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  • Two new titles have just arrived!

    They are available online now

    www.strategygames.ca

    as well as in our Montreal store. They will be available in Toronto Wednesday afternoon and in Ottawa Thursday afternoon.

    Mastering Chess Openings V 4

    In this highly-acclaimed series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.

    This final volume draws together many themes in a wide-ranging discussion of general opening topics. By looking at familiar situations from new angles, Watson helps us greatly increase our understanding of them. In the process, he covers a wide variety of opening structures and variations not seen in the earlier volumes and presents a great wealth of original analysis.

    * Réti and Fianchetto Systems
    * Reversed Openings
    * Symmetry
    * Irregular Openings
    * Gambits: Primitive or Positional
    * Universal Openings

    In the final two chapters, Watson presents his views on the importance of opening study and explains how players should best prepare and choose their openings for the level at which they play. He looks at the future of chess openings and explains which skills will be most important as chess evolves in the forthcoming decades.


    $32.95

    Nunn's Chess Endings V 1

    In this major two-volume work, renowned endgame theoretician John Nunn teaches the skills that are most important to success in practical endgames.

    Going beyond standard texts, Dr Nunn shows how to apply knowledge of standard endgames to find the right methods in tricky real-life practical situations - even when they differ greatly from the idealized forms given by traditional endgame manuals.

    * Identifies new and important motifs which occur repeatedly in over-the-board play
    * Tactical elements are heavily featured
    * In many examples, previous analysis is corrected
    * Focuses on endgames that are susceptible to concrete analysis
    * Geared to the over-the-board player - no composed or artificial positions
    * Ideas underlying analysis - however complex - are richly explained in words

    Nunn shows that lack of familiarity with key ideas can cause important ideas and themes to be missed even by very strong players. We discover that a staggering amount of previously published endgame analysis is simply wrong, and that many of the standard guidelines are at best partially true.

    This first volume covers general topics and discusses in detail pawn endings, queen endings and minor-piece endings.


    $32.95

    Thank you for your continued support!


    Larry Bevand
    Executive Director
    Chess'n Math Association
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