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ABC of Chess Openings • read more Andrew Martin ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.50
 
ABC of the King's Indian Andrew Martin ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.50
April 2005
Alexander Alekhine Master of Attack • read more Alexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik Everyman £12.99
February 2005
Alexei Shirov: Best Games • read more Nikolai Kalinichenko Astrel £14.99
July 2005
American Chess Bulletin, Volume 58 (1961)   Moravian Chess £19.50
February 2005
American Chess Bulletin, Volume 59 (1962)   Moravian Chess £19.50
March 2005
The American Chess World, Volume 1 (1901)   Moravian Chess £24.99
March 2005
The American Chess World, Volume 2 (1902)   Moravian Chess £24.99
May 2005
Anthology of Chess Combinations 3rd Edition • read more   Sahovski Informator £27.00
November 2005
The Basics of Winning Chess DVD-ROM Andrew Martin ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.50
May 2005
The Batsford Book of Chess Records • read more Yakov Damsky Batsford £17.99
October 2005
Beat the Grandmasters • read more Christian Kongsted Gambit £14.99
March 2005
The Benko Gambit • read more Jan Pinski Quality Chess £13.99
October 2005
Bishop's Opening Explained • read more Gary Lane Batsford £14.99
January 2005
Black Is OK Forever! • read more Andras Adorjan Batsford £15.99
March 2005
Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King • read more Hans Böhm & Kees Jongkind Batsford £12.99
February 2005
Boris Spassky - 10th World Champion • read more   Convekta CD-ROM £19.99
June 2005
Breaking Through: How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess • read more Susan Polgar & Paul Truong Everyman £20.00
November 2005
British Chess Magazine, Bound Volume 2004 • read more   BCM £32.95
April 2005
Budapest Gambit (2nd ed) • read more Dmitrij Olienkov ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
August 2005
Capablanca Games I (1901-24) (2nd ed) • read more Ed. Khalifman Chess Stars £14.99 OUT OF PRINT February 2005
Capablanca Games II (1925-39) (2nd ed) • read more Ed. Khalifman Chess Stars £14.99 OUT OF PRINT February 2005
Carlsbad International Tournament 1929 • read more Aron Nimzowitsch Dover £9.95
 
Catastrophe in the Opening • read more James Plaskett Everyman £14.99
September 2005
Challenging the Grunfeld • read more Eddie Dearing Quality Chess £15.99
June 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 19 (Oct 1924 - Sept 1925)   Moravian Chess £24.99
April 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 20 (Oct 1925 - Sept 1926)   Moravian Chess £24.99
March 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 21 (Oct 1926 - Sept 1927)   Moravian Chess £24.99
April 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 22 (Oct 1927 - Sept 1928)   Moravian Chess £24.99
August 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 23 (Oct 1928 - Sept 1929)   Moravian Chess £24.99
August 2005
The Chess Amateur, Volume 24 (Oct 1929 - Sept 1930)   Moravian Chess £24.99
August 2005
ChessBase Magazine 103   ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
 
ChessBase Magazine 104   ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
April 2005
ChessBase Magazine 105 • read more   ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
August 2005
ChessBase Magazine 106   ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
August 2005
ChessBase Magazine 107   ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
October 2005
Chess Bibliography 1850 - 1968 • read more comp. Douglas Betts Moravian Chess £34.99
December 2005
Chess Combinations Encyclopaedia • read more   Convekta CD-ROM £20.50
July 2005
Chess Exam and Training Guide • read more Igor Khmelnitsky Iamcoach £15.99 OUT OF PRINT February 2005
Chess for Zebras • read more Jonathan Rowson Gambit £17.99
December 2005
Chess for Tigers (3rd ed) • read more Simon Webb Batsford £15.99
September 2005
Chess Informants 1-91 CD-ROM   Informator CD-ROM £149.99
November 2005
Chess Informant 5-91 Combinations Section • read more   Informator CD-ROM £24.99
May 2005
Chess Informants 89-91 • read more   Informator CD-ROM £43.99
June 2005
Chess in the Movies • read more Bob Basalla TPI Wonderworks £22.95
November 2005
Chess Mazes • read more Bruce Alberston Russell Enterprises £9.99
January 2005
Chess Openings for Black, Explained - A Complete Repertoire • read more Lev Alburt, Roman Dzindzichashvili and Eugene Perelshteyn CIRC £18.99
September 2005
The Chess Organiser's Handbook (3rd Edition) • read more Stewart Reuben Hardinge Simpole £15.00
September 2005
Chess Personalia • read more Jeremy Gaige McFarland £29.99
December 2005
The Chess Player's Magazine, Volume 3 (1867)   Moravian Chess £24.99
March 2005
Chess Results 1747-1900 • read more Gino Di Felice McFarland £24.99
February 2005
Chess Self-Improvement • read more Zenon Franco Gambit £16.99
August 2005
Chess Tactics Quiz Book • read more Vaidyanathan Ravikumar Chess Check £9.99
July 2005
The Chess Weekly, Volume 3 (1909)   Moravian Chess £24.99
March 2005
The Chess Weekly, Volume 4 (1910)   Moravian Chess £24.99
March 2005
The Chess World 1893 • read more (Ed. & Publ. F A Cooley & A V Gisiger) Moravian Chess £19.99
 
