Bruce Pandolfini's Books

Pandolfini's Endgame Course

Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Pandolfini's Endgame Course

Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Analyzes a variety of endgames, discusses strategy, and looks at confrontations between unlike pieces.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671656880

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9780671656881

Pandolfini's Chess Complete

The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Game, from History to Strategy

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Pandolfini's Chess Complete

The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Game, from History to Strategy

By: Bruce Pandolfini

The perfect, and necessary, addition to any personal chess library, Pandolfini's Chess Complete is a comprehensive, accessible reference. National Master Bruce Pandolfini has covered every aspect of the game, from chessboard and pieces to history and strategy, and has responded to virtually any possible question or situation that could arise.

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260

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Simon and Schuster

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067170186X

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9780671701864

Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess

By: Bruce Pandolfini

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes a comprehensive guide covering all aspects of the game, to improve your technique whether you are a newcomer or a longtime fan. One of America's best-known chess masters, Bruce Pandolfini has helped millions learn the intricacies of chess through his acclaimed books and workshops. In this exciting volume, he presents a complete overview of the entire game and its culture. Structured as a dialogue between a beginning student and an expert teacher, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess takes the student step-by-step from fundamentals to advanced, highly strategic play. Combining easy-to-follow diagrams with trenchant and up-to-date analysis, Pandolfini puts a new twist on accepted chess theory, offering a seamless beginning-to-end approach, including: • a short introductory history of the game • the moves, rules, and contemporary notation forms • the basic principles of chess • how to develop an opening repertoire • the art of tactical play • pattern recognition and memory aids • traps and pitfalls to be avoided • middlegame play, strategy, and planning • defense and counterattack • transitions to the endgame and the endgame itself • computers and the future of chess • the best websites for playing chess online With Pandolfini's expert insight into the history and modern world of chess, as well as several appendices to enhance play and appreciation, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess makes the perfect gift for players of all ages and will be the benchmark title for chess players for years to come.

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404

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Simon and Schuster

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0743260988

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9780743260985

Kasparov and Deep Blue

The Historic Chess Match Between Man and Machine

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Kasparov and Deep Blue

The Historic Chess Match Between Man and Machine

By: Bruce Pandolfini

This account of the chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM chess program, Deep Blue, offers a game-by-game analysis with explanations of every move. The book also ponders the history and future of artificial intelligence and questions what caused Kasparov's defeat.

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Simon and Schuster

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068484852X

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9780684848525

More Chess Openings

Traps and Zaps 2

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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More Chess Openings

Traps and Zaps 2

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Pandolfini, who will be the commentator for the 1993 World Chess Championships in Los Angeles this fall, illustrates 200 new and effective moves for the challenging first phase of the game, explaining strategies and principles in a clear and understandable way. 200 line drawings.

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Simon and Schuster

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067179499X

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9780671794996

Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Written for beginning and intermediate players, 'Weapons of Chess' is the first encyclopedia of chess strategies that doesn't rely on the usual baffling chess notation. There are no symbolic chess moves, no charts or sequences in chess notation: every move is explained in words.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671659723

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9780671659721

Pandolfini's Chess Challenges

111 Winning Endgames

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Pandolfini's Chess Challenges

111 Winning Endgames

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Here are 111 instructive, quirky, surprising, and fun tactical chess problems to improve anyone's game, created by renowned chess teacher Bruce Pandolfini. Designed to promote creativity and imaginative play, all the problems are endgame miniatures, with seven or fewer pieces on the board. · Every solution has two parts, the setup and the requisite tactic, each of which also reveal broader lessons on general game play · Points are awarded with each solution, so players can track their progress as they work through the book · Answer pages offer descriptions and explanations of the winning procedure employed · Problems are organized thematically, to reinforce the lessons they impart

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258

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0375722068

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9780375722066

Chess

5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

By: László Polgár

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Chess

5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

By: László Polgár

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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160376335X

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9781603763356

212 Surprising Checkmates

By: Bruce Alberston,Fred Wilson

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212 Surprising Checkmates

By: Bruce Alberston,Fred Wilson

Deliver the Coup de Grâce! With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents� last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations. Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining exercises represent game-like positions for checkmates in two and three moves. All are designed to increase a player�s skill and speed analyzing and solving chess problems. This is an updated and expanded version of 202 Surprising Checkmates which was released in 1998.

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SCB Distributors

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1936490358

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9781936490356

Chess Thinking

The Visual Dictionary of Chess Moves, Rules, Strategies and Concepts

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Chess Thinking

The Visual Dictionary of Chess Moves, Rules, Strategies and Concepts

By: Bruce Pandolfini

A first-of-its-kind encyclopedia for chess players, this volume features detailed explanations and invaluable illustrations for new chess players, those intent on improving their games, and anyone who needs to brush up on both the basics and more advanced play. 140 detailed illustrations.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671795023

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9780671795023

Power Mates

Essential Checkmating Strategies and Techniques

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Power Mates

Essential Checkmating Strategies and Techniques

By: Bruce Pandolfini

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes essential checkmating strategies and techniques for players of any level. From America’s premier chess teacher comes an invaluable new guide to essential checkmating strategies and techniques. In 70 short games, many of which are tournament classics never-before analyzed instructionally, Bruce Pandolfini shares the secrets of checkmate, explaining the games and providing quizzes and problems that will test and hone the reader’s skills in this vital area of play. Using teaching techniques from his many years as an instructor and national-class coach, Pandolfini educates the advanced amateur, club, and tournament player in the art and science of checkmate.

