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In this book Yuriy does not overwhelm you with variations, but instead he focuses a lot on the verbal explanations and understanding of the typical positions. At the same time, you can be confident that his recommendations are quite sound and have been thoroughly checked with extensive databases, strong engines as well as critically looked upon from the human perspective.

A Complete Opening Repertoire for Black after 1.e4 e5!
From Tactics to Strategy Winning Knowledge!
In this book we will not only show you more tactical motifs, but we will also give you an introduction to the basics of chess strategy. You’ll learn the most important elements of strategy which will help you to find better plans and to understand positions better.

Thinkers' Chess Academy with Grandmaster Thomas Luther - Volume 2
Protect, Preserve, Perpetuate
The September 2020 Issue of Chess Life is here! Its Cover Story is on Protect, Preserve, Perpetuate. "Preservation Hall's Charlie Gabriel is bringing chess to a new generation of New Orleans musicians.". Other articles include Singapore defeats New York in Online Charity Chess Challenge and Saleem wins 2020 Iowa Closed Championship.

Chess Life Magazine - September 2020 Issue
The New Chess Boom!
The August 2020 Issue of Chess Life is here! Its Cover Story is on The New Chess Boom. "Chess Streamers are taking over Twitch. Wondering what it means?". Other articles include The 2012 Golden Knight Championship and The IM Not a GM Speed Chess Championships.

Chess Life Magazine - August 2020 Issue
Infinity Rook - Powerful Endgames
The August 2020 issue of Chess Life for Kids is here! The Cover story is on Infinity Rook - Powerful Endgames. Other articles include It's Your Move, You can do it! by SIM Jon Edwards, Chess Kids Across The Board by Al Lawrence, Avoid the Trap! and more in the latest issue of Chess Life for Kids!

Chess Life For Kids Magazine - August 2020 Issue
Translated and With Introductory Notes by Fred Reinfeld
This is a collection of the most instructive games played by Dr. Max Euwe against some of the strongest players in the world, with annotations by the American Fred Reinfeld.

From My Chess Games 1920-1937
The author presents a collection of 120 instructive positions, each of which with mostly three proposed solutions, followed by the detailed discussion of both the correct and the incorrect solutions in the second part. The selected examples stem from tournament practice, with a few exceptions, which are part of theoretical lines. The reader mainly has to look for tactical solutions, although positional-strategic aspects also occur.

Testbook of Attacking the King
"Winning with 1.d4!" offers a complete repertoire for d4 players against all plausible responses. The recommendations were selected with the main goal of enabling the reader to leave out vast amounts of opening theory and to concentrate on a comprehensible number of lines that promise some initiative and active play and often even an opening advantage.

Winning with 1.d4!
The Greatest Winning Streaks In Chess History
In the Zone explains the games of the greatest players during their greatest triumphs. As you study and enjoy these immortal performances you will improve your ability to overpower your opponents. You will understand how great moves originate and you will be inspired to become more productive and creative. In the Zone may bring you closer to that special place yourself: the zone.

In The Zone
Rules, Tactics, and Strategies for the Improving Player
Chess Handbook is a comprehensive book for beginners learning the rules and basics of the royal game and the intermediate player looking to improve by gaining a better understanding of chess fundamentals. Learn basic tactics and strategies with hundreds of suggestions and tips for players wishing to increase their knowledge of the game and see rapid improvement.

Chess Handbook
In this highly instructive tome the authors tried to accomplish several demanding goals. To uncover many of the secrets that remain hidden so very often, to tackle the most difficult area of chess skill – defence, and finally to teach a great number of ambitious chess-players helping them to improve their knowledge in this important area of chess expertise.

The Power Of Defense and The Art Of Counterattack in 64 pictures
Games, Stories and Instruction from an Alabama Prodigy Who Became U.S. Champion
In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories.

The Best I Saw in Chess - Handsigned by the Author
Games, Stories and Instruction from an Alabama Prodigy Who Became U.S. Champion
In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories.

The Best I saw In Chess
In this book, award-winning author Graham Burgess has come up with the ultimate simplified repertoire. But it is not based on boring or unambitious openings. The aim is to avoid symmetry and mass exchanges, and reach an unbalanced middlegame. You won’t be dumped into do-or-die tactics where the penalty for forgetting a key move is an instant loss.

