SUPER POMYSŁ NA PREZENT! 

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.

SPIS TREŚCI:

005 Series Foreword

006 Bibliography

007 Introduction

011 1 ...e5 Lines

104 2 ...c5 Lines

141 3 The Mikenas System

161 4 Anti-QGD, Slav and Hedgehog Lines

214 5 Anti-Grünfeld, King´s Indian and Dutch Lines

254 Building a Repertoire

268 Index of Variations

270 Index of Games

Opis część 1:

Finally this modern classic is back in print!

Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It's all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.

Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into 4 main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities.

Jan Timman completes an impressive and fascinating trilogy with his collected studies. In Timman's Titans, winner of the 2017 ECF Book of the Year Award, he writes about the world champions he admires. In Timman's Triumphs, he annotates his hundred best games. In Timman's Studies, he offers his collected compositions of endgame studies.

Niezwykle istotne jest zapoznanie się z dorobkiem twórczym mistrzów świata. Czego można się nauczyć od nich? Z całą pewnością bardzo wiele. Każdy z nich był bowiem najwybitniejszym graczem swoich czasów i na drodze do tytułu najsilniejszego zawodnika globu musiał pokonać elitę najlepszych z najlepszych oponentów w rozgrywkach eliminacyjnych i w końcu zwyciężyć w meczu finałowym! W tych trudnych i emocjonujących spotkaniach musiał wykorzystać wszystkie swoje umiejętności oraz wiedzę, aby rozłożyć na łopatki wielu znakomitych przeciwników!     

Chess Informant 165 “Echoes” presents:

- FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2025 by WGM Sabina-Francesca Foi.or

- TASHKENT TOURNAMENT REPORT by GM Miloš Peruno

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Chess Informant 164 “Freestyle!” presents:

The Trompowsky and Torre Attacks, played regularly at club level, may be quite risky to face if you are not prepared. In this comprehensive treatment of both openings highlighting play from Black’s perspective popular authors Vassilios Kotronias and Mikhail Ivanov, present solid paths to dynamic equality for the second player.

Daily bite-sized puzzles to improve your tactical ability

*365 Steps to Tactical Mastery* offers a practical, tactic-centered approach to improving your chess game. Instead of spending countless hours studying, this book delivers bite-sized lessons and tasks that you can complete daily to enhance your skills over the course of a year. 

The fundamental purpose of Black’s aggressive and provocative move with the d-pawn is to create immediate central tension and to exploit the latent power of the queen on her starting square. Remember Lasker’s observation: “Black’s idea is to make use of the great fighting power of the queen in the opening”. 

All the lines presented in this book are very old, some even dating back to medieval times! Lots of things were known about these systems before chess engines started to become very strong, but now we have completely new ideas from not only a tactical, but also positional, point of view on positions that have simply resurfaced in recent times. The rebirth of these lines has become so popular that during my work on this book I was amazed to see such a level of popularity. To make this book readable I broke some positions into smaller files wherever I could. In all my books I try to present at least the basics of many openings and lines: the problem is that basic knowledge about openings is growing even bigger, and it is not an easy job to comprehend and assimilate all that material. That’s why I have also tried in this book to be as concise as possible. After all, reading a book should not only be an aesthetic/interesting endeavour, but also a practical/useful thing at the same time.

Master the Catalan, an Opening that stands the test of time and style

♟️ Strategic Depth – Offers rich, long-term positional play with strong central control.

♖ Top-Level Endorsement – Played by elite grandmasters like Kramnik, Carlsen, and Giri.

🔒 Solid and Safe – Builds a strong, stable structure with minimal risk in the opening phase.

🧠 Outplay Opponents – Ideal for players who enjoy quiet pressure and deep middlegame plans.

🎯 Target Black’s Weaknesses – Constant pressure on Black’s queenside and long diagonal (g2–a8).

♜ Flexible System – Effective against multiple defenses (1…d5, 1…Nf6), allowing transpositions.

🧩 Easy to Learn, Hard to Crack – Concepts-driven rather than theory-heavy; great for building a repertoire.

