Everyman Chess, 2002. — 192 p. — ISBN 1857442733. Some players become good at chess, some very good, while others excel at the game. In this book Jacob Aagaard identifies the key factors that separate the very strong players from the rest. In Excelling at Chess, he includes chapters on when to calculate, how to evaluate positions, how to study theory, how to study the endgame...
Quality Chess, Mar 16, 2022. — 464 p. — ISBN 978-1-78483-167-7. Think Like a Super-GM is a unique collaboration combining the chess insights of an elite grandmaster with a scientific investigation into thinking at the chess board. 40 chess puzzles were shown to a panel of players ranging from occasional club players up to Super-GM and co-author Michael Adams. Researcher Philip...
GM Arturs Neiksans, GM Boris Avrukh, GM Boris Gelfand, GM Grigor Grigorov, GM Mihail Marin, GM Pavel Eljanov, GM Petar G. Arnaudov. — Modern Chess, June 2020. Are you ready to get your chess to the next level? Modern Chess decided to connect its top authors with the chess community in a unique training camp. We offer 11 hours of high-level interactive chess training. This camp...
Online Chess Lessons, 2018. Master Method Series #18 Chess may be an ancient game but it has taken centuries to reveal its deepest secrets. With the quality of today’s games at the highest level ever recorded, those in search of the “truth” of chess should take a closer look at the modern masterpieces. Super GM and former European Youth Champion Csaba Balogh (2634) has...
Thinkers Publishing, 2019. — 279 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-051-8. The famous Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Bareev took a real challenge in writing this book: "Say No to Chess Principles!". The author presents his material in a typically humorous style, but not forgetting the players behind the moves. The material is divided into several chapters including ' A Queen Behind Enemy...
ChessBase, 2014. — EAN: 4027975007663. How should systematic chess coaching be structured so that students are able to use their freshly acquired knowledge in their own games? Author Stefan Becker came to an astonishingly simple answer. The solution to every chess problem lies on the board. So it’s quite logical that we should ask our pieces what they think about their future....
Ichess.net, May 2018 Playing chess for fun is one thing. Taking on the serious competitors you face in tournaments – and beating them – is another. You need a highly refined skillset if you want to succeed, but getting the time to develop that skillset is tough for most people. Belezky has the solution. His 4 hour Tournament Winner’s Toolbox, provides training on the 3 key...
Chessable, Chess Openings, Jul 31, 2019. Benedictine — Псевдоним автора. And now for something completely different... Visualise 1 is the first course in a new series with a different focus. It forces you to slow down and really think about each position carefully. It is totally unlike any course right now on Chessable. Improve your raw chess visualisation skills with...
Chessable, Chess Openings, Aug 28, 2019. Benedictine — Псевдоним автора. Train your raw visualisation skills with Visualise 2! Visualise is back with the difficulty notched up to a whole new level. Stretch, challenge and boost your visualisation power with Visualise 2. This time with a focus on defense. Follow the onscreen instructions, visualise and fix the resulting position...
Chessable, Chess Openings, Oct 30, 2019. Benedictine — Псевдоним автора. Visualise 3 – Win out of the opening! Winning out of the opening only normally happens when your opponent makes a serious blunder. But every player from amateur to GM has made one at one time or another. In this Visualise 3 course, your task is to take immediate advantage of these errors and go for the win...
Chessable, Chess Openings, Feb 24, 2020. Benedictine — Псевдоним автора. Play through the eyes of chess legends! Visualise 4 takes a different tack to its three hugely-popular predecessors. It features quality positions exclusively taken from the games of four of the greats: Paul Morphy; Mikhail Tal; Bobby Fischer, and Magnus Carlsen. The focus yet again is in mastering the...
Chessable, Chess Openings, Jul 13, 2020. Benedictine — Псевдоним автора. Improving this essential micro-skill can lead to big rating gains... Visualise chess positions two, three, or even four moves ahead - with 20/20 clarity! When strong players talk about calculation, candidate move selection or mental shortcuts like deduction often take the center stage. But here's what most...
New in Chess, Feb 10, 2022. — 344 p. — ISBN 978-90-5691-985-6. 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...
Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1966. — 400 p. — ISBN-13: 978-671-21221-4. The Fireside Book of Chess is the World's Greatest Collection of stories, cartoons and amuning anecdotes about the game of chess. It also has curious and interesting chess games such as the game where the Champion of France lost in four moves, which is the quickest loss in chess history by a master. A selection...
Algