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Chess Endgames for Club Players

The Essential Skills for a Forceful Finale

By: Herman Grooten

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Chess Endgames for Club Players

The Essential Skills for a Forceful Finale

By: Herman Grooten

Any good chess coach will tell you to study the endgame. Improving your knowledge of the ‘third phase’ in a chess game will bring you many extra half or even full points. After the success of his award-winning classics, Chess Strategy for Club Players and Attacking Chess for Club Players Herman Grooten has now written an equally instructive endgame manual. He teaches you how to understand the themes of an endgame, and find the right moves based on your understanding. International Master Herman Grooten learned about endgames the hard way, as many good players have. Early in his career, he realized there was a lot to be gained in this undervalued part of the game. Building on his experience as a player and coach, Grooten takes an original approach to convey his message: the endgames are divided according to theme, not chess material. This is a novel, but very effective way to learn the ins and outs, since many themes can occur with different material balances. The material is richly illustrated with many examples from practical play, as well as endgame studies, which present the motifs in their purest and most attractive form. The result is a lively and highly instructive guide to the endgame.

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9493257509

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Chess Strategy for Club Players

The Road to Positional Advantage

By: Herman Grooten

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Chess Strategy for Club Players

The Road to Positional Advantage

By: Herman Grooten

A top chess coach explains the fundamentals of chess strategy to amateur players. Herman Grooten, an International Master with over 25 years of experience, has written a systematic primer about the basics of positional understanding, with a massive amount of examples and exercises.

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9056914464

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Attacking Chess for Club Players

Improve Your Skills to Overpower Your Opponent

By: Herman Grooten

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Attacking Chess for Club Players

Improve Your Skills to Overpower Your Opponent

By: Herman Grooten

Every chess player loves to attack the enemy King. Your goal is clear, your thinking is concrete, your creativity is in gear and direct victory is just around the corner. Few things in life are better than a conducting a blistering King’s attack! But how good are you actually at attacking? Have you ever analysed your efforts? Looked at calculation errors, missed chances and derailed efforts? Highly experienced chess trainer Herman Grooten finds that many of his pupils overestimate their attacking skills. Their fond memories of successful assaults often obscure the fact that there was a lot of room for improvement in their play. After the immense success of his award-winning classic Chess Strategy for Club Players Herman Grooten has now written an equally accessible primer on attacking chess. He teaches you how to spot opportunities, exploit weaknesses, bring your forces to the frontline and strike at the right moment. Grooten concentrates on training the most valuable skills: visualizing, structuring, anticipating, calculating, memorizing and other mental aspects. This is not just another collection of useful thematic moves but a complete and highly structured course of attacking techniques. With great and fresh examples, clear explanations and many instructive exercises.

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Chess Endgames for Club Players

The Essential Skills for a Forceful Finale

By: Herman Grooten

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De garoeda en de ooievaar

Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat

By: Herman Burgers

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De garoeda en de ooievaar

Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat

By: Herman Burgers

Deze nieuwe beschrijving van het wordingsproces van de Indonesische staat gaat ervan uit, dat die staat zijn ontstaan niet alleen dankt aan de nationale vrijheidsbeweging maar ook aan de Nederlandse heerschappij waar die beweging zich tegen keerde. Daarom gaat het boek uitdrukkelijk in op voornaamste ontwikkelingen van het door Nederland in de kolonie Nederlands-Indië gevoerde beleid. Hier sluiten hoofdstukken op aan over de Indonesische nationale beweging en over de Japanse bezetting van de kolonie in 1942-1945. Die bezetting maakte de weg vrij voor de proclamatie van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid en de stichting van de Republiek Indonesië in augustus 1945. Het daarop ontbrande conflict tussen deze Republiek en Nederland kwam in 1949 tot een onvolledige oplossing, waarna het geschil over West-Irian nog tot een dertien jaar durende nasleep leidde. Meer dan de helft van het boek is gewijd aan een kroniek van dit conflict en zijn nasleep. Daarbij gaat ook ruime aandacht uit naar denkbeelden en sentimenten die het beleid hebben beïnvloed.

