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Letterati spans the history of competitive Scrabble® in North America from the colorful hustlers of the 1960s New York game rooms, to the hard driving quantitative tile pushers who dominate the game today with strategic skills and memorized vocabularies. Yet, there is more to the history of Scrabble® than just playing the game. There is a parallel plot line that revolves around many of the top players, who over the years have wanted to see the game...
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Perhaps the most authoritative work on the subject, this encyclopedic volume is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world. It provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.
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First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble has gone on to be one of the biggest selling board games in history-and is currently gaining legions of new fans in the online world.
Perhaps the fascination of SCRABBLE lies in the fact that the game combines just the right amount of luck with just the right amount of skill.
Scrabble is a game of words that can be played up to four players or as little as two players where the players earn...
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Mah Jong for Beginners is one of the first books to explain the game to English language readers. It remains a classic, both for its authenticity and clarity, and as a wonderful introduction for anyone who wants to know more about the fast-paced and complex game of Mah Jong. It contains everything you need to know to get started playing this Chinese tile game. Drawing directly on the rules and regulations of the Mah Jong Association of Japan, it offers...
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For centuries, countless thousands of chess and checker players have gazed absently at the other side of the board, never wondering what it was all about. It never occurred to most of them that they already had in their possession most of the basic implements for one of the keenest games of all time, a game which not only deserves to be ranked with checkers and chess, but has some fascinating an unusual points of its own: Backgammon. We say "most"...
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Games are great, especially board games. But there are times when you find yourself stuck somewhere without any games: No cards, no dice, not even a coin to flip. This book will save the day!
As long as you have a pencil and paper, you can play any of these 17 awesome games, including laugh-out-loud party games, deep-thinking strategy games, clever word games, and more!
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How do YOU play ?
Aspiring to the Well-Played Game can profoundly shape our characters, for the better! After 35-years of gaming, together the authors noticed that the lessons they learned around the game table were helping them and their family in all sorts of ways. This is their love letter to the hobby of adult board games. It examines the role of these games in the formation of our characters as we learn to win and lose gracefully. It looks at...
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For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games. Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others.
Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed...
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Are you ready to improve your tactical game?
It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important. This is a massive collection of tactical puzzles from games played in 2019The puzzles vary in difficulty, some are relatively easy, some are little more difficult, but you will find that all of them are easier and more straight-forward than the puzzles found in the other...
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Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.
The chess openings covered in this volume...
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WIN FAST!
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.
The chess openings covered in...
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This book is about the Double Set Game (D.4.2.11) played on the Advance chess game board called Model III, the Longitudinal Star Gate 14 Model, or S.G 14 Model.
In the Double Set Game that involves the play of two chess sets played on Model III, unlike the Single Set game, a chess player will have to Checkmate his/her opponents' Kings twice in order to win the match. Whereas in the Single Set game that involves a Single set game, a chess player needs...
14) Chess Tactics
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The follow-up to the internationally bestselling volume 1.Are you ready to seriously improve your game?It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important. But if you are like most players, you only discover the tactics after you come home and run through your game with a chess engine. So what to do? In the present book, you will be challenged 404 times but unlike most...
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Ajedrez
Es el juego de los reyes. El ajedrez es uno de los juegos de mesa más estratégicos y desafiantes del mundo. Requiere paciencia, conocimiento y la capacidad de leer a tu oponente. Es un juego con más resultados posibles que átomos hay en el universo, así que llamarlo dinámico sería quedarse corto.
Puede resultar abrumador, sobre todo cuando aún estás aprendiendo los entresijos del juego. Pero una vez que se le coge el truco,...
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Your kids are buzzing bundles of energy, ever eager for new experiences and new challenges. And, one of your toughest jobs as a parent is finding ways to channel kids' energies that promote healthy development, while keeping them entertained. Good news, your job just got a little easier.
Fair weather or foul, My Book of Indoor Games helps you keep the peace and banish bad moods with:
- 180 indoor games for kids
- Games for every occasion, setting...
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Omnibus edition of volumes 1-3 in the popular Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening series.
Volume 1 covers all of the Indian Defenses: Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, King's Indian, Gruenfeld Indian, and the Bogo-Indian as well as the Catalan Opening, and Blumenfeld Gambit .Volume 2 covers all openings starting with 1.d, 4, d5, including the Queen's Gambit and Slav Defense as well as many popular specialty lines. Volume 3 covers all Flank Openings,...
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