Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector.

Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five centuries between the chess queen's timid emergence in the early days of the Holy Roman Empire to her elevation during the reign of Isabel of Castile. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, and Germany to France, England, Scandinavia, and Russia. In a lively and engaging historical investigation, Yalom draws parallels between the rise of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts and internal struggles for power.

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

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52 Great Backgammon Tips: At Home, Tournament and Online

This latest addition to the bestselling 52 Great Tips series features backgammon—the centuries-old game whose popularity is exploding today, thanks to exciting new opportunities to play online. Starting with the basic rules, Michael Crane, a leading British player, explains everything both beginners and advanced competitors need to know. He shows the newcomer that what looks at first like a simple game of chance offers deep strategic challenges. And for the reader who learns how to calculate the odds, he offers winning advice on the best ways to handle different situations on the board. The tips (some of them contributed by other international players) cover everything from the opening moves to the subtleties of using the doubling cube.

52 Great Backgammon Tips: At Home, Tournament and Online

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Backgammon - The Action Game

Backgammon - The Action Game

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Better Backgammon

Better Backgammon

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Backgammon The Quick Course to Winning Play

Backgammon The Quick Course to Winning Play

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Atherma Flious - Fleius: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

There is not a single being on this earth that has not played with some game at various stages of his/her life (from infancy right up to old age). There are very simple games and complicated games which train the body, the emotions, the brain or the intellect. This research analytically presents the whole structure of games and common archetypal elements that games contain in every population all over the world, which originated from the ancient Greek and European culture, especially of the ancient Greek philosophy about the way of creating of writing and ancient board games in the region of Flious - Fleius.

Atherma Flious - Fleius: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

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Backgammon, the modern game

Backgammon, the modern game

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Deal Me In Mini eBook - Chapter 16: Daniel Negreanu: Twenty of the World'sTop Poker Players Share the Heartbreaking and Inspiring

Daniel Negreanu is one of the most successful and entertaining players in the world of high-stakes poker. Always friendly, funny, and talkative, the Canadian-born Negreanu has collected four World Series of Poker bracelets and is also the all-time money leader on the World Poker Tour-not too shabby for a young man who has yet to celebrate his 35th birthday. He is a popular player among his peers, known for an almost eerie ability to read his opponents. Negreanu was named Favorite Poker Player at Card Player's Player of the Year Awards in 2006. Now living in Las Vegas, he is also one of the most recognized faces in poker, with regular television appearances as a player on ESPN, Late Night Poker, Poker After Dark, and High Stakes Poker, as well as a commentator for the EPT and the APPT.

Deal Me In Mini eBook - Chapter 16: Daniel Negreanu: Twenty of the World'sTop Poker Players Share the Heartbreaking and Inspiring

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Backgammon For Serious Players

Backgammon For Serious Players

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Backgammon Strategy, Tactics & Principles

Backgammon Strategy, Tactics & Principles

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NY Chess Since 1972: A Guide Book Of Places To Go And People You Will See Around NY Chess

Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship in 1972 and the chess boom started. The Village Chess Shop opened on Thompson Street, Washington Square Park chess tables turned into a regular venue, Times Square 42nd Street opened chess tables not only at Bryant Park but also on Broadway and several indoors clubs. Chess was every where. This book covers 40 years of history of the NY Chess scene. Great reading for tourists and locals alike.

NY Chess Since 1972: A Guide Book Of Places To Go And People You Will See Around NY Chess

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The Backgammon Pack

Backgammon has its origins in early board games developed in Ur of Mesopotamia 5000 years ago. For centuries, attempts were made to ban it because of its close association with gambling. Yet backgammon never lost its appeal because, like chess, it is easy to play but hard to play well. The Backgammon Pack is a beautifully designed kit that has everything you need to get started-a board (designed with sliding drawers to fold out into a fully-sized playing board), playing pieces and a book, that not only gives you the rules and describes the basic game, but also advice on how to play for money, and win!

The Backgammon Pack

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Backgammon: The Way to Play and Win

The way to play and win backgammon

Backgammon: The Way to Play and Win

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Clermont Book of Backgammon

Book by Dor-El, David

Clermont Book of Backgammon

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Aces and Knaves

Karl Patterson, sometime baseball card dealer without visible means of support, doesn't get along all that well with his father, even though he lives in the guest house of his dad's estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles rent free. So he is surprised when Richard Patterson, who is founder and CEO of a successful software company called Dionysus, asks for his help to determine whether the number 2 man of Dionysus, Ned Mackay, has a gambling problem. Perhaps it's because Karl may or may not be a compulsive gambler, himself, depending on whom you ask.

