Amaze your friends - Master the ancient game of chess! Do you want to understand the game of chess? Would you like to beat your friends - and increase your online ratings? Is it time to unlock your hidden genius? If so, this expanded 4th edition of The Complete Guide to Chess - Master Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategy is the audiobook you’ve been waiting for.

Learn the most successful chess openings to dominate every game and become a savvy chess player. Magnus Templar explains how to control the center and rule each and every party you'll play. He takes you step-by-step through the most important chess openings such as the Italian Game, King's Gambit, Queen's Gambit, the Ruy Lopez, the English for white, the Sicilian Defense, the French Defense, the Slav Defense, the Caro-Cann Defense, and many more. You will also learn what to look for when determining your opponent's game plan!  

Impress your friends with superior opening knowledge without the tedious study. Knowing the history of chess will prove your cleverness even more effectively than winning over the board. Once you have listened to this audiobook, you can explain the origins of the names to your opponent, and even if you lose the game, your opponent will still be impressed. Enjoy this capitvating romp through the names of the first few moves in this enjoyable addition to any chess player's library. Prepare to be surprised, amazed, amused and informed.

Have you always wanted to learn chess but haven’t found the right way to get started? Have you always get started with chess but haven’t gotten around to doing it? In this audiobook, you will find everything you need to know about the wonderful world of chess. Herein, you will learn the fundamentals and work your way up to more complex concepts. You will begin by learning about the history of the game so that you can gain a clear understanding of the basics. Then, we will talk about initial gameplay leading up to the strategies that you can put into practice right away.

Have you always wondered how the grandmasters learned to play chess so well? This audiobook contains all the advanced methods and strategies you need to learn to start playing like them. Of course, it's okay to have some doubts. After all, chess doesn’t seem like something you learn from listening to an audiobook. But the truth is, if you don’t learn the theory first, playing the game in real life can be difficult. And that's what this audiobook has been written to solve. Like everything else, if you don’t start from the basics, becoming a chess master is impossible.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince both are fundamentally important works related to the areas of strategic leadership and decision making. Although almost every leader has heard of these works, very few have read them in depth and applied the lessons they contain to their own lives. This is a huge oversight. Both books contain wisdom and advice that are applicable to almost any situation a leader finds himself in.

This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom. It is a story that shocked the world with its first-hand account of the horrors of slavery. The book was an incredible success. It sold over 30,000 copies and was an international best seller.

Here are really two books in one: McNeilly's synthesis of Sun Tzu's ideas into six strategic principles for the business executive, plus the entire text of Samuel B. Griffith's popular translation of The Art of War. Within, McNeilly explains how to gain market share without inciting competitive retaliation, how to attack a competitor's weak points, and how to maximize the power of market information for competitive advantage.

A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel.

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its 32 figurative pieces, moving about its 64 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool?

Most players struggle with AK due to small leaks in their strategy. So Optimizing Ace King (OAK) doesn't look to give you a bunch of memorized plays and tactics. Instead, OAK shows you how AK fits within your strategy and ranges. This prepares you for playing AK, among other hands, in a variety of spots and under a variety of conditions. James "SplitSuit" Sweeney and Adam "W34Z3L" Jones co-wrote this book to take an in-depth look at poker strategy through the lens of a single hand. Concepts include 3betting, 4betting, cbetting, barreling, GTO vs. exploitative play, and more.

All offenses across the country are dealing with the same problem. How do I create multiple looks to confuse the defense while keeping things simple for my players? The inside zone blocking scheme is the solution to this universal problem. In Coaching the Inside Zone, you will learn the details of the inside zone scheme.

How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies, and anticipate the future. Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a chess grandmaster to cover the practical side - tactics, strategy, preparation, as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination.

Did you ever find yourself looking to play a backgammon match with your friends and family? Do you want to be the interesting person that wins every game? Have you ever wondered what the round figures that came with your chess set are for? Look no further for your answers. This book will show you everything you need to know about backgammon and more.