Evans Larry. Modern Chess Brilliancies

UK, Glasgow: Quality Chess. 2011. --p.196 -- ISBN: 9781906552848 A multinational array of top chess grandmasters has assembled to explore the differences in thinking between professional and amateur chess players, and how the amateur can bridge the gap. It usually takes at least a decade of sustained effort for even the most talented player to reach the grandmaster level and...

Gambit Publications, 2017. — 245 p. — ISBN: (13 digits): 978-1-911465-12-6. Tactical ability requires knowledge and skills: knowledge of patterns and tactical methods, and the skill to recognize them, combine them, and calculate accurately. This book features both composed studies and real-game positions. Composed positions distil tactics into their purest form: nothing...

Russell Enterprises, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1941270349. In the late 1990s, American publisher Pickard & Son released five books, each dedicated to a unique tactical theme, and each with approximately 100 pages. Written by the late Russian correspondence master Victor Charushin, the books were Alekhine’s Block, Combination Cross, Lasker’s Combination, Mitrofanov’s...

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-030-3. This book is a mixture of all kinds of exercises, but with one thing in common – all the games were played before the year 2000, except for a few by two big names, Kasparov and Karpov. There are several objectives to this book, besides the obvious calculation training. The age of the games brings in a cultural...

Gambit Publications Ltd., 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN13: 978-1911465119. It’s major news when a legendary player reveals his opening secrets. And when he has rarely written about his games or preparation methods, and was famous for meticulous, ahead-of-his-time opening analysis, it makes it a true publishing event. Yet that is what eight-time world championship candidate Lajos...

Batsford, 2014. — 232 p. — ISBN13: 978-1849941600. Many chess books explain how to improve an already-favorable position. This completely revised and updated edition of a classic guide can help when you've lost the advantage. Every player needs an arsenal of defensive techniques, and Andrew Soltis covers them all, along with psychological strategies for achieving victory. Learn...