Richard assigns his executive assistant, the exotic and ambitious Arrow, to work with Karl. She appears to have some blood from every ethnic group you can name, and the best of each. She helps Karl connect with Ned, and Karl wangles an invitation to fly with him to San Francisco, which brings up the question of what Ned's relationship is to James Buchanan, a puzzling person who likes puzzles, runs what appears to be an illegal gambling casino, and is CEO of a San Francisco conglomerate that owns a piece of just about everything worth owning.

Before Karl can make any progress, Ned is found dead in San Francisco with cocaine in his car. Karl is questioned by the San Francisco police, and now finds himself trying to determine what happened to Ned, and what effect this will have on his father and Dionysus. Questions about James remain, because he seems to want to gain control of Dionysus, and may help Karl buy an expensive baseball card.

Events keep Karl involved long after his father wants him out. Before he's through, he'll be a frequent flyer between L.A. and San Francisco, with sidetrips to Scotland and England. He will have to learn how to work with Arrow, get along with Jacie, Richard's young wife, try to improve his relationship with his father, and--if he wants to survive--watch his back.








Aces and Knaves

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Games: From Backgammon To Blackjack Learn To Play The World's Favourite Games

Games: From Backgammon To Blackjack Learn To Play The World's Favourite Games

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Backgammon (Know the Game)

This is one of a series of introductory sports books that have been revised and updated to incorporate rule changes and developments in equipment and technique in a particular sport. This title on backgammon is aimed at the beginner and the spectator.

Backgammon (Know the Game)

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The Little Book of Backgammon Tips

Want to win at backgammon? Easy—just play with the odds. This guide shows how a simple understanding of the dice-throw can improve your every move. There's advice on opening throws, how (and when) to block and run, hitting and being hit, bearing off, back games, using the doubling cube, and lots more. You're odds-on to double and redouble your success with this Little Book on board.

The Little Book of Backgammon Tips

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Fun Games Pure - Game boards: Chess, Checkers, Nine Men's Morris, Backgammon, Ludo, Halma and Tic Tac Toe as classic board games

What can you play on a "simple" e-book reader? Games on the Kindle? There are already some in this shop. But I interpreted the idea with the "on the Kindle" very literally.

In this eBook you will find the fields of popular board games (Chess, Nine Men's Morris, Checkers, Backgammon, Ludo, etc.). This gives you the possibility to convert your e-ink reader, the Kindle, at home or while traveling into a game board. Very simple. Always available. The games are pure fun, classics and sociable. These are no computer games. You need to have a few small playing pieces or chessmen. Or you and your fellow players improvise. Suitable are buttons, beans, pieces of wood, paper, etc. Just anything that does not leave any dirt or scratches on the screen.

This is a special edition with customized graphics for Kindle devices (Kindle is a trademark of Amazon.com Inc.). But these game boards work on tablet computers, such as the iPad, as well. Users of the Kindle reading apps on Apple, Samsung, LG, etc. can have pure fun, too.

Invite your family and friends to the classic board game. It is a surprising and beautiful example of how versatile the Kindle can be. It just depends on what you do with it.

The game boards:
1. Chess and Checkers
2. Nine Men's Morris
3. Backgammon
4. Halma & Chinese Checkers
5. Ludo (2 versions)
6. Tic Tac Toe

As a bonus you can find a couple of mazes in the eBook. They are pure fun games, too. And I tell you how to disable the screen saver on the Kindle device in order to avoid interruptions while playing the board games.

Attention please: This is not a collection of computer games. These are the classic game boards for two or more players. Some people think it is silly to play like this on the Kindle. Others think it's cool. What's your opinion? Buy it and you can experience your Kindle as great devices for pure gaming fun.


Fun Games Pure - Game boards: Chess, Checkers, Nine Men's Morris, Backgammon, Ludo, Halma and Tic Tac Toe as classic board games

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Chess, Checkers, Dominoes and Backgammon

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Chess, Checkers, Dominoes and Backgammon

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