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900 Chess Opening Puzzles is a collection of 900 traps and, at the same...
Rook endgames are the most important to study, because they are the type...
Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and also one of...
Coach Christof has thoroughly Coach Christof has thoroughly revised and...
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“First the idea and then the move!” Miguel Najdorf used to say in his habitually enthusiastic fashion; that statement is the perfect summary of planning in chess.
Beyond Material: Ignore the Face Value of Your Pieces and Discover the Importance of Time, Space and Psychology in Chess In order to win a game of chess you very often have to sacrifice material. Gathering the courage to do so while accurately assessing the potential benefits is a real challenge. The big question is always: what’s my compensation?
Автор книги, международный мастер Максим Четверик, затрагивает важный аспект теории шахмат, касающийся позиционной игры.
Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation.
Chess is a strategically deep game and it is no surprise that players often struggle to find the right strategy over the board. Computers may be able to show a good move in a position, but they can’t explain how it should fit into an overall plan.
Every chess player loves to win with a devastating attack. But even beginners know the importance of early castling, so the most significant attacking strategies are those against a castled king.
Solving studies is well established as an effective method of chess improvement. In Practical Chess Beauty one of the world’s greatest study composers, Yochanan Afek, shares his finest creations. Fire your imagination, gain a greater appreciation of chess geometry, and develop a finer feeling for the pieces’ potential by trying to find the ideas hidden in...
Finding strong moves doesn't simply depend on how much you know about chess. In fact, greater conceptual knowledge makes choosing a move more complex as it increases the number of directions your mind can take. More important is optimizing your thought process. Grandmaster Joel Benjamin knows that pointing out the moves his students missed is just half...
How good are you at bringing in the full point when you hold a clear advantage or are just plain winning? Pondering this question may well evoke some painful memories. Perhaps the single greatest frustration for club-level chess players is that time and again they see wins turn into draws or even losses. The reasons for messing up a winning position are...
This book is about the practical approach to the game of chess. It shaped me as a player and now I would like to share my philosophy with you. My objective is to combat several generally accepted misconceptions such asonly studying opening theory will make you a better player one should always follow the first or second line shown by Komodo or...
Книга представляет собой сборник 300 упражнений, разбитых по уровням сложности. В конце вас ждет таблица соответствия баллов, набранных вами при решении упражнений, и вы узнаете свой примерный рейтинг.Английский гроссмейстер Джон Нанн почти 20 лет входил в элиту мировых шахмат, автор многих популярнейших книг.Повысьте свою квалификацию!
Introduction This book is devoted to typical methods of play in the middlegame. This topic, of course, is not new. Many books have been written on it at different times by authors old and modern. Unfortunately, the content of such books is not always error-free, as I have experienced many times. Therefore the emphasis in my book is on the quality of the...
In chess, as in repair or construction jobs, you will not get very far without the right equipment. If you want to win more games you simply need the right tools. Unfortunately, most amateur chess players have no toolbox to speak of. What’s more, they don’t even know which tools they actually need. Or what tools are available. If a chess hardware store...
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In chess you cannot take your move back, but you can always return a misplaced piece to its former square at the cost of some time. Pawns on the other hand can never move backwards, making pawn moves truly permanent decisions.
Знаменитый гроссмейстер, литератор и тренер Сархан Гулиев, вместе со своим братом международным мастером и тренером ФИДЕ Логманом Гулиевым, написали интересный и содержательный учебник в стиле классической работы В. Горта и В. Янсы «Вместе с гроссмейстерами».
На протяжении всей истории человечества существовали великие шахматисты, выделяющиеся из огромной массы игроков. Они меняли сам облик шахматной игры, формировали се правила.
In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening oft en stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fi ght their opponents.
After his outstanding book from 2008, "Winning Chess Middlegames", Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov takes us a step further into his dungeon of middlegame skills. In his well known style and entertaining book, he focusses on the different aspects of the complex middlegame.
So you have learned how to play chess, studied tactics and know some basic endgames and openings. What’s next?
Roman Edouard launches a brand new series of exercise books. In his first volume, he focuses on middlegames. Romain has carefully selected 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past.
This book invites the reader to enter the wonderful elite chess world with one of the most creative GM's of all time. It tells about his approach to the core of fighting, about his strongest points but also about his weaknesses. It presents real masterpieces and hurtfull losses.