Самый юный перворазрядник в СССР, чемпион мира среди юношей, участник турнира претендентов в 19 лет – взлет Бориса Спасского был стремительным. 

“To utilize the Giuoco Pianissimo successfully, a club player needs only to master the general ideas of this setup, without overloading their brain with hundreds of variations. At the same time, they find themselves in the pleasant company of the world’s elite, and may even pick up recommendations to improve their opening from top grandmasters. Of course, such interactions will bring an amateur some concrete benefits in the opening, but more importantly it will increase their understanding of the game as a whole, because they will start to learn from the games of high-level players, with a vested interest!” ~ Alexander Kalinin & Nikolai Kalinichenko

There is a blank spot in the huge world of chess literature: systematically presented middle- game. Th erefore authors, both long-term chess trainers, decided to fi ll this vacuum. With a series of books about the middle-game, we would like to present diff erent topics of chess tactics and strategy in a slightly diff erent way. Books, which will be published in the coming years as part of the series, are planned to cover all frequently discussed themes, as well as many others topics — those about which chess players and also trainers usually do not think as deeply as they should in order to achieve better results.

Repertuar dla czarnych bazujący na: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6

Całkowicie zmienione wydanie, które zachowuje strukturę pierwszego wydania, ale opiera się na nowej analizie wszystkich krytycznych linii.

This book presents a Black repertoire based on the Scandinavian Defence with 3...Qd6. This is the safest yet aggressive queen retreat. It allows Black to increase pressure on d4 with ...0-0-0 or ...Rd8 while keeping coordination in the centre. Kotronias offers new plans for Black in the most topical lines. They are backed with deep analysis based on solid chess understanding.

In the Alapin System White's strategic idea is extremely simple. He prepares to advance with d2-d4, to build a solid pawn centre and then dictate the play. He will have to pay for this with the fact that his queen's knight has been deprived of the best square for its development, but it may have other suitable squares (in many variations this will be not the d2-square but a3).

Secondly, it very often happens that after d4 cxd4 cxd4, White's queen's knight still gets access to its best square on c3. The modern evaluation of this system is that Black has comfortable enough lines in which he can obtain an acceptable game.

The authors try to prove that not all of these lines are equally good.

Wicemistrz Świata 2012 kontynuuje swoją historię, rozpoczętą w bestsellery „Podejmowanie decyzji pozycyjnych w szachach” („Książka roku wg. Angielskiej Federacji Szachowej) oraz „Dynamiczne podejmowanie decyzji w szachach”. Nowa książka omawia, jak podejmować decyzje w zakończeniach i na stanowiskach, w których jedna ze stron ma lepszą strukturę pionka lub przewagę materialną. Studiowanie techniki gry jednego z czołowych arcymistrzów na świecie na złożone elementy szachów, które wielu uważa za niejasne. Koncepcje takie jak „Strefa jednego błędu” z pewnością przyjdą wielu jako objawienie.

"Gelfand bardzo dobrze i bardzo uczciwie wyjaśnia, jakie decyzje był w stanie obliczyć i jakie decyzje musiał podjąć na podstawie ogólnego rozumowania i jak to zrobił. Zaowocowało to książką, którą kocham. Myślę, że szachista o dowolnej sile może znaleźć tu wiele przydatnych rzeczy”

(arcymistrz Matthew Sadler - recenzent nowości w literaturze szachowej w czasopiśmie „New In Chess”).

The Rossolimo for Club Players

10-й чемпион мира Борис Спасский - один из величайших шахматистов в истории. Эпический «Матч столетия» между Борисом Спасским и легендарным Робертом Фишером (1972 г.) породил мировой шахматный бум. Спасский - шахматист универсального стиля, одержавший большое число прекрасных побед. В своей книге гроссмейстер и опытный тренер Зенон Франко изучает в деталях шахматный стиль Спасского на примере его лучших партий. Формат книги «Ход за ходом» - идеальная платформа для изучения шахмат. В «опорных» точках каждой партии читателю предлагаются тестовые вопросы, что помогает как практическому изучению ключевых приемов шахматной игры, так и надежному усвоению обретаемых знаний. Вопросы (и ответы автора) нацелены на то, чтобы читатель был активно вовлечен в процесс обучения и одновременно мог отслеживать рост своей шахматной силы.

500 hand-picked training exercises with detailed solutions.

Why not just to have a simple puzzle book where you are supposed to find best move in each position? Every single position is picked carefully and this method will help you develop different strategic concepts and patterns. There are no chapters or indicative names or comments to help you find solution more easily. Just positions. ”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication“ - Leonardo da Vinci.

This book presents the Triangle set-up, which arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3/Nf3 c6.

This move order avoids many unpleasant systems for White, notably the Catalan, the Exchange Slav and the Botvinnik Variation. It leads to sharp strategically unbalanced play and brings Black excellent practical results.

Semko Semkov is a chess journalist and theoretician. He has co-authored the famous books The Modern English, The Most Flexible Sicilian, Attacking the English/Reti, Attacking the Flexible Sicilian and Understanding the Queen’s Gambit Accepted.

Have you ever wondered why you do well in certain tournaments and not in others? If your opening choices are the right ones? If your attacking play is good, bad, or Tinder swipe left ugly?

In this entertaining account, the author explains how to achieve success in chess we need to understand our what works for us, but to achieve true mastery we should prepare to go beyond our zone of comfort.

Along the way he takes us on a journey through his own world of discovery and explains how he became one of the best chess players in England. It’s a deeply honest and at times tragicomic memoir as he also reveals his strategy for taking on his biggest rivals and how best to use computers to improve your chess.

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge.

Tried and True for More than Two Centuries

The Scotch Game is a solid opening that has been tried and tested in practice by some of the strongest chessplayers in the world for more than two centuries. The idea behind the Scotch Game is simple and easily understandable. White eliminates - in a purely mechanical fashion - Black’s e5-pawn which initially impedes his ambition to dominate in the center.

This is very appealing for White, as he controls the direction of the struggle’s development, while Black can only try to keep pace. Furthermore, there are relatively simple schemes in the white repertoire in which it is enough to remember the main plans of both sides and typical maneuvers.

This is the second edition of Vladimir Barsky’s book that first appeared in 2009. The new edition consists of seven chapters dealing with the core ideas and variations of the Scotch, supplemented by 79 Illustrative Games. The authors not only present detailed analysis of all lines but are also careful to discuss the ideas behind the opening. If you already play the Scotch, you need this book. If you don’t, find out what you have been missing.