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Who doesn't like to play games? Even more fun than playing is winning. Many of our ebooks will help you play better, win more, learn new strategies and acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation of chess, bridge and several other games.
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Scarney DiceJohn Scarne John Scarne invented many games. None had any lasting success, although many of them a very clever inventions. This is a collection of games with dice.
From the back cover: Scarney Dice, the fantastic, new dice era, is without a doubt the greatest contribution to dice playing since the invention of dice back in the prehistoric Neanderthal days. There are forty terrific, exciting, new kinds of dice games for home, club, and casion that may be played with the Scarney Dice. Included among this group of fantastic skill and chance games are Scarney Dice, Scarney Poker Dice, Scarney Duplicate... | 2007 / 1 / 14 | $10.00 £7.98 €8.99 Ca$13.42 Au$14.03 ¥1156.23 | to wish list | ||||||
The World's Greatest PuzzlesTimothy Hyde Timothy Hyde has been a puzzle fan all his life.
For pure enjoyment and challenge there is nothing like a great puzzle. They extend our minds, force us to look at things in different ways and provide a great stimulus for creative and innovative thought. Timothy has been lucky that over the years he has been able to use a range of different puzzles in his own performances, keynote presentations and creative thinking workshops. He has been commissioned in the past to design specific Puzzle Challenges for many companies including KFC & Pizza Hut. He is now making 19 of his favourite puzzles... | 2006 / 12 / 7 | $9.95 £7.94 €8.94 Ca$13.36 Au$13.96 ¥1150.45 | to wish list | ||||||
Take Your TricksEdwin (Eddie) Kantar Over 550 Declarer play tips you can take to the bank.
Acclaimed bridge expert Eddie Kantar offers valuable warm-up tips along with card combinations and safety plays. This ebook focuses on the "play of the hand". Its non-controversial tips were written for almost any player beneath "expert" who genuinely desires to improve his or her game. After reading this book, you will start making more contracts and you will be convinced your bidding has been improved - and you may be right. 1st edition 2002; this electronic edition 2006; 168 pages. | 2006 / 12 / 1 | $9.50 £7.58 €8.54 Ca$12.75 Au$13.33 ¥1098.42 | to wish list | ||||||
The Modern Chess Instructor 1Wilhelm Steinitz Steinitz having elevated chess to a science starts out very systematical and explains movement, mode of capture and the value of the various pieces. The bulk of the book is an analysis of six openings: The Ruy Lopez, Double Ruy Lopez, The Scotch Gambit, The Two Knight's Defence, Petroff's Defence and Philidor's Defence. He concludes with all 17 games played in the match Steinitz - Tchigorin, Havana 1889, which was won by Steinitz.
Steinitz also started to write part 2. 1st edition 1889; 237 pages. | 2006 / 10 / 16 | $9.00 £7.18 €8.09 Ca$12.08 Au$12.63 ¥1040.61 | to wish list PDF_facsimile | ||||||
The Modern Chess Instructor 2Wilhelm Steinitz In this second part of Steinitz's masterly written work only section 1 appeared. It describes Ponziani's opening and Giuoco Piano.
Go here for part 1. 1st edition 1895; 78 pages | 2006 / 10 / 15 | $5.00 £3.99 €4.49 Ca$6.71 Au$7.02 ¥578.12 | to wish list PDF_facsimile | ||||||
The Forcing PassEdwin (Eddie) Kantar This book is the outgrowth of a series of articles on the "forcing pass" which Eddie wrote for the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin, appearing from June 1982 through June 1983. He completely reworked and revised it in 2006.
While these articles were appearing, Eddie took special note of hands on this subject. As he was dealing with uncharted territory, it is not too unusual that he has altered many of his original opinions. Eddie is now satisfied that a partnership utilizing the methods advocated in this work will have a decided advantage over a partnership which has no understandings.... | 2006 / 10 / 3 | $5.00 £3.99 €4.49 Ca$6.71 Au$7.02 ¥578.12 | to wish list | ||||||
Chess Rules of ThumbLev Alburt & Al Lawrence This ebook gives you the winning principles of chess in clear, short statements. Three-times U.S. Champion Lev Alburt and World Chess Hall of Fame Curator Al Lawrence have put together three centuries of insights from the masters. Fun to browse or to read from cover-to-cover, it's a book that all chess players, from beginners to grandmasters, will enjoy for a lifetime.
Backed up with diagrams and illustrations to help you remember key principles, a glossary of essential chess terms and a rundown on all major openings, Chess Rules of Thumbs will improve your chess play. And it's great fun... | 2006 / 10 / 1 | $12.00 £9.57 €10.79 Ca$16.11 Au$16.84 ¥1387.48 | to wish list | ||||||
The Odds Against MeJohn Scarne If he'd had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of all time. Instead, the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling the "devil's tool," puts his extraordinary gifts to far different purpose.
He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers, his brilliant mathematical mind, his fascination with carnival and gambling life, to become America's number one authority on gambling and odds. He was the greatest practitioner and analyst of card and dice sleight of hand. His artistry impressed FDR as... | 2006 / 8 / 17 | $19.00 £15.15 €17.08 Ca$25.50 Au$26.66 ¥2196.84 | to wish list | ||||||
Chess NoveltiesHenry Edward Bird This is a book on creative, innovative and unusual openings. Prof. Hoffmann writes in the introduction "With the courage of his opinion, Mr. Bird has decided to embody these tabooed openings and games arising from them in an independent volume. Here in black and white he has set down the heterodoxies of which he is accused, and he submits them to the judgment not alone of critics who have pinned their faith to certain special lines of play, but to that of the whole Chess world."
1st edition, 1895; 344 pages. Table of Contents
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Dick's Games of PatienceWilliam B. Dick This was the first widely popular American collection of patience games or solitaire with cards.
1883. Dick and Fitzgerald; 154 pages. Table of Contents
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Patience with the JokerProfessor Hoffmann Very rare set of original games making use of the Joker card, invented by Angelo John Lewis and published under his stage name. You will find games for one and two players.
Goodall, London, 1907; 48 pages. Table of Contents
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Illustrated Book of Patience GamesProfessor Hoffmann Learn 63 fun and stimulating patience games from this book. A deck of cards, a flat surface and you are ready to challenge and entertain yourself. This is a translation from the German book Illustriertes Buch der Patiencen.
5th Edition, Routledge, London, 1904; 123 pages. Table of Contents
| 2005 / 9 / 3 | $7.00 £5.58 €6.29 Ca$9.40 Au$9.82 ¥809.36 | to wish list PDF_facsimile |
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