The Chigorin Defence • read more Valery Bronznik Schachverlag Kania £16.99
August 2005
The City of London Chess Club Championship • read more Roger L Paige PABD £11.99 SOLD OUT August 2005
Classical Nimzo-Indian 4 Qc2 • read more Knut Neven ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
 
Combinational Motifs • read more Maxim Blokh Ekos Moscow £13.99
May 2005
A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian • read more Efstratios Grivas Gambit £13.99
September 2005
Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 • read more Alexander Kalinin Convekta CD-ROM £24.50
July 2005
The Controversial Sämisch King's Indian • read more Chris Ward Batsford £15.99
January 2005
Curacao 1962 • read more Jan Timman New in Chess £15.99
July 2005
David Janowski: Artist of the Chess Board • read more Alexander Cherniaev & Alexander Meynell Hardinge Simpole £15.95
August 2005
De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834 • read more Cary Utterberg McFarland £39.95
November 2005
Dutch Defence: Leningrad System A86-89 • read more Boris Schipkov ChessBase CD £15.99
April 2005
Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegame IV Alexander Kalinin Chess Assistant CD-ROM £19.99
November 2005
The Essential Center-Counter • read more Andrew Martin Thinker's Press £12.99
January 2005
The Fascinating King's Gambit • read more Thomas Johansson Trafford Publishing £23.99 OUT OF PRINT March 2005
Fire on Board Part 2: 1997-2004 • read more Alexei Shirov Everyman £17.99
July 2005
Fischer, Kasparov and the Others • read more Don Schultz Chessdon £12.99
May 2005
The Field 1903 • read more Ed. Hoffer Moravian Chess £24.99
June 2005
A First Book of Morphy • read more Frisco Del Rosario Trafford Publishing £13.99
October 2005
Foundations of Chess Strategy • read more Lars Bo Hansen Gambit £15.99
March 2005
French Defence: Steinitz Classical and Other Systems • read more Lev Psakhis Batsford £15.99
January 2005
FRITZ 9 - NEW, October 2005 Go the Fritz 9 page
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games Vol. 1 • read more Igor Stohl Gambit £22.50
June 2005
Great Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English • read more Alex Dunne McFarland £19.95
August 2005
HIARCS 10 - NEW, December 2005 Go to the Hiarcs 10 page
The History of Chess • read more Duncan Forbes Moravian Chess £24.99
December 2005
How to Beat 1 d4 • read more James Rizzitano Gambit £15.99
November 2005
How to Choose a Chess Move • read more Andrew Soltis Batsford £15.99
September 2005
How to Play The Najdorf Vol. 1 DVD • read more Garry Kasparov ChessBase DVD £21.50
 
How to Play The Queen's Gambit DVD • read more Garry Kasparov ChessBase DVD £21.50
April 2005
Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black • read more Gary Lane Batsford £15.99
May 2005
Improve Your Positional Chess • read more Carsten Hansen Gambit £14.99
February 2005
Informant 1-91 CD-ROM • read more   Informator £159.99
 
