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Positional Chess Handbook: 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games (Chess)
The player with a positional advantage has a better chance at a direct attack, and this complete guide by a grandmaster shows how to develop a more powerful strategic game. Key squares, bad bishops, pawn structures, other examples appear in ascending difficulty, with cross-references. For players at every level. 495 black-and-white illustrations.
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Positional Release Techniques with DVD-ROM
A comprehensive textbook covering all methods of spontaneous release by positioning The background theory is explained and the techniques described in detail. The descriptions of the techniques are supplemented in the text by clear 2-colour line drawings and photographs and the DVD-ROM provides additional explanation through the use of video demonstrations with narrative by the author.

  • Compares all major positional release methods, from strain/counterstrain to functional osteopathy
  • Details step-by-step use of these manual methods
  • Describes integrated use with other manual approaches, such as Muscle Energy Techniques
  • Provides explanations of treatment of both muscle and joint problems
  • Explains how the methods can be used to treat bedridden patients
  • Emphasises safety and usefulness in both acute and chronic settings


  • Three new contributed chapters: Sacro-occipital technique use of padded wedges for diagnosis and treatment; Overview of the McKenzie Method; and Application of positional techniques in the treatment of animals.
  • Completely updated, with additional new videoclips included on DVD-ROM.
  • 56 new 2-colour line drawings and 27 new photographs.
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Price: $59.29 [Notify me when price goes down.]


The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2: Test and Improve Your Positional Intuition (ChessCafe Puzzle Book)
##International Grandmaster Karsten Müller was born in Hamburg, Germany He has established himself as one of the great chess authors His works include the ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1, Danish Dynamite (with Martin Voigt), The Magic of Chess Tactics (with Claus Dieter Meyer), Secrets of Pawn Endings (with Frank Lamprecht) and Fundamental Chess Endings (with Frank Lamprecht). His monthly column Endgame Corner appears at www.ChessCafe.com. #This is a unique instructional chess book that aims to help intermediate and advanced players improve their command of one of the most difficult as pects of playing chess - strategy. It does so by offering a large number of examples carefully selected by the author, German grandmaster Karsten Müller. While there are many books and software programs available to assist chess players in improving their tactical ability, there are relatively few that focus on strategic and positional considerations. Working through these positions and exercises is a great way to improve your positional understanding. German grandmaster Dr. Karsten Müller will help you develop your strategic chessplaying skills. As most chess instructors and players know, it is much more difficult to teach and learn strategic concepts than tactics. Topics include: Good and Bad Bishops; Domination; Outposts; Undermining; Opening the Position; Blockade; Improving Piece Placement; Prophylaxis; A Second Front and The Principle of Two Weaknesses; Counterplay; Positional Exchange Sacrifice; Simplification; and Weak Color Complex along with exercises to test your knowledge..
Price: $16.46 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Positional Release Therapy: Assessment & Treatment of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction
The most up-to-date professional reference text on positional release therapy, this high-quality clinical text is applicable to the entire musculoskeletal system and easily integrated into physical therapy, chiropractic and osteopathic curriculums. With more than 600 illustrations and photos, this reader-friendly book clearly demonstrates tender point locations, treatment positions and other key topics. Written by clinicians who studied under the technique's inventor, this is a must-have for students and health care professionals who practice manual medicine..
Price: $60.76 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Positional Play: Midfield
This book examines the role, responsibilities and attributes of the modern midfield player.

How, when and where to defend or attack, exercises to develop the individual and group tactical skills necessary to excel in the most demanding position on the pitch..
Price: $7.92 [Notify me when price goes down.]



Test Your Positional Play: How You Should Think In Chess
Designed to improve a player's middlegame performance by analyzing the strategic and tactical elements of a position, these tests also explain how to form a plan and to check that is it sound. Over 100 positions test the reader's ability to formulate the correct plan using a multiple choice format. This thought-provoking work provides a unique method of improving strategic understanding through self-evaluation.

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Price: $64.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Excelling at Positional Chess (Everyman Chess)
Positional chess remains a mystery to many and yet an understanding of the finer points of the game so often makes the difference between two equally matched players Improve your positional play and you will see chess in a totally new dimension!
In this unique book, International Master Jacob Aagaard selects many original examples of positional chess, the crème de la crème of those that he uses for training and study. Aagaard also delves deeply into the ideas of positional evaluation and analysis.

* Teaches how to mix calculation with evaluation
* Contains many original exercises
* Written by a battle-hardened expert
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Price: $11.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Can You Be a Positional Chess Genius
International Master and experienced chess teacher Angus Dunnington has carefully assembled an abundance of positional chess puzzles to test players of all levels.
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Price: $6.77 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Strikers: Positional Play (Soccer)
Discusses the striker's role and responsibilities in team play, the attributes of top class strikers and the environment in which they have to perform in the modern game..
Price: $8.09 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Positional Play: Back Defenders
What are the demands on the back defenders in the modern game and what skills attributes are needed to meet them head on?

The author discusses the role of this vitally important postition and addresses in detail its ever increasing involvement in the attack..
Price: $8.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]



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