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How to play the chess openings
Counter Gambits
Opening play
How to play the Sicilian Defence
Toxic precision
Winning with the French
Chess openings: theory and practice
Winning with the English
How to Become a Candidate Master
A complete defence to 1 d4
The Vienna game and gambit
Winning with the Nimzo-Indian
Modern chess opening traps
Play 1e4 e5
Queen's Gambit Declined
The complete Benoni
Spanish (Ruy Lopez)
The complete Alekhine
The chess openings
Standard chess openings
Open Gambits (Macmillan Library of Chess)
Chess openings
How to Defend in Chess
New ideas in the four knights
Evans gambit and a system vs two knights defense
Starting Out
Beating the flank openings
The Oxford companion to chess
Modern Chess Openings, 15th Edition (Chess)
Beating the Sicilian 3
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