Chess category: 725 books
by Bryan Paulsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
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...
White King and Red Queen
How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history’s most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world’s imagination.
The...
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...
Tactics In the chess Opening 4
Queen's Gambits, Trompowsky & Torre
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Part 4 of the successful series introducing opening tactics for casual chess players and club players. It teaches how to recognize opportunities to attack early in the game, and how to avoid standard pitfalls in the opening. This book explains in more than 230 carefully selected and annotated games,...
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: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Bobby Fischer is a legendary chess figure, and many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer was a child prodigy who later developed into a phenomenal force. During his peak years he dominated his nearest rivals in a manner that had previously never been seen. Fischer achieved...
Clinch it!
How to Convert an Advantage into a Win in Chess
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
How good are you at bringing in the full point when you hold a clear advantage or are just plain winning? An honest response to this question is likely to evoke some painful memories. Perhaps the single greatest frustration for clublevel chess players is that time and again they see wins turn into...
Winning with the Slow (but Venomous!) Italian
An Easy-to-Grasp Chess Opening for White
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
An easy-to-learn chess opening that may look innocent, but is actually full of venomOne of the best and most popular ways to meet White’s first move 1.e4 remains the tried and tested 1…e5. After this move many games steer for the Ruy Lopez. The Ruy is a perfectly fine choice for White, but one that...
The Double Queen's Gambit
A Surprise Weapon for Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Alexey Bezgodov provides a complete chess opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4. After replying with 1…d5, the former Russian Chess Champion advises you to take up the Double Queen’s Gambit and play 2…c5! against both 2. c4 and 2. Nf3.In The Double Queen’s Gambit Black’s attitude is as...
The Fianchetto Solution
A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black & White - with the King's Fianchetto
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black & White – with the King’s FianchettoWhen experienced chess teacher Emmanuel Neiman learned that some of his pupils hesitated to play in competitions for fear of being crushed in the opening, he wanted to help. Neiman knew that amateurs...
Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Vol 9: Caro-Kann & French
Winning Quickly at Chess Series, #9
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
WINNING FAST IS FUN!
This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders.
Through the study of the games in this volume, you will...
by Donald Boone
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Down through the centuries, every chess player has had personalities that became known to their opponents over time. Their abilities at the chess board might be that of a highly aggressiveness player, or it might be someone who appeared to be only a passive opponent. Still, in most cases, something...
by Henry A. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This compact story chronicles how chess diffused throughout the world, of when and why the changes in structure were made, and of what is known about its origins; and an account, of necessity largely guesswork, of how chess was born. The book also includes a polyglot—a lexicon of chess terms in...
The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook
Practical Endgame Exercises for Every Chess Player
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Jesus de la Villa’s worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and endgame books are necessarily tedious. Reviewers praised its clarity and completeness and thousands of players significantly improved their endgame understanding...