Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2024. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1784831233. Since its publication in 2018 The Woodpecker Method has been the go-to manual among chess players with a thirst for tactical improvement. The Woodpecker Method 2 is the long-awaited sequel, designed to skyrocket your positional decision-making skills. The Woodpecker Method means solving a large number of puzzles...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-184-4. The English Opening is a great practical weapon for chess players of all levels. White dictates the opening on move 1, and often reaches positions where understanding themes and plans is more important than computer analysis. Playing the English provides a complete repertoire with 1.c4, showing how to meet every...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-9083387703. Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten in a streak of more than a hundred chess games as a professional player. Who better to share the secrets of Rock Solid Chess and the activity and value of pieces than Tiviakov? The highly acclaimed first volume of his chess strategy trilogy dealt with pawn structures. In this second...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-9083382722. Have you ever wondered why it takes grandmasters just seconds to see what's happening in a chess position? It's all about pawn structures, as Ivan Sokolov explained in his groundbreaking book Winning Chess Middlegames. In his 2010 bestseller, Grandmaster Sokolov focused on structures arising from 1.d4 openings; in...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2023. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-94-93257-89-4. Boris Zlotnik is an extraordinary trainer and coach. He was the director of a legendary chess school in Moscow before he emigrated to Spain in 1993. Ten years later, the super talent Fabiano Caruana moved to Madrid with his entire family to live near his trainer Zlotnik. As a former coach of U.S. Champion Caruana,...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2021. — 568 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-147-9. Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume 2, GM Gawain Jones shows how to fight for an advantage against 1...e5, plus the French, Pirc,...
The astounding success of How To Study Chess on Your Own made clear that there are thousands of chess players who want to improve their game. And chess players like to work on their training at least partially by themselves. The bestselling book by GM Kuljasevic offered a structured approach and provided the training plans. Due to popular demand, Kuljasevic now presents a...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-197-4. Rook endgames are the most important to study, because they are the type of endgame you will face most often over the board. Working on rook endgames gives the biggest bang for your buck. World-class grandmaster Sam Shankland explains technical rook endgames in a way that is clearer, better organized, more...
Thinkers Publishing, 2023. — 456 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201932. For many chess-players, opening study is pure hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically once the opening is over, a player is puzzled what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2022. — 896 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-162-2. The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more – losing a winning position. No serious chessplayer is new to the misery of spoiling hours of hard work in a few...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-195-0. Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and also one of the most exciting areas of chess, with mind bending tactical opportunities and dizzying nuances available. They have unsurprisingly been a big topic in endgame literature, with a heavy focus on the set theoretical positions and their logic...
Portsmouth (USA): Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2023. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1-949859-70-6. Although the London System was first played almost 200 years ago, it lay dormant until the beginning of the 21st century. Then chessplayers rediscovered it, realizing that the London could be played against most responses by Black, obtaining a good game with little preparation. Nowadays the...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 359 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-188-2. Grandmaster Training Camp 1 – Calculation! offers you a unique chance to participate in a training camp with Super-GM Sam Shankland, as he works through 300 problems set to him by his long-time trainer. Sam shares what he saw, what he did not see, and what he thinks about the problems and the skills needed to...
Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2022. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-9056919986. The Queen’s Gambit is easily the most talked-about chess opening since the immensely popular Netflix TV series of the same name became a hit. The screen adventures of Beth Harmon have inspired thousands to start playing the Royal Game but didn’t offer any information on this highly popular chess opening. This book...
London: Everyman Chess, 2023. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1781946268. In this book the highly experienced grandmaster Milos Pavlovic outlines a powerful repertoire for White based on 1 d4. The variations are very much based on strategic themes where an understanding of plans is far more important than memorisation of lines and move orders. The author focuses on important positional...
Thinkers Publishing, 2023. — 300 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201802. For almost two centuries the French Defense has been a universally popular opening. Many authorities have made their contribution to establishing the theory. Thanks to their efforts, players nowadays can easily make a choice between the many and various options, whether peaceful or sharp, whether statically or...
Chess Stars ltd., 2024. — 244 p. — ISBN: 978-6197188400. This book presents a multi-faceted approach to the Reti – 1.Nf3 d5, followed by c2-c4. The core of the proposed repertoire is the topical system 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 and 2.e3 c5 3.c4 d4 4.b4. Play often transposes to the English Opening with White having sidestepped 1.c4 e5. For those who do not like the Reversed Blumenfeld and...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-1784831820. The Sicilian Sveshnikov arises after the opening moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5, and is an ideal weapon based on sound principles of fast development and seizing central space. Decades of practical testing and analysis have proved the theoretical soundness of Black’s system, and its dynamic...
