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MICOS™
MasterInChess Openings System
New Openings System featuring 3,815 Unique Chess Openings. Organized into 5 Main Groups and 57 MICOS Opening Groups.Claus Gamborg

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MICOS™ Sub Groups MICOS 166 Opening Sub Groups.Claus Gamborg

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Tactical Ambushes for
Practical Players
Deadly Opening Tactics from MasterInChess Openings System (MICOS™).Claus Gamborg

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101 Chess Opening
Surprises
An Arsenal of Red-Hot Opening Ideas to Shock and Confuse your Opponents.Graham Burgess

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200 King's Gambit Declined Miniatures Games Ending in 25 Moves or Less.Bill Wall

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200 Opening Positions for White Kings Gambit Playbook - An Easy Repertoire for White.Tim Sawyer

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700 Opening Traps From Alapin's Opening to Vienna Game.Bill Wall

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888 Miniature Studies Beginners, Founder of the Modern Study and Various authors.Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparian

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1.d4 Dynamic Systems Dutch Defence, Benoni Systems & Benko Gambit, Budapest Gambit and Modern & Other Defences.Boris Avrukh

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1.e4 vs Minor Defences The Alekhine, Scandinavian, Pirc/Modern and Other Miscellaneous Replies to 1.e4.Parimarjan Negi

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A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire An Easy-to-Learn Repertoire for the Chessboard Assassin.Aaro Umersest and Sverre Johnsen

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A Practical White Repertoire with 1.d4 and 2.c4 Volume 1: The Complete Queen’s Gambit.Alexei Kornev

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A Practical White Repertoire with l.d4 and 2.c4 Volume 2: The King's Fianchetto Defences.Alexei Kornev

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A Practical Black Repertoire with d5, c6 Volume 1: The Slav and Other Defences.Alexei Kornev

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A Practical Black Repertoire with d5, c6 Volume 2: The Caro-Kann Defence and Other Defences.Alexei Kornev

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A Strategic Opening Repertoire. 2nd Edifion, Revised & Enlarged. Closed Sicilian Reversed, Symmetrical English and Others.John Donaldson & Carsten Hansen

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An Idiot-Proof Chess Opening Repertoire An easy-to-learn repertoire where you can relax and just play chess!Graham Burgess

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Attack! The Subtle Art of Winning Brilliantly.Neil McDonald

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Attacking 1...d5 The Geller-Gambit, The Semi-Slav, The Triangle System, Closed and Open Catalan.Kiril Georgiev

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Attacking Chess Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves.Kiril Georgiev

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Attacking the Caro-Kann White Repertoire The Advanced Variation of the Caro-Kann Defence
1.e4 с6 2.d4 d5 3.e5.
Alexey Dreev

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A Complete Defense for Black Strategic Themes and History.Raymond Keene and Byron Jacobs

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A Repertoire for Positional Players Universal Program for both Novices and High Class Players.Eduard Gufeld and Nikolai Kalinichenko

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Back to Basics: Openings Opening Principles and the Five Main Groups Openings.Carsten Hansen has released a lot of Chess Books. Recommended reading.

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Beat The Najdorf and Taimanov Sicilians! Foreword by Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand.Grandmaster S.P. Sethuraman

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Beating The Fianchetto Defences Beating the Gruenfeld Defence, Benko/Volga Gambit, Modern Defence, Modern Benoni and the King's Indian Defence.Efstratios Grivas

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Beating The Queen’s Gambit – Indian Style! 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6, Vienna Game, Catalan Opening and Variants.Renier Castellanos

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Beating the Sicilian Main Lines Anti-Najdorf and other Sicilians.Jonas Hacker

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Beating Unusual Chess Openings The Symmetrical English and Unusual First Moves.Richard Palliser

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Blackmar-Diemer Gambit The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is a Favourite of Club Players.Gary Lane

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Caruana’s Ruy Lopez A White Repertoire for Club Players.Fabiano Caruana

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Challenging the Grünfeld Logical and Rare Lines.Edward Dearing

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Chess Openings Chess Notation, Considerations and Game Examples.Creative Commons Attribution-Share

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Chess Opening Blunders Avoid Carelessness, Overconfidence and Tactical
Oversight.
Bill Wall

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Chess Opening Essentials Open Games and Semi-Open Games with Commented Examples.Stefan Djuric, Dimitri Komarov and Claudio Pantaleoni

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Chess Opening Fundamentals The Importance of Starting a Game Properly.Igor Smirnov

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Chess Openings for Beginners A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Openings.Magnus Templar

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Chess Openings for Beginners The Complete Guide to Becoming A Chess Master.Robert King

