Chess category: 725 books
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White
A Turn-key Package for Ambitious Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs.
Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Trying to win in 20 moves, copying what's in fashion...
by Lorin D'Costa
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....
Chess Opening Essentials
1.d4 d5 / 1.d4 Various / Queen's Gambits
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
The ideas & plans behind ALL chess openings!
Volume 2 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
* Comprehensive:...
by Jerry Sohl
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
A HILARIOUS HANDBOOK OF DEVIOUS DIVERSIONS AND STRATAGEMS FOR WINNING AT CHESSWith tongue in cheek and laughter aforethought, Jerry Sohl takes his readers on a merry romp through all the deceits and tricks of one-upmanship as it is practiced in the game of chess. Drawing from his own experiences,...
Advance Chess
: A Pre-Dawn to the Age of Superlative Bionic Robotic Intelligence Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Reminiscing through the quiet contemplations in the corners of my mind, like the gentle meandering streams of viscous channel flow, with its ever so fluid twists, turns and churns, along the seemingly endless river banks, where the streams erode the land, I cannot help but find my true self, in an...
Super Chess Kids
Win Like the World's Young Champions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
If you want to improve in chess you usually have to settle for instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all. Or contrived puzzles that have little in common with the reality of your own games.
Italian FIDE Master and chess instructor...
Fabiano Caruana
His Amazing Story and His Most Instructive Chess Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
THE FIRST AMERICAN SINCE BOBBY FISCHER TO PLAY FOR THE WORLD TITLE!
‘I started working with Fabiano when he was only five’, remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini. ‘It was obvious that he had a rare intuition, was brave in attack and was one of the most talented...
Man vs. Machine
Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Man vs. Machine Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. It may sound quaint today, but not so long ago, computers battled humans for supremacy at the game of chess. The challenge of building a computer program capable of defeating the best of human-kind at chess was one of the original grand...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland,...
by Valeri Beim
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Basics of Chess Strategy While there are many books about how to improve your chess tactics, instructive books about chess strategy, particularly for players of less than master strength, are few and far between. In the latest entry in the widely acclaimed Back to Basics Chess Series, international...
Anish Giri
My Junior Years in 20 Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
'Chess Grandmaster Anish Giri sketches his rise to the chess elite and presents 20 fondly remembered games in his trademark style: instructive, witty and delightfully unimpressed by reputations. Included is his win against Magnus Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee, the 'Wimbledon' of Chess, in 2011. The Dutch grandmaster...
Emanuel Lasker
Second World Chess Champion
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The ChessCafe World Chess Champions Series Emanuel Lasker was a great chess fighter, thinker and researcher. He was possessed of gigantic playing strength, retaining the title of World s Number One Chessplayer for 27(!) years. Even after losing his crown, he kept his ability for a long time, as shown...
by Richard Reti
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Modern Ideas in Chess" is a series of 45 essays dealing with the evolution of the game, its leading players, their ideas and contributions to their respective periods. The chronology starts in the Romantic era of Anderssen and Morphy, continues through the Classical School of Steinitz,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess Openings
Discover the First-Move Strategies of Champions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
It's your move...
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Chess Openings provides all readers need to know to solidify their opening game and get on the road to victory. In it, the authors provide a step-by-step walk-through of 100 of the most effective opening moves. Each opening strategy is clearly...