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BRILL

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9004253742

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Dreaming of Cockaigne

Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life

By: Herman Pleij

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Dreaming of Cockaigne

Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life

By: Herman Pleij

Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to allay anxieties about an increasingly elusive heavenly paradise. Illustrated with extraordinary artwork from the Middle Ages, Herman Pleij's Dreaming of Cockaigne is a spirited account of this lost paradise and the world that brought it to life. Pleij takes three important texts as his starting points for an inspired of the panorama of ideas, dreams, popular religion, and literary and artistic creation present in the late Middle Ages. What emerges is a well-defined picture of the era, furnished with a wealth of detail from all of Europe, as well as Asia and America. Pleij draws upon his thorough knowledge of medieval European literature, art, history, and folklore to describe the fantasies that fed the tales of Cockaigne and their connections to the central obsessions of medieval life.

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Columbia University Press

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023152921X

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9780231529211

Travels and Researches in Native North America, 1882-1883

By: Herman Frederik Carel Kate

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Travels and Researches in Native North America, 1882-1883

By: Herman Frederik Carel Kate

This important but little-known account of several southwestern tribes has heretofore been available only in the author's native Dutch. Ten Kate's studies of the Pima, Hopi, Apache, and Zuni people are especially noteworthy for their information on tribal cultures. He observed firsthand and sought out informants willing to elaborate on Indian games and sports and on social organization and myths of religious significance. He was particularly interested in the position of women and treatment of children and admired the natives' attitudes on these matters more than did other early anthropologists. His best material is from his extended stay at Zuni, where he and Frank Hamilton Cushing became lifelong friends. His observations on the impact of whites on Indian cultures constitute valuable documentation of the dilution of native life-styles. Although he is not as well known as contemporaries like Bandelier, Bourke, and Matthews, ten Kate's work remains influential in the field after more than 120 years.

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UNM Press

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0826332811

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Reformed Dogmatics

By: Herman Bavinck

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Reformed Dogmatics

By: Herman Bavinck

In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer in English for the very first time all four volumes of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics. This masterwork will appeal not only to scholars, students, pastors, and laity interested in Reformed theology but also to research and theological libraries.

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Baker Academic

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0801026571

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9780801026577

Reformed Ethics : Volume 2 (Reformed Ethics)

The Duties of the Christian Life

By: Herman Bavinck

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Reformed Ethics : Volume 2 (Reformed Ethics)

The Duties of the Christian Life

By: Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The English translation was edited by leading Bavinck expert John Bolt, who now brings forth a recently discovered manuscript from Bavinck that is being published for the first time. Serving as a companion to Reformed Dogmatics, Reformed Ethics offers readers Bavinck's mature reflections on ethical issues. This book, the second of three planned volumes, covers the duties of the Christian life and includes Bavinck's exposition of the Ten Commandments.

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1493432095

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Attacking Chess for Club Players

Improve Your Skills to Overpower Your Opponent

By: Herman Grooten

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Improve Your Skills to Overpower Your Opponent

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Chess Strategy for Club Players

The Road to Positional Advantage

By: Herman Grooten

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Chess Strategy for Club Players

The Road to Positional Advantage

By: Herman Grooten

Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? With this new edition of his award winning book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions and how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan. His teachings are based on the famous “Elements” of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding: pawn structure, piece placement, lead in development, open files, weaknesses, space advantage and king safety. You will master the art of converting a temporary plus into other, more permanent advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises. This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’ with new exercises.

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9056916947

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9789056916947

Understanding Before Moving 2 -

Queen's Gambit Structures

By: Herman Grooten

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Understanding Before Moving 2 -

Queen's Gambit Structures

By: Herman Grooten

In volume 2 Dutch International Master Herman Grooten provides the full coverage of the Queen's Gambit Structures. As usual his instructive material is impressive, explaining in detail all possible plans for White and Black, making this book indispensable if you want to understand these typical structures or play this opening.

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9492510421

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Book's by Herman Grooten

Chess Endgames for Club Players

Chess Endgames for Club Players

Chess Strategy for Club Players

Chess Strategy for Club Players

Attacking Chess for Club Players

Attacking Chess for Club Players

Chess Endgames for Club Players

Chess Endgames for Club Players

De garoeda en de ooievaar

De garoeda en de ooievaar

Dreaming of Cockaigne

Dreaming of Cockaigne

Travels and Researches in Native North America, 1882-1883

Travels and Researches in Native North America, 1882-1883

Reformed Dogmatics

Reformed Dogmatics

Reformed Ethics : Volume 2 (Reformed Ethics)

Reformed Ethics : Volume 2 (Reformed Ethics)

Attacking Chess for Club Players

Attacking Chess for Club Players

Chess Strategy for Club Players

Chess Strategy for Club Players

Understanding Before Moving 2 -

Understanding Before Moving 2 -

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