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The ChessCafe Puzzle Books! We are pleased to offer excerpts from three of the most popular chess books available today. They are The ChessCafe Puzzle Books 1 and 2 by German grandmaster Karsten Müller and Book 3, also by Müller, and in cooperation with Dutch international master Merijn van Delft....

** notazione con figurine ** e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3. Ac4 Cd4!? prendere o non prendere e5? questo è il dilemma. Voi cosa fareste? L'universo scacchistico comprende in questo momento almeno 500 Gbytes di libri in formato PDF, di innumerevoli fortissimi programmi di gioco, di centinaia di...

Experienced grandmaster Sergey Kasparov presents a surprising way to combat The Sicilian Defence, Black’s most popular choice against 1.e4. White unbalances the position of his opponent right from the start, gains space and prepares to steamroll his way to victory. This repertoire is complete and contains...

Is it possible to learn how to attack your opponent’s king from a book? Guidelines and verbal explanations are fine, argues David Eggleston, but there is no substitute for the hard work of carefully analyzing the complex position that’s on the chessboard in front of you.The author, Britain’s newest...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Colle is a solid, reliable system of development based on the popular opening move 1 d4. One of its major advantages is that although the system is very easy to learn and play, it leads to exciting middlegame positions where White often launches a violent attack against Black's king. The Colle...

The Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid French Defence. Its popularity among club players is not difficult to understand: by advancing the e-pawn to e5 on the third move, White not only gains space but also blocks in Black's c8 Bishop and hampers Black's kingside development...

The Grünfeld is one of the most topical openings in modern chess practice. Many club players fear it, and top GMs often struggle to get an advantage when facing it as White. But is it really a theoretically sound defense? In this third and final volume of the acclaimed Wojo’s Weapons series, IM...

Doubled Pawns Triumph or Trouble? There isn’t a chessplayer who hasn’t struggled with doubled pawns. Are they strong because they oversee and surveil important squares or reinforce defensive ramparts? Are they weak, prone to being collected by our opponent in the endgame or sooner? The easy answer...

The King’s Indian Defence is arguably the most ambitious and exciting way to play against 1.d4. Black wants to start an early attack on his opponent’s king, relying on the dynamic potential of his position. The KID has been a favourite of legendary attacking players such as Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer...

The "Following Kaufman" periodicals gather recent master level chess games, that are relevant to the "Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White" and present them with a diagram for each move, so one can review these chess games without a book.The games are ordered by ECO classification, and the...

What’s the best way to start learning a new opening? You can either fill your head with masses of variations and then try to keep it all straight at the chessboard, or you can absorb key patterns and themes that crop up over and over again in your chosen variation.In The Fighting Dragon, NM Paul Powell...

Se Fischer avesse letto questo manuale, riconoscendo uno dei patterns illustrati, l'imprigionamento dell'alfiere, probabilmente non avrebbe perso la prima partita contro Spassky nel 1972. Per giocare bene a scacchi, sono necessarie conoscenza e abilità, entrambe! Sono complementari, non ne...

Questo libro nasce dal materiale preparato per un ciclo di perfezionamento di 10 lezioni tenuto dal CM FIDE ed istruttore della FSI (Federazione Scacchistica Italiana) Andrea Gori presso la Società Scacchistica Milanese nell'ottobre del 2011. Il corso è stato pensato per i giocatori...