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In this book, the authors aim to assist the reader in becoming better at finding combinations and creative solutions, constructing plans, and calculating long, forcing variations. For the purpose of instruction, the material is based on the creative output of the Austrian International Master in Chess Composition Alois Wotawa (1896-1970), using his endgame compositions from various works and publications.This is not a book for lower-rated players and newcomers to chess, as the mater...

Omnibus edition of volumes 7-9 in the popular Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening series.Volume 7 covers a variety of Semi-Open Games such as the Pirc, Modern Defense, King's Fianchetto, Alekhine Defense, Scandinavian Defense (Center Counter), Owen's Defense & Nimzowitsch Defense.Volume 8 covers all openings starting with 1.e4 e5, including the Scotch Game, Italian Game, Evans Gambit, Two Knights, Ruy Lopez, Three & Four Knights, King's Gambit, The Petroff, Philidor a...

FROM THE PUBLISHER OF DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP'Such a heart-warming, wonderful little read that'll appeal to anyone who understands what it means to fall in love with stories' - 5***** Reader ReviewThere's a book written for every one of us...Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He ...

People say that if Charlie Pratt had a penny for every blunder, he'd fill his pockets and then misplace his trousers.When Charlie tries to learn more about Dalia Addair, the peculiar girl who lives in the haunted manor on the edge of town, he accidentally slots himself into her magical trial—a trial that she has spent her whole life preparing for; he gets a day.But something's wrong; the trial is unleashing monsters that haven't been seen for centuries, and ...

Tired of being recommended to study chess tactics but the tactics in the books do not look anything like what could arise in the openings you play? So am I! Well, here is the answer: opening specific tactical exercises split up by variation from actual games.In this book, you will face hundreds of tactical positions, not only combinations but positions with tactical elements for you to solve and familiarize yourself with. This will help you be extra tactically alert when you are pla...

In 1848, the young men of Marstal leave their Danish island town to fight in the First Schleswig War, and the sea begins to claim them.Set in the Danish seafaring town of Marstal from 1848 to the end of the Second World War, We, The Drowned follows three generations shaped by salt water, violence, and absence. Laurids Madsen returns from battle restless and drawn back to the ocean. His son Albert grows up in the shadow of a father who belongs more to the sea than t...

US conservatives have long trumpeted a hard line--and even US military action--against Syria. Yet the current unrest and the regime's apparent lack of concern about international opinion after its brutal crackdown on Dera'a show that Syria's immediate neighbors support the dictatorial Baath regime as a better alternative than the uncertainties of a democracy that might well be dominated by Islamic parties.Will Syria emerge as a democracy? And, if the strict bands of the security st...

When a stranger arrives at the palace in the dead of night, carrying a priceless, magical artefact, Dalia and Charlie set off to find the fabled Four Watchmen who can help protect it. It couldn't have come at a worse time though, with the great house of Aelyndore opening its door to apprentices for the first time in decades and Charlie promising himself that he won't get into any more trouble this term.With time running out—literally, and deadly creatures breaching the magical barri...

Drawing on psychology, lived experience, and the environments that shaped his own recovery, a clinical psychologist introduces a way of understanding the mind as an ecosystem—one that must be supported, stabilized, and nourished before it can truly change.For many people, therapy, medication, and self-help advice provide insight—but not relief. They understand why they feel the way they do, yet still feel numb, disconnected, or emotionally distant from the...

An essential part of improving at chess is tactics. Tactics occur at every level of chess but once the players become stronger the elements involved in spotting the puzzles tend to become more complex and deeper, whereas, among weaker players, elementary skewers, forks, and deadly pins are more frequent visitors.

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world.When Kollhoff unexpectedly l...

Future alpha Wesley Stone's 6th-grade teacher assigns his class a pen pal project with a class located in another state. The young alpha soon finds himself forming a close snail mail friendship with a young, orphaned human girl, Haven Kenway. Over time, they lose touch, but neither forgets the other. Years pass, and Haven now lives in one of the towns near Wesley's pack. When they finally meet in person, sparks fly, and neither can resist the attraction they feel for each other. As secrets...