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Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor

Edward Lasker

Batsford

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941723

eBook publication date: 4 March 2014

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 10.99

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One of the longest established, yet still most innovative, introductory chess manuals.

Lasker’s masterwork has already provided a generation of aspiring chess players with an entertaining course in the basics of mastering chess. This edition, edited by John Nunn, is the definitive chess teaching manual.

• Interactive chess exercises
• Superb examples by some of the all-time greats
• Written by a man who played chess at the highest level

Lasker takes the reader through an interactive chess adventure. The reward for a correct answer is to proceed to the next concept; otherwise the reader is told why the answer is wrong, and encouraged to try again. All aspects of chess are covered, from the rules of the game through to advanced play.

ABOUT THE Author

Edward Lasker was a leading player in the first half of the twentieth century. His brilliant queen sacrifice against Sir George Thomas in 1912 is one of the most famous combinations ever played, and he was one of the participants at the great New York tournament of 1924. He went on to gain even greater fame as a perceptive and entertaining writer of popular chess books. His interactive approach to chess teaching was decades ahead of its time.

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52 Great Poker Tips

At Home, Tournament and Online

Lou Krieger

Batsford

Format:

Paperback ISBN: 9780713490350

Paperback publication date: 13 March 2007

Category: Games

Paperback price:

£ 7.99

eBook ISBN: 9781849941877

eBook publication date: 15 April 2014

Category: Games

eBook price: £ 3.99

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• Written by bestselling poker author Lou Krieger

• Tips for every kind of poker situation: at home, online and at

tournament

• Covers Texas Hold ‘Em, the world’s most popular type of poker

• Part of successful bestselling 52 Great Tips series

A leading poker guru gives you the essential tips to win at Texas Hold ‘Em poker

at any time, whether at home, at a tournament or playing online. Lou Krieger,

author of the bestselling ‘Poker Player’s Bible’, covers the basics, such as tips on

when to fold, when to call, and when to raise, but also gives you insider tips to

help you raise your game. The advice varies depending on whether you are

playing in a tournament, in a fixed-limit game (as is common in the USA) or in a

pot- or no-limit game (the kind commonly found in the UK and much of Europe).

The tips cover the following categories of games:

limit cash games

no-limit or pot-limit cash games

tips for tournaments

tips that work for all games

specific online poker-playing tips

Devious Chess

How to Bend the Rules and Win

Amatzia Avni

Batsford

Format:

Paperback ISBN: 9780713490046

Paperback publication date: 27 April 2006

Category: Chess

Paperback price:

£ 15.99

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941822

eBook publication date: 27 March 2014

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 10.99

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Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess – be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they’ve learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the game. Every tip for bending the rules is included here with comprehensive illustrated games.

Includes:

  • The Nature of Tricky Chess: Virgin land • Raising the tension to boiling point • Coffeehouse chess • Not so elementary, my dear Watson • Peculiar moves
  • Principled Issues of ‘Tricky Chess’: Twists and turns • The trap vs blunder dilemma • Methods of conducting ‘tricky chess’
  • Illustrative Games
  • Assesment and Implementation: Evaluation of tricksy chess • Transforming into a ‘tricky chess’ player

ABOUT THE Author

A psychologist by profession, Amatzia Avni is also a World Chess Federation Master who has participated in the Israeli Chess Championship final on five seperate occasions.

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Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess

Tibor Karolyi

Batsford

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Paperback ISBN: 9781906388263

Paperback publication date: 5 January 2009

Category: Games

Paperback price:

£ 14.99

eBook ISBN: 9781849941778

eBook publication date: 3 March 2014

Category: Games

eBook price: £ 9.99

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Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five 
best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous 
world champions. The series is called ”My Great Predecessors”. As a reaction to 
this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this 
imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the 
author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and 
blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world 
champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them. 
The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat 
Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and 
readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has 
managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between 
Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely 
plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally 
original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great 
knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.

3D Fashion Design

Technique, design and visualization

Thomas Makryniotis

Batsford

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Paperback ISBN: 9781849942935

Paperback publication date: 3 September 2015

Category: Fashion

Paperback price:

£ 22.50

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eBook ISBN: 9781849943529

eBook publication date: 17 September 2015

Category: Fashion

eBook price: £ 18.99

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Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products. With this technology, the designer is able to present a lifelike design that shows how the fabrics will look and how the garment fits on the body.

