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  • Simple Attacking Plans

    by Fred Wilson ...
    “I had a fantastic position, but I couldn’t figure out what to do next!” Sound familiar? If so, then Fred Wilson’s Simple Attacking Plans was written for you. The author distills the complexities of mounting an offensive against your opponent’s king down to four principles that lie at the root of most successful chess attacks.Novice players and amateurs of intermediate strength will benefit from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 303 Tricky Checkmates

    by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston ...
    A fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two- three- and four-move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate, and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions. Learn the standard patterns for cornering the king, corridor and support mates, attraction and deflection sacrifices, pins and annihilation, the quiet move, and the dreaded ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles

    by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston ...
    A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 9.991 large, clear diagrams, the entire gamut of necessary ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 303 Tricky Chess Tactics

    by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston ...
    Both a fascinating challenge and a great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve, but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools to improve their game.  Tactics are presented in order of difficulty, so that players can advance from simple to complex positions.  Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 212 Surprising Checkmates

    by Bruce Alberston ...
    Deliver the Coup de Grâce! With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents� last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations. Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • 200 Capture Mates

    by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston ...
    Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to beginners and children, present 200 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill players as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for beginners and kids! The authors should know ' ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A New Kind of Union

    Unifor and the birth of the modern Canadian union

    by Fred Wilson ...
    In fall 2011, the leaders of two of Canada's largest unions made a bold decision that would change the Canadian labour movement. Unions faced hostile governments, union busting corporations and declining membership. Something drastic needed to be done.This book describes the unique process by which the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Explanation, Causation and Deduction

    by Fred Wilson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved deduction from laws. In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The External World and Our Knowledge of It

    Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence

    by Fred Wilson ...
    David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • 202 Checkmates For Children

    by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston ...
    Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids! The authors should know - they have used these puzzles ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Capital Delivery

    A short story

    by JE Fred Wilson ...
    A small group of workers facing discrimination and insecurity turn to a union for assistance. But can and will the union deliver what these workers need? A short, gritty story about real life in the gig economy and the challenge for unions. ... Read more

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  • Key Chess Puzzles

    Sacrificial Chess

    by Robert J. Richey ...
    This book "Key Chess Puzzles, Sacrificial Chess" consists of 60 chess puzzles. Of these 20 can be solved in 2 moves; 28 can be solved in 3 moves; 8 can be solved in 4 moves and finally 4 puzzles are swap down puzzles. To simplify the search for a Solution in many of the puzzles the Player playing the Black pieces does not have a first move. White must provide such a move. This book is intended to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD