Fred Wilson Chess Books
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Do you want to learn how to play better chess??? I'm not talking about memorizing opening theory to move 20, I'm talking about thinking and seeing real chess. About understanding squares. About understanding the process of playing good moves. Simple moves. Deep moves. And winning moves. Oh yeah & and understanding bad moves. Late last year I finally started attending chess lectures given by noted chess personality Fred Wilson, every third Thursday of the month in New York City. What I found was something I have known deep down for twenty years, Fred Wilson knows his chess. Fred not only knows how to play chess, he knows chess history and chess lore, and it shows in the lectures. I was so impressed I begged him to videotape them for prosperity. The rest as they say is history & once we had the tapes I was stuck backing the whole shebang "The Fred Wilson Presents A Chess Lecture series". These tapes are the best thing since the Woody Guthrie tapes! We don't have a nice studio, or professional video equipment; you hear every sneeze and cough and even some hilarious move suggestions from the audience, but what you do get is something eternal. If Fred would have been born in Russia sixty years ago I am sure he would have been a famous chess maestro like Bondarevsky, Tolush, Furman, or Koblentz. |
| The tapes retail for $20.00 each. Buy five or more at one time and recieve a 10% discount off the total price. Shipping is $4.00 extra per order. |
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Victory In the Opening Volume 1, 7/15/99. This is a remake of Fred's first videotaped lecture, completely re-shot on March 20, 2002. Contains a plethora of short, sharp attacking games, with several standard checkmating themes repeated throughout. Also contains a virtual refutation of the Albin Counter-gambit, played by the Portuguese champion, IM A. Santos, in 1998. Contains several improved substitutions for some of the games used in the original 1999 lecture. |
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Bashing the Burn French Defense with the Fischer Variation Volume 10, 3/15/2000. Includes several important complete games, beginning with Fischer-Sarapu 1967 through Leko-Korchnoi 2000, demonstrating a tremendously strong line against the Burn Variation. Interestingly, the first brilliancy prize game in the November 2000 US CHAMPIONSHIP, Benjamin - Seirawan, is this same line that Fred was recommending to his students over six months ago! |
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Chess Endgames From the Greats Volume 15, 12/15/2000. An exciting and entertaining selection of endgame studies and little known positions from actual games taken from the superb new book "Learn Chess From the Greats" by Peter J.Tamburro, Jr. |
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Attacking with the King's Indian Defense, Volume 17, 3/21/2001. Discusses the fundamental reasons for specific move orders in the main lines of the King's Indian, most notably the Mar del Plata variation. Includes two seminal games in this line, plus Fred's own best effort ever on the Black side, against a master in the NYC Bankers' League in 1997. |
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Combating g3 Systems against the King's Indian: Black Fights Back Volume 18, 4/18/2001. Fred recommends an unusual and very specific move order against White's g3 systems, involving an early ”c6 followed by ”Na6, even committing Black to gambitting a pawn. This so-called Dyachkov variation has been used at the highest level by both Shirov and Wojtkievicz. Guaranteed to give your opponents fits!! |
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Goring the Goring Gambit Volume 19, 5/16/2001. Fred endorses a sharp, complicated, counterattacking line against the "dreaded" Goring gambit, currently practiced by not only GM Bogdan Lalic, and GM Mark Hebden, but even quite successfully by his good friend and colleague, Pete Tamburro, Jr. The move order recommended also enables you to fully deal with the Ponziani opening. |
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Out of the Blue: Attacks From Nowhere Volume 20, 6/20/2001. A sparkling collection of generally little known, brilliant attacking games, wherein the winning onslaught seems to literally come from "out of the blue". Includes the virtually unknown masterpiece Lautier-Hebden, won by the British GM in 1990. |
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Simple Attacking Plans Volume 23, 11/14/2001. A delightful potpourri of clear, clean attacking games, which demonstrate how to create the necessary prerequisites for a successful attack. Not only includes two vastly under-appreciated Tal games, but also a highly unusual, albeit effective, line against the Scandinavian defense (with 2. ” Qxd5). |
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Punishing the Pirc/Modern With 4. Bg5! Volume 24, 12/19/2001. Fred himself plays the line endorsed in this lecture, and notes it is currently favored by Peter Leko. Included are two sparkling, brief, massacres played by Oshon Temple, a former top student of Fred's, plus a similar game played by Fred himself in 1997. The seminar finishes with a thorough examination of the modern masterpiece, Keres-Westerinen, Tallinn, 1973. |
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Annihilating Alekhine's Defense With 3. Nc3 Nxc3 4. dxc3! Volume 28, 6/19/2002. Here is another Keres specialty, which generally comes as an unpleasant surprise to Alekhine's supporters. Besides several recent crushes, you are treated to a thorough explication of two Keres masterpieces, against Lothar Schmid in 1961 and H. Westerinen in 1971. |
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Almost No Tactics—Positional Attacking Chess Volume 31,12/18/2002. A selection of fascinating games in which the overall strategy and piece placement is paramount in determining the outcome. Includes positional masterpieces, containing almost no long tactical variations, by such varied players as Morphy (!), Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Nunn, finishing with a serious look at one of the greatest strategical games of modern times, the strangely neglected masterpiece Rozentalis-Appel, Koblenz, 1994. |
About FredFred Wilson, 51, has been a noted chess bookseller and author for over 25 years. During the last decade he has become increasingly involved in teaching chess to children, and now runs highly regarded chess programs at Friends Seminary, City and Country School, Village Community School, Metropolitan Montessori School, and Grace Church School, all in New York City. |
| Written by Ken Calitri |