Chess category: 725 books

Join an expert chess player at the table to analyze crucial decisions from major tournaments. Develop a better understanding of the game through a series of themed chapters, each of which examines a particular technique and unravels the thought processes of expert players.

Grandmaster Damian Lemos presents a repertoire for White against both the King's Indian and Grünfeld defences. Many players struggle to find suitable lines to challenge these two popular and dynamic openings, or find the masses of theory in the main lines difficult to digest. Lemos solves this perennial...

The Power of the Pieces In his new, ground-breaking series, The Power of the Pieces, Belorussian grandmaster Sergey Kasparov examines the strengths, weaknesses and overall characteristics of each piece on the chessboard. This first volume in the series is about the bishop. Its role in the opening,...

Understanding = Mastery! Knowing the abilities and limitations of the minor pieces is very valuable for mastering the secrets of the royal game, and this can be studied best in the endgame. It is essential to understand the management of the long-range bishop, albeit confined to one color, as well...

Credi che gli Scacchi siano un gioco troppo difficile? Questo manuale ti dimostra il contrario, proponendoti un viaggio alla conoscenza del mondo degli Scacchi guidato da un "Maestro" d'eccezione: Gesù! Imparerai così le regole del gioco e le primissime nozioni di tattica e strategia...

What’s Old Is New – and Surprisingly Strong! The world’s oldest opening variation, 3...Qd8 in the Scandinavian Defense, has resurfaced in the last decade to give players at all levels a winning edge. Whether you prefer a sharp tactical game or slower positional maneuvering, the...

The author reveals how to win games with Black by proposing the method of calculated aggression, covering such topics as dynamic counterplay, counter-gambits in open games, Black sacrifices in the half-open games, counters to the Queen's Gambit, and Indian Counter-Gambits. Includes 67 fully annotated games, and another 25 complete games in theoretical notes.

A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the “baby boomer” generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brilliant...

AlphaGo 的登場， 迫使我們必須重新思考、認識整個世界； 棋士與AI、人與人之間都需要重新對話與邂逅， 讓我們從理解AlphaGo 來開始吧！ 目前AI的最高到達點是圍棋，在圍棋發生的情況，所有其他領域也必將面臨。 Google旗下的Deep...

Many books have been written about Monopoly, the world's most popular game. Now for the first time a 35-year internationally known Monopoly tournament player shares secret game strategies and tactics previously known and practiced by only a handful of top competitive Monopoly tournament players and coaches.

¡Aprende ajedrez y diviértete! Nivel medio II es un libro pensado para niños y jóvenes que ya dominan los aspectos fundamentales del juego, como son: algunos mates elementales y las cualidades principales de las piezas. Con el segundo libro de la colección, ¡Aprende ajedrez y diviértete! Nivel...

¡Aprende ajedrez y diviértete! Nivel superior I es un libro pensado para niños y jóvenes que ya conocen perfectamente las cualidades de las piezas, los temas tácticos elementales y algunos finales sencillos. Con los libros del nivel medio de la colección, ¡Aprende ajedrez y diviértete! comenzaste...

  IQ SAFE: The Secret Code is a brand new and original smart mind game. If you like Sudoku you’ll love this game. It's  more fun, It's smarter and has a tink of luck.