Challenge the French Defense with the Exchange Variation

Simplify the position early

Maintain central tension

Use piece activity to exploit symmetrical structures

Create imbalances

The Carlsbad Pawn Structure is one of the most important and instructive pawn structures in chess. It commonly arises from the Queen’s Gambit Declined, Exchange Slav, and other 1. d4 openings, offering a wealth of strategic ideas for both sides. This structure has been studied extensively by many world champions, including Capablanca, Karpov, and Petrosian, due to its rich positional themes.

Beauty in chess manifests itself in different ways. For chess players who are not sophisticated enough, one of the leading aesthetic criteria is probably the value of the offered piece. An experienced player will primarily value the originality and purity of the idea.

The primary goal of this work is not to recount a story or to acknowledge the creative efforts of a friend, although those are satisfying perks I allow myself. This is a theoretical book about a chess variation that (it could not be otherwise) 

Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson was a positional genius with a crystal-clear style. In his prime, in the 1970s and 80s, he rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings because he almost never lost a game and kept scoring wins from quiet positions.

Many decently strong players aspire to become an international master. They see very clearly that the grandmaster title is most likely beyond them but the IM title is one they feel they could achieve, if only...

Mikhail Botvinnik is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time, in the same league as Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov. Botvinnik was born in 1911 and died in 1995. He is known as The Patriarch, or the father of the Soviet School of Chess. He was World Chess Champion from 1948 until 1963, with two short interruptions, and later mentored other world champions Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik.

Taktyka - maty w 4 posunięciach

Taktyka - maty w 4 posunięciach

This new book by Mikhail Shereshevsky, one of the most respected chess trainers in the world, is about a very important but little-explored topic: associative thinking. How can a modern chess student avoid drowning in the flood of information? The answer is to stop mechanically memorizing moves and turn on your curiosity. Try to create a vivid image of the technique you are studying and remember it as an association!

Книга гроссмейстера и опытного тренера Александра Галкина посвящена сильнейшей фигуре на шахматной доске – ферзю. На примере эпизодов из партий современных гроссмейстеров (подавляющее большинство партий относится к 2020-2023 годам) и своей гроссмейстерской практики автор пытается обобщить, а где-то даже и уточнить методологию понимания и разыгрывания ферзевых окончаний, а также иных типов эндшпилей с наличием ферзей (ферзя) на доске. 

Nowe wydanie z aktualnym Mistrzem Świata – Dommaraju Gukeshem!

Książka "Mistrzowie Świata i ich 444 kombinacje szachowe" to wyjątkowa publikacja prezentująca sylwetki wszystkich mistrzów świata w szachach, ich twórczość oraz najciekawsze kombinacje, które pozwoliły im zapisać się na kartach historii królewskiej gry.

Autor przygotował materiał, który zawiera propozycje gry wariantów przeciwko debiutom zamkniętym i pół zamkniętym Każdemu debiutowi autor poświęcił tyle miejsca, na ile zasługuje ze względu na bogactwo wariantów i częstość jego występowania w praktyce turniejowej. Autor celowo ominął większość systemów z nieprzyjętego gambitu hetmańskiego, które w zasadzie powinny być obowiązkowe w repertuarze debiutowym zawodnika rozpoczynającego partię posunięciem 1.d2-d4. 

Te eleganckie kolczyki przedstawiają złote figury szachowego skoczka, co nadaje im wyjątkowy i intelektualny charakter. Wykonane z metalicznego materiału o błyszczącym wykończeniu, pięknie odbijają światło, dodając blasku każdej stylizacji.

Books on how to improve your results over the board have been written before but in these changing times when chess has propelled onto the public consciousness, an update is badly needed. Grandmaster Daniel Gormally uses his 25+ years of experience to take the readers through the fires of the tournament cauldron, while illustrating some of his battles with the best players in England.

When deciding upon a repertoire to meet 1 d4, those players whose natural inclination is to be aggressive have a difficult decision. There are plenty of outright counter-attacking tries such as the Benko Gambit, the King's Indian Defence and the Modern Benoni. However, such openings are generally considered borderline unsound at the higher levels. On the other hand the safe options such as the Queen's Gambit Declined and Queen's Gambit Accepted make it difficult to create middlegame complications. So, what to do?

