WonderWord Treasury 10
For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.
WonderWord Treasury 12
For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.
WonderWord Treasury 13
For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.
Minibeasts
Uncover the astounding world of insects, spiders, and other creepy crawlies with this informative card deck! Rummage through the big world of tiny creatures with Minibeasts, an informative deck of cards featuring fascinating facts about fifty bugs, from the everyday to the weird and wacky. Discover what ladybugs eat, where rainbow stag beetles live, and how large a wolf spider can grow. Written by Dr. Megan Wilkerson, an entomologist (studier of insects) and science educator, this card deck is full of expert knowledge in a friendly and approachable voice, perfectly suited for children and adults alike. Whether you're a seasoned bug expert or a curious newcomer, these cards are sure to provide hours of entertainment and education.
Your Ramadan Journal
A stunning spiritual toolkit for Ramadan and beyond, to build healthy new habits and strengthen existing practices.This beautifully illustrated journal is an opportunity for you to (re)connect with your faith and help you explore themes and concepts such as compassion, self-awareness, mindfulness, acceptance, and commitment.Written by psychotherapist Humza Khan, this handy journal features an array of mindful activities and exercises to help you prepare for Ramadan, as well as offering simple yet effective strategies to use throughout the holy month and beyond. This is your spiritual toolkit to help you develop your discipline, build on what Ramadan entails, and work toward a more mindful approach to your faith.
Brain Boost: 365 Brain Games for Adults
Want to keep your mind young, healthy and sharp? Combat cognitive decline and lower your brain age with fun games and puzzles designed to increase memory, sharpen reasoning, and expand creative thinking. Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour, this engaging daily activity book of mental exercises can help enhance brain function and maintain razor-sharp thinking well into your golden years. Brain Boost: 365+ Large-Print Brain Games for Adults transforms idle moments into engaging mental workouts with large-print puzzles designed to improve focus and long-term brain health. With classic crosswords, word searches, logic puzzles, Sudoku and innovative challenges, each activity offers the perfect balance of stimulation and enjoyment. These brain games supply daily puzzles to strengthen your mind and maintain mental fitness to go through at your own pace: Enjoy 365+ engaging puzzles that build cognitive skills year-round Strategic mix of classics and challenges to target different areas of mental challenges: Crosswords for vocabulary, Sudoku for logic, plus cryptograms, math puzzles, logic grids, and more Multiple difficulty levels to ensure optimal challenge Instructions on how to play nine different kind of puzzles and memory games Clearly labeled and easy to find answer key to double check your work Large-print layouts for both quick sessions and extended solvingBoost: 365+ Large-Print Brain Games for Adults delivers expertly designed puzzles that strengthen your mind while keeping you engaged and entertained. This activity book is perfect for: Everyone--gift it to yourself, busy professionals needing productive breaks, moms, dads, grandparents and other seniors wanting to maintain cognitive function Entertainment while traveling on road trips, long haul flights and more Disconnecting from the constant screen time, social media, and giving your brain a fun refresh
Summer Delights
Summer Delights invites you into a cheerful world of sunny days, sweet treats, and playful adventures. With charming illustrations of cute animals enjoying everything from picnics to ice cream, this coloring book captures the magic of summer in every page. Whether you're lounging at the beach or daydreaming of warmer days, it's the perfect companion for a relaxing, feel-good creative escape.
Secret Gardens
Secret Gardens invites you into a hidden world of leafy paths, cozy cottages, and whimsical animals tucked among the flowers. With every page, you'll uncover a peaceful corner of nature where cuteness blooms and magic lingers. Perfect for a calming coloring escape, it's a gentle adventure through nature's most charming secrets.