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Chess Openings for Black, Explained A Complete Reference for Your Entire Playing Career.Lev Alburt, Roman Dzindzichashvili and Eugene Perelshteyn

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Coffeehouse Repertoire Sicilian Defence and Other Defences.Gawain Jones

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Complete Defence to the Queen Pawn Opening Strategies and Tactics.Eric Schiller

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Dangerous Weapons: The Ruy Lopez Dazzle Your Opponents!John Emms, Tony Kosten and John Cox

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Disreputable Opening Repertoire Jonathan Tait's Opening Repertoire after 1.e4 e5.Jonathan Tait

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Easy Guide to the Najdorf Variations in Move 6 and Najdorf Quiz.Tony Kosten

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French Defence Advance Variation Volume 1: Basic Course - White Repertoire.Evgeny Sveshnikov

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French Defence Advance Variation Volume 2: Advanced Course - White Repertoire.Evgeny Sveshnikov

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Gambit Champion Openings 2,000 Gambit Strategies!Eric Schiller

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Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black Scandinavian Defence, Queens Gambit Declined and Flank Openings.Eric Schiller

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Grandmaster Gambits Super Exciting and Aggressive Repertoire to Surprice Your Opponents.Richard Palliser and Simon Williams

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How to win at Chess - Quickly The Key Skill is to recognise the critical moments that determines the Game.Simon Williams

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Kings Indian Black Repertoire with f6, g6, d6 The King’s Indian Defence.Alexei Kornev

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Main Line 1.e4 Playbook 200 Opening Chess Positions for White.Tim Sawyer

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Mastering Opening Strategy The Principles with Examples in 5 Chapters.Johan Hellsten

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Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.1 Open Games and Semi-Open Games.John Watson

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Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.2 Closed Games and Indian Systems.John Watson

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Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.3 1.c4 Positional Ideas that Encompass the Entire Range of Practice.John Watson

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Modern Chess Openings One-Volume Reference Book Covering all Chess Openings.Nick de Firmian

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My First Opening Repertoire for Black A Ready-to-go Package for Ambitious Beginners.Vincent Moret

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Open Games with Black The Open Games with Examples and Comments.Martin Lokander

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Opening Preparation Exchange Slav: Strategy and Tactics.Roman Jiganchine

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Opening Systems for Competitive Chess Players A Fire Set of Openings to learn in a minimum amount of time.John Hall

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Openings for Amateurs The Openings are Solid and Aggressive.Pete Tamburro

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Play 1. b4 The Sokolsky Opening, Gambit and Variations.Nick Conticello

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Play the Accelerated Dragon Play the Accelerated Dragon, one of Black’s most popular choices in the Sicilian.Peter Lalic

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Play the Alekhine The initial position of the Alekhine Defence
occurs after 1.e4 Nf6.
Valentin Bogdanov

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Play the Caro-Kann Main Line, Variances and Attacks.Jovanka Houska

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Play the Dutch! 1.d4 with 1...f5.Main line and Sidelines.Tibor Károlyi

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Play the Semi-Slav This is a Repertoire Book on the Semi-Slav Defence to 1.d4.David Vigorito

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Playing 1.d4 Closed Games Guide.Lars Schandorff

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Playing 1.d4 d5 A Complete Guide for Black after 1.d4 d5 with Queen’s Gambit Declined, which arises after 2.c4 e6.Nikolaos Ntirlis

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Playing 1.e4 French Defence & Sicilian Sidelines The purpose of Playing 1.e4 is to supply a top-class repertoire for White.John Shaw

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Playing 1.e4 Sicilian Main Lines The Major Open Sicilian lines, particularly the Sveshnikov and Najdorf.John Shaw

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Playing the Caro-Kann Black Plays the Caro-Kann to get a Complicated and Dynamic Game instead of merely a solid one.Lars Schandorff

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Playing the Najdorf A Practical Repertoire 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6.
David Vigorito

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Playing the Nimzo-Indian Less Common 4th Moves, Kasparov Variation, Rubinstein Variation and Classical Variation.Renier Castellanos

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Playing the Ragozin The Position of the Ragozin Occurs After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4.Richard Pert

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Playing the Stonewall Dutch A Bold Repertoire.Nikola Sedlak

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Playing the Sveshnikov 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5.Milos Pavlovic

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Scandinavian Defence Winning With 2...Nf6.Marek Soszynski

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Scandinavian Defense - Portuguese Variation 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4 - MICOS B03.012.SC.John Roush, Mark Lance and Mike Cornell

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Semi-Slav 5 Bg5 Key Lines and Variants Examined by Games.Bryan Paulsen

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Squeezing the Caro-Kann The Caro-Kann Exchange Variation 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3.Alexander Khalifman and Sergei Soloviov

