"100 industrial-strength tips & tools"--Cover.

"...enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity, but they will enjoy the ride....The author...warns the reader from the start anything goes--especially joke creations that flout or even stomp on the laws of chess....Just when we become ...

The subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, Josh Waitzkin has long been the top-ranked player for his age in the United States and a role model for chess-playing kids everywhere. Now, for the first time, Waitzkin reveals the ...

A fully updated edition of the winner of the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award (1997). Comprehensive, up-to-date and easy to follow, this splendid guide to the game describes everything from opening moves, to strategy, tactics ...

An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy -- conceptual planning -- has always been the amateur's dream. This book makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess ...

In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book ...

For both the beginner and the seasoned pro, this how-to book from the National Scrabble Association offers all the keys to better play: Basic board strategies for surefire results Turn the enemy -- Q -- into your best friend: a winner's list of Q ...

Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you ...

A basic book on Checkers aimed at complete beginners and those Z99 a rudimentary knowledge of the game