New York Times Games Large-Print Crosswords Volume 3
Sharpen your mind with large-print crosswordsBoost your brainpower by challenging yourself to 120 New York Times Games crosswords. Increasing in difficulty as you go, this collection of puzzles has big grids and lots of space to keep you engaged for hours. Features: - 120 easy-to-read New York Times Games crossword puzzles- All levels of difficulty- Created by the world's top crossword constructors
Openings for Amateurs - Theory Vs Practice
The final volume in Pete Tamburro's trilogy is finally here! Chock-full of practical advice aimed at the average-to-advancing club player, Openings for Amateurs - Theory vs Practice rounds off this acclaimed series with discussions of sharp and sneaky openings you will often face in tournaments and cautionary tales of the opening traps that people still fall into. And since you've advanced this far, there are 38 carefully annotated games on key themes in positional chess, including a close look at isolated queen pawn openings; what to know about the Minority Attack; learning why "equal" doesn't always mean "drawn"; and a deeper dive into the Ruy L籀pez, where you will learn some grand strategies - one of them going back all the way to Alexander the Great.The final section is a special feature, rarely seen in the chess literature: a collection of nearly two dozen games from the biggest amateur team tournament in the world, where Pete illustrates what he's been talking about in all three volumes. It's a chess feast of 85 games explained to amateurs the way they should be!
Afterthoughts
Richard Ayoade dispenses a lifetime of deepness into over 500 individually digestible thought pellets. Taste, masticate, and savour. You're about to get extremely wise.Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne. Men who have searched for meaning with, let's face it, mixed results. Whither the one who can solve it? Cometh the hour, cometh the Ayoade. Yes: another man (in his way) but also something bigger. Bigger even than a big man. Bigger, perhaps, than a generalisation. Like a spirit, maybe? Afterthoughts goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.Richard Ayoade has set down some of his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like...TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your doors. They shouldn't be doing that.Where's the box to tick if you ARE a robot?My mother used to say Manners Maketh the Man, but I didn't think it was very mannerly of her to make fun of my lisp.
Mental Game
We all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game. Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an 18-month period in which she worked with Grandmaster Alexander Galkin. A year later, Maltsevskaya became World Junior Champion. Galkin holds nothing back in revealing the highs, lows, jubilations and frustrations that were experienced in their collaboration, all while providing expert insights that will benefit chess players and coaches alike. The book contains a wealth of bonus material, including all eleven annotated games from Maltsevskaya's World Championship victory.
Reimagining 1.E4
Every chess player faces an opening dilemma: big main lines are complicated and time-consuming to learn, while easy-to-learn sidelines usually suffer from other defects. Finding the best of both worlds has been an impossible dream - until now! Reimagining 1.e4 offers the Holy Grail of a simple, easy-to-learn White repertoire, which packs a punch against all of Black's main defences. In some lines, White unleashes a surprise as early as move 3. In others, White follows the known paths for a little longer, but only when there are big rewards to justify a modest effort.
Chess in Miniature - Volume 1
Discover the art of the brilliant short game. In this first volume of Chess in Miniature, the author explores the secrets behind spectacular encounters lasting no more than 25 moves. Rather than simply presenting collections of miniatures, this book identifies and explains the factors that consistently create dazzling victories. From tactical awareness and queen activity to timely sacrifices and dominant knights, readers are shown how the best miniatures are constructed -- and how they can create their own. Packed with entertaining games, Volume 1 makes the process of learning as exciting as the games themselves. A fresh and original take on one of chess literature's most beloved topics.
Chess in Miniature - Volume 2
The journey into the world of sparkling short games continues. Chess in Miniature: Volume 2 takes up where the first book left off, exploring the next set of 'Secrets' that underpin brilliant miniatures. From choosing appropriate openings to exploiting greed, from classical sacrifices to advanced calculation, this volume reveals how winners consistently shape games that delight and instruct. With carefully chosen examples and insightful commentary, the book not only entertains but also inspires readers to attempt their own mini-masterpieces. Whether you want to sharpen your tactical instincts, enrich your opening play, or simply enjoy some of the most striking games in chess, this volume will both instruct and delight.
