Chess category: 725 books
by Eric Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and Internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you'll learn everything you need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections...
Tactics Training - Magnus Carlsen
How to improve your Chess with Magnus Carlsen and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Have you always wanted to play chess like a World Champion? This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same winning moves as Carlsen did in his games. One hundred training exercises are offered here. You only have to find the move that Carlsen played! The puzzles start at a moderate...
Tactics Training - Garry Kasparov
How to improve your Chess with Garry Kasparov and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Garry Kasparov is a fighter, both in chess and in life. The 13th World Champion regards his playing style as 'a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer'. Kasparov was known for his deep opening analysis, but also for his positional understanding and combinatory play. Do you want to adopt...
Tactics Training - Mikhail Tal
How to improve your Chess with Mikhail Tal and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to get in the shoes of the most famous attacking player of all time. It offers one hundred training exercises in positions the former World Champion turned in his favour. Can you be as imaginative as Mikhail Tal was? Mikhail Tal (1936-1992) was...
Tactics Training – Anish Giri
How to improve your Chess with Anish Giri and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Anish Giri (1994) is a Russian-born Dutch grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 14 years and 7 months. In 2016 he is one of the elite grandmasters in the top-10 of the world rankings. He is also one of only ten players who have broken the 2800 Elo rating barrier. Giri's career...
Forcing Chess Moves
The Key to Better Calculation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Charles Hertan, an experienced chess coach from Massachusetts, has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key winning moves is often due to human bias, since your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural. Charles Hertan?s radically...
by Dvoretsky Mark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first edition of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame. The second edition is revised and enlarged now over 400 pages covering all the most important concepts required for endgame mastery."I am sure...
Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess
Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
lThe sacrifice is one of the most beautiful, rewarding and complex aspects of chess. During a game the decision to give up material in order to get an advantage is probably the most difficult one a player has to take. Often, you have to burn your bridges without being able to fully calculate the consequences....
by Cyrus Lakdawala
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 Cyrus Lakdawala
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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....
Kramnik-Kasparov, London 2000
Match for the World Chess Championship
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chessplayer ever. Until the turn of the 21 st century, there did not appear to be anyone who could successfully challenge him. However, in October 2000, Kasparov met another Russian, Vladimir Kramnik, in a title match.Sponsored by BrainGames, the...
by David Vigorito
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Chess Developments 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 theory whilst also...
Checkmate for Children
Mastering the Most Important Skill in Chess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Beginners of all ages will win more games after studying this easy-to-follow book. This isn?t another random collection of puzzles, but a systematic course that teaches you how to checkmate your opponent. Experienced chess coach Kevin Stark explains elementary mating patterns in all the important positions...
by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Beginners and even fairly advanced players agree on one thing: analyzing the strength or weakness of a position (material being equal) is the hardest part of chess to learn. It is also one of the hardest elements to teach, and there are some who claim it is unteachable. But this wonderfully lucid...