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Players of all levels learn how to improve their chess play by cutting down on tactical and strategic mistakes. Using examples from his own games, Eric Schiller illustrates the types of errors typically found at each stage of chess development, from early scholastic games to professional encounters with grandmasters. In each case, Schiller shows how such errors can be overcome while at the same time showing how professional players can fall pr...

The best first or second book on chess openings by a prolific chess master and teacher! TAKE YOUR FIRST STEP IN CHESS! First Chess Openings teaches you solid, near-foolproof openings that will help you win. You'll learn the most important openings, plus the four goals you should accomplish in the early moves of the game of chess. This base of knowledge will take your overall game to the next level -- and make playing more fun! THE EASIEST...

A heart warming true story that took place in Tampa's National Historic District, Ybor City, Henrietta the hen and cock-a-doodle-do, the rooster search for a safe place to hatch their PEEPS. The place they find is as charming as it is unlikely.The story ends with children of all ages learning an essential life lesson.

A heart warming true story that took place in Tampa's National Historic District, Ybor City. Henrietta the hen and cock-a-doodle-do, the rooster search for a safe place to hatch their PEEPS. The place they find is as charming as it is unlikely. The story ends with children of all ages learning an essential life lesson.

Seagoing may be the world's finest, most intensely rigorous education, however informal, unstructured, or lightly documented.Capt. Eric F. Schiller, a retired supertanker captain and now notorious pirate bar owner, sheds some light on an overlooked profession in these memoirs, highlighting working at sea often times will provide extraordinary and valuable life experiences.Beginning with his time as an officer in training aboard the SS American...

Seagoing may be the world's finest, most intensely rigorous education, however informal, unstructured, or lightly documented.Capt. Eric F. Schiller, a retired supertanker captain and now notorious pirate bar owner, sheds some light on an overlooked profession in these memoirs, highlighting working at sea often times will provide extraordinary and valuable life experiences.Beginning with his time as an officer in training aboard the SS American...

Beginning players learn and take the challenge of 201 fun one-move checkmates.This great book for beginning players and children covers the most elemental of all mates-the one move mate! Schiller presents different game positions where the reader must find the move that wins the game instantly. Readers learn how to make the final move with all the pieces-knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This is a great training tool fo...

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The Queen's Gambit Declined has been the workhorse for many if not most of the World Champions. The well prepared player of the Black pieces can feel secure in the knowledge that the slightest mistake by White can yield full equality and even if White knows all the moves his advantage will be microscopic. In addition to the standard lines, this book contains a number of interesting suggestions that have never been implemented. This book has ...

The Zaitsev variation of the Closed Spanish is a favorite line of many of the world's best chess players, including many World Champions. Until now, however, 'there has not been a compilation of the theory of the line, together with the relevant lines of the Breyer and Smyslov Variations into which play often transposes. This book is intended for experienced chess players rated 1700 and above. It contains. heavy-duty theory with many ideas si...

Billy Colias was one of the most remarkable players to come out of the Midwest. He overcame many obstacles to become one of the area's top players, and earned the title of FIDE Master before his untimely death in 1993. This book details his life and games, including thrilling victories against both amateur and professional opposition in the Midwest, throughout the United States, and in Europe. This volume contains 101 games played by Billv Co...

Catalan, revised with recent games and new chess opening analysis by computer programs including Houdini. Since this book first came out the Catalan has been played with great success by World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and other grandmasters. This has necessitated this great expansion with new games and the latest chess computer analysis.

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This is a quiz based on very hard puzzles taken from master chess games, not from composed problems. Because of the difficulty and complexity of the puzzles, you score points just for getting the first move right. You do not have to see all the way to the end. At the end of the quizzes you are rated based on how many you got right.

Previously published under title: Development of a chess master, c2002.

The most important concepts, strategies, tactics, wisdom, and thinking that every chess player must know, plus the gold nuggets of knowledge behind every attack and defense, is collected together in this updated book.This new edition, revised and updated, takes chess players from opening, middlegame, and endgame strategy, all the way to psychological warfare and tournament tactics. The reader is taken through the thinking behind each essential...

This Bobby Fischer book, the only one written for beginning and intermediate players, allows them to climb inside the mind of the greatest player ever, learn his masterful moves and brilliant concepts, and apply them to their own games!This is the first book about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer that is written for beginning and intermediate players-90% of the chess playing audience-that is focused on the lessons one can learn ...

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