Magic Chess Moves
Magic Chess Moves is a book that will enthral you while also testing and improving your chess abilities. You will be invited to solve a collection of exercise positions, but the accompanying text contains far more than simply the solutions. The author offers his reflections on all manner of other fascinating topics, such as how tactics can be coached, and details of the composer's life story. Magic Chess Moves contains the condensed wisdom of an experienced chess trainer with an emphasis on practical improvement. The 317 positions in this book are of mixed difficulty levels, with examples from over-the-board play and from chess compositions. Each and every exercise has been carefully selected for its instructive value to the practical player.
Fischer - Spassky 1972
The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer - Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this monumental match. Bobby Fischer is one of the greatest chess players of all time. His astonishing journey up to the 1972 match was documented in The Road to Reykjavik. In this volume, award-winning author Tibor Karolyi completes his study of Fischer's career with in-depth analysis of the legendary Reykjavik match and the controversial Fischer - Spassky 1992 rematch.
Winning
Grandmaster Nigel Short realised that every tournament win has a unique narrative and challenge. In this exceptional chess book, Short discusses eight of his foremost tournament wins, describing the drama with insightful game annotations and entertaining anecdotes. For those wanting to win in chess, this book is the place to start.
Secret Ingredient
The Secret Ingredient is a grandmaster guide to maximizing your chess results, focusing on key elements of practical play which have received little to no attention in previous chess literature. How exactly can we best make use of computers? What's the ideal, step-by-step way to prepare against a specific opponent? How can we optimize our time management at the board? And what's the one key skill that separates the best players from those who have yet to reach their full potential? GM Jan Markos sheds light on these topics and many more, helped by the world-class insights of his good friend GM David Navara
Chess Evolution 1
Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals Series is the easier one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, the Endgame, Calculating Variations, Openings and so on - are spread evenly over the nine volumes, giving the readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world in 2009 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).
Analyzing the Chess Mind
Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how. To write about chess psychology, the ideal authors would have world-class chess skills and advanced professional qualifications in psychology, so GM Boris Gulko and Dr Joel Sneed are perfect for the task of Analyzing the Chess Mind.
Baby: A Keepsake Memory Book
A newborn's first year is the most special of times for any growing family, and this gorgeously illustrated keepsake book provides space to record every measurement, milestone, and moment of joy. A cornucopia of watercolor safari animals await on each page with space to record everything from memories of a first bath to baby's family tree. This entire lovingly crafted product is housed in a keepsake box free of marketing material to help create a lasting cherished heirloom.
Playing the Stonewall Dutch
The Dutch Defence is one of Black's most combative responses to 1.d4, and the Stonewall is the boldest version of this opening. Black immediately seizes space in the centre and clamps down on the e4-square, laying the foundations for a complicated strategic battle. Many players believe the Stonewall to be a substandard opening, naively assuming that the e5-outpost and bad light-squared bishop must give White the advantage. GM Nikola Sedlak disagrees, and in Playing the Stonewall Dutch he shares the insights that have helped him to rack up a healthy plus score from Black's side. In addition to providing a complete repertoire in the main lines of the Stonewall, this book also offers useful guidance on dealing with Anti-Dutch variations and various move-order subtleties.
Chess Evolution 2
Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals Series is the easier one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, the Endgame, Calculating Variations, Openings and so on - are spread evenly over the nine volumes, giving the readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world in 2009 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).
Build Up Your Chess 1
Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals Series is the easier one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, the Endgame, Calculating Variations, Openings and so on - are spread evenly over the nine volumes, giving the readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books. Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world in 2009 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).
Endgame Labyrinths
Endgame Labyrinths presents the reader with 1002 challenging studies selected and truncated, with their usefulness for the practical player in mind. It is common for studies to be extended by less interesting manoeuvres or by incomprehensible sequences, before the main themes come into play. The studies in this book have been pruned to leave the reader with 1002 clear and solvable challenges. A few years of extensive selection, analysis, reselection, reanalysis and refining have gone into putting together the study book for the practical player with the most value ever.
