New In Chess: 139 books
A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz & Rapid
Sharp, Surprising and Forcing Lines for Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
In modern chess, faster time controls have become more important than ever. Every day, countless numbers of rated blitz and rapid games are being played in online and over-the-board competitions and championships.
In blitz chess it is important to make the right decisions quickly and almost...
Dynamic Chess Strategy
Extended & Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this enlarged edition of a modern classic (first published in 1991) on the battle of chess ideas, grandmaster Mihai Suba developed the concept of ?dynamic potential? in modern chess strategy. In improving your position on the board the old strategy principles often lead to conflicting conclusions....
Finding Bobby Fischer
Chess Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
‘Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy. He tries to fulfil the duties of the host and shakes hands, but his nervously darting eyes betray his unease with the situation. This is not a man accustomed to receiving visitors.’ Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam’s gripping encounter with the...
Tactics Training - Hikaru Nakamura
How to improve your Chess with Hikaru Nakamuraand become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Have you always wanted to play chess like American #1 chess player? This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same wonderful moves as Nakamura did in his games. One hundred puzzles are offered in which the bullet-expert turned the game in his favour. The puzzles start at a moderate level then get steadily more difficult. Can you match the performances of Nakamura?
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...
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...
Chess Strategy for Club Players
The Road to Positional Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable, yet very accessible, building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian’s playing style...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Reliable Past is the eagerly awaited sequel to Russian Silhouettes, Genna Sosonko's marvellous collection of portraits from the golden age of Soviet chess. In this new book, the author again shows himself a perceptive chronicler of a time when chess occupied a unique position in his native country,...
Tactics in the Chess Opening 6
Gambits and Flank Openings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
For casual players and club players
Every chess player loves to win early in the game with a deadly combination or a cunning trap. On the other hand, nobody wants to be tricked by his opponent before the game has really started.
This book covers all the tactical themes and typical traps...
Bobby Fischer for Beginners
The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume. His youth in Brooklyn, his astonishing career, his many conflicts, his girlfriends and his tragic death in exile...
Tactics Training Alexander Alekhine
How to improve your Chess with Alexander Alekhine and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was the 4th World Champion in the history of chess. In 1927 he defeated Jose Raul Capablanca in a World Championship Match by 18,5 - 15,5 (the winner was the first to win six games). Apart from a short intermission - in 1935-37 het lost his world title to the Dutchman...
Liquidation on the Chess Board
Mastering the Transition into the Pawn Ending
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Pawn endings do not arise out of nowhere. Before emerging as endgames with just kings and pawns, they 'pre-existed' in positions that still contained any number of pieces.Liquidation is the purposeful transition into a pawn ending. It is a vital technique that is seldom taught. Strange, because knowing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. Combining an insider's nostalgia with the detachment of a critical observer, he has produced...
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....