This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate.

Written by one of the best chess communicators in the business, chess master and chess journalist Andy Soltis divulges practical advice and explains technical terms that chess books often overlook. From learning how to train your mind with chess information to choosing the best chess opening, dip in and out of this invaluable guide to improve your chess in a minutes.

The Slav (1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6) is a great choice against 1 d4 for players who are after a solid position from the opening but one that also contains dynamic possibilities. The pawn on c6 guarantees Black a firm foothold in the centre but there is also the ever-present possibility to capture on c4 and possibly even try to hold on to this pawn. The Slav is ideal for combining reliability with a promise for dynamic counterplay in the middlegame.

The Sicilian Taimanov (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nc6) is a very flexible Black system in the Sicilian Defence developed by Mark Taimanov. It is characterised by the development of the g8-knight on e7, often along with a quick ...b7-b5. The Taimanov often leads to tense, dynamic positions which are ripe in counterattacking possibilities.

· 64 deeply annotated instructive games

· 5 areas of positional sacrifice

· Carefully selected exercises with solutions

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!     

A good start is half the battle. Experienced American chess coach Dean Ippolito has trained thousands beginners and adult improvers and knows exactly how you should build your opening knowledge.

Вниманию читателя предлагается уникальный сборник уроков, лекций, семинаров по всем вопросам шахматного совершенствования, включая психологию, дебютную подготовку, решение проблем в середине игры, повышение мастерства игры в эндшпиле и т. д.Среди авторов уроков чемпионы мира...

Informant’s Collection of Instructive Tactics and Studies

- 500 carefully selected puzzles

- 5 levels of difficulty

- 42 instructive, prizewinning studies

Study, practice and improve with our selection of tactical jewels!

The number of hours you can spend on opening preparation is endless. Books, videos and databases offer hundreds of ever-widening variations. But how do you find your way through this labyrinth? Where do you start? And, maybe even more importantly: where do you stop?

A full repertoire based on the Taimanov move order with 4. ... Nc6!

Книга предназначена для юных шахматистов (III-I разрядов) желающих повысить свое мастерство разыгрывания ладейных окончаний, а так же тренеров, руководителей шахматных кружков и всех любителей шахмат.

Учебник опытного тренера международного мастера Анастасии Геллер поможет начинающим шахматистам быстро освоить ходы фигур и познакомит с их ценностью. Научит беречь каждую из них, не подставлять под бой и защищать от нападения, а также определять, какая пешка или фигура находится без защиты, кого выгоднее съесть или разменять. Читатель научится считать варианты на несколько ходов вперед, предугадывая мысли и возможные действия соперника.

Книга представляет собой путеводитель, охватывающий все основные гамбиты и гамбитные системы. В нем представлены около 50 важнейших дебютных вариантов, где одна из сторон жертвует материал за инициативу. Материал рассчитан как для начинающих шахматистов, так и для более опытных игроков.

The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more – losing a winning position. No serious chessplayer is new to the misery of spoiling hours of hard work in a few minutes...

The Rossolimo for Club Players

A Dynamic Black Repertoire for Club Players

The Inside Story of the legendary 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Chess Championship in Reykjavik

Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, who confounded his opponents and dazzled chess fans around the world. Seemingly breaking every rule in the book, yet also breaking records with his accomplishments, Tal truly was The Chess Alchemist.

PRODUKT SPROWADZANY TYLKO "NA ZAMÓWIENIE" - klientów zainteresowanych zakupem prosimy o kontakt mailowy na adres: sklep@caissa.pl  

Этот труд написан для тех, кто хочет начать играть черными защиту Нимцовича, солидный классический дебют, но опасается «утонуть» в хитросплетениях её многочисленных вариантов. 

Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how.

Теоретическая работа гроссмейстера Виорела Бологана посвящена системе Россолимо в сицилианской защите (1.е4 с5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5).

