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PRACTICAL CHESS TUTOR - FROM BASIC TO MASTERY 2 is a complete manual of chess strategy for club players, with some introductory tactical themes at the very end of the book. All the crucial elements of strategy are examined in great detail by examining the most instructive classical and modern games (100 games in total).
Velickovic - Editor's Corner
Speelman - Real-Time Action and British Miscellany
Perunovic - Serbian Chess Championship
Afek - Dutch Chess Championships
Kotronias - Najdorf Variation - 6. h3 e6! Repertoire for Black
Prusikin - Michael's Musings
Perelshteyn - Sicilian Dragondorf
Sprenger - Obstructing the Opponent's Plan
Edwards - Correspondence Chess Matters
Gonen - World of Correspondence Chess
Rogers - Candidates Semifinal Matches, London 1983
Griffin - From the Chess Informant Archives
Traditional sections: 287 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!
It is not the quality of your best moves that wins you games; it is the quality of your worst moves. The quickest way to improve your chess skills is to raise the bar.
We all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game.
Have you ever admired an amazing game of chess, simultaneously thinking “I could never play like that”? In Tiger’s Chaos Theory, you will find a different perspective, treating extraordinary play and creativity as a learnable skill. Thinking outside the box is a stock phrase of the commentators; champions expand their box.
Lessons, motivation and coaching to make you a better chess player.
In an ideal world, any aspiring chess player, at almost any level, would get better with a coach. If that’s not possible, having chess champion coach Thomas Engqvist’s book at your side is the next best thing.
Dear readers, the book in your hands is primarily intended for all who are entering the magical world of chess, beginners, children and their parents and of course - adult ambitious improvers. This chess textbook will enable readers to strengthen their knowledge of the chess basics and fundamentals and will help trainers and chess teachers in working with their students.
Dear readers, the book in your hands is primarily intended for all who are entering the magical world of chess, beginners, children and their parents and of course - adult ambitious improvers. This chess textbook will enable readers to strengthen their knowledge of the chess basics and fundamentals and will help trainers and chess teachers in working with their students.
Zwischenzug! is the first-ever comprehensive guide to the chess tactic also known as the intermediate move, or intermezzo. This exciting manoeuvre can catch opponents off guard because it is against the expected run of play. You will learn how to spot Zwischenzugs, when to look out for them, and how to set them up in your games.
- AFEK – WIJK AAN ZEE 2024
- LEITAO – THE DIFFICULT ART OF DEFENCE IN CHESS
- GORMALLY – DANNY'S CHESS DIARY – MY HASTINGS NIGHTMARE
- KOTRONIAS – KING'S INDIAN DEFENCE – GLIGORIC SYSTEM
- PERELSHTEYN – THE ALEKHINE – EXCHANGE VARIATION
- DAVIES – UNDFERSTANDING THE OPENINGS
- PERUNOVIC – THE SICILIAN OFF-ROAD
- MARIN – OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES
- PRUSIKIN – THE CARO-KANN EXCHANGE VARIATION
- BARAK GONEN – WORLD OF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
- ROGERS – ASIAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP – Europe v Asia Match, Batumi 2001
- GRIFFIN – FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES
Traditional sections: 263 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!
Do you want to do the same chess homework that world-famous grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Robert Hess and Peter Heine Nielsen did in their formative years as chess players? This book will test you with hundreds of positions created by their coach Miron Sher (1952-2020). Just like Fabiano, Robert and Peter, you are not supposed to stop after the first move. You have to find the last move of the solution!
Классики учили: самый простой и действенный способ переиграть менее опытного шахматиста – получить позицию, в которой конь борется со слоном. Считается, что фигуры эти равны по силе, но уж очень разные у них характеры! Если провести аналогию с хоккеем, то слоны – это скоростные и прямолинейные игроки с мощным броском, любящие свободное пространство.
Oops! He’s Back!
Australian Grandmaster Ian Rogers is back with a new book of silly resignation puzzles - the only chess puzzle book where your solution cannot be worse than the player who mistakenly abandoned the game!
Have you ever wondered how chess grandmasters always seem to know which pieces need to be exchanged? Or how an attack is influenced by the number of pieces on the board? When should we keep the queens on, and when should we switch to an endgame?
The best chess training closely resembles the activity you're training for. This book provides you with an essential component - decision-making in the crucial positions of a real game of chess, played by club players rather than grandmasters. You have to answer the same questions that you face when you stare at the chess board and have to find a move.
In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can be challenging.
As the Perpetual Chess Podcast host, USCF Master Ben Johnson has spent hundreds of hours talking chess with many of the world’s top players and most accomplished trainers. In the popular Adult Improver Series, he has spoken with dozens of passionate amateurs who have elevated their games significantly while pursuing chess as a hobby.
Improve Your Chess Now is a modern chess classic and one of the most inspiring chess improvement manuals. Adult improvers frequently name this book as one of their primary sources in the popular Perpetual Chess Podcast of Ben Johnson.
This second-volume workbook in Davorin Kuljasevic's How to Study Chess on Your Own series is optimized for chess players with an Elo rating between 1500 and 1800 but is helpful for anyone between 1200 and 2000. The astounding success of his How to Study Chess on Your Own made clear that thousands of chess players want to improve their game and like to work on their training at least partially by themselves.
It is amazing how much play you can create in a seemingly equal chess position - if you persevere. In this book, the greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win these kinds of chess games.
Are you a parent of a junior chess player who feels that because you don’t know how to play chess, you can’t help your child? Or are you an adult or junior chess player who has taken private chess lessons for years, but feels you haven’t been progressing?