Portsmouth (USA): Russell Enterprises, 2023. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1949859560. The Modern Defense has been popular for decades. However, within the purview of this defense, there is a system that challenges White right from the get-go. The brainchild of Georgian grandmaster Bukhuti Gurgenidze, Black plays 1...g6 and follows with a timely...c6 and...d5. Occasionally classified as...
Independently published, 2022. — 127 p. — ISBN: 979-8831797893. Chess can be broken down into calculation and evaluation. Calculation involves looking at moves, but at some point you have to stop and evaluate. Whose position is better and why? Most chess books focus on calculation and select positions where the evaluation is obvious. But do you only get obvious positions in...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-9083406442. It is not the quality of your best moves that wins you games; it is the quality of your worst moves. The quickest way to improve your chess skills is to raise the bar.The Spanish grandmaster and coach Jesus de la Villa has proven with his best-seller 100 Endgames You Must Know that he understands exactly what a chess...
Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2024. — 106 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-949-8. New in Chess has 8 issues a year with more than 800 pages of the very best in chess: on-the-spot tournament reports, columns, both serious and hilarious, in-depth interviews, chess opening surprises, chess history that comes to life, endgames and studies, chess anecdotes and curiosities, great pictures and...
Everyman Chess, 2023. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1781947128. The Queen's Gambit Accepted (1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4) has a long history and has always been popular at all levels of play. However, in the past few years it has undergone an explosion of interest, thanks to many new discoveries of possibilities for very dynamic play from Black. One of these is the line 1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4 3 e4...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-9083387727. Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance. This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2023. — 424 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-153-0. Endgame Labyrinths presents the reader with 1002 challenging studies selected and truncated, with their usefulness for the practical player in mind. It is common for studies to be extended by less interesting manoeuvres or by incomprehensible sequences, before the main themes come into play. The studies in this...
Portsmouth (USA): Russell Enterprises, Inc. 2023. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1-949859-67-6. The Queen’s Gambit Accepted is one of the oldest known openings in chess. It was first mentioned in chess literature in the late 15th century. Over 500 years later, American Grandmaster Max Dlugy demonstrates in this groundbreaking work that the QGA is still a fighting, uncompromising opening...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2023. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-9083336626. This second-volume workbook in Davorin Kuljasevic's How to Study Chess on Your Own series is optimized for chess players with an Elo rating between 1500 and 1800 but is helpful for anyone between 1200 and 2000. The astounding success of his How to Study Chess on Your Own made clear that thousands of chess players...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2023. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-9493257627. Have you ever wondered why strong chess players immediately grasp what is happening in complex positions? The secret is pawn structures. The pawn structure dictates the game's flow, and different structures require distinct approaches. You can improve your game by studying a large variety of pawn structures and the...
Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2024. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-9083336688. On 30 April 2023, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren sensationally defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in a dramatic battle for the chess crown. Ding Liren not only became the 17th World Chess Champion, but he also won the hearts of chess fans across the globe with his incredible fighting spirit...
Chess Fortress, 2022. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-86-82410-02-7. Nikola Sedlak is a renowned chess player known for his expertise in the London System. He is a grandmaster from Serbia who has been considered one of the strongest players in the country for many years. Sedlak is also a well-known chess trainer and author, who wrote several books on the London System and other chess...
Библиотека ФШР, 2023. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907077-63-8. «Я играю в шахматы около пятидесяти лет, из них свыше тридцати – на высшем уровне. Наверное, пришло время поделиться самыми памятными встречами. В первый том вошли партии, сыгранные в XX веке» (Б. Гельфанд). Бориса Гельфанда отличает огромная любовь к шахматам, и с годами преданность игре становится только сильнее. У...
Анна Дорофеева, 2019. — 96 с. — ISBN 978-5-907062-08-5. Тренерами Дворца пионеров на Воробьевых горах был специально разработан задачник, который включает в себя самые важные тактические приемы, необходимые на начальном этапе освоения шахмат. В данном пособии темы разбиты по уровню сложности. Вы легко сможете освоить тактической приемы, пройдя весь курс задачника. Под каждой...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-9083382746. Do you want to do the same chess homework that world-famous grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Robert Hess and Peter Heine Nielsen did in their formative years as chess players? This book will test you with hundreds of positions created by their coach Miron Sher (1952-2020). Just like Fabiano, Robert and Peter, you are...
Thinkers Publishing, 2022. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201482. How to learn strategy? Can it be learned? It can be, of course. And these volumes are the perfect guide to learn (or, more precisely, to learn to understand) strategy. My idea is to throw light on all the strategic concepts in these volumes. To help you navigate more simply, I have divided all the material into two...
