Wersja uaktualniona i rozszerzona. Wydanie 2024.

We’ve managed to keep the upgraded paperback edition at the pre-inflation price. On top of that, this modern classic is now available in hardcover as well.

Develops your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

1000 Chess Problems will develop your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1 is essentially a chess puzzle book, but not a typical one. It’s a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and his world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to introduce you to the world of ”unnatural“ tactical moves.

Presenting examples of extreme beauty, no matter where they come from be it online bullet or world-class grandmaster praxis this book will cure your ”selective blindness“ by destroying the false notion of chess principles being a set of rules, instead of helpful guidelines. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2 concludes a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to create the perfect chess puzzle books. This second volume builds upon the first, using games from the World Champions and their challengers. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

This book also contains a special chapter with expert guidance on how to use chess engines. The engines might analyse precisely but they can also harm our chess understanding if followed blindly, so we must know when and how to use them.

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The Early Equalizer

In response to 1.e4, White’s most common first move, it has long been recognized that when and if Black can play ...d5 safely, the result is approximate equality. Scandinavian devotees argue all that can happen on Move 1! But it’s hardly a ”peaceful“ equality.

There are many secrets in chess, knowledge of which distinguishes a chess virtuoso from an amateur. One of these secrets is the ability to play positions with opposite-colored bishops.

The sequel, or the second part of the “Secrets of Positional Sacrifice” manual is titled “Positional Sacrifice in Modern Chess”. We assume that readers will conclude that the subject of our analysis are recently played games, especially the games played over the last few years. The book is intended for chess players who aspire to raise the level of positional play in this particular field of expertise, as well as coaches working on chess education.

The clarity, simplicity, and pure instructiveness of this book is striking.

The analysis is first rate, the commentary cogent, and the production excellent.

The emphasis is on general principles that readers will be able to use in their own games.

The key is to always stay ahead of your opponent and know how to control the chaos on the chess board. Armin Juhasz explains all this in detail without losing sight of practical decision making.

With the right strategies, anyone can become a champion and level up their game to become unstoppable. This book is for the ambitious and keen player!

Lambasting the London

Although the London System was first played almost 200 years ago, it lay dormant until the beginning of the 21st century. Then chessplayers rediscovered it, realizing that the London could be played against most responses by Black, obtaining a good game with little preparation.

Based upon Dvoretsky’s famous card files

A complete repertoire for White

Thinkers Chess Academy | Test your chess knowledge

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.

900 Chess Opening Puzzles is a collection of 900 traps and, at the same time, 900 possibilities to make the right decision. In other words, each puzzle cosists of choosing a correct move in the opening phase of the game. This book discovers the secrets of traps in a variety of chess openings in an easy and pleasant way.

Szachownica w rozmiarze turniejowym nr 6. Jej atutami jest to, że jest wykonana z grubego winylu (z tego materiału wykonuje się podkładki pod myszkę komputerową), a dodatkowo, dla wygody przechowywania i transportu można ją zrolować. Jej wygląd stanowi udaną imitację szachownicy drewnianej.

Wymiary szachownicy: 50 x 50 cm

Wymiary pola: 5 x 5 cm 

Grubość: 2 mm 

A repertoire for Black providing all answers to White’s options.

Paced with exciting games, original ideas and analysis.

Thorough and up-to-date coverage of one of the most topical openings.

Positionally motivated lines, but none the less never forgetting the needed dynamics.

Aggressive ideas to tackle head-on white’s solid set-ups.

Are you passionate about chess and eager to improve without dedicating countless hours to training? Look no further! Introducing “365 Endgame Lessons for Novices” a practical guide focused on the endgame.

A LIFE DEDICATED TO CHESS AND ITS PLAYERS

This remarkable book is a tribute to a man who is probably the greatest chess coach of all time. Mark Dvoretsky was a fascinating, intelligent, honest, decent, hard-working and good-natured man who dedicated his life to chess and its players.

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!

Trzej muszkieterowie to jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści Aleksandra Dumas z gatunku "płaszcza i szpady". Utwór został pierwszy raz wydany w odcinkach w dzienniku Le Siecle, a następnie w formie książkowej przez wydawnictwo Baudry, w tym samym 1844 roku w Paryżu.

Potem wielokrotnie zekranizowano go i przetłumaczono na wiele języków. Nie każdy jednak wie, że jest to tylko pierwsza część trylogii o... czterech muszkieterach z elitarnej królewskiej gwardii - Atosie, Portosie, Aramisie i a`Artagnanie.   

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Tiviakov's Unbeatable Strategies: Piece Play

Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten in a streak of more than a hundred chess games as a professional player. Who better to share the secrets of Rock Solid Chess and the activity and value of pieces than Tiviakov?

