Board, table top and strategy games Books

The ideal gift for all word puzzle enthusiasts! 250 fun puzzles for word game lovers. Based on techniques required for Scrabble, these challenges have been designed to put your word power to the ultimate test. All words used are from the official...

Create the next Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan with this creative board game book! With over 55 boards to customize, Board Games to Create and Play is a doodle book where every page is an unfinished tabletop game. Just...

Search for classic Dungeons & Dragons heroes and monsters across the Forgotten Realms in all its glory! Join the journey of Myopus the All-Seeing, a beholder who is looking for a keen-eyed apprentice to help him find a mischievous band of monsters...

Mahjong is one of the first English language books to break down classic Chinese Mahjong.Readers learn game setup, rules, common hands, strategy, and scoring through beautiful illustrations and photography, but the book also showcases mahjong culture,...

A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first Black Chess Grandmaster.At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess...

Take on the role of a lifetime as one of the nine nobles in this tabletop RPG retelling of Hamlet. In this adventure, players will cooperate and plot against one another for the throne of Denmark. Experience the world of Hamlet like never before in...

Riviera Memories: 1000-Piece Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle illustrated by Ilya Milstein, an Australian artist living in New York. Set in a colourful and gently ageing seaside town, Riviera Memories depicts a range of travellers...

Learn how to play chess – the world’s most popular board game!Jessica E Martin helps you improve your skills through 35 fun activities – this isn’t just a textbook about the rules! Why not have a game of Face Off, all you need are two rooks and bishops...

This free-for-all word game is for anyone who loves to think on their feet. Simple to learn, with nearly endless possibilities and replay value, the compact playing deck is all players need to quickly get a game going wherever they are...

Inspired by the Harry Potter films, Harry Potter Pop-Up Wizard Chess Set is an innovative, plastic-free chess set with an ingenious construction. Designed by David Hawcock, featuring artwork by Richard Davies.Wizard’s chess—like you've never seen before!...

This book is designed for those familiar with the game who now want to improve their skills and maybe teach others to play. The illustrations are all in colour to simplify identification of the various hands -- 55 in all. The calculator in the back...

The Sicilian is Black's most dynamic, asymmetrical reply to 1. e4. It produces the psychological and tension factors which denote the best in modern play and gives notice of a fierce fight on the very first move. The Sicilian Defense became recognized...

Sound aggression against the Dutch Defence Promises good attacking chances and avoids learning reams of theory about the Leningrad Dutch, the Stonewall or the Classical Dutch, opening set-ups our opponent knows everything about? This book explores such a...

The great board game revolution is here-- What do these games tell us about our society, our relationships, and ourselves? "Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to...

The history of the Queen's Gambit isconnected with the very beginnings of modern chess.The opening being cited inthe earliest published books on the science game, such as the Gttingen manuscript(1490) and the books of Ruy Lopez (1561) and Salvio (1604)...

Thissecond and final volume of the Anti-Sicilian series covers our approach for allalternatives to 2...Nc6. The choice against 2...d6 was obvious. The Moscow variationis the only critical alternative to 3.d4 that has caused any concerns for Black by...

This is what's new in this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has beenexamined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available forhome computers at this time. For the first edition we...

Jan Boekelman has produced youwith a playable repertoire out of a somewhat sideline Opening, which nobodydared to touch to make it into an entire repertoire.Try to expand your knowledge inthe 3.c3 variation and go beyond the book's contentDeepen your...

The interviews in this book span over twenty years, over two decades. Foryears I went with my recording device to tournaments like Wijk aan Zee,Frankfurt Chess Classic, Hoogeveen... often to interview the interesting playerof the moment in some hotel bar...

Are you struggling with your chess development? While dedicating hours and hours on improving your craft, your rating simply does not want to move upwards? Spending loads of money on chess books and DVDs, but feeling no real improvement at all? No...

The Sveshnikov is undeniably one of the most dynamic and aggressive Sicilians available these days. Most recently, it was made popular again by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in his match against Fabiano Caruana at the end of 2018. The main lines lead to...

To learn and to play endgames well the chess player must love endgames' - Lev Psakhis. Different kinds of endgames have specific characteristics and rules. Every serious player must know many typical positions and main principles of all types of endings...