Chess Survivor
In Chess Survivor - The Last of the Greats a chess legend shares his life story and annotates his best games. When FIDE introduced the grandmaster title in 1950, Andor Lilienthal was one of the 27 names on that original list. And when he died at age 99, he was the last survivor of that historic group. This inspired our title. Douglas Griffin translated Lilienthal's book from Russian and added 17 games to the 60 that Lilienthal annotated. Lilienthal met or played all the World Champions of the 20th century. In fact, that understates it - Lilienthal won a game against Lasker, whose reign began in the 19th century. And some 21st-century champions, such as Vladimir Kramnik, certainly met Lilienthal. One might say that Lilienthal was connected to three centuries of chess. Lilienthal's quality of play matched his longevity. Most famous is his win against Capablanca in 1935. Equally famous is the story that when Bobby Fischer saw Lilienthal in the audience during his 1992 return match against Spassky, Fischer immediately said: "Pawn e5 takes f6!" - a reference to that Capablanca game.
Playing the Najdorf
The Sicilian Najdorf is one of Black's best and most combative responses to 1.e4. The Najdorf was championed by Fischer and Kasparov during their respective periods of dominance over the world chess scene, and has been used extensively by many other World Champions and elite GMs, including Anand, Gelfand, Topalov and Vachier-Lagrave to name but a few. Despite the Najdorf's obvious pedigree, many players are intimidated by the highly tactical and theoretical nature of some of its main lines. In Playing the Najdorf, IM David Vigorito shows that this need not be a problem, as he offers a complete repertoire for Black based on positional principles, offering sound recommendations which lead to a fighting game without turning the battle into a memory contest.
Chess in Miniature - Volume 1
Discover the art of the brilliant short game. In this first volume of Chess in Miniature, the author explores the secrets behind spectacular encounters lasting no more than 25 moves. Rather than simply presenting collections of miniatures, this book identifies and explains the factors that consistently create dazzling victories. From tactical awareness and queen activity to timely sacrifices and dominant knights, readers are shown how the best miniatures are constructed -- and how they can create their own. Packed with entertaining games, Volume 1 makes the process of learning as exciting as the games themselves. A fresh and original take on one of chess literature's most beloved topics.
King's Indian Warfare
King's Indian Warfare is a practical guide to the most dynamic and ambitious defence against 1.d4. Learn to play the King's Indian like a world-class attacker from a life-long expert. Inside Smirin annotates his best games in the King's Indian, explaining his successes, including his mini-match of four games over a decade against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, which Smirin won 21/2-11/2. From sacrificial feasts to positional masterclasses, this book has it all.
My Great Predecessors 1
My Great Predecessors is rereleased, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style. Part I covers the dawn of modern chess and the reigns of the first four World Champions: Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894), Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921), Jos矇 Ra繳l Capablanca (1921-1927), and Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935 and 1937-1946). Winner of the ECF Book of the Year 2003
My Great Predecessors 5
My Great Predecessors is rereleased, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style. Part V covers the rise and reign of Anatoly Karpov (1975-1985). After becoming World Champion by default following Fischer's abdication of the throne, Karpov dominated the elite tournament circuit and defended his title in two high-profile matches against Viktor Korchnoi. Shortlisted for the ECF Book of the Year 2006
My Great Predecessors 2
My Great Predecessors is rereleased, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style. Part II covers the post age of the return matches and the 5th through 8hth World Champions: Max Euwe (1935-1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963), Vasily Smyslov (1957-1958) and Mikhail Tal (1960-1961). ECF Book of the Year 2004 Runner-up
My Great Predecessors 4
My Great Predecessors is rereleased, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style. Part IV tells the story of legendary World Champion, Robert James Fischer (1972-1975). The American burst onto the international stage in the late 1950s, broke the Soviet chess hegemony, before finally defeating Spassky in Reykjavik in the "Match of the Century." Winner of the ECF Book of the Year 2005
My Great Predecessors 3
My Great Predecessors is rereleased, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style. Part III covers the ninth and tenth World Champions: Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972) and a time where there was no dominant player in the chess world.
