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Backgammon for Dummies
Chris Bray
Winning Chess Exercises for Kids
Viktoria Ni
How to Win at Chess
Levy Rozman
1000 GAMES CHESS
Irving Chernev
Basher Games: Chess
Tom Jackson
Daniel King
Chess for Kids
Michael Basman
A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg
Elaine Sandberg, Tom Sloper
The Complete Book of Mah Jongg
Amy Lo
American Mah Jongg for Everyone
Gregg Swain, Toby Salk
The Life-changing Magic of Chess
Maurice Ashley
Kid's Guide to Chess
Ellisiv Reppen
Checkmate
Ben Mezrich
Become a Chess Champion
James Canty III
Tactics Time!
Tim Brennan, Anthea Carson
Spassky's Best Games
Alexey Bezgodov, Dmitry Aleynikov
Real Paul Morphy
Charles Hertan
Chess Fundamentals
Jose Raul Capablanca