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Starting Out! 1.d4! A Reliable Repertoire for the Improving Player.John Cox

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Starting Out: Benoni Systems Attack on White's d4-pawn with ..c7-c5 and White Replies d4-d5.A. Raetsky & M. Chetverik

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Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian.Andrew Greet

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Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian The c3 Sicilian arises after the moves 1.e4 c5 2.c3.John Emms

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Starting Out: Sicilian Sveshnikov The Sveshnikov is a Unique Opening. 50 Modern Super Grandmasters would choose Najdorf and Sveshnikov Sicilians.John Cox

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The Alterman Gambit Guide The Benko Gambit, Blumenfeld Gambit, Vaganian Gambit and The English Defense Gambit.Boris Alterman

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The Anti-Alapin Gambit Death to the 2.c3 Sicilian!Cyrus Lakdawala & Carsten Hansen

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The Art of the King's Indian Foreword by Garry Kasparov, Undisputed World Champion 1985–1993 and Classical World Champion 1993–2000.Oleg Stetsko and Eduard Gufeld

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The Berlin Defence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 (the
Ruy Lopez) 3...Nf6.
Michael Roiz

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The Berlin Wall The variation that brought down Kasparov.John Cox

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The Caro-Kann Revisited A Complete Repertoire for Black.Francesco Rambaldi

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The Chess Bible 1.e4! Alekhine’s Defense, Nimzowitsch, Scandinavian, Pirc, Modern Defenses and Philidor Defense.Justin Tan

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The Complete Ragozin The Strongest Ragozin Systems.Matthieu Cornette

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The Dragon Vol. 1 The Dragon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6.Gawain Jones

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The Dragon Vol. 2 The Dragon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6.Gawain Jones

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The English Opening Repertoire The English Opening Lines and Defences.David Cummings

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The French Defence 1 Tired of Bad Positions? Try the Main Lines!Emanuel Berg

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The French Winawer 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 with Famous Game Examples.Steve Giddins

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The Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni Early Moves and Systems.John Watson

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The Grandmaster's Openings Laboratory Complete Opening Repertoire at IM and GM Level.GM Igor Smirnov

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The Hedgehog vs the English/Reti 40 Instructive Games Annotated.Igor Lysyj & Roman Ovetchkin

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The Hyper Accelerated Dragon The Book Presents a Repertoire for Black after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 -
The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon.
Raja Panjwani

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The Ideas behind Chess Openings 1. e4, 1.d4, Réti and English Openings, Bird's and Irregular Openings.Reuben Fine

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The Iron English This book is the Essence of The Iron English Course on Chessable.Simon Williams and Richard Palliser

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The Italian Renaissance Move Orders, Tricks & Alternatives.Martyn Kravtsiv

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The Modern English 1.c4 e5 The English is The Most Promising Way of Starting a Game!Kiril Georgiev and Semko Semkov

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The Modern French Advance and Winawer The Advance Variation and The Winawer Variation.Dmitry Kryakvin

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The Modern Philidor Defence The book is devoted to Different Move-orders. Each Chapter Comprises of a "Quick Repertoire".Vladimir Barsky

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The Modern Réti Anti-QGA, Reversed Benoni, Anti-Slav, Anti-Meran and Anti-Queen's Gambit.Alexander Delchev

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The Modern Scotch The Most “Open” of all the Open Games. 30 Chapters with Openings.Alexander Khalifman and Sergei Soloviov

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The Modern Triangle The Book is Devoted to the Triangle Set-up, which arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3/Nf3 3...c6.Semko Semkov

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The Modernized Anti- Sicilians The Rossolimo.Ravi Haria

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The Modernized Dutch Defense Early Sidelines after 1.d4 f5, Classical Systems and Reti & English.Adrien Demuth

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The Modernized French Defense The French Defense Against the Tarrasch.David Miedema

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The Modernized Grünfeld Defense Exchange Variations, Anti-Grünfeld and Other Variations.Yaroslav Zherebukh

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The Modernized Modern Defense Illustrative Games, Pirc Transpositions, Systems Chess and Theoretical Pure Moderns.Daniel Fernandez

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The Modernized O’Kelly Sicilian Expand Your Knowledge in the 3.c3, 3.c4 and Study Games of GM Vladislav Artemiev.Jan Boekelman

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The Modernized Petrov’s Defense A Complete Opening Repertoire for Black.Milos Pavlovic

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The Modernized Philidor Defense The Advantage of Studying This Book is White Finding New Ideas are Much Lower Than in Any Other Main Openings.Sergio Trigo Urquijo

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The Modernized Reti The Modernized Reti, a Complete Repertoire for White.Adrien Demuth

