Although Jose Raul Capablanca was the World Chess Champion a century ago, his games remain among the most interesting to study. The clear logic and simplicity of his moves inspired other great players such as Mikhail Botvinnik and Bobby Fischer. And the clarity of his play will boost the confidence of any chess student. It all seems so easy when you read the explanations, says a student in a comment on Chessable, so much so that you really believe you can play like Capablanca.

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. 

What does it take to become an expert in opening preparation?

How can we learn the secret methods which allow the top players to dominate everyone else in the opening?

Do you like chess and want to become a better player without putting in hundreds of hours training? 

365 Steps to Tactical Mastery has a practical approach with a focus on tactics.

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.

100 Years Later, Nimzowitsch Is Still Good for Your Chess!

Almost a century ago, a chess book about positional play and strategic concepts appeared on the chess scene. Written by a Latvian grandmaster residing in Denmark, it quickly took its place as one of the classics of chess literature. Since then, Aron Nimzovich’s magnum opus My System has been embraced by every generation of chessplayers.

Victor Bologan is not only a strong and creative chess grandmaster, he has also made a career in Moldovan and world chess politics. His strong will and incredible versatility have enabled him to lead a colourful and interesting life. ‘Believe in yourself’ is his motto and it has taken him to places many of us will never see.

Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess:

- 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!

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.

The Alterman Gambit Guide: Black Gambits 2 is an instructional manual for improving chess players. Sharpen your tactics and learn to play dynamic attacking chess while studying the most entertaining gambits. This volume deals with various openings after 1.e4 e5, and lines covered include: Marshall Attack, Traxler variation, Frankenstein-Dracula variation, Falkbeer Counter-Gambit and more.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Zestaw 4 bestsellerów traktujących o grze końcowej. Najlepsze wydania w twardej oprawie, najlepsi autorzy. Jacob Aagaard, Sam Shankland i Steffen Nielsen

This book is about the Nimzo-Indian Classical line 4.Qc2 (also known as the Capablanca Variation) and the 4.Bd2-line, for which basically I could not find an established name.

The Nimzo-Indian Defense has been one of the most trusted defenses against 1.d4.

It combines fast development with a solid pawn structure, control over the center and great flexibility.

The Fritz Powerbook 2024 contains 25 millions opening positions, derived from 1.7 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2024 were derived (except the Corr Games) are also included on the DVD or download version.

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.

Szanowni Czytelnicy,

dzisiaj, zamiast standardowego opisu zawartości numeru, proponuję głębiej zastanowić się nad zjawiskiem szachowej dominacji programów komputerowych. W tym miejscu pozwolę sobie delikatnie sparafrazować słowa Janusza Zajdla z jego proroczej powieści Limes Inferior:

Oto, do czego gnamy w tym naszym beznadziejnym, ślepym, baranim pędzie. Automaty do wszystkiego! Wszystko automatycznie!

I oto nagle przytomniejemy w obliczu dylematu: jeśli jeden automat potraÞ szachować z drugim tak sprawnie, zgrabnie i na tyle sposobów, to co jeszcze, u diabła, robią ludzie na tej planecie?!

Życzę Państwu przyjemnej lektury

Tomasz Makowski

Including 7444 Opening Surveys & 1396 Special Theory Databases

1-й половины 20-го века Савелия Тартаковера никогда ранее на русском языке не издавалась. По словам самого автора, в ней ему хотелось со-единить «полезное с приятным», т. е. представить читателю полезные сведения в увлекательном изложении. Как видно из оглавления, книга посвящена тематике, владение которой обязательно для шахматистов II-III разрядов. Шахматисты I разряда окинут свежим взглядом уже усвоенные принципы и найдут для себя немало полезного для дальней-шего усиления игры.

Помимо практической пользы (прежде всего) читатель получит не-сомненное удовольствие от изучения как малоизвестных, так и класси-ческих примеров, которые в своем фирменном стиле прокомментировал гуру шахматной литературы.

Варианты проверил с помощью компьютера и внёс необходимые уточнения международный мастер Григорий Богданович, его коммента-рии выделены в основном тексте курсивом.

Kolczyki z motywem szachownicy. 

Trzy modele

Zestaw 10 książek: 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.

The book presents a Black repertoire based on the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

From the "Preface:

"I wrote this book for the adventurer who wants to start playing the Nimzo but is afraid of drowning in its lines. My creative task is to provide the reader with useful practical advice while sparing him unnecessary learning overhead."

Igor Lysyj

Kompaktowe wymiary

Zintegrowany komputer szachowy 

Wykrywanie ruchów LED

Granie on-line, wbudowany bluetooth

Bardzo dokładne czujniki nacisku

Uniwersalny geniusz wśród komputerów szachowych. 81 diod LED do wyświetlania ruchów, oprogramowanie The King, adaptacyjne poziomy i Chess960. Graj online przez moduł ChessLink. Super gładka tablica z czujnikiem nacisku.

Bluza letnia "Evolution Chess Player"

Koszulka "Rainbow" z szachowym nadrukiem.

The Give and Take of Chess Tactics

Chess students love a Puzzle Rush. And solving tactics puzzles certainly helps you improve your pattern recognition and will help you find good moves in tournament games. But there is a downside to most tactics puzzles we always know who is supposed to win!

"Throw Down the Gauntlet from the Very First Move!"

A Counterpunching Repertoire for Black

The Modern Defense has been popular for decades. However, within the purview of this defense, there is a system that challenges White right from the get-go. The brainchild of Georgian grandmaster Bukhuti Gurgenidze, Black plays 1...g6 and follows with a timely ...c6 and ...d5. Occasionally classified as part of the Caro-Kann, it draws battle lines immediately.

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 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.

The Barry Attack is somewhat defensive-looking from the start. It tempts Black forward, provocatively. The Barry Attack is, after all, a little rebellious, flouting, as it does, all those common sense development rules. Perhaps your game needs a good shot of tactics to boost your results - it’s one of the fastest ways to improve and this is true not only for young players. If your opponent plays an early move order that’s not in this book such as 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c5 or 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 for example, the good news is that Black will be forced to transpose back into the mass of material. 

Wydanie 2 - poprawione i rozszerzone

In addition to the basic Taimanov ideas we had to keep, we followed – in an original manner – our two main concepts: ‘almost never play an early …d6’ (Scheveningen-style) and ‘push …h5 whenever you can’ (Paulsen-style).

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.

Try to expand your knowledge in the 3.c3 variation and go beyond the book’s content Deepen your knowledge in 3.c4 variation and do not play it before you know it well. Finally, follow the very strong GM Vladislav Artemiev, who has had a relatively successful run with this opening in rapid online events.