Английский гроссмейстер Найджел Шорт (родился 1 июня 1965 г.) – один из самых успешных шахматистов мира в 80-90-е годы XX века. 

В книге международного мастера и опытного тренера Бориса Злотника «Руководство по миттельшпилю» изложен классический учебный материал по миттельшпилю на основе современной турнирной практики. 

Find your role model. This book contains games from every single female World Champion, as well as young up and comers, top seasoned professionals, streamers, and even a section at Beth Harmon from the recent famed Queen’s Gambit hit show. This book is not just for girls and women, however. Any chess player can learn from these games and discover female chess history, both from the famous players in the past right up to the present day.

I am glad to welcome you to the second volume dedicated to the Benko Gambit. This volume examines the most basic lines. It is these lines that can be found most often at the board. We’ll take a look at the rare and tricky lines and move on to the more popular and classic lines.

In the first volume, in the Introduction, we touched on my personal attitude to this opening, which has been constantly changing over the course of the last 10 years. We touched upon the history of how the opening developed, noted who needed to play this opening and what to expect from it.

152 wydanie Chess Informant. 

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Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4! -1B – Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Aggressive Enterprise

Vassilios Kotronias, Mikhail Ivanov

‘I as though traced the evolution of chess thought and repeated its basic steps in my own development … convinced that any player with high ambition should follow such a path’ ~ Vassily Smyslov, 125 Selected Games (1983)

This book takes the reader on a journey from early 19th century developments in the game up to the present-day. It takes in the revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz’s early summation and establishment of a firm positional basis for chess and the considerable contributions made by all of the subsequent world champions and certain other great players, including the contemporary computer phenomenon, AlphaZero.

In his new endgame series, Boroljub Zlatanovic shows a profound understanding of the most common material imbalance in chess: that of the bishop against the knight. The didactic concept of the book is admirable as well as the detailed explanations of the typical characteristics of this endgame. Despite the importance of this subject, it has received very little detailed coverage in chess literature and this encyclopedic work will definitely fill this gap and offer a lot of useful tips for practical play.

~ Alexander Delchev

Why do I recommend my book to you, dear reader? First of all, the lines are all analyzed very deeply. You do not have to turn on the engine and wait for the computer to produce a ready-made solution. Believe me, in analyzing this book, I used the most modern equipment, and thus the reader saves a lot of time. In our information age, time is very precious, and by buying my book you will gain at least time. I have spent a huge amount of my own time analyzing the various lines, but also commenting on the options especially for you, my friends.

Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4! -1B – Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Aggressive Enterprise

Vassilios Kotronias, Mikhail Ivanov

Endgame theory teaches us two fundamental issues: First, how to extract the maximum from a basic theoretical position with little material, where the experts (from practice comprising thousands of games) have reached definite conclusions. Second, the way in which we can handle an endgame, depending on the material remaining on the board, and the ideas and plans we should employ.

Endgame theory teaches us two fundamental issues: First, how to extract the maximum from a basic theoretical position with little material, where the experts (from practice comprising thousands of games) have reached definite conclusions. Second, the way in which we can handle an endgame, depending on the material remaining on the board, and the ideas and plans we should employ.

The idea behind this book is for you to ‘play’ as in a real game, and it is my job to ensure you have a pleasant time while training. 

Proper handling of pawns in the middlegame and endgame are important features in today's chess and a serious must for every player who wants to climb the world's chess hierarchy. 

The Slav encompasses a wide but solid body of theory. Black has plenty of options and finding advantages and practical chances was not easy at all. In any case. From amateurs to very strong players, I believe that every chess player will appreciate this book.

I am convinced that to cultivate the memory of the past and to study the classics is always useful and worthwhile, not least because it enables us to understand and face with greater awareness the facts and the problems of the present time. Much has already been written about the giants who have preceded us, and in particular, the Cuban, José Raúl Capablanca, and the Russo-Frenchman, Alexander Alekhine, but a new approach can surely offer different and interesting perspectives.