raymond DKeene
    Tony Miles was a phenomenon in English chess. From anearly age it was apparent that he had no respect whatsoever forthe vaunted Soviet School of chess and held their grandmastersin scant esteem. At the very start of his career victories came inquick succession against such renowned opposition as Bronstein,Geller, Smyslov and Spassky. The culmination was a victory at thehead of ...
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    29,01 €

  • World Chess Championship
    Raymond Keene
    With FIDE (the World Chess Federation) claiming that its Tournament in Libya - in fact, little more than a rapidplay open - was the world title clincher, this match for the Classical World Chess Championship would confirm one of the two mental matadors -Kramnik or Leko - as the legitimate heir of Steinitz, Alekhine, Fischer and Kasparov. Peter Leko, the Hungarian Grandmaster, ...
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    27,05 €

  • The Sunday Times Book of Chess
    Raymond Keene
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    25,95 €

  • Karpov - Korchnoi 1978
    Raymond Keene
    The 1978 world chess championship in the Philippines was the most riotous of modern times. Pitting the soviet defector Korchnoi against the golden boy of the soviet establishment - Karpov - the players were not just content to hammer each other over the chess board; they also enlisted such weird assistants as the parapsychologist Dr Vladimir Zukhar and orange-robed gurus from t...
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    28,17 €

  • Karpov - Korchnoi 1981
    Raymond Keene
    In 1981 - World Champion now for 6 years - Anatoly Karpov had reached the height of his powers. He was a master of sharp modern opening systems, thought swiftly and acted decisively. His play was virtually error free. Facing this juggernaut the veteran Viktor Korchnoi pulled out the final stops for his ultimate chess challenge to become champion. In vain. Karpov brushed aside h...
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    26,01 €

  • Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense
    Andy Soltis / Edmar Mednis / Raymond Keene
    Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov. Even Kasparov has been known to use the Caro Kann on occasion, for example in one case to defeat Mikhail Tal. ...
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    27,06 €

  • The Complete King’s Indian
    Byron Jacobs / Raymond Keene
    The King’s Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book describes the key strategies for both sides in the main lines such as the Fianchetto variation, the Petrosian system, the Sämisch/ Four Pawns attack and Averbakh. Analysis is backed up with verbal explanation making this book an ideal introduction for those wishing to take up or face the...
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    30,01 €

  • How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence
    Raymond Keene / Shaun Taulbut
    A companion volume to Winning with the Nimzo, this book is the first part of a full explanation of one of the most important defences to the Queen’s pawn in contemporary chess. It has been a favourite of Fischer, Kasparov, Karpov, Petrosian and Botvinnik, to name but a few of the greats who have employed it. This book - unlike many rivals - concentrates on full games with notes...
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    27,04 €

  • Two Opening Repertoires for White - Volume 2
    Byron Jacobs / Raymond Keene
    A companion volume to Two Opening Repertoires for White: Volume 1, this book details some more aggressive strategies in the opening for White again based on the key move 1d4! Together the two volumes give ambitious White players a complete arsenal of choice against all Black defences. ...
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    27,07 €

  • Manoeuvres in Moscow
    David Goodman / Raymond Keene
    In early 1985 Florencio Campomanes - the now disgraced former president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation - halted the World Title challenge from Garry Kasparov 'without result', thus forcing a rematch in the autumn of that same year. This book recounts Kasparov’s determined fresh assault on the world title which made him at age 22 the youngest champion in the history of t...
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    25,99 €

  • The Centenary Match
    David Goodman / Raymond Keene
    This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised the clash between the Brezhnev-inspired forces of reaction in the old USSR and the new Gorbachev/Yeltsin-driven imperatives of perestroika and glasnost which ultimately led to the collapse of the...
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    25,99 €

  • Showdown in Seville
    David Goodman / David Spanier / Raymond Keene
    This book recounts the fourth and penultimate chapter in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised the clash between the Brezhnev-inspired forces of reaction in the old USSR and the new Gorbachev/Yeltsin-driven imperatives which ultimately led to the collapse of the creaking Soviet empire. ...
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    25,99 €

  • Winning with the Nimzo-Indian
    Raymond Keene
    The Nimzo-Indian Defence is one of Black’s most dynamic ways of countering 1 d4. From the outset of the game Black seeks to create pawn weaknesses in his opponent’s position to be exploited in the middlegame. Usually this involves renouncing the bishop pair, typically leading to positions in which both sides have clear strategic objectives, where the outcome is decided by the s...
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    27,04 €

  • The Moscow Challenge
    Raymond Keene
    Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of chess: defending champion Anatoly Karpov, the most deadly tournament player in the history of the game, and Gary Kasparov, the 21 year old from Baku who would become the youngest ever World Champion were he to overthrow his rival. This gruelling test of contrasting character, style ...
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    25,95 €

  • Leonid Stein - Master of attack
    Raymond Keene
    Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victories against the world's leading grandmasters, Stein not only stormed to an incredible total of three first prizes (out of four attempts) in the USSR Championships, but also won what were arguably the two strongest tournaments of all time - Moscow 1967 and Moscow 1971. ...
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    27,02 €

  • Nimsowitsch / Larsen Attack
    Raymond Keene
    The Nimsowitsch/Larsen attack ( 1 b3) is one of the most interesting and most flexible opening systems in which the theory has not yet fully crystallised. It is, therefore, an ideal choice for the player wishing to avoid sharp theoretical duels in the opening and preferring to throw his opponent on his own resources at an early stage. ...
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    26,01 €