An Idiot-Proof Chess Opening Repertoire
Against the Tarrasch
This is one of the most possible treatments White has available. Using his typical funny and dynamic writing style, David shows that it is possible to play solidly but also remain with the dynamic elements Black has available. He recommends several creative lines, even a bit off the beaten track, but which he has very carefully worked out over the several years of his own practice.

The Modernized French Defense - Volume 2
Chess Informant 144 contains hundreds of games, annotated by strong players, cross tables, tournament results, separate chapters on combinations, endgames, problems, studies. It includes analysis of particular openings, regular columns of top players on various themes etc.

Chess Informant - Issue 144 on CD
Jubilee
Chess Informant 144 contains hundreds of games, annotated by strong players, cross tables, tournament results, separate chapters on combinations, endgames, problems, studies. It includes analysis of particular openings, regular columns of top players on various themes etc.

Chess Informant - Issue 144
A Bold Repertoire
Many players believe the Stonewall to be a substandard opening, naively assuming that the e5-outpost and bad light-squared bishop must give White the advantage. GM Nikola Sedlak disagrees, and in Playing the Stonewall Dutch he shares the insights that have helped him to rack up a healthy plus score from Black’s side. In addition to providing a complete repertoire in the main lines of the Stonewall, this book also offers useful guidance on dealing with Anti-Dutch variations and various move-order subtleties.

Playing the Stonewall Dutch - PAPERBACK
Pawn Play, Sacrifices, Restriction and More
International Master Grigory Bogdanovich has written a two-volume treatise on Bogoljubov’s life and games, covering over four hundred fully annotated games and fragments over both volumes. His analysis of Bogoljubov’s games is split into instructive themes, making his treatise a fantastic textbook for learning a huge range of winning techniques.

The Creative Power of Bogoljubov - Volume I
A New Anti-Sicilian to Rattle Your Opponents
The Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5) contains countless variations and sub-variations that have been discussed in detail at all levels of play for many years. Even "small" specialized systems have been covered in exhaustive detail in book after book. That is why this book is unique, The Carlsen Variation, which arises after 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4, has never previously been covered in detail before.

The Carlsen Variation
In positions taken almost exclusively from modern tournament play, the authors present jaw-dropping continuations which humans struggle to find, not due to lower human computing power, due to conceptual and perceptual limitations. In this book these “crazy” moves are analysed and categorized. If you want to expand your chess imagination, understanding and intuition, Think Like a Machine is the book is for you.

Think Like A Machine - HARDCOVER
A Bulletproof Repertoire
Playing the Petroff offers an ideal solution for practical players. GM Swapnil Dhopade presents a compact yet bulletproof repertoire for Black, drawing on the games of leading Petroff specialists such as Gelfand, Caruana and Kramnik. This book also provides guidance on how to deal with 1.e4 e5 games where White avoids 2.Nf3, with particular focus on ‘Anti-Petroff ’ lines such as 2.Bc4.

Playing the Petroff - PAPERBACK
USAT East Winners Party: "SIG Calls" Celebrates COVID-Style on Zoom
The July 2020 Issue of Chess Life is here! Its Cover Story is on The Amateur Teams. "Reports from the four corners of the country, plus the results of the 2019 Finals. Other articles include "The Candidates in Limbo" and "Online Events; Back to the Future".

Chess Life Magazine - July 2020 Issue
This book goes to other systems, avoiding the Ruy Lopez but relying on lines considered dull, including The Hungarian Defense, The Philidor Defense, the Latvian Gambit, The Queen Pawn's Counter Gambit, the Petroff Defense, the Four Knights Game and the Three Knights Game.

An Unbeatable White Repertoire After 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3
This book is about the Marshall Attack and the lines which can be grouped together under the banner of the so-called Anti-Marshall. The theory has developed so much in the last decade that there is more than enough material to be going on with just in those areas, but I also decided to include a detailed look at an important line in the Exchange Variation.