Are you ready for new strategic insights about thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters? Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and renowned chess writer Steve Giddins take a fresh look at some classic games ranging from Anderssen-Dufresne, played in 1852, to Botvinnik-Bronstein (1951) and Geller-Euwe (1953). They unleashed the collective power of Leela, Komodo and Stockfish to help us humans understand what happened in games of fan favourites such as Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen and Bobby Fischer.
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Niniejsza książka to unikalny zbiór 1400 diagramów z praktyki szachowej mistrzów i arcymistrzów z wielu krajów i różnych epok oraz własnych przykładów samych autorów.
Stopień trudności poszczególnych zadań jest na tyle zróżnicowany, by każdy szachista czerpał radość z ich rozwiązywania, niezależnie od swoich umiejętności. Tak więc w książce znajdziemy proste i bardziej skomplikowane przykłady taktyki szachowej, klasyczne końcówki, piękne kombinacje, które na zawsze przeszły do historii szachów, studia, etiudy i kompozycje szachowe oraz odzwierciedlenie zawartych w nich idei przeniesionych do praktyki turniejowej.
Czytelnik może poznać różnorodne sposoby matowania – od najprostszych jedno i dwuposunięciowych do mata w 262 (!!) posunięciach.
Having you ever been tortured at the chessboard? If so, then you have probably been a victim of pressure play.
The vast majority of chess games witness familiar strategies and well known tactical motifs. These are the games that you will find in the anthologies and opening repertoires. Sometimes however, games appear that seem to have been played on a different planet.
Not every reader is ambitious enough or has enough time to work very hard on his chess. That’s quite understandable and nothing to be ashamed of. You can enjoy chess very well without being a strong tournament player. You could just entertain yourself by playing through interesting combinations.
1400 Kombinacji matowych - Ryszard Czajkowski, Andrzej Nowicki
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Niniejsza książka to unikalny zbiór 1400 diagramów z praktyki szachowej mistrzów i arcymistrzów z wielu krajów i różnych epok oraz własnych przykładów samych autorów.
Stopień trudności poszczególnych zadań jest na tyle zróżnicowany, by każdy szachista czerpał radość z ich rozwiązywania, niezależnie od swoich umiejętności. Tak więc w książce znajdziemy proste i bardziej skomplikowane przykłady taktyki szachowej, klasyczne końcówki, piękne kombinacje, które na zawsze przeszły do historii szachów, studia, etiudy i kompozycje szachowe oraz odzwierciedlenie zawartych w nich idei przeniesionych do praktyki turniejowej.
Czytelnik może poznać różnorodne sposoby matowania – od najprostszych jedno i dwuposunięciowych do mata w 262 (!!) posunięciach.
Zlotnik covers a wide variety of topics and uses a wealth of material. Readers will love this new book, as they did his first book, Zlotnik's Middlegame Manual. 'A brilliant, important and extraordinarily instructive book', said Florian Jacobs, the book reviewer for the Max Euwe Center in Amsterdam. 'This is how probing, rich and motivating studying chess can be.'
Grandmaster Training Camp 1 – Calculation! offers you a unique chance to participate in a training camp with Super-GM Sam Shankland, as he works through 300 problems set to him by his long-time trainer. Sam shares what he saw, what he did not see, and what he thinks about the problems and the skills needed to solve them.
Данное учебное пособие адресовано тем, кто хочет самостоятельно научиться играть в шахматы и совершенствоваться дальше. Поурочный метод изложения, а также многочисленные упражнения способствуют последовательному усвоению правил и законов, составляющих основу шахматной игры.
Have you ever wondered why strong chess players immediately grasp what is happening in complex positions? The secret is pawn structures. The pawn structure dictates the game's flow, and different structures require distinct approaches. You can improve your game by studying a large variety of pawn structures and the Hidden Laws of Chess.
The astounding success of How To Study Chess on Your Own made clear that there are thousands of chess players who want to improve their game. And chess players like to work on their training at least partially by themselves.
Bent Larsen is one of the most celebrated chess players of the twentieth century. Larsen is the man who pushed Bobby Fischer down to Board 2 on the Rest of the World team in 1970. The Danish grandmaster had spectacular results, but chess fans appreciated even more his creativity and fighting spirit. For Larsen, a drawish-looking position was no reason to halt a game, as he had the ability to create magic out of thin air.
Twenty years ago New in Chess magazine introduced a back page column in which a chess personality is asked to name their favourite items in many areas: food, drink, films, art, music, etc. One of the questions has always been: What is the most exciting game of chess you ever saw?
With his rare strategic feeling and exceptional vision, Petrosian gradually became one of the top exponents of the art of the exchange sacrifice, and perhaps the leading protagonist for the positional exchange sacrifice.
Written by one of the best chess communicators in the business, chess master and chess journalist Andy Soltis divulges practical advice and explains technical terms that chess books often overlook. From learning how to train your mind with chess information to choosing the best chess opening, dip in and out of this invaluable guide to improve your chess in a minutes.
Среди шахматистов самых разных разрядов встречаются те, кто хорошо разыгрывает дебют, успешно комбинирует в середине игры, но испытывают трудности, когда игра упрощается.
Королевская крепость – оборонительная позиция короля в дебюте и миттельшпиле. Ее стены определяет пешечная структура: у крепости № 1 пешки находятся в начальном положении, то есть на f7, g7, h7 (или f2, g2, h2).
The Ramesh Chess Course - Część 1
Calculation is key to winning chess games. Converting your chess knowledge into concrete moves requires calculation and precise visualization.
Inspirational Lessons from the All-Time Best Female Chess Player
The Fearsome Fascination of Kingwalks!
Marching your king across the board – at times right through or into enemy lines – may be both exhilarating and terrifying. Nothing may be quite as satisfying as a majestic kingwalk across the board which brings you glorious victory. And nothing as tragicomic as a needless journey ending in epic failure.