Thinkers Publishing, 2023. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201710. The distinction between strategy and tactics is one of the first things any chess player learns about, but have you ever heard about statics and dynamics before? Did you know that nearly every critical decision you take in a game of chess is governed by the rules of the so-called static/dynamic balance? If not, for the...
Thinkers Publishing, 2023. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201864. The book you have just started reading is about a very interesting and difficult concept: the exchange sacrifice. This is the moment in chess when basic mathematics breaks down, the moment when 3 counts equal to or even more than 5. So let us leave the mathematics aside and try to figure out why this simple calculation...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2023. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-90-833366-6-4. The Pirc Defence and the Modern Defence are two naturally entwined chess openings that are both flexible and rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Nakamura and Carlsen. In The Perfect Pirc-Modern, Viktor Moskalenko, a renowned propagator of...
Bracknell (England): Gambit Publications, 2021. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-911465-74-4. James Rizzitano’s goal in this book is to provide you with a one-volume, theoretically sound, dynamic opening repertoire beginning with 1 e4. Studying the choices of the current top players, he identifies these secrets of their success: Play openings where you have a relatively safe king. Take...
London: Everyman Chess, 2021. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78194-593-3. The Nimzo-Indian Defence (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4) and the Queen’s Indian Defence (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 b6) are two classic systems for Black to meet 1 d4. They are popular at all levels and have been played by virtually every world champion. They enable Black to gain a firm foothold in the centre at an...
London: Everyman Chess, 2022. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78194-603-9. The Sicilian Taimanov (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nc6) is a very flexible Black system in the Sicilian Defence developed by Mark Taimanov. It is characterized by the development of the g8-knight on e7, often along with a quick...b7-b5. The Taimanov often leads to tense, dynamic position which are ripe in...
Alkmaar: New in Chess, 2024. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-9083387741. This workbook offers over five hundred carefully selected exercises to accompany the book 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know. Experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich has not only identified the 100 most important tactical patterns, he has also collected hundreds of exercises for you to train these patterns. Solving...
Chessable, 2022. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-9493257351. The Dragon Sicilian is the perfect choice for club players searching for chaotic and imbalanced positions. This opening manual shows how Black can turn up the heat against 1.e4, and enjoy dynamic winning chances game after game. Top-10 player Anish Giri is the best tutor to bring this complicated opening across to 'everyday'...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2024. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1784831233. Since its publication in 2018 The Woodpecker Method has been the go-to manual among chess players with a thirst for tactical improvement. The Woodpecker Method 2 is the long-awaited sequel, designed to skyrocket your positional decision-making skills. The Woodpecker Method means solving a large number of puzzles...
Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2021. — 272 p. — ISBN 978-90-5691-976-4. The Scandinavian Defence is one of the most popular chess openings among amateur players, and it is easy to see why. Black players immediately limit the opening theory they have to know because there is no way White can side-step Black’s first move. What’s more, the Scandinavian requires only very little...
Thinkers Publishing, 2021. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201383. When you are building your repertoire you have many choices available against 1.e4. Everyone knows the Sicilian is the most dangerous reply but there are so many choices! Most of them are highly theoretical such as the Najdorf or the Dragon. Some are very difficult to understand from a positional and dynamical point of...
Portsmouth (USA): Russell Enterprises, 2023. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1949859645. How often has this comment been appended to a game move or variation? As many players know, it really may not be all that easy to figure out what is meant by this familiar phrase. After the untimely passing of legendary instructor Mark Dvoretsky, Artur Yusupov was given access to Dvoretsky’s famous...
Thinkers Publishing, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201079. The Italian Game is the front-line of modern chess. After a hundred years of oblivion, in the 21st century, it edged out many other renowned openings, and is employed today by all the world’s top players. Its modern interpretation is full of new ideas, and its theory has grown thanks to the research of modern...
London: Everyman Chess, 2021. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1781945650. The French Defence is a classical opening that has featured in the repertoire of many elite grandmasters. Black generally concedes a slight spacial disadvantage early but in return gains a sound structure and middlegame opportunities to undermine the white centre. A close study of the French Defence can be very...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2024. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-236-0. This book advocates the 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 move order for Black – with 3.Nc3 Bb4 having been covered in the sister volume . Playing the Nimzo-Indian . By waiting for the knight to appear on f3 before transposing to a Queen’s Gambit, Black reduces White’s options. Spanish GM Renier Castellanos completes his...
Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2025. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1784832469. Few books have dealt with the topic of exchanges in chess, leaving this important part of chess strategy a mystery to most. In Mastering Chess Exchanges, grandmasters Aagaard and Castellanos break down the topic into crystal-clear themes, including piece preferences, tension, weaknesses, colour complexes, king...