Books by Rob Escalante

The Advance Variation of the French, like so many openings used today, originated with Greco in the 17th century. Despite being over 400 years old, the Advance French still has many areas still unexplored. And like all openings, the many tactical and strategical considerations are best demonstrated by miniatures. You'll find exploitations of underdevelopment, neglected centers, opened lines, active piece play, well supported pawns and of course, the Bxh7+ lines (known as the Greco sacrifice). With over 1300 (a baker's dozen) games, we know you'll find something to enjoy.

The Albin Counter Gambit is a fiery and risky opening, not only for Black, but for White as well.This miniatures book of over 1300 games will show how to win quickly in this opening, and how to avoid being mated in less than 25 moves.Use this book to study for your correspondence game, look up some of the nuances for your general chess study, as a refresher for your next big tournament game, or simply enjoy this latest compilation of over 1300 miniatures.Tables at the end of the book give specific ECO and NIC opening codes so you can easily discover more games with this gambit.

Geared for generating high scoring words (including bingos), this manuscript covers the following; 1) Two and three letter word lists 2) Letter dumps (when you have too many of the same letter) 3) Irregular nouns and verbs 4) Words from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, Gaelic, and even Hawaiian 5) Lists of common, and not so common, prefixes and suffixes that you can attach to your words 6) A way to build bingos. Additional word lists covering birds, astronomy, quantum physics, myths and fantasies, wines, science fiction, kings and rulers, and other popular topics, round out this enjoyable and entertaining book. Price includes a 5% discount.