Chess Informant 162 “Manoeuvre!!” presents:

World Championship Match Ding – Gukesh, analysis by GM Ivan Ivanisevic

European Individual Chess Championship, analysis by GM Milos Perunovic

The Budapest Gambit, theoretical survey by GM Vasilios Kotronias

The King’s Gambit, 5.h3 Variation by GM K. Szabo

The Wandering King, instructive lecture by GM Michael Prusikin

Thankless Tasks, studies by GM Steffen Nielsen

Roger’s Reminiscences, Kasparov’s first trip to the West by GM Ian Rogers

A story of a Chess Prodigy – Roman Shogdzhiev

Traditional sections:

Correspondence Chess

The best game and most important theoretical novelty from the previous Volume

Endgames

Combinations

200 games according to ECO Codes.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

This book aims to give you a wealth of self-study knowledge about handling different types of endings that occur frequently but on which there is not much literature analyzing recent games. Imbalanced material endgames involving rooks are a key focus of the book, covering three-fifths of the material, and all endings in the book feature at least one rook. The vast majority of games are taken from the last few years, including many from 2021-2022. Like the author’s previous endgame book published with Elk and Ruby, 101 Endgame Crimes and Punishments (2020), this one is aimed at strong tournament players (1900-2300 Elo) and fast improving juniors.

Are you ready to shock your opponent on move 3?

The Reti Opening is a dynamic opening invented by Richard Reti more than a century ago. It has since been featured in the repertoires of countless grandmasters and world champions, including Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Garry Kasparov, Tigran Petrosian, Vassily Smyslov, and many others.

The Sicilian Scheveningen Defense is a highly respected and flexible variation of the Sicilian Defense, characterized by the pawn structure Black adopts with pawns on e6 and d6. It arises after the moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6. This setup allows Black to maintain a solid central presence while keeping options open for dynamic counterplay.

Siegbert Tarrasch and Aron Nimzowitsch could be called the two vainest chess players in history. This book tells the fascinating story of their lifelong rivalry. They clashed as personalities, as players and as chess writers, both searching for the truth in chess, but with very different perspectives.

Hikaru is a five-time US chess champion, ranked as high as second in the world with a stratospheric peak rating of 2816, the 10th highest of all time. He is also a top chess streamer with over a million followers across social media, consistently on the list of the five wealthiest gamers in the world. Nakamura has represented the US in 5 Olympiads, earning a team Gold and two Bronze medals.

Edycja Centaur Crystal

Zajrzenie pod maskę nigdy nie było tak proste. Jeśli już lubisz DGT Centaur i technologię, która za nim stoi, to pokochasz edycję DGT Centaur Crystal.

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Nowe książeczki ChessBase zawierają kod aktywacyjny, który umożliwia pobranie produktu. ChessBase 18 oraz nowe bazy danych nie będą już wydawane na DVD-ROM. Szczegóły na końcu opisu.

ChessBase to samodzielna baza danych szachowych, która stała się światowym standardem. Korzystają z niej wszyscy – od mistrzów świata po amatorów. Jest to ulubiony program każdego miłośnika szachów, który chce poszerzyć swoją wiedzę i umiejętności. Rozpocznij swoją osobistą przygodę z sukcesami dzięki ChessBase i ciesz się grą jeszcze bardziej.

Produkt dostępny wyłącznie w formie pobrania
Nowe książeczki ChessBase zawierają kod aktywacyjny, który umożliwia pobranie produktu. ChessBase 18 oraz nowe bazy danych nie będą już wydawane na DVD-ROM. Szczegóły na końcu opisu.

ChessBase Mega Database 2025 to najważniejsza baza danych szachowych, zawierająca ponad 11 milionów partii rozegranych w latach 1475–2024, wszystkie w wysokiej jakości. W jej skład wchodzi ponad 113 000 partii z profesjonalnymi analizami, co czyni ją największą na świecie kolekcją gier szachowych z wysokiej klasy komentarzami.

Introduction

Dear chess friends, the collection of exercises in your hands has the main objective of providing you with ample material for practicing evaluation, calculation and overall decision-making in tactically rich positions. The book contains 500 of the most instructive examples from the games played during 2023 in tournaments around the world.

Paul Morphy might well be the most brilliant and enigmatic chess champion of all time. He burst onto the scene in 1857 as a 20-year-old and dominated the chess world for two short years, convincingly defeating all the strongest players. After conquering the European chess scene, Morphy was universally recognised as the greatest player of all time. But at the age of 22 he suddenly and permanently retired from serious competition.