Informator 91 • read more   Informator £21.00
April 2005
Informator 92 • read more   Informator £21.00
June 2005
Informator 93 • read more   Informator £21.00
November 2005
Italian Game and Evans Gambit • read more Jan Pinski Everyman £14.99
October 2005
Knight on the Left 1 Nc3 • read more Harald Keilhack Schachverlag Kania £17.99
November 2005
Latest Trends in the Semi-Slav: Anti-Meran • read more Konstantin Sakaev and Semko Semkov Chess Stars £14.99 OUT OF PRINT March 2005
Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at their Best • read more Mihail Marin Quality Chess £17.99
January 2005
A Legend on the Road: Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simul Tour (2nd Ed) • read more John Donaldson Russell Enterprises £12.99
September 2005
Leningrad System • read more Stefan Kindermann Olms £17.99
June 2005
The Little Book of Chess Blindness • read more Emil Gelenczei Caissa Kft £10.99
February 2005
MegaCorr4 • read more Ed. Tim Harding Chess Mail £29.50
October 2005
The Modern Benoni Revealed • read more Richard Palliser Batsford £14.99 OUT OF PRINT June 2005
Modern Chess Openings 1...Nc6!? • read more Kalinin and Berdichevsky Convekta CD-ROM £19.50
June 2005
Modern Chess Openings: Slav Defence • read more Alexander Kalinin Convekta CD-ROM £18.50
December 2005
My Great Predecessors, Vol. 4 Garry Kasparov Everyman £25.00 Click here for the Garry Kasparov book page February 2005
My Most Memorable Games • read more Boris Gelfand Olms £17.99
June 2005
The Mystery of Edward Pindar, Chess Nomad • read more Owen Hindle Repronis Ostrava £9.99
September 2005
Najdorf: Life and Games • read more Tomas Lissowski, Adrian Mikhalchishin & Miguel Najdorf Batsford £14.99
July 2005
New in Chess Yearbook 73 • read more Ed. Sosonko New in Chess £16.95 OUT OF PRINT January 2005
New in Chess Yearbook 74 • read more Ed. Sosonko New in Chess £16.95 OUT OF PRINT May 2005
New in Chess Yearbook 75 • read more Ed. Sosonko New in Chess £16.95 OUT OF PRINT August 2005
New in Chess Yearbook 76 • read more Ed. Sosonko New in Chess £16.95 OUT OF PRINT November 2005
The Nimzo-Indian Defence - The Easy Way DVD-ROM • read more Jacob Aagaard ChessBase DVD £17.50
April 2005
Offbeat Nimzo-Indian • read more Chris Ward Everyman £14.99
July 2005
Opening for White According to Anand 1 e4 Vol. 3 • read more Alexander Khalifman Chess Stars £16.99
April 2005
Opening for White According to Anand 1 e4 Vol. 4 • read more Alexander Khalifman Chess Stars £15.99
August 2005
Opening for White According to Anand 1 e4 Vol. 5 • read more Alexander Khalifman Chess Stars £15.99
December 2005
Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective • read more Valeri Beim Russell Enterprises £11.50
October 2005
The Paulsen System B40-B49 • read more Norbert Sommerbauer ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
July 2005
Petroff Defence • read more Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik Everyman £14.99
May 2005
The Philidorian: A Magazine of Chess, and Other Scientific Games • read more Ed. George Walker, 1838 Moravian Chess £24.99
January 2005
Play 1...b6 • read more Christian Bauer Everyman £14.99
December 2005
Play the King's Indian Defence • read more Joe Gallagher Everyman £14.99
January 2005
Play The Sicilian Dragon • read more Edward Dearing Gambit £15.99
February 2005
Pocket Chess Endings • read more   Convekta (for Pocket PC) £18.50
December 2005
Pocket Chess Strategy Alexander Kalinin Convekta (for Pocket PC) £18.50
November 2005
Pocket CT-ART • read more   Convekta (for Pocket PC) £18.50
July 2005
Pocket Encyclopedia of Middlegame • read more   Convekta (for Pocket PC) £18.50
December 2005
A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames • read more Nikolay Minev Russell Enterprise £9.99
January 2005
Quarterly for Chess History Vol. 10 • read more Ed. Vlastimil Fiala Moravian Chess £21.99
July 2005
The Queen's Bishop Attack Revealed • read more James Plaskett Batsford £14.99
August 2005
Right Decisions CD-ROM Jacob Aagaard & Esben Lund ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
April 2005
Rooks vs Two Minor Pieces • read more Esben Lund Quality Chess £15.99
July 2005
Russians versus Fischer • read more Dmitry Plisetsky & Sergey Voronkov Everyman £25.00
November 2005