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The Modernized Ruy Lopez A Complete Repertoire for White.Dariusz Świercz

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The Modernized Sicilian Kan Chapter 1 – 5.Bd3 to Chapter 8 – Various 3rd moves.Adrien Demuth

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The Modernized Stonewall Defense Systems with g3 and Nh3, g3 and Nf3 with ...Be7, g3 and Nf3 with ...Bd6. and other White Setups.Milos Pavlovic

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The Najdorf in Black and White Play the Najdorf with White or Black, through Archetypal Games.Grandmaster Bryan Smith

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The Nimzo and Bogo-Indian Bogo-Indian, Nimzo-Indian, Other Systems after 1.d4 Nf6 and Analyzed Games.Lukasz Jarmula

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The Nimzo-Indian and Queen's Indian Defences 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6, the Nimzo-Indian Arising after 3.Nc3 Bb4 and the Queen’s Indian 3.Nf3 b6.Nigel Davies

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The Nimzo-Indian
Bible for White Vol.1
A Complete Opening Repertoire for White 4.Bd2 & 4.Qc2.Milos Pavlovic

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The Nimzo-Indian
Bible for White Vol.2
A Complete Opening Repertoire for White 4.e3.Milos Pavlovic

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The Nimzo-Indian Defence The Nimzo-Indian Defence with Various 4th Moves and 4.e3 plus 4.Qc2.Michael Roiz

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The Panov-Botvinnik Attack The Major and Minor Lines. Games with Excersis, Questions and Answers to Master the Opening.Lorin D’Costa

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The Petroff Defense The Petroff’s Inherent Solidity Protects from the Unpleasant (computer-aided).Cyrus Lakdawala

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The Petrosian System Against the QID The Queen's Indian Defence 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6. Systems and DeviationsAlexander Beliavsky and Adrian Mikhalchishin

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The Philidor Files Early Deviations and Philidor Hanham Variation.Christian Bauer

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The Pirc Defence The Repertoire Examined in this Book is Primary Positional Play.Mihail Marin

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The Pirc - Modern Defence How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players.Tim Sawyer

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The Queen’s Gambit Both Queens Gambit Accepted and Declined.Damian Lemos

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The Réti The Repertoire Examined in this Book is Primary Positional Play.Sam Collins

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The Safest Grünfeld The Major and Minor Lines. Games with Excersis, Questions and Answers to Master the Opening.Alexander Delchev and
Evgenij Agrest

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The Safest Grünfeld Reloaded A Complete Repertoire for Black.Alexander Delchev

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The Safest Scandinavian A Black Repertoire with 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6.Vassilios Kotronias

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The Semi-Open Game in Action The Sicilian, Caro-Kann, French and Pirc Defence.Anatoly Karpov

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The Sicilian Najdorf 6. Bg5 The Najdorf is Known as the Opening of the World Champions.Kevin Goh Wei Ming

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The Sicilian Taimanov 5...Nb5, 5.Nc3 Qc7, 6.Be2 and 6.Be3.Antonios Pavlidis

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The Sicilian Taimanov Opening Repertoire Different Lines to Master The Taimanov.Nigel Davies

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The Two Knights Defence The Two Knights Defence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6.Jan Pinski

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The Ultimate Closed Sicilian A New Main Line and Different Systems with Games Analyzed.Gary Lane

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Unbeatable! The Art of Defense Inaccurate Defense, The Rise of Defense in Chess History and Defensive Strategies.Jan Werle

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Understanding the Grünfeld Why the Grünfeld?, Part 2: Exchange Variations and Part 3: Other Variations.Jonathan Rowson

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Unortodox Chess Openings This Book Contains Examples of Hundreds of Strategies with a
Non Conformist Bent.
Eric Schiller

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Victory in the Opening The Art of Winning Quickly in Chess.Gary Lane

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Win with the Caro-Kann A Choice of Counter-Attacking Options from a Sound Base.Sverre Johnsen and Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen

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Winning the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit 62 Traps White can use.Bill Harvey

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Winning the Budapest Gambit 82 Traps that Black can really use.Bill Harvey

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Winning the Ruy Lopez Marshall Gambit 90 Traps Black can use.Bill Harvey

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Winning the Staunton Gambit: 25 crushing blows White Quickly Offers a Pawn in the Staunton Gambit with 1.d4 f5 2.e4.Bill Harvey

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Winning with the Modern London System A Complete Opening Repertoire for White against 1.d4 d5.Nikola Sedlak

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Wojo's Weapons Wojo was able to Achieve a Stunning Winning Percentage of 80.2% over the course of 91 Games.Jonathan Hilton and Dean Ippolito
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