Drewniane szachy magnetyczne z intarsjowaną, składaną na pół szachownicą w kolorze mahoniu.
Dzięki silnym magnesom, szachy te spełnią się w roli doskonałego towarzysza podróży.

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.

Szachownica drewniana

Pola jasno-beżowe/ciemno-brązowe / drukowane

Obramowanie szachownicy - brązowe

Wymiary szachownicy: 48x48x1,2cm

Wymiary pola: 5 x 5 cm

Szachownica rozmiarowo dopasowana do figur szachowych w rozmiarze nr 5

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.

Zwischenzug! is the first-ever comprehensive guide to the chess tactic also known as the intermediate move, or intermezzo. This exciting manoeuvre can catch opponents off guard because it is against the expected run of play. You will learn how to spot Zwischenzugs, when to look out for them, and how to set them up in your games.

The Fascinating Chess and Football Careers of Simen Agdestein

Simen Agdestein was awarded the title of chess grandmaster at the age of eighteen, the youngest in the world at the time. Two years later he wrote in his diary that he believed he could become the best in the world.

It is not really in doubt that Bobby Fischer is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) chess players of all-time. His name is one that it is recognized immediately by almost anyone with even a passing interest in chess. His numerous brilliant games are very well known and have been seen in numerous anthologies.

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!

Metalowy brelok do kluczy (szachownica około 4 cm).

Atrakcyjna forma i solidne wykonanie pozwolą długo cieszyć oko tym brelokiem. Każdy szachista powinien go mieć!  

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.

Develops your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

1000 Chess Problems will develop your combinative flair while highlighting the beauty and profundity of chess.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 2 concludes a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to create the perfect chess puzzle books. This second volume builds upon the first, using games from the World Champions and their challengers. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

This book also contains a special chapter with expert guidance on how to use chess engines. The engines might analyse precisely but they can also harm our chess understanding if followed blindly, so we must know when and how to use them.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1 is essentially a chess puzzle book, but not a typical one. It’s a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and his world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to introduce you to the world of ”unnatural“ tactical moves.

Presenting examples of extreme beauty, no matter where they come from be it online bullet or world-class grandmaster praxis this book will cure your ”selective blindness“ by destroying the false notion of chess principles being a set of rules, instead of helpful guidelines. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.

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.

Szachownica w rozmiarze turniejowym nr 6. Jej atutami jest to, że jest wykonana z grubego winylu (z tego materiału wykonuje się podkładki pod myszkę komputerową), a dodatkowo, dla wygody przechowywania i transportu można ją zrolować. Jej wygląd stanowi udaną imitację szachownicy drewnianej.

Wymiary szachownicy: 50 x 50 cm

Wymiary pola: 5 x 5 cm 

Grubość: 2 mm 

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.

Do you want to do the same chess homework that world-famous grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Robert Hess and Peter Heine Nielsen did in their formative years as chess players? This book will test you with hundreds of positions created by their coach Miron Sher (1952-2020). Just like Fabiano, Robert and Peter, you are not supposed to stop after the first move. You have to find the last move of the solution!

Repertuar dla czarnych

The Early Equalizer

In response to 1.e4, White’s most common first move, it has long been recognized that when and if Black can play ...d5 safely, the result is approximate equality. Scandinavian devotees argue all that can happen on Move 1! But it’s hardly a ”peaceful“ equality.

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.

Trzej muszkieterowie to jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści Aleksandra Dumas z gatunku "płaszcza i szpady". Utwór został pierwszy raz wydany w odcinkach w dzienniku Le Siecle, a następnie w formie książkowej przez wydawnictwo Baudry, w tym samym 1844 roku w Paryżu.

Potem wielokrotnie zekranizowano go i przetłumaczono na wiele języków. Nie każdy jednak wie, że jest to tylko pierwsza część trylogii o... czterech muszkieterach z elitarnej królewskiej gwardii - Atosie, Portosie, Aramisie i a`Artagnanie.   

Tiviakov's Unbeatable Strategies: Piece Play

Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten in a streak of more than a hundred chess games as a professional player. Who better to share the secrets of Rock Solid Chess and the activity and value of pieces than Tiviakov?

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian.

Книга посвящена интересному гамбиту, который чёрные предлагают уже на втором ходу: 1.е4 е5 2.Kf3 d5. Подрыв центральной пешкой возникает на доске неожиданно, и требует от неподготовленного соперника чётких знаний. Для любителей активной игры есть очевидные преимущества: большое количество ловушек, лёгкость и быстрота запоминания основных вариантов.

Книга посвящена интересному гамбиту, который чёрные предлагают уже на втором ходу: 1.е4 е5 2.Kf3 d5. Подрыв центральной пешкой возникает на доске неожиданно, и требует от неподготовленного соперника чётких знаний. Для любителей активной игры есть очевидные преимущества: большое количество ловушек, лёгкость и быстрота запоминания основных вариантов.

Классики учили: самый простой и действенный способ переиграть менее опытного шахматиста – получить позицию, в которой конь борется со слоном. Считается, что фигуры эти равны по силе, но уж очень разные у них характеры! Если провести аналогию с хоккеем, то слоны – это скоростные и прямолинейные игроки с мощным броском, любящие свободное пространство. 

This book presents a multi-faceted approach to the Reti – 1.Nf3 d5, followed by c2-c4. The core of the proposed repertoire is the topical system 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 and 2.e3 c5 3.c4 d4 4.b4. Play often transposes to the English Opening with White having sidestepped 1.c4 e5.

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.

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.

An informative guide to understanding and implementing the fundamentals of the Caro-Kann, the easy way.

The Caro-Kann defence, named after the German chess players Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann, is notorious for its simple solidity and is a popular chess opening that players of all levels benefit from having in their arsenal. It is a firm favourite of grand masters past and present, including Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Anand.

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!

Have you ever wondered why it takes grandmasters just seconds to see what's happening in a chess position? It's all about pawn structures, as Ivan Sokolov explained in his groundbreaking book Winning Chess Middlegames.

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.

Have you ever wondered how chess grandmasters always seem to know which pieces need to be exchanged? Or how an attack is influenced by the number of pieces on the board? When should we keep the queens on, and when should we switch to an endgame?

The Dutch Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren was a professional chess player for over twenty years. At the peak of his career, he qualified for the Candidate Matches for the World Championship – and was only four victories away from the World Title. In Mindful Chess, you will get his long and short answer to whether meditation or mindfulness will help your chess.

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.

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