Ruy Lopez Exchange • read more Krzysztof Panczyk & Jacek Ilczuk Everyman £14.99
October 2005
The Ruy Lopez Explained • read more Gary Lane Batsford £14.99
November 2005
The Scandinavian (2nd Edition) • read more John Emms Everyman £14.99
February 2005
The Scandinavian: The Easy Way • read more Andrew Martin ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.50
December 2005
The Scotch Game Explained • read more Gary Lane Batsford £14.99
September 2005
Secrets of Attacking Chess • read more Mihail Marin Gambit £16.99
August 2005
Secrets of Opening Surprises Vol. 3 • read more Ed. Jeroen Bosch New in Chess £12.95
July 2005
The Sicilian Bb5 Revealed • read more Neil McDonald Batsford £15.99
August 2005
The Spanish Exchange Variation • read more Stefan Kindermann Olms £12.99
April 2005
Squares Strategy 2: The Opening CD-ROM • read more Alexander Bangiev ChessBase £14.50
June 2005
Squares Strategy 3 CD-ROM • read more Alexander Bangiev ChessBase £14.50
November 2005
Starting Out: Alekhine's Defence • read more John Cox Everyman £12.99
March 2005
Starting Out: Attacking Play • read more James Plaskett Everyman £13.99
February 2005
Starting Out: Benoni Systems • read more Alexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik Everyman £13.99
September 2005
Starting Out: Defensive Play • read more Angus Dunnington Everyman £13.99
November 2005
Starting Out: The Dutch Defence • read more Neil McDonald Everyman £12.99
May 2005
Starting Out: King's Indian Attack • read more John Emms Everyman £13.99
December 2005
Starting Out: Modern Benoni • read more Endre Vegh Everyman £12.99
March 2005
Starting Out: Rook Endgames • read more Chris Ward Everyman £13.99
May 2005
Starting Out: The Scotch Game • read more John Emms Everyman £13.99
November 2005
Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon • read more Andrew Martin Everyman £13.99
December 2005
Starting Out: Slav and Semi-Slav • read more Glenn Flear Everyman £13.99
October 2005
The Sveshnikov Reloaded • read more Dorian Rogozenko Quality Chess £16.99
October 2005
Tactics in the Chess Opening 3 • read more Friso Nijboer & Geert Van der Stricht New in Chess £13.95
November 2005
Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4 • read more Richard Palliser Everyman £14.99
July 2005
Test Your Chess CD-ROM • read more Henrik Schlossner ChessBase CD-ROM £17.50
August 2005
Tiger's Modern • read more Tiger Hillarp Persson Quality Chess £15.99
August 2005
The Trompowsky • read more Nigel Davies Everyman £14.99
May 2005
The Trompowsky: The Easy Way • read more Andrew Martin ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.50
December 2005
Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess • read more Andrew Soltis McKay £12.99 OUT OF PRINT May 2005
Understanding the Chess Openings • read more Sam Collins Gambit £16.99
July 2005
The Van Geet Opening 1 Nc3 Don Maddox ChessBase CD-ROM £15.99
May 2005
Viktor Korchnoi My Life for Chess, Vol. 1 • read more Viktor Korchnoi ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.99
April 2005
Viktor Korchnoi My Life for Chess, Vol. 2 • read more Viktor Korchnoi ChessBase DVD-ROM £17.99
April 2005
Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story From Greatness to the Gulags • read more Andris Fride Caissa Editions £14.99
February 2005
Winning the Won Game • read more Danny Kopec and Lubomir Ftacnik Batsford £13.99
February 2005
Win with the London System • read more Sverre Johnsen & Vlatko Kovacevic Gambit £14.99
November 2005
World Championship 2004: Kramnik vs Leko • read more Martin Breutigam Chessgate £13.99
February 2005
The Write Move • read more Tim Harding Chess Mail £14.99
July 2005
The Yearbook Of Chess 1910 • read more Ed. Michell Moravian Chess £17.99
March 2005
The Yearbook Of Chess 1911 • read more Ed. Michell Moravian Chess £17.99
April 2005
The Yearbook Of Chess 1912 • read more Ed. Michell Moravian Chess £17.99
 
The Yearbook Of Chess 1913 • read more Ed. Michell Moravian Chess £17.99
 
The Yearbook Of Chess 1914 Ed. MW Stevens Moravian Chess £17.99
August 2005
The Yearbook Of Chess 1915/16 Ed. WH Watts & AW Foster Moravian Chess £17.99
August 2005
You Move...I Win! • read more Alex Angos Thinkers Press £13.50
November 2005
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