Catalog
Loading...
Improve your Chess with the great David Bronstein
New FIDE approved Digital Clock with Bonus time option and 36...
Judit Polgar is the strongest female chess player of all time. From an...
Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace...
There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a chess game with a...
Any good chess coach will tell you to study the endgame. Improving your...
Twenty years ago New in Chess magazine introduced a back page column in...
Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest...
The Chess Adventures of Abhimanyu Mishra Aged 12 years, 4 months, and 25...
INDIAN DEFENCES (Tactical Puzzles) DECISION TIME! Winning fast is fun....
INDIAN DEFENCES (Tactical Puzzles) DECISION TIME! Winning fast is fun....
Tags
«Евгений Андреевич Васюков – подлинный самородок земли русской. Он сделал себя сам, постоянным трудом развивая огромный шахматный талант, данный ему свыше. Он стал элитным гроссмейстером, а также показал себя замечательным организатором, оставаясь добрым и отзывчивым человеком и прекрасным семьянином. Память о нем будет жить очень долго.
The secret of its success may be its anti-positional look. The pawn thrust g2-g4 is often so counter-intuitive that it’s a perfect way to confuse your opponents and disrupt their position. Ever since World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik started using it to defeat the elite grandmasters of his day, it has developed, on all levels of play, into an ever more...
Chess is a cruel game. We all know that feeling when your position has gone awry and everything seems hopeless. You feel like resigning. But don’t give up! This is precisely the moment to switch to swindle mode.
With the ascent of computer technology, humans have a chance to develop their thinking process based on hard evidence. Think Like a Machine explores human limitations and proposes new avenues for human thinking, inspired by computer engines.
A book by stalwart chess writer on an aspect of chess that is quite common, but little is written about, swindling in chess. In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. Renown chess writers Horowitz and Reinfeld observe that swindles, "though...
Surprise yourself and reach higher! This book is based on real amateur games and shows you how an average club player can proceed through the ranks and reach Candidate Master level. It’s a hard struggle, nothing comes for free and your path will be strewn with setbacks and disappointments. Just like in real life.
Из предисловия 14-го чемпиона мира Владимира Крамника: «В юности, когда я только начинал изучать шахматы, одной из, можно сказать, «библий» по игровым окончаниям была книга этого же автора «Стратегия эндшпиля». Она считалась «канонической», все тренеры в Советском Союзе рекомендовали своим ученикам: «Читай Шерешевского!» Я сам внимательно проштудировал...
Этот шахматный учебник — эссенция опыта чемпиона мира по шахматам Роберта Фишера. Гениальный шахматист, Роберт Фишер обладал прямым и последовательным стилем игры, основанным на кристально ясных энергичных планах. Это позволило ему выиграть множество "учебно-показательных" партий, напоминающих лекции по отдельным шахматным темам.
The Secret Ingredient is a grandmaster guide to maximizing your chess results, focusing on key elements of practical play which have received little to no attention in previous chess literature.
For nearly fifty years grandmasters and amateurs alike have been making their annual pilgrimage to the World Open. Legendary organizer Bill Goichberg created the model of this iconic event in American chess: large entry fees, large prizes, and no-frills. Every year around the 4th of July, Philadelphia is the scene of countless epic battles at the board.
Uh-oh! That doesn’t look right!? Who would be silly enough to resign a tournament game they were not losing? As Oops! I Resigned Again! shows, almost anyone – including some of the world’s best players!
Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how.
Written by one of the best chess communicators in the business, chess master and chess journalist Andy Soltis divulges practical advice and explains technical terms that chess books often overlook. From learning how to train your mind with chess information to choosing the best chess opening, dip in and out of this invaluable guide to improve your chess...