CHESS player / reseller’s DREAM LOT 16 BRAND NEW books for Chess teachers coaches students wanting to improve openings, middlegame, tactics & endgame

This is a perfect inexpensive set for a chess teacher or coach, whether for instruction or as a gift to students.  It would also round out a beginning/intermediate lower-rated chess player library.

These chess books cover everything from openings to middlegame tactics to endgames to specialized nuances of the game.

Most of the books are suitable for beginners through club players, USCF ratings from about 1050 through 1700 or 1800 in some lines.

These books are all BRAND NEW.  My estimate of the TOTALS of estimated retail offering prices ranges from a low of $41,35 to a max of $176.29.  I have shown “median” prices, which is the most common list price found (which total over $100.oo).  You can buy these SIXTEEN brand new CHESS books to create an additional shelf presence for chess in your reseller store, to gift to your chess students, to use as a coach in chess lessons, or to improve your own personal chess library.  Reseller should expect to at least double your return on this LOT.  Many of the titles are not available today (even in used condition) at reasonable prices, and there is demand since some coaches still recommend them for their students.

Attacks on the Castled King (Paperback)

by A. J. Gillam

Estimated retail offering price range $2.50 to $6.50;  median $4.98

Most of the castled positions are King-side, but you’ll get the feel of when an attack needs to be executed and how to go about it.

Probably best suited for players rated from 1150 to 1500, and it goes extremely will with the author's Attack on the King in the Center (included in this set).

Sample Review:

“… This book is written for amateurs.  It has about 100 games with a light level of very helpful annotation. Very readable and realistic. The games are full of blunders, each of which the author explains. … These blunders are typical of the errors in amateur play.”

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chess Enterprises (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945470843
• ISBN-13: 978-0945470847
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces

Attacking the King in the Center (Paperback)

by A. J. Gillam

Estimated retail offering price range:  $4.50 to $22.99; median $13.50.

This book is very similar to Gillam's Attack on the Castled King (also included in this set!), only these are examples where the King has not had time to castle! This is common in amateur play.  This book is suited for slightly lower rated players than the Castled one, maybe 1050-1450 USCF.  Much of this book consists of opening blunders, and as such is an excellent way to improve your opening play.

Review:  from the website of  Lifemaster A.J. Goldsby

Your opponent's King is more vulnerable to attack while it remains in the center of the board, hence the (reason for) early castling - to remove the King to a safer position. But conditions during the early moves (of a game) often precludes castling, and proper early development of one's pieces can provide the strength to take advantage of the weaker King's position. Here are 141 games illustrating attacks against such a King, with numerous diagrams to assist in following the attacking moves. The notes clearly explain the flow of the attack for the developing player. The author emphasizes the message to enjoy yourself! A quick attack against the opponent's King is a source of constant enjoyment, and here - in this book - are the ways to accomplish this. ( - Derived from the back cover.) 

• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: Chess Enterprises (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945470819
• ISBN-13: 978-0945470816
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.6 ounces

Checkmate: Ideas for Students (Paperback)

by John A. Bain

Estimated retail offering price: $1.95 to $3.95;  Median $3.49

Appropriate for grade-school and is presented in worksheet format with lots of diagrams.  Activities for Coaches/Teachers to use. Covers ideas for students such as  pins,  discovered checks, sacrifices, removing the guard, attraction, clearance, attacking flight squares.

• Paperback: 71 pages
• Publisher: Learning Plus Inc (June 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963961438
• ISBN-13: 978-0963961433
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces

Chess Rules

by John A. Bain

Estimated retail offering price: $1.95 to $3.50;  Median $2.99

Appropriate for grade-school and is presented in worksheet format with lots of diagrams.  Activities for Coaches/Teachers to use. Covers all chess rules for students such as  en passant, pawn promotion, algebraic notation, castling, drawn games, etc.

Edition:  Student edition

Format :  Paperback

ISBN 1o:  096396142X

ISBN 13 :   9780963961426

Win at Chess: A Comprehensive Guide to Winning Chess for the Intermediate Player (Paperback)

By Ron Curry

Estimated retail offering price: $3.95 to $18.95;  Median $9.11

Product Description
One of the best basic books on chess which has been plublished-3rd printing. This book is geered toward the intermediate player. An intermeditate chessplayer needs information and guidance that is reliable, practical, clear, and well-organized. The comprehensive, Master-proven principles and techniques in this book will improve your chess games and help you progress toward chess mastery.

About the Author
Ron Curry was honored by the United State Chess Federation with the prestigious Meritorious Service Award for his teaching efforts. An expert player for many years, Curry's students have provided many testimonials as to his prowess.

• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Thinkers' Press (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938650645
• ISBN-13: 978-0938650645
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces

The Art of Triangulation

By Robert Brieger

Estimated retail offering price:  $ 2.00 to $8.95; Median $6.00

Robert Brieger, well known author and chess problem specialist of Houston, Texas, presents a valuable book on the endgame technique of losing a move through triangulation to place the opponent in a position in which he must make an undesirable move, weakening his position. Brieger has called the result a squeeze position. He has coined this term to differentiate the process which has frequently been erroneously called zugzwang. He carefully elaborates on the difference between the two concepts to help the reader properly handle the endgame, and naturally win more games as a result. Sixty positions clearly illustrate the concepts to ensure that the reader obtains the maximum benefits from studying the book. Many of the diagrammed positions contain brilliant chess play which also entertains any chess player.

