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The best chess training closely resembles the activity you're training for. This book provides you with an essential component - decision-making in the crucial positions of a real game of chess, played by club players rather than grandmasters. You have to answer the same questions that you face when you stare at the chess board and have to find a move.
Nikola Sedlak is a renowned chess player known for his expertise in the London System. He is a grandmaster from Serbia who has been considered one of the strongest players in the country for many years. Sedlak is also a well-known chess trainer and author, who wrote several books on the London System and other chess openings.
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.
In this second and final volume of the Anti-Sicilian series, the author covers all alternatives to 2…Nc6.
The Moscow variation is the only critical alternative to 3.d4 that has caused any concerns for Black, and the author’s choices in this variation were mainly selected by their ability to create practical difficulties for the opponent. Against 3…Nd7, the author analyses two distinct options, either castling immediately or first playing 4.a4.
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Zestaw 4 bestsellerów traktujących o grze końcowej. Najlepsze wydania w twardej oprawie, najlepsi autorzy. Jacob Aagaard, Sam Shankland i Steffen Nielsen
For almost two centuries the French Defense has been a universally popular opening. Many authorities have made their contribution to establishing the theory. Thanks to their efforts, players nowadays can easily make a choice between the many and various options, whether peaceful or sharp, whether statically or dynamically orientated. Just as importantly, if not more so, fans of the French worldwide can today find good options to play both for a win and a draw! All this makes the French Defense very popular. However, the authors think that many lines have not been well explained or should be revisited. Some other lines deserve a better reputation. Finally we have also suggested some new approaches. Simply speaking, the French Defense looks to be inexhaustible and there cannot be enough books dedicated to it. This book takes a step in the direction of revitalizing our favorite opening!
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.
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.
On 30 April 2023, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren sensationally defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in a dramatic battle for the chess crown. Ding Liren not only became the 17th World Chess Champion, but he also won the hearts of chess fans across the globe with his incredible fighting spirit and disarming interviews. At the final press conference, the new champion said the match ‘reflected the deepest of his soul’.
Coach Christof has thoroughly revised and updated his 2018 best-selling chess opening manual. It covers everything you need to know when opening with 1.e4. You will get a complete White chess opening repertoire.
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Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and also one of the most exciting areas of chess, with mind bending tactical opportunities and dizzying nuances available. They have unsurprisingly been a big topic in endgame literature, with a heavy focus on the set theoretical positions and their logic and fixed conclusions (see the excellent Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam Shankland, published as a sister volume to this book as the peak example of this).
Rook endgames are the most important to study, because they are the type of endgame you will face most often over the board. Working on rook endgames gives the biggest bang for your buck.
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.
- 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!
In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can be challenging.
As the Perpetual Chess Podcast host, USCF Master Ben Johnson has spent hundreds of hours talking chess with many of the world’s top players and most accomplished trainers. In the popular Adult Improver Series, he has spoken with dozens of passionate amateurs who have elevated their games significantly while pursuing chess as a hobby.
Lambasting the London
Although the London System was first played almost 200 years ago, it lay dormant until the beginning of the 21st century. Then chessplayers rediscovered it, realizing that the London could be played against most responses by Black, obtaining a good game with little preparation.
Improve Your Chess Now is a modern chess classic and one of the most inspiring chess improvement manuals. Adult improvers frequently name this book as one of their primary sources in the popular Perpetual Chess Podcast of Ben Johnson.
This second-volume workbook in Davorin Kuljasevic's How to Study Chess on Your Own series is optimized for chess players with an Elo rating between 1500 and 1800 but is helpful for anyone between 1200 and 2000. The astounding success of his How to Study Chess on Your Own made clear that thousands of chess players want to improve their game and like to work on their training at least partially by themselves.
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Endgame Labyrinths presents the reader with 1002 challenging studies selected and truncated, with their usefulness for the practical player in mind. It is common for studies to be extended by less interesting manoeuvres or by incomprehensible sequences, before the main themes come into play.
Chess players can look ahead, formulate a clear plan, and act accordingly. That's why chess is the perfect learning environment for becoming a strategic expert. But how do you train this? It starts with playing many games and analysing them carefully afterwards.
It is amazing how much play you can create in a seemingly equal chess position - if you persevere. In this book, the greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win these kinds of chess games.
All through his career Jan Timman has been captivated by the mystery and splendour of endgame studies. Even during his most successful and busy years as a world-class player, Timman continued to compose studies and admire those of others. For him, there has never been any doubt that his journeys in this magical world helped him to grow as a player.
The English Opening arises after 1.c4, and is a great practical weapon for players of all levels. White dictates the opening from the very first move, and often reaches positions where understanding themes and plans is more important than the latest computer-generated analysis.
Informant’s Collection of Instructive Tactics and Studies
- 500 carefully selected puzzles
- 5 levels of difficulty
- 60 instructive, prizewinning studies
Study, practice and improve with our selection of tactical jewels!
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.
The Pirc Defence and the Modern Defence are two naturally entwined chess openings that are both flexible and rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Nakamura and Carlsen.
Are you a parent of a junior chess player who feels that because you don’t know how to play chess, you can’t help your child? Or are you an adult or junior chess player who has taken private chess lessons for years, but feels you haven’t been progressing?
World Chess Champion Max Euwe, who held the title from 1935-1937, is one of the greatest chess players in history. Much has been written about him, and he authored dozens of books himself. But missing was an outstanding collection of games of this 'efficient, man-eating tiger' as the American grandmaster Reuben Fine once called Euwe.
- Gormally – World Chess Championship – Nepo – Ding (Review)
- Shyam Sundar – World Chess Championship – The Most Instructive Moments and Positions
- Miodrag & Milos Perunovic – European Chess Championship (Tournament Report)
- Leitao – The English Opening (WCH Edition – Theoretical Survey)
- Foisor – Woman’s Candidates Final (Instructive Review)
- Prusikin – The Power of Knight Pair(Instructive Lesson)
- Davies – The Maroczy Bind (Theoretical Survey)
- Kotronias – The King’s Indian Saemisch (Theoretical Survey)
- Perelshteyn – The Alekhine Defence (Theoretical Survey)
- Rogers – Telechess Olympiads (Roger’s Reminiscences)
- Griffin – Vaganian – Gulko, Baku 1977 (From Informant Archives)
- Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess (Review)
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!
The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century.
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.
Самый юный перворазрядник в СССР, чемпион мира среди юношей, участник турнира претендентов в 19 лет – взлет Бориса Спасского был стремительным.
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.
