New In Chess: 139 books
Bent Larsen's Best Games
Fighting Chess with the Great Dane
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Bent Larsen (1935-2010) was one of the greatest fighters chess has ever seen. In his rich career the great Dane defeated all World Champions from Botvinnik to Karpov. He was a Candidate for the World Championship four times and became one of the most successful tournament players of his time....
Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition
Key Moves and Motifs in the Middlegame
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. This is well known. But what does pattern recognition actually mean? And how can you improve at it?
If you realize a position has similarities with something you have seen before, you are recognizing a pattern....
The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal
Learn from the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest geniuses of chess history. The magician from Riga, as he was known because of his dazzling attacking games, took the chess world by storm and in 1961, at the age of twenty-three, he won the world championship. His sacrificial style made Tal immensely popular with chess...
Risk & Bluff in Chess
The Art of Taking Calculated Risks
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
You cannot win in chess without taking risks. Winning requires courage and psychology. No matter how deep you calculate, there always comes a point where you have to deal with uncertainties and take a decision.
What is carefully calculated risk, and what is bluff? And why were famous players...
How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World
The Story and the Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
At the age of 13 years, 4 months and 26 days, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the world. The international press raved about the Norwegian prodigy. The Washington Post even called him ‘the Mozart of chess’. Ten years on Magnus Carlsen is the number one in the world...
Mastering Chess Middlegames
Lectures from the All-Russian School of Grandmasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia. Panchenko ran a legendary chess school that specialised in turning promising players into masters.The secret of his success were his dedication and enthusiasm as a teacher...
by John Healy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In 1988, his autobiography ?The Grass Arena? catapulted John Healy to worldwide literary fame. That harrowing tale described how Healy by discovering chess, escaped alcoholism, violence and crime. Many fans have wondered how Healy did as a chess player. In this book Healy uses over a hundred of his own...
Smart Chip From St Petersburg
and other tales from a bygone chess area
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Genna Sosonko paints portraits of players, both famous and forgotten, from the golden age of Soviet chess, as well as highly personal views on the psychology of the game and its players. This volume radiates the author's love and devotion to chess, yet is tempered by objectivity and detachment. It will enchant not only chess players, but all who recognize the cultural value of chess.
How Ulf Beats Black
Ulf Andersson's Bulletproof Strategic Repertoire for White
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In his prime, in the 1970-s and 80-s, legendary Swedish chess grandmaster Ulf Andersson was a Top 10 player with a distinct, immediately recognizable style. He almost never lost a game and kept scoring wins from quiet positions.
Quiet positons? Acclaimed chess author Cyrus Lakdawala has played...
Attacking Chess for Club Players
Improve Your Skills to Overpower Your Opponent
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Every chess player loves to attack the enemy King. Your goal is clear, your thinking is concrete, your creativity is flowing and direct victory is just around the corner. Few things in life are better than successfully conducting a blistering attack on your opponent’s King!But how good are you actually...
Max Euwe
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Alexander M nninghoff tells the unforgettable tale of the fifth World Chess Champion. Filling a gap in the literature of chess, he shows that Euwes world title was the result of his iron will, his methodical drive and his energetic handling of all aspects of the game. By bringing his world title under...
Chess Training for Post-beginners
A Basic Course in Positional Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
After you have learned the rules of chess and developed some tactical abilities, how do you go from there? You are now ready to tackle basic issues of strategy, but what is the best way to improve and win more games?Of course, you have to train. But chess training only makes sense if it fits...
Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna
Know When (and where!) to Look for Winning Combinations
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
If only real life were like a book on chess tactics! But during a game you are on your own, and nobody will whisper in your ear that you have reached a position that is, in fact, a tactical puzzle and all you have to do is solve it. What you need, discovered Emmanuel Neiman in his long career as a chess...
The Day Kasparov Quit
and other chess interviews
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
What goes on in some of the sharpest minds on earth? Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam has collected a new series of intimate portraits of the top grandmasters of chess, winning the confidence of Garry Kasparov, Miguel Najdorf, Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar, David Bronstein, Hikaru Nakamura and many others. Anyone...