The Modernized Marshall Attack
5th EDITION
Here is what Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th World Champion, had to say in his foreword to the fifth edition: consider Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual an absolute must for every chess professional, and no less important even for a club player. I always recommend this book. I consider it to be one of the very best chess books published in recent times and I am very pleased with the new enhanced edition.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
In this book, you will see how you can make it work. Drawing on a decade of his own experience using the Modern as one of his main weapons, Fernandez explains the concepts and theory in rigorous detail, all the while not forgetting that chess is to be played for fun.

The Modernized Modern Defense
The Working Tool for the Club Player
The content of this book is a training program for players who plan to play an over-the-board tournament a few weeks from the time they start training with this book. This book, unlike other similar books in the field of improvement, does not have a central theme. Instead, this book offers a holistic view on how to approach every single position in it, regardless of the phase of the game or the nature of the position. We try to teach players how to identify types of decisions in various positions, while pointing at the trade-off between a hardcore calculation and a heuristics judgment.

Sherlock's Method
Van Foreest shines with crazy Najdorf sidelines
New in Chess Yearbook is the #1 guide to Chess Opening news! It is published four times per year, ensuring the most up-to-date and topic chess opening information. It includes 25-30 surveys per issue, covering all of the fashionable lines, wild gambits and even forgotten variations! If you're serious about chess, you need New in Chess Yearbooks!

NIC Yearbook 134 - HARDCOVER EDITION
Hein Donner developed from a chess player-writer into a writer-chess player. His provocative writings and his colourful persona made him a national celebrity during the roaring sixties. His book ‘The King’, a fascinating and often hilarious anthology spanning 30 years of chess writing, is a world-wide bestseller and features on many people’s list of favourite chess books.

Hein Donner - The Biography
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Last-minute Replacement in Shared Lead as Candidates is Stopped
New in Chess is the magazine of choice for serious Chess players. If it is happening in Chess, you'll read about it in New in Chess Magazine. It features on the spot tournament reports, in-depth interviews with top players, comprehensive analysis.

New In Chess Magazine - Issue 2020/3
Van Foreest shines with crazy Najdorf sidelines
New in Chess Yearbook is the #1 guide to Chess Opening news! It is published four times per year, ensuring the most up-to-date and topic chess opening information. It includes 25-30 surveys per issue, covering all of the fashionable lines, wild gambits and even forgotten variations! If you're serious about chess, you need New in Chess Yearbooks!

NIC Yearbook 134 - PAPERBACK EDITION
A Skeptic's Guide to Getting Better at Chess
This thought-provoking book is full of beautiful and instructive ‘new’ material from the old days. With plenty of exercises, the reader is invited to put themselves in the shoes of the old masters. Never before has the study of the history of chess been so entertaining and rewarding.

On the Origin of Good Moves
The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire
Daniel King has uncovered a wealth of new facts about Khan, as well as dozens of previously unknown games. For the first time he tells the full story of how Khan, a Muslim outsider, was received in Europe, of his successes in the chess world and his return to obscurity after his departure for India in 1933.

Sultan Khan
A Fighters Repertoire Against the Famous Sicilians
The book you hold is my first work and contains my efforts to find new paths and fresh perspectives on these two variations. I hope you gain from information in this book as well as simply enjoy the games themselves.

Beat the Najdorf and Taimanov Sicilians
The Sveshnikov is undeniably one of the most dynamic and aggressive Sicilians available these days. Most recently, it was made popular again by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in his match against Fabiano Caruana at the end of 2018. The main lines lead to complex positions, and a deep knowledge and understanding of the opening is a real necessity for any player who wishes to enter this battlefield.

The Modernized Sveshnikov
Chess Books
Choose from a huge selection of chess books, including a wide variety of topics, players and strategies from The House of Staunton. There is a chess book for nearly every chess move or chess defense you can think of. Looking for a chess book talking about a specific chess player? Browse the many different miscellaneous chess books available. Need to strengthen your opening game? Middle game? Or maybe your end game is lacking. There are chess books covering all of these topics and much more. The purpose of a majority of the chess books available is to serve as guides for beginners and advanced chess players alike, and to address different tactics and strategies to help improve your game. There are also biographical chess books that talk about specific Chess Players such as Magnus Carlsen or Vishwanthan Anand if you are interested in reading about a chess player and their life.