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Touchstone

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0684801205

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9780684801209

The Rules of Chess

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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The Rules of Chess

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Chess is one of the most challenging - and enjoyable - games that has ever been played. It has a history that goes back over a thousand years, and there is some evidence that perhaps it is even older than that. The Rules of Chess is a free book, in electronic format, that will teach young and old how to play the “Royal Game.” Written by one of the great instructors of the modern era, Bruce Pandolfini, it is in fact a small excerpt from his extremely popular book Let’s Play Chess (2nd edition). After the material is presented, there is a section listing and describing the chess books published by Russell Enterprises, Inc. which are also available in electronic format. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy The Rules of Chess by Bruce Pandolfini...

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1888690852

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9781888690859

Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps

By: Bruce Pandolfini

In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase. Of the three traditional phases of chess play—the opening, the middle-game and the endgame—the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player. In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of 202 short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Each example includes: -the name of the overriding tactic -the name of the opening -a scenario that sets up the tactic to be learned -an interpretation that explains why the loser went wrong, how he could have avoided the trap, and what he should have done instead -a review of important principles and useful guidelines to reinforce each lesson Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps is a powerful, pragmatic entry into a heretofore remote area of chess theory that will have a profound influence on every player's game.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439147043

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9781439147047

Chess Movies 2

The Means and Ends

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Chess Movies 2

The Means and Ends

By: Bruce Pandolfini

The Pandolfini Chess Library Chess Movies represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions. It’s almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles. But whereas a film seen in the theater just keeps going, here you can “stop” the action and take time thinking about what you’re seeing and what’s being explained to you, as if you were home watching on your own DVD. In this second volume of the Chess Movies series, The Means and Ends, the enthusiast is presented with an assortment of 64 precisely finessed and well-executed endgames from the oeuvres of the world’s foremost chess gladiators. Lasker, Rubinstein, Capablanca, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and other chess gods, offered in stratagem, maneuver, and insightful simplification, provide the subject matter for this newest collection of chess cinema. Taking off from volume 1 of the Chess Movies series, the present volume shows the other end of successful chess play, the actual final moves of winning endgames. Read and watch on, and may all of you play happily ever after.

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381

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SCB Distributors

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1936490080

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9781936490080

The Winning Way

The How What and Why of Opening Strategems

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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The Winning Way

The How What and Why of Opening Strategems

By: Bruce Pandolfini

In his many popular books on chess, Bruce Pandolfini has written about everything from openings to endgame strategies. In THE WINNING WAY, he draws on his long experience coaching chess champions - including Josh Waitzkin - to offer a goal-oriented approach to improving one's game. Pandolfini breaks his course into 10 separate lessons, delineating 150 individual tasks and covering such topics as how to spot typical mistakes, when to use pieces in combination, and which tactics are most effective. Problems are classified by theme, opening, and stratagem, and each one is diagrammed and explained. THE WINNING WAY helps players sharpen their basic skills to win artfully and quickly.

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196

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Simon and Schuster

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0684839490

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9780684839493

Italy For Dummies?

By: Bruce Murphy,Alessandra de Rosa

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Italy For Dummies?

By: Bruce Murphy,Alessandra de Rosa

The seven hills of Rome, Vivaldi and Venice, the ruins of Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, pasta, cappuccino, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Armani, opera. Italy is a feast for the senses, and now this wonderful country--rich with history and physical beauty--is accessible as never before with Italy For Dummies. This concise guide pares down this complex destination and helps visitors plan the trip that's right for them. It includes: Easy-to-do suggested itineraries that offer a taste of both cities and the countryside Expert advice on finding the most charming small hotels and trattorie Tips for avoiding the crowds and beating culture burnout Essential information on Rome, Venice, Florence and Tuscany, Naples and the Amalfi Coast, and Sicily

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For Dummies

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0764561987

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9780764561986

Square One

A Chess Drill Book for Beginners

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Square One

A Chess Drill Book for Beginners

By: Bruce Pandolfini

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes the best chess drill book for beginners of all ages. From ever-popular chess instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive, and effective book for teaching young chess players and other newcomers to the game. Filled with hundreds of questions and answers, fill-in-the-blanks, and true-or-false posers, Square One combines traditional chess drills with diverting games and problems to stimulate the analytical skills of beginners of all ages. Besides covering the basics—the board, moves, rules, and notation—Square One goes on to include information on attacks, checkmate, draws, and special rules, giving the beginner a broad overview of the game. With more than 200 instructional diagrams, and answers to all questions and problems, it is a complete workbook for chess players starting at square one.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671884247

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9780671884246

202 Checkmates for Children

By: Fred Wilson,Bruce Alberston

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202 Checkmates for Children

By: Fred Wilson,Bruce Alberston

Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids! The authors should know - they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.

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164

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Cardoza

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1580421415

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9781580421416

Chess Movies 1

Quick Tricks

By: Bruce Pandolfini

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Chess Movies 1

Quick Tricks

By: Bruce Pandolfini

Lights! Action! Chess! Chess Movies represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions, even though the present volume, Quick Tricks, contains games of ten full moves or more. It’s almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles. But whereas a film seen in the theater just keeps going, here you can “stop” the action and take time thinking about what you’re seeing and what’s being explained to you, as if you were home watching on your own DVD. In this first offering of the series, Quick Tricks, the reader (viewer) is provided with a collection 64 neat traps and shots in the opening, illustrations often stemming from the practice of the world’s best players. There’s a variety too, so that you can sample different openings and variations. All you have to do is read the beginning paragraph, sit back in your living room, on your favorite flight, commuter bus or train ride, and pleasure your way through each informative film. It’s also a great way to prepare for upcoming competition. Just find a comfortable chair and spend a few hours watching, learning, and enjoying your way into shape.

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