In his seventh book for Thinkers Publishing, Milos Pavlovic examines the Stonewall set-up in detail. Drawing upon his years of playing experiences and opening study, Milos highlights the key aspects and covers the most recent developments in this most...

Grandmaster Grivas presents the reader an unique and massive amount of amazing puzzles including their historical background. All the most famous and rare tactical themes are covered, promising the read of the year!

In this volume 3, the author presents many games played by legendary players such as Alekhine, Karpov, Kasparov and Fischer, but also many forgotten or unknown examples that will help you to improve your calculation and knowledge of all areas of the game.

The author focused in his first volume on middlegames, now his attention was drawn to endgames. Romain has carefully selected more than 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. He separated the exercises into 11 different categories,...

Adrian and Oleg compiled, resulting from all different kind of middlegames, an impressive amount of most instructive endgames. The ideal material for any chess player or trainer in search of the need endgame finesses and skills.

The Ark has always been consideredone of the theoretically-heaviest defenses in meeting the Ruy Lopez, thoughalso the most exciting and definitely the most beautiful of all. It requirestactical vision, good calculation and memory, but not just from us...

Volume 2 is divided into eight chapters. Unlike Volume 1, it is possibleto mix the order in which you study these chapters , but not to study the gameswithin each chapter out of order, since the examples build upon each other incomplexity. I suggest that...

This book takes a closer look at the Classic mistakes by amateur playersinclude: 1. Moving a piece too often in the opening. This is one of themainstays which we think relates at least partly to the desire to createsomething in the opening, when we would...

The idea behind this book is for you to'play' as in a real game, and it is my job to ensure you have a pleasant timewhile training. I suggest you take at least an hour and ahalf for eachgame and as your coach I will indicate when to guess the moves...

The purpose of this series is to introduce the reader to advanced training concepts, using the same methods of presentation and instruction that were taught to great players by famous trainers that they have worked with. The series will commence with the...

How to learn strategy? Can it belearned? It can be, of course. And these volumes are the perfect guide to learn(or, more precisely, to learn to understand) strategy. Our idea is to throw light on all the strategicconcepts in these volumes. To help you...

Welcome to Volume 2 of Cheparinov's 1.d4!.In the second part of the series, I amsharing my knowledge about the Slav Defense. I am confident that the bookcontains many new and interesting ideas and I have tried to provide you with thebest practical...

The Sicilian Defense is an opening that commences with the moves 1.e4 c5. TheSicilian Defense is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's firstmove 1.e4. For example, 1.d4, is a statistically more successful opening forWhite because of the...

When you are building your repertoire youhave many choices available against 1.e4. Everyone knows the Sicilian is themost dangerous reply but there are so many choices! Most of them are highlytheoretical such as the Najdorf or the Dragon. Some are very...

I have aimed to find a good balance of verbalexplanations without ignoring the hardcore variations you have to know. In caseyou find some of the analyses a bit too long, don't be discouraged! They havebeen included mainly to illustrate the thematic ideas...

Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it's every man for himself, and only the best informed and most creative resourceful...

Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it's every man for himself, and only the best informed and most creative resourceful...

I decided to write about something that I would be interested to learn myself. In this bookI show what preparation for a game by a 2650 player looks like. In chess, we only see the game on the stage, and can only guess at what is hidden behind the scenes...

Dit is het eerste deel van de nieuwe serie Sleutelconcepten in het Middenspel.Het idee is om middenspelen te behandelen waarin een bepaalde structuur of essentieel thema centraal komt te staan. De gedachte om deze serie te beginnen, sluit aan bij de...

This is the first volume of the new series Key Concepts of Chess. The idea is to deal with middlegames in which a certain structure or essential theme becomes central. The idea of starting this series is in line with the Understanding before Moving...

Grandmasters Kotronias and Ivanov are renowned as leading theoreticians and chess trainers. They offer a unique and world-class repertoire based on 1.d4! They advocate an ambitious approach for White, with the aim to fight for an advantage in any...

What is the best way to improve your opening knowledge? Memorizing variations? Not really.In the first volume of Dariusz' trilogy, the author helps you to understand the instructive patterns that arise from the immensely popular Nimzo-Indian Defense...

The Philidor Defense is a most popular opening at all levels. In this first book Sergio brings a no-nonsense opening repertoire for players of all strenghts.You will find this book nor only a useful handy guide but find it also loaded with an...