SUPER POMYSŁ NA PREZENT! 

I used to play a lot of chess as a teenager many decades ago. Those days, there were hardly any computers that played the game and there was certainly no Internet. Learning new ideas in the game was possible only through books or magazines and if something was not clear, there weren’t too many people to consult for explanations. 

Szachy heksagonalne to ciekawy wariant gry w szachy, rozgrywany na sześciokątnej szachownicy z sześciokątnymi polami. Zasady gry zostały opracowane w 1929 roku przez lorda H.D. Baskerville’a, a następnie w 1939 roku ulepszone przez radzieckiego geologa I. Szafrana. Ostatecznie popularność zdobyła odmiana stworzona przez Władysława Glińskiego w 1949 roku i usprawniona w 1953 roku – tzw. heksagonalne szachy polskie. Gra ta zyskała popularność w Wielkiej Brytanii, Polsce, Kanadzie, Stanach Zjednoczonych oraz innych krajach, takich jak Szwajcaria, Francja, Włochy, Węgry, Nowa Zelandia i Niemcy.

Profesjonalny zestaw szachów w rozmiarze turniejowym nr 6. 
Szachownica intarsjowana, z wewnętrzną kasetką na figury.

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

Zestaw składający się z drewnianych figur Staunton nr 5 oraz plastikowej, doskonale imitującej wygląd drewna szachownicy w rozmiarze nr 6.

Zestaw doskonale nadaje się zarówno do rozgrywania turniejów jak i do doskonalenia swoich umiejętności gry w szachy.

Zestaw Szachy Bursztynowe składa się z wykonanej z tworzywa sztucznego szachownicy wyglądem swoim imitującej drewno.  Szachownica o wymiarach 51x51 cm oraz wyjątkowe figury szachowe imitujące bursztyn i szkło. Zestaw zawiera także woreczek materiałowy na figury.

Szachownica nr 6 z tworzywa zmywalnego, składana na dwa w kolorze imitującym drewno

Wymiary szachownicy: 51 x 51 cm

Wymiary pola: 57 x 57 mm

Waga: 0,6 kg

2. Figury szachowe turniejowe, plastikowe, przezroczyste, turniejowe nr 6 w oryginalnych barwach bursztynu i szkła

Wysokość króla: 98 mm, średnica - 35 mm.

Wysokość pionka: 48 mm, średnica - 26 mm

Waga: 0,50 kg

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!

Kompletny repertuar dla czarnych na 1 d4

The Queen’s Gambit Accepted (1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4) has a long history and has always been popular at all levels of play. However, in the past few years it has undergone an explosion of interest, thanks to many new discoveries of possibilities for very dynamic play from Black. 

A complete repertoire for White

Do you want a simple and practical method to counter Black’s kingside fianchetto defences after 1 d4? A line that takes the initiative from a very early stage and creates difficult practical problems? If so, then The Harry Attack (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 h4!) is for you.

Лучшие шахматные этюды оказывают огромное эстетическое воздействие и надолго запоминаются, поэтому решение или даже просто разбор этюда представляет собой эффективный метод изучения стратегических и тактических элементов игры. Центральная глава книги – «Этюдные термины и темы», в двух других автор делится собственным опытом составления и решения. В заключение предлагаются для самостоятельного решения 72 этюда на 12 наиболее популярных тем, таких как доминация, крепость и борьба с ней, тактические удары и комбинации и др.

Книга адресована, в первую очередь, достаточно опытным шахматистам, которые имеют пока что поверхностное представление об этюдном творчестве. В то же время она будет полезна и поучительна для тех, кто уже поднаторел в решении и составлении шахматных этюдов.

Based upon Dvoretsky’s famous card files

131 mistrzowskich gier od arcymistrza!

Кто научился играть пешечный эндшпиль – тот научился играть в шахматы! В данной книге 64 урока по пешечному эндшпилю. Сложность уроков нарастает постепенно от уровня начинающего шахматиста в начале книги и до уровня перворазрядника и кандидата в мастера в конце.

При написании книги автор использовал 40-летний опыт работы тренером – от групп начинающих юных шахматистов в детсадах и начальных классах до группы высшего спортивного мастерства.

Учебник очень удобен для работы тренеров с группами юных шахматистов, поскольку содержит готовые конспекты уроков с учебным материалом, а также 700 позиций для решения и учебного разыгрывания.

Книга содержит большое количество определений и правил, в том числе оригинальных, придуманных самим автором в процессе многолетней тренерской работы. Материал удобен также для самостоятельного изучения.

The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and most complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority.

Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4 with White and the Najdorf with Black! WithThe Open Sicilian, based on his highly acclaimed Chessable course, he has managed something impressive: a watertight repertoire against the Sicilian of just over 400 pages. But reading this one volume, your knowledge of this opening and chess, in general, will make a spectacular jump.

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.

The English Defence (1 d4 e6 2 c4 b6) is a dynamic, counter-attacking line, initially investigated by English grandmasters. Black aims to set White difficult problems to solve at the very earliest stage of the game. Black’s play is provocative – aiming to lure White into establishing a big pawn centre. This is a risky strategy as White falls behind in development and Black switfly becomes very active. However, if White’s response is more circumspect then Black can often manoeuvre into favourable structures reminiscent of positions arising from the Nimzo-Indian Defence, the Queen’s Indian Defence or even the Dutch.

José González provides an excellent analysis of this complex opening and carves out a powerful repertoire for Black covering all lines after 1 d4. It is possible for White to avoid the "English battle" by playing either 2 Nf3 or even 2 e4 (a rare move for 1 d4 players but seen occasionally). Gonzalez champions an aggressive variant of the Dutch against 2 Nf3 and outlines a simple but effective French Defence repertoire to counter 2 e4.

- A complete repertoire for Black to counter 1 d4

- The question and answer approach provides an excellent study method

José González is a grandmaster and a FIDE Trainer. He has been teaching chess for over 25 years and currently coaches some of the top junior players in Catalonia. He is the author of many articles written in Spanish and has created various theoretical works including a Chessable course on the Queen’s Gambit Accepted.

During his long journey as a chess player and coach, GM Axel Smith came to the realization that understanding colour-complex strategies is one of the key differences between strong and weak players. After many years of delivering lectures and training material to his students, Smith produced a Chessable course on the topic, which has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess to produce this book.

In these pages, the award-winning author breaks down colour complexes into various sub-topics such as blockades, opposite-coloured bishops and exchange sacrifices, with carefully chosen exercises to test and reinforce the reader’s newfound understanding. Use Black & White Magic to improve your chess strength!

The fundamental concepts to torture your opponents mercilessly.

Having you ever been tortured at the chessboard? If so, then you have probably been a victim of pressure play.

The spirit of Indian Defenses is based on flexibility and harmony.

Most of the lines are positional, not tactical in character.

Guidelines for the Fundamentals of the Endgame

There are many books devoted to basic endgames, even from the Middle Ages. Principles of typical endgames (such as keeping the rook behind a passed pawn, not setting pawns on the same colored squares as your bishop’s, distant pawns being more dangerous than central ones etc.) are well known too. But what about “complex endgames”? I have in mind endgames with at least two pieces on each side; well I don’t find them often nor sufficiently well-explained in the past! It is exactly this fact (together with my passion and great endgame experience) that has motivated me to write this book (many friends simply call me “Endgame Wizard” ).

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.'

An Active Repertoire

The Sicilian Sveshnikov arises after the opening moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5, and is an ideal weapon based on sound principles of fast development and seizing central space. Decades of practical testing and analysis have proved the theoretical soundness of Black’s system, and its dynamic counterattacking potential makes it a popular choice among club players and top grandmasters alike.

2-е издание, переработанное и дополненное, популярной монографии, которая посвящена одному из самых боевых современных дебютов – староиндийской защите. 

The biggest selection of composed endings with up to seven pieces on the board.

Solving endgame studies has become a major working tool in modern chess training combining the instructive with the enjoyable. Studies are highly recommended for refining calculating and tactical skills, deepening endgame understanding, as well as improving creativity and out of the box thinking.

The Dawn of the Planet of the b-Pawns!

“There can be no Plan B because there is no Planet B,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We disagree when it comes to chess. In this book you will see analyzed not only 1.d4 b5 (the Polish Defense) but also the St. George Defense (1.e4 e6 2.d4 a6 intending 3...b5), 1.Nf3 b5, also 1.f4 b5 and, most shocking of all, 1.e4 a6 2.d4 b5. Grandmasters have lost to these systems; other Grandmasters even try them out themselves when they have the black pieces. No, an early ...b7-b5 is not Plan A. However, if you want to humiliate the opposition by being literally eccentric (off-center) and disrespectful ... Welcome to Planet B!

Я играю в шахматы около пятидесяти лет, из них свыше тридцати – на высшем уровне. Наверное, пришло время поделиться самыми памятными встречами. В первый том вошли партии, сыгранные в XX веке» (Б. Гельфанд).

The Barry Attack is a highly aggressive system that arises after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 Bf4. Although the concept of the Barry Attack has been known for a century or so, the modern interpretation (as with a number of other dynamic white systems) has mainly been developed by English grandmasters over the past couple of decades.