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"The annual Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) Awards are like the Oscars of the tabletop. Acclaimed British author and games expert James Wallis investigates the winners and losers of each year s contest to track the incredible explosion in amazing new board games. From modern classics like CATAN, Ticket to Ride, and Dixit to once-lauded games that have now been forgotten (not to mention several popular hits that somehow missed a nomination),...
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Kids can make their own fun with Cool Board Games! This title has everything needed to create one-of-a-kind board games. Readers will create Mini Magnetic Battleship, The Game of Your Life, Giant Outdoor Checkers and more! Step-by-step photos, materials lists, and extra tips and tricks get kids started. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Chess is played on every continent and by several hundred million people. It's the most popular board game in the world, and people of all ages love to play! In Chess: Be the King!, you'll start by learning how the pieces move and then progress to the more complicated ideas behind the best moves for the different phases of the game. This book offers something for beginners who have never picked up a chess piece as well as more advanced instruction...
4) Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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This "marvelously absorbing" book is "a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect" (San Jose Mercury News).
A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them—and him.
At least thirty million American...
A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them—and him.
At least thirty million American...
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First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble has gone on to be one of the biggest selling board games in history-and is currently gaining legions of new fans in the online world.
Perhaps the fascination of SCRABBLE lies in the fact that the game combines just the right amount of luck with just the right amount of skill.
Scrabble is a game of words that can be played up to four players or as little as two players where the players earn...
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Mah Jong for Beginners is one of the first books to explain the game to English language readers. It remains a classic, both for its authenticity and clarity, and as a wonderful introduction for anyone who wants to know more about the fast-paced and complex game of Mah Jong. It contains everything you need to know to get started playing this Chinese tile game. Drawing directly on the rules and regulations of the Mah Jong Association of Japan, it offers...
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Letterati spans the history of competitive Scrabble® in North America from the colorful hustlers of the 1960s New York game rooms, to the hard driving quantitative tile pushers who dominate the game today with strategic skills and memorized vocabularies. Yet, there is more to the history of Scrabble® than just playing the game. There is a parallel plot line that revolves around many of the top players, who over the years have wanted to see the game...
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For centuries, countless thousands of chess and checker players have gazed absently at the other side of the board, never wondering what it was all about. It never occurred to most of them that they already had in their possession most of the basic implements for one of the keenest games of all time, a game which not only deserves to be ranked with checkers and chess, but has some fascinating an unusual points of its own: Backgammon. We say "most"...
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Games are great, especially board games. But there are times when you find yourself stuck somewhere without any games: No cards, no dice, not even a coin to flip. This book will save the day!
As long as you have a pencil and paper, you can play any of these 17 awesome games, including laugh-out-loud party games, deep-thinking strategy games, clever word games, and more!
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This is the first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mahjong or "Mah Jongg", offering an intimate look at the history of the game as well as the visual beauty of the tiles. When authors Ann Israel and Gregg Swain began playing Mahjong, they were unaware of the vintage collections that existed not only in the United States but also as far ranging as Africa to New Zealand. Slowly, they started to collect their own sets...
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How do YOU play ?
Aspiring to the Well-Played Game can profoundly shape our characters, for the better! After 35-years of gaming, together the authors noticed that the lessons they learned around the game table were helping them and their family in all sorts of ways. This is their love letter to the hobby of adult board games. It examines the role of these games in the formation of our characters as we learn to win and lose gracefully. It looks at...
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For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games. Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others.
Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed...
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Daniel Johnson — journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition — is the perfect guide to one of history’s most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world’s imagination.
The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars — and chess....
The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars — and chess....
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Tabletop board games are having a comeback, and especially within a younger, tech-y audience who enjoys the challenge and opportunity to work in an analog sphere. Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community.
Readers will learn the "building blocks"...
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This book contains 50 puzzles from the Caro Kann (Gurgendize variation)-it is not a theoretical manual. I have designed this book to be a useful tactics trainer but also to aid with opening preparation-the idea is that you solve the tactics in your expected opening before a game.
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WINNING FAST IS FUN!
This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders.
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.
The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian...
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WINNING FAST IS FUN!
This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders.
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.
The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian...
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CHESS OPENINGS
The first moves of a chess game are termed the opening or opening moves. A good chess opening will provide protection of the king, adequate control over an area of the board (particularly the center), create greater movement for the pieces, and open possible opportunities to capture opposing pawns and pieces.
This book, while also explaining some fundamental principles of chess, will focus primarily on these opening sequences.
While...
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This book describes the Triple Set / Double Platform Game. A triple set game involves the use of three unique chess sets played on an Advance chess game board called Model III. This book depicts the Double Platform game specifically Game # 2. Model III consists of two game boards or Star Fish Models that serve as a single unit. The two game boards position asymmetrically. The first game board that is closer to Player I (you) is the Top (Air) Platform...
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