If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions.

That’s what Boris Zlotnik has been stressing during his long and rich trainer’s career. Clicking through concrete variations (a popular pastime in the computer era) is not enough. To guide your thinking during a game you should be able to fall back on a reservoir of typical ideas and methods.

Этот шахматный учебник — эссенция опыта чемпиона мира по шахматам Роберта Фишера. Гениальный шахматист, Роберт Фишер обладал прямым и последовательным стилем игры, основанным на кристально ясных энергичных планах. Это позволило ему выиграть множество "учебно-показательных" партий, напоминающих лекции по отдельным шахматным темам. Эти "лекции" оказали большое влияние на элитных шахматистов нескольких поколений, сегодня их необходимо использовать в обучении абсолютно всем, для чего данный учебник и предназначен. Книгу отличает полнота подбора примеров (170 партий и фрагментов) и широта охватываемых тем (есть даже глава, посвященная усилению игры в "блиц"). Работа с книгой повысит результаты шахматиста любой квалификации.

Известный теоретик и историк шахмат мастер Я. И. Нейштадт написал руководство по стратегии и тактике. Предлагаемый им курс основан на творческом наследии Пауля Кереса, одного из сильнейших шахматистов своего времени. Это учебное руководство, охватывающее оценку положения и планирование, методы атаки и обороны, классификацию комбинаций и расчет вариантов, и в то же время - галерея произведений знаменитого гроссмейстера, сгруппированных по темам.

Учебному материалу предпослан очерк о спортивном пути Кереса, стиле его игры и месте, которое он занял в истории шахмат.

Новое издание прошло компьютерную проверку.

2-е издание, исправленное.

Ранее книга издавалась под названием "Шахматный университет Пауля Кереса".

Из предисловия 14-го чемпиона мира Владимира Крамника: «В юности, когда я только начинал изучать шахматы, одной из, можно сказать, «библий» по игровым окончаниям была книга этого же автора «Стратегия эндшпиля». Она считалась «канонической», все тренеры в Советском Союзе рекомендовали своим ученикам: «Читай Шерешевского!» Я сам внимательно проштудировал эту книжку, и мне она очень понравилась. Слышал, что она понравилась и Магнусу Карлсену – понятное дело, много лет спустя.  

Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and shows what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them. He describes both their historical significance and how they inspired his own development as a player.

A book by stalwart chess writer on an aspect of chess that is quite common, but little is written about, swindling in chess. In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. Renown chess writers Horowitz and Reinfeld observe that swindles, "though ignored in virtually all chess books", "play an enormously important role in over-the-board chess, and decide the fate of countless games".

Andrew Soltis, American chess journalist, says swindles are not accidental or a matter of luck. Swindling is a skill. But there has been almost nothing written about how to do it, how to make yourself lucky in chess. Swindling means setting traps that exploit an opponent’s over-confidence. It means choosing the move that has the greatest chance of winning, rather than the move that has the least chance of losing.

Soltis’ new proposal will explain to players of all levels how to do just that with plenty of examples to explain along the way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is chess correspondent for the New York Post and a very popular chess writer. He is the author of many books including What it Takes to Become a Chess Master, Studying Chess Made Easy and David Vs Goliath Chess.

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Becoming a Grandmaster is the ultimate aim for serious chess players, but whatever your chess abilities, this book will take you to the next level. Packed with tips, tricks and practical exercises aimed at players of all skill levels who aspire to greatness.

Even an average chess player can find the same moves as a Grandmaster as much as 75 percent of the time. The difference is that only the Grandmaster can find the other 25 percent. This book identifies the kinds of moves and techniques that account for that 25 percent. Among the topics covered in the book are: Mysterious rook pawn moves, Tacking, Piece Nullification, “King Feeling,” and how to play for a win without risk.

Written by one of our biggest-selling and best-loved chess authors, in his trademark chatty, accessible but always informative style, this book is filled with practical exercises and test games that will reveal the secrets of how to join chess’s elite ranks.

If you want to improve in chess you often find instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all. Franco Zaninotto has a different approach. He knows from experience how stimulating it is to study the games of the best players in your peer group.

Generations of chess players have grown up on Fred Reinfeld’s books. He has a way of reducing the most intricate, complicated combinations to their basic components. After Reinfeld explains a combination, it makes sense.

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