Книга посвящена интересному гамбиту, который чёрные предлагают уже на втором ходу: 1.е4 е5 2.Kf3 d5. Подрыв центральной пешкой возникает на доске неожиданно, и требует от неподготовленного соперника чётких знаний. Для любителей активной игры есть очевидные преимущества: большое количество ловушек, лёгкость и быстрота запоминания основных вариантов.

Книга посвящена интересному гамбиту, который чёрные предлагают уже на втором ходу: 1.е4 е5 2.Kf3 d5. Подрыв центральной пешкой возникает на доске неожиданно, и требует от неподготовленного соперника чётких знаний. Для любителей активной игры есть очевидные преимущества: большое количество ловушек, лёгкость и быстрота запоминания основных вариантов.

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. 

This book presents a multi-faceted approach to the Reti – 1.Nf3 d5, followed by c2-c4. The core of the proposed repertoire is the topical system 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 and 2.e3 c5 3.c4 d4 4.b4. Play often transposes to the English Opening with White having sidestepped 1.c4 e5.

The variation of the French that starts 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 (or 3 Nd2) 3 ... dxe4 is often called the Rubinstein Variation. It is a great way to simplify the position and ensure that the middlegame battle rewards strategic understanding rather than rote memorisation of opening moves. It is also a very useful weapon to defuse the attacking intentions of aggressive White players who plan an all-out assault in the main lines of the French Defence.

An informative guide to understanding and implementing the fundamentals of the Caro-Kann, the easy way.

The Caro-Kann defence, named after the German chess players Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann, is notorious for its simple solidity and is a popular chess opening that players of all levels benefit from having in their arsenal. It is a firm favourite of grand masters past and present, including Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Anand.

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.

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!

Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess:

- In Memoriam – Remembering Aleksandar Matanovic

- Leitao – World Cup 2023 (Tournament Review)

- Shyam Sundar – This or that? – World Cup Edition

- Perunovic – Instructive positions from the World Cup

- Foisor – Women FIDE World Championship Match (Tournament Review)

- Gormally – British Chess Championship (Tournament Review)

- Moradiabadi – Biel Chess Festival (Tournament Review)

- Yochanan Afek – Prague Chess Festival (Tournament Review)

- Kotronias – The Classical Scotch 4…Bc5 (Theoretical Survey)

- Davies – The Sandipan Dutch (Theoretical Survey)

- Prusikin – The Exchange Slav Ideas (Instructive Lesson)

- Davies – The Catalan 7.dc5 (Theoretical Survey)

- Szabo – The King’s Indian Defence E91 (Theoretical Survey)

- Perelshteyn – The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Theoretical Survey)

- Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 7

- Rogers – The Japan 1978 Zonal Tournament (Roger’s Reminiscences)

- Griffin – Spassky-Portisch, Toluca Interzonal 1982 (From Informant Archives)

- Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume 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!

Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess:

- Leitao – Opening Ideas in Modern Chess

- Shyam Sundar – Grand Swiss (This or That?)

- Perunovic – European Team Championship

- Foisor – USA Women Championship (Tournament Review)

- Moradiabadi – USA Championship (Tournament Review)

- Ntirlis – The Damiano Defence (Theoretical Survey)

- Prusikin – The Weak King (Instructive Lesson)

- Perelshteyn – The Alekhine 4 Pawns Atack (Theoretical Survey)

- Rogers – Asian Team Championship 1981 (Roger’s Reminiscences)

- Griffin – Larsen – Byrne, Havana 1966 (From Informant Archives)

- Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume 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!

The sequel, or the second part of the “Secrets of Positional Sacrifice” manual is titled “Positional Sacrifice in Modern Chess”. We assume that readers will conclude that the subject of our analysis are recently played games, especially the games played over the last few years. The book is intended for chess players who aspire to raise the level of positional play in this particular field of expertise, as well as coaches working on chess education.

Have you ever wondered why it takes grandmasters just seconds to see what's happening in a chess position? It's all about pawn structures, as Ivan Sokolov explained in his groundbreaking book Winning Chess Middlegames.

Boris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. In this two-volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spassky’s brilliant career and life story.

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 Dutch Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren was a professional chess player for over twenty years. At the peak of his career, he qualified for the Candidate Matches for the World Championship – and was only four victories away from the World Title. In Mindful Chess, you will get his long and short answer to whether meditation or mindfulness will help your chess.

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.

Nikola Sedlak is a renowned chess player known for his expertise in the London System. He is a grandmaster from Serbia who has been considered one of the strongest players in the country for many years. Sedlak is also a well-known chess trainer and author, who wrote several books on the London System and other chess openings.

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