The book teaches the player to use triangulation and win more games.

Finally, this book explains to the chess world the difference between a Squeeze and a Zugzwang, a term which is often misused. (See author’s next book, included in this set).

Publisher:  Chess Enterprises

ISBN-10:  0-945470-92-7

In Search of Zugzwang

By Robert Brieger & R. W. Twombly

See Brieger’s The Art of Triangulation (also included in this set).

Estimated retail offering price:  $2.00 to $13.50;  Median 11.15

If a player is in Zugzwang, then the player doesn't have a useful move.

However, to assume that the converse is a Zugzwang is a fundamental error in logic. Simply because a player does not have a useful move,does not mean he is in Zugzwang! Yet one master published this false definition: "If the player doesn't have a useful move the player is in zugzwang." It will be the intent of this author to point out this logical error as it has appeared in the literature and to substitute a more precise term to situations where a player is forced into a position where he doesn't have a useful move. The reader will find that here such situations in his book “Triangulation” will be called a Squeeze, wherein a player finds himself in a position in which he is compelled to move, and by so doing seriously weakens his position.

A zugzwang exists when either player to move loses!

The evil burden is reciprocal. However, in situations where a player is systematically deprived of suitable moves so that he is forced finally to make a clearly losing move we have a squeeze. The squeezing player utilizes a waiting move that shifts the burden back onto the player being squeezed. And there is a crucial difference between a squeeze and a zugzwang, where no matter who has the move the burden is lethal!

Moon Township, Pennsylvania,

 Chess Enterprises. 2001, 1st Printing.

(ISBN: 0-945470-86-x)

Frankenstein-Dracula Variation in the Vienna Game (Paperback)

by Eric Schiller

Estimated retail offering price:  $3.00 to $9.95;  Median $9.00

If you are a teacher or chess coach,  this book just has to be the   HALLOWEEN   gift for  your chess students !

Product Description
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4!? is a monstrous thicket of complications which still have not been fully explored. Experiments have managed to bring the monster back to life and it is considered playable. 200+ complete games.

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Chess Enterprises (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945470754
• ISBN-13: 978-0945470755
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces

Panov Attack : Volume II - the Main Lines with 5.... E7-e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 (Paperback)

by Eric Schiller

Estimated retail offering price:  $1.50 to $7.50;  Median $7.20

• Publisher: Chess Enterprises (1994)
• ASIN: B000MC9JW6

Panov Attack : Volume III - the attack with 5.... g6  (Paperback)

by Eric Schiller

Estimated retail offering price:  $1.50 to $7.50;  Median $6.50

• Publisher: Moon Township, PA, U.S.A.: Chess Enterprises, Inc (January 1, 1995)
• ASIN: B001U3I31E

500 English Miniatures

by Bill Wall, Edmar Mednis

Estimated retail offering price:  $2.50 to  $13.00;  Median $10.37

  ISBN-13: 9780945470045

  ISBN: 0945470045

       Pub. Date: September 1990

       Publisher: Chess Enterprises

       Format: Paperback, 102pp

500 Alekine Miniatures

by Bill Wall

Estimated retail offering price:  $2.50 to  $10.00;  Median $8.97

500 Blackmar Diemer Gambit Miniatures

by Bill Wall

Estimated retail offering price:  $2.50 to  $11.00;  Median $7.97

IMPROVE YOUR CHESS: Better Chess Series Vol. 2 (Better Chess Series, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

by A. J. Gillam

Estimated retail offering price:  $3.00 to $13.00;  Median $6.00 (original cover price)

IMPROVE YOUR CHESS: Vol. 2 of the Better Chess Series  by  A. J. GILLIAM.   This is Vol 2 in the Better Chess Series. A collection of 372 chess positions for the player to practice winning material or execute checkmate. The examples have been carefully chosen and graded to help the player improve their skill and sight of the board, even with relatively little prior experience. Work from the diagrams or over the board. You are given hints to help you. Chess Enterprises. * 96 Pages * 1st Ed. * 1993* 8vo PB * 372 Diagrams * Found used book that approaches the condition of As New, but without being crisp List $6.00- $9.98?  This book is BRAND NEW.

• Publisher: Chess Enterprises; 1st Ed. edition (1993)
• ISBN-10: 0945470290
• ISBN-13: 978-0945470298

YOUR MOVE: Better Chess Series Vol. 3 (Better Chess Series, Vol. 3) (Paperback)

by A. J. Gillam

Estimated retail offering price:  $3.00 to $13.00;  Median $6.00 (original cover price)

This is Vol 3 in the Better Chess Series. A collection of  chess positions for the player to practice.  Work from the diagrams or over the board. You are given hints to help you. Chess Enterprises.

ISBN 10:  0945470304

ISBN 13: 9780945470304

WINNING At CHESS: Better Chess Series Vol. 4 (Better Chess Series, Vol. 4) (Paperback)

by A. J. Gillam

Estimated retail offering price:  $3.00 to $13.00;  Median $6.00 (original cover price)

This is Vol 4 in the Better Chess Series. A collection of  chess positions for the player to practice.  Work from the diagrams or over the board. You are given hints to help you. Chess Enterprises.

ISBN 10:  0945470312

ISBN 13;  9780945470311