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!

1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 1600-2400. This chess exercise book is written by an experienced coach, International Grandmaster of ICCF. It contains more than 1400 exercises that are arranged very precisely after various combinational motifs.

Magnus Carlsen, Współczesny podręcznik gry w szachy

Magnus Carlsen został mistrzem świata w szachach w 2013 roku, ale jego istotny wpływ na świat szachowy rozpoczął się wiele lat wcześniej. Już od ponad 20 lat każda jego partia stanowi źródło wiedzy dla pozostałych szachistów. 

W niniejszej książce przeanalizowane zostały najnowsze partie Magnusa, jak i te które nie znalazły miejsca w publikacjach prasowych. Partie zostały podzielone na grupy tematyczne i oprócz innych możliwości konkretnych posunięć zawierają wiele praktycznych porad oraz analiz planów i strategicznych idei. 

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.

Wydanie II książki szachowej "Łamigłówki debiutowe" to aż 900 praktycznych kombinacji zebranych z wyjątkowo krótkich oraz najbardziej interesujących miniaturek szachowych. W każdym zadaniu są dwa różne posunięcia i należy wybrać w debiucie te właściwe. 

Bluza letnia "Chess"

Bluza letnia "Evolution Chess Player"

Koszulka "Rainbow" z szachowym nadrukiem.

Koszulka "Rainbow" z szachowym nadrukiem.

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 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.

Książka „Szachy w ujęciu historycznym i psychologicznym” jest spojrzeniem na królewską grę z perspektywy historyka i psychologa. Współautorzy niezależnie od siebie przez lata pisali o szachach, kierowani wewnętrznym imperatywem, że szachom warto poświęcać czas i wysiłki, że szachy warto badać, że o szachach trzeba pisać. Z tego wieloletniego pisania i publikacji w różnych czasopismach, książkach, oraz na stronach w Internecie zebrali tak obszerny materiał, że podjęli decyzję o jego udostępnieniu Czytelnikom w jednej zwartej monografii.

Komputer eONE dostępny wyłącznie na specjalne zamówienie klienta.

Kompaktowe wymiary

Granie on-line, wbudowany bluetooth

Wykrywanie ruchów LED

Rozpoznawanie ruchów

Skarpety z motywem szachownicy

Bawełniana koszulka z nadrukiem "KINGS GAMBIT". Stylowy prezent dla miłośników szachów.

Komputer Mephisto Phoenix dostępny wyłącznie na specjalne zamówienie klienta.

Zintegrowany komputer szachowy

Komputer Mephisto Phoenix T dostępny wyłącznie na specjalne zamówienie klienta.

Zintegrowany komputer szachowy

Technologia rozpoznawania figur szachowych

Wykrywanie ruchów LED

Wielkość szachownicy 55x55cm

Komputer Mephisto Phoenix M dostępny wyłącznie na specjalne zamówienie klienta.

Zintegrowany komputer szachowy

Technologia rozpoznawania figur szachowych

Wykrywanie ruchów LED

Wielkość szachownicy 40x40cm

Gumka do włosów z motywem szachownicy (A-136)

Czapka z daszkiem z haftem 3D "Chess", zapinana na rzep.

Buty z motywem szachownicy ze sznurowadłami, rozmiary od 35 do 40.

Najniższa cena w ciągu 30 dni przed aktualną promocją: 217 zł

Figury szachowe drewniane o klasycznym, ozdobnym kształcie i przyjemnym odcieniu. Formą przypominają kultowe już szachy Ambasador, jednak dzięki mniejszemu rozmiarowi są bardziej poręczne i zdecydowanie lżejsze.

Szachownica drewniana, wypalana, składana na dwa. Jest to oryginalnie wyglądająca szachownica w kolorze mahoniu z pięknymi wzorami na każdym z pól.

Wewnątrz kasetki znajdziemy miejsce na figury.

Zestaw idealnie nadaje się na prezent dla każdego miłośnika królewskiej gry.  Dzięki temu, że szachownica jest składana i można w niej schować figury zestaw jest prosty w użyciu i transporcie. Jego wymiary sprawiają, że jest wspaniałym pomysłem na prezent szczególnie dla młodszych szachistów, którzy chcą mieć piękne, a przy tym poręczne i uniwersalne szachy zawsze przy sobie!

SZACHY SPRZEDAWANE SĄ W ORYGINALNYM PUDEŁKU SYGNOWANYM FIRMĄ WĘGIEL

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. 

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

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

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).

The distinction between strategy and tactics is one of the first things any chess player learns about, but have you ever heard about statics and dynamics before? Did you know that nearly every critical decision you take in a game of chess is governed by the rules of the so-called static/dynamic balance? If not, for the sake of your own chess development, you might want learn more about it from this very book!

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.

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” ).

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.

35 Conversations with Chess Stars

The interviews in this book span over twenty years, over two decades. For years I went with my recording device to tournaments like Wijk aan Zee, Frankfurt Chess Classic, Hoogeveen… often to interview the interesting player of the moment in some hotel bar or quiet interview room. 31 out of the 35 interviews came about this way. That is… until March 2020, when out of nowhere, covid broke out. Suddenly chess tournaments were no longer held and a live interview with chess players was no longer possible.

The most famous team ever participating in a chess pub quiz was MC Hammer. The team members are pretty decent chess players and happened to know their bit of chess trivia and chess history. Do you know or can you guess their names?

This book offers a collection of hundreds of chess trivia and chess-related trivia. You can use it by yourself, solving puzzles. Or you can use the book for multiple thematic pub quizzes at your local chess café or chess club.

Enjoy. The best game ever.

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.'

Grandmaster Training Camp 1 – Calculation! offers you a unique chance to participate in a training camp with Super-GM Sam Shankland, as he works through 300 problems set to him by his long-time trainer. Sam shares what he saw, what he did not see, and what he thinks about the problems and the skills needed to solve them.

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.