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Readers will learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the world’s top chess players.
Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why should players only hope that opponents will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show them how to put the tactics of the world’s chess legends to work. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the décor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics.
Using classic board situations arranged in chapters by tactical themes, Seirawan teaches readers how to:

• Plan the entire game from the very first move
• Think ahead, step-by-step, anticipating every obstacle opponents can throw their way
• Position themselves for the smashing combination and endgame they have always dreamed of

Board positions from actual games played by history’s great chess tacticians are provided throughout. Review tests for each topic let them track their improvement. In no time they will be playing better, with more confidence than they ever thought possible.

Readers will gain the advantage over their opponents with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world’s top chess players!
Strategy–it’s the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows players how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of their game. Using Seirawan’s simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, they will enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently–the way they need to play so they can win every time!
Learn to:

• Knock opponents off balance with bold opening moves
• Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game
• Interpret the motivation behind an opponent’s every move
• Position for a winning endgame

Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and readers wi’ll meet history’s greatest chess strategies–learning from them move by move!
Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading, Winning Chess Strategies is an information packed resource players will turn to again and again.

Start every game with confidence!
The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defence formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows players how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan’s entertaining, easy-to-follow style, they are shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.
Winning Chess Openings explains how to:
*Build a safe house for a king
*Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer
*Utilise the elements: time, force, space, and pawn structure
*Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles of play
*Employ a defence for Black against any White opening
*Apply an opening for White used by World Champions
Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play–without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

Winning Chess Endings teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way–by putting the player in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair and watch the world’s most exciting chess endings. Then become an endgame master!
Winning Chess Endings explains how to:
*Relentlessly find checkmates, from easy to hard, in all basic endgame patterns
*Master the intricacies of King and Pawn Endings
*Win consistently in the most common endgame–the Rook ending
*Master the pros and cons of Bishop vs. Knight Endgames
*Seize the advantage in Rook Pawn and Queen Pawn endings
*Play like a grandmaster in solitaire endings

Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow.

Winning Chess Combinations is a unique work that doesn’t merely repeat the wonderfully rich and vast numbers of combinations, asking readers to solve a particular diagrammed position; it is a work that is far more realistic. A combination involves a sacrifice upsetting the balance of forces, but will it work or tragically boomerang? The reader is invited to solve this critical question by identifying the advantages that a specific position holds which might make the combination successful.

Winning Chess Combinations is the seventh in Yasser Seirawan’s highly acclaimed Winning Chess series – PROBABLY THE BEST-SELLING SERIES OF CHESS BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED.

This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world’s foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating excursion of the most brilliant chess game, providing highlights into and explanations of each and every move.
Seirawan begins each game with a description of the historical atmosphere of the chess world –and sometimes the world at large–at the time the game was played. When he delves into the game itself, he starts with the reasoning behind the opening moves. From there he provides both a play-by-play description of the game and an analytical commentary, all the while examining the moves in terms of place development and possible tactical and strategic opportunities. Along the way, a handful of the players are profiled in biographies.
In Winning Chess Brilliancies readers will get a taste of the most dazzling chess combinations devious strategies, and downright cruel blows as world champions risk it all! This book is truly a celebration of the sport of chess.