3D Fashion Design presents an overview of current technologies and their uses. It is packed with case studies and step-by-step tutorials showing the far-reaching capabilities of 3D fashion software. The author begins with an introduction to 3D software and the principals of working in three dimensions. He then moves onto creating the mannequin avatar, garments, accessories and textures and shows how to present and publish the finished article. Various software programmes are covered including Clo3D and Marvellous Designer for fashion-orientated design, and Maya, Mudbox, Rhino and Photoshop for more general digital design, visual effects and rendering.

This authoritative guide is aimed at all levels, from beginners and fashion students working with digital technologies to advanced fashion designers, digital designers and visual effects specialists for film and animation.

ABOUT THE Author

Author Thomas Makryniotis is the course leader for Innovative Media Practice at London College of Fashion, where they teach both theoretical and practical units that look into the future of fashion and the surrounding technologies. Born in Greece, he moved to London where he studied fashion design, and he now holds an MA and a PhD in Fashion in Digital Virtual Environments.

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Play 1 d4

Richard Palliser

Batsford

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941761

eBook publication date: 28 February 2014

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 10.99

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A comprehensive study book for players who would like to cultivate a reliable yet initiative-seeking opening repertoire as White, based on the opening moves 1 d4 followed by 2 c4. Specific main lines and side-variations are given to combat Black’s possible choices of the King’s, Queen’s and Bogoljubow-Indian defences as well as the modern Benoni and Benko Gambit. The author also recommends promising methods against the various Black defences to the Queen’s Gambit as well as a number of offbeat lines.

 

A practical opening guide for competitive players who prefer to build their games on solid foundations rather than indulge in risky speculation.

ABOUT THE Author

Richard Palliser is an international master and recipient of a special British Chess Federation young player’s award for achievement. In addition to being a very active tournament and match player he also writer regularly for CHESS magazine and other periodicals and is noted for his theoretical knowledge and analytical ability.

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Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace

Bridget M. Cook

Batsford

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941747

eBook publication date: 12 February 2014

Category: Sewing & Dress Making

eBook price: £ 16.99

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The comprehensive guide provides the lacemaker with step-by-step instructions and illustrations on the techniques which make up this type of lacemaking. Divided into ten easy-to-follow sections, alternative methods of construction are closely examined and explained. 

Bridget M. Cook begins with starts and edges, describing the techniques of replacing threads and adding pairs, joinings, sewings, connections and crossings. Additional information is provided on picots, tallikes and venetian cords, plaits and braids. Other sections look at carrying pairs, raised work, corners, curves and holes, endings, moving work under construction and the mounting of completed lace. Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace will help all lacemakers to increase their repertoire of techniques. 

ABOUT THE Author

Bridget M Cook is an internationally renowned lacemaker, designer, teacher and author. Her teaching tours have taken her to America, Australia and Europe. She is the author of several Batsford lacemaking books, including Russian Lace Patterns. 

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Caro-Kann Defence

Panov Attack

Anatoly Karpov

Batsford

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941716

eBook publication date: 6 February 2014

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 9.99

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The Caro-Kann Defence has a justified reputation for reliability, making it an attractive choice for players with a preference for positional play. However in recent years many new dangerous ideas have been discovered for White which makes a study of the theoretical main lines imperative for competitive players. The Panov Attack against the Caro-Kann, 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4, covered in this second volume in the series, leads to a rapid opening of lines and very lively piece play with prospects of a quick attack on the kingside, queenside or the centre. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov and his collaborator Mikhail Podgaets select and analyse the essential main lines that provide Black not only with security, but also with active play.

About the Author Anatoly Karpov is a living legend of the chess; he has dominated the world of the chess for over a decade as the world chess champion between 1975 and 1985. Garry Kasparov, the current champion, dethroned him and the two ideologically opposed Russians have had a bitter rivalry ever since. Anatoly Karpov is also the winner of the largest number of tournaments in the history of the chess, with more than 160 due tournaments. He is considered the best positional player of history of chess and is the author of several other books on chess theory. 

Play Like a Grandmaster

A.A. Kotov

Batsford

Format:

eBook ISBN: 9781849941709

eBook publication date: 28 January 2014

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 10.99

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Alexander Kotov’s trilogy, of which this is the second volume and now available in digital format for the first time, marks a landmark in chess literature. For the first time, a leading player managed to tackle the important elements of chess mastery in a methodical way which all chess players could understand, spiced with insight and colourful observation. Furthermore, his ideas and approach are as relevant to players today as they were when the books were first published.

Alexander Kotov was one of the strongest players of the immediate post-war period, twice reaching the Candidates stage of the World Championship. He was also one of the leading Soviet trainers but is primarily remembered for his trilogy of classic works on chess coaching, of which Think Like a Grandmaster, one of the best-selling chess books of all time, was the first volume, and Play Like a Grandmaster the second.

