Chess category: 725 books
by Lorin D'Costa
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge....
Bobby Fischer Comes Home
The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport. The arrival in Iceland of the former World Chess Champion was front-page news all over the world. In a ploy to free him from prison in Japan the Icelandic Parliament had granted the American Icelandic citizenship....
Mastering Positional Chess
Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Mastering Positional Chess is a serious, but entertaining chess instruction book. Daniel started writing it when he realized that his lack of positional understanding was causing him to lose many games.
by John Emms, Chris Ward, Richard Palliser
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players who have excelled...
Caro-Kann Defence
Panov Attack
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The Caro-Kann Defence has a justified reputation for reliability, making it an attractive choice for players with a preference for positional play. However in recent years many new dangerous ideas have been discovered for White which makes a study of the theoretical main lines imperative for competitive...
On The Attack
The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Modern Masters
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A world famous grandmaster explains the modern style of attacking chess to amateur chess players. Jan Timman teaches how to build up an advantage in the game and how to convert that advantage into an aggressive strategy and into great attacking moves. He has selected the most instructive attacking games...
by Cyrus Lakdawala
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Jose Raul Capablanca is a chess legend, world champion and quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements and seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers, and his legacy includes a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablanca's play is a must for...
Winning Chess
Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Winning Chess is a truly classic chess book, beloved of chess-mad teenagers since it was first published in 1970, updated and repackaged in algebraic format. Written in lively, conversational style by two prolific and popular chess authors, it is aimed at players who have gone past the beginner stage...
The Longest Game
The Five Kasparov/Karpov Matches for the World Chess Championship
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. The clash between the reigning champion and his brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have...
Max Euwe
Fifth World Chess Champion
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The Gentleman Champion The fifth book of the World Chess Champions series focuses on the life and career of the Dutchman Max Euwe. This soft-spoken professor of mathematics rocked the chess world in 1935 when he defeated the seemingly irresistible force, Alexander Alekhine, to become world champion....
Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 4: Dutch, Benonis and d-pawn Specials
Winning Quickly at Chess Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
WIN FAST!
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through...
by Carsten Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge....
by SunTzuDo
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
For years I have pondered on how many different concepts from the Art of War could be applied to the game of chess. Can the greatest book on strategy, one written over two millennia ago, be applied to the ancient game of chess? If so then how? To address this persistent thought I have chosen some...
by Kevin Ming
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Chess Developments is a series which provides state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the current trends - concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening...