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Secrets of Positional Play
Edition Olms AG£19.99| /The main theme of volume 4 is prophylaxis, a concept first expounded by Nimzowitsch and one which has been brilliantly developed by Mark Dvoretsky ...
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Side-Stepping Mainline Theory
New In ChessOriginal price £20.95Current price £15.71| /Spend more study time on whats really decisive in your games! The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day,...
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Silmans Complete Endgame Course
Siles Press (US)Original price £25.99Current price £16.89| /For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolu...
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Space Trivia
Collector's Guide Publishing (CA)£18.99| /What city turned its lights on and off to signal an astronaut? Which astronaut was born in China? Who got the first haircut in space? Which Shuttle...
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Spanish Exchange Variation
Edition Olms AGOriginal price £16.99Current price £12.74| /The Spanish Exchange Variation lets you play one of the major chess openings, the Ruy Lopez, without the risk of drowning in the huge flow of infor...
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Tel Aviv City Stories
Gefen Publishing House (IS)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /Your journey, to cherish as a keepsake of your trip, and to inspire friends to go there, too. Creative coloring and activity book, travel journal, ...
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The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook
New In ChessOriginal price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Jesus de la Villas worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and that endgame b...
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The Complete Chess Swindler
New In ChessOriginal price £22.95Current price £17.21| /Chess is a cruel game. We all know that feeling when your position has gone awry and everything seems hopeless. You feel like resigning. But dont g...
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The Hippopotamus Defence
New In ChessOriginal price £24.95Current price £18.71| /The Hippopotamus Defence is just what a club player needs. Its a straightforward and clear-cut chess opening that avoids the ever growing body of m...
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The Longest Game
New In ChessOriginal price £24.95Current price £18.71| /One of the greatest rivalries in sports history. On 10 September 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov started their match for the World Chess Ch...
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The NES Omnibus
SchifferOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /The NES Omnibus: The Nintendo Entertainment System and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A-L), covers the first half of the NES library in exhaustive and engaging...
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The SNES Omnibus
SchifferOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /Volume 2 of SNES Omnibus is a fun and informative look at ALL the original Super Nintendo games released in the US starting with the letters N-Z. M...
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The SNES Omnibus
SchifferOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /Volume 2 of SNES Omnibus is a fun and informative look at ALL the original Super Nintendo games released in the US starting with the letters N-Z. M...
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The Spinifex Quiz Book
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Who invented hieroglyphics? Who did Einstein's mathematics? Which country did the Trung Sisters defend in 40 AD? Who invented the first computer? W...
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Weird Alberta Places
Blue Bike Books (CA)£7.99| /Alberta is the land of big skies, big dreams and sometimes just plain big, weird things. For example, the province is home to the world's largest m...
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Weird and Wild Vancouver
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Vancouver, one of Canada's youngest and most beautiful cities, got its start after a down-on-his-luck squatter built a saloon to serve thirsty logg...
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Weird British Columbia Laws
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /British Columbians are well known for being a laid-back population, but you'd better mind your Ps and Qs, or you might be headed to jail. Read abou...
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Weird British Columbia Places
Blue Bike Books (CA)£7.99| /Just around the next mountain switchback or on the next sunny beach, you can find some fairly unusual sites in British Columbia: a nude beach, a ho...
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Weird Canada Box Set
Blue Bike Books (CA)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /Box set containing Weird Canadian Places, Weird Canadian Laws, and Weird Canadian Words.
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Weird Canadian Laws
Blue Bike Books (CA)£9.99| /If you can imagine it, somewhere there's probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada's strangest laws -- but not too loudly, or y...
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Weird Canadian Places
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£7.99| /The Canadian landscape is home to some pretty odd sights; for example, the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, the ice hotel in Québec City or C...
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Weird Facts about Canadian Football
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /Weird Facts About the Canadian Football League. "The football they play is quirky too. That's what makes it unique. That's what makes it Canadian. ...
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Weird Facts about Canadian Hockey
Overtime Books (CA)£7.99| /Canadian hockey is rife with tales of the odd, the strange, the funny and, occasionally, the disturbing side of the game: * In 1976, Maple Leafs co...
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Weird Facts about Canadian Sports
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /Since our nation was first conceived, Canadian athletes have been involved in some of the weirdest moments in sport. Learn facts that will astound,...
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Weird Food
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Food is in the eye of the beholder. This book assembles an amazing and often stomach-turning array of things people put in their mouths. Quite apar...
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Weird Ontario Laws
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Break the law in Ontario, and you might be fined or imprisoned, but some of the province's most peculiar laws may just leave you scratching your he...
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Weird Ontario Places
Blue Bike Books (CA)£7.99| /Canada's most populous province may also boast some of the weirdest places in the country. This enjoyable collection features hundreds of odd local...
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Weird Ontario Weather
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Filled with fascinating facts about the most extreme and curious weather stories in Ontario's history. This looks at the highs and lows of Ontario ...
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Weird U.S. Laws
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Curious about what you can and can't do across the continental U.S.? Don't even think about putting salt on a railroad track in Alabama; you could ...
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Win in the Opening
Edition Olms AGOriginal price £16.99Current price £12.74| /To lose a game of chess in the opening or the early middlegame is especially annoying. However, this is something that happens not only to novices,...
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Winning Quickly with 1.b3 and 1...b6
New In ChessOriginal price £24.95Current price £18.71| /I left chess in 2012. I did not touch it for several years. Then I decided to test my strength in Internet blitz. I started from scratch. The board...
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Winning Ugly in Chess
New In ChessOriginal price £20.99Current price £15.74| /When was the last time you won a perfect game? A game that was not tainted by inferior moves? Every chess player knows that smooth wins are the exc...
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World Champion Chess for Juniors
New In ChessOriginal price £19.95Current price £14.96| /Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and shows what is important about their style of play and what you can lea...
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World Championship Return Match Botvinnik V Tal, MOSCOW 1961
Edition Olms AGOriginal price £16.99Current price £12.74| /When Mikhail Botvinnik lost the world championship in 1960 to the dazzling attacking player from Riga, Mikhail Tal, there seemed little chance of h...
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Zlotniks Middlegame Manual
New In ChessOriginal price £24.95Current price £18.71| /If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions. Thats what Boris Zlotnik has been stressing during his ...
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