100 Buildings, 100 Years

Celebrating British architecture

Tom Dyckhoff

Alan Powers

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Batsford

Format:

Hardback ISBN: 9781849941938

Hardback publication date: 6 November 2014

Category: Architecture

Hardback price:

£ 25.00

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The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. Originally founded as the Thirties Society in 1979, its first major case was the fabulous Art Deco Firestone factory on the Great West Road. Its remit has always been to protect the best of all types and styles of architecture and design from neo-Georgian to Art Deco, Modern Movement to pre-fab, and its campaigns now extend to brutalist and high-tech buildings.

This book showcases photographs of 100 buildings – one for each year from 1914 – which represent the range and quality of work the Society protects and the amazing range of fascinating buildings we have in Britain. Each photograph is accompanied by information about the building, including why it stands out in a 100 years of architecture. The authors include noted experts in the fields of architecture, heritage and design, including Gavin Stamp, Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley and Rowan Moore. In addition, the book includes the best overview of modern architecture with essays on The Inter-war Decades (Gavin Stamp), Post-war Architecture (Elain Harwood) and Postmodernism (Timonthy Brittain-Catlin). Some of the buildings featured in the book include De La Warr Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican housing, Bracken House, Cenotaph, the Firestone Factory, BT Tower, and pre-fabs.

ABOUT THE A32

Tom Dyckhoff has written widely for publications from The Sunday Telegraph to GQ. He’s the architecture and design critic of The Times newspaper and has written the weekly ‘Let’s Move To…’ column for the Guardian Weekend magazine for more than a decade.

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Chess for Tigers

Simon Webb

Batsford

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eBook ISBN: 9781849941594

eBook publication date: 20 December 2013

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 9.99

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One of the most influential books on chess ever published – now in digital format. The Tiger is a vicious beast. He doesn’t care about the aesthetic side of chess. He doesn’t even care about making the ‘best’ moves. All he cares about is winning.

 

Do you want to win more games? Then become a Tiger. ‘Chess for Tigers’ tells

you how to make the most of your playing strength, how to play upon your

opponent’s weaknesses, how to steer the game into a position which suits you

and not your opponent, how to get results against strong opposition and how to

avoid silly mistakes.

 

This is a cult classic that is as relevant to today’s generation of chess players as

the first edition was. Regularly voted in the top 10 best chess books of all time,

this book should be read by all chess players, especially beginners who want to

win at all costs.

 

Author Information

Mr Webb started to make an impact on the chess world in the 1960s. He learned

the game at the age of seven and ten years later, in 1966, he was under-18

champion in Britain and fourth in the European junior Championship. He married

and moved to Sweden in the 1970s and became one of the few correspondence

chess Grand Masters. The first edition of Chess for Tigers was first published in

1978. The sad death of Simon Webb in March 2005 shocked the chess

community.

ABOUT THE Author

Mr Webb started to make an impact on the chess world in the 1960s. He learnt the game at the age of seven and ten years later, in 1966, he was under-18 champion in Britain and fourth in the European junior Championship. He married and moved to Sweden in the 1970s and became one of the few correspondence chess Grand Masters. The first editon of Chess for Tigers was first published in 1978. The sad death of Simon Webb in March 2005 shocked the chess community.

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100 Chess Master Trade Secrets

From Sacrifices to Endgames

Andrew Soltis

Batsford

Format:

Paperback ISBN: 9781849941082

Paperback publication date: 10 October 2013

Category: Chess

Paperback price:

£ 17.99

eBook ISBN: 9781849941556

eBook publication date: 30 October 2013

Category: Chess

eBook price: £ 12.99

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If you want to become a chess master, there are certain things you need to know – essential tips and techniques that the masters know, and you need to learn. This incredibly useful book collects all these techniques together in one volume, so you can try them out, tick them off, and start on your path towards chess greatness. Arranged in chapters covering every aspect of chess, from openings to endgames, renowned chess author Andrew Soltis provides top 20 rundowns of these specific positions and techniques: chapters include Top 20 Sacrifices, Top 20 Crucial Middlegame Decisions, Top 20 Endgame Techniques and Top 20 Exact Endgames. Written in Andrew Soltis’s eternally engaging and accessible style, this book will prove invaluable to any player who wants to become a chess master.

ABOUT THE Author

Andrew Soltis is an International Grandmaster, a chess columnist for the New York Post and a highly popular chess writer. He is the author of many books including 500 Chess Questions Answered, The Chessmaster Checklist, How to Choose a Chess Move and How to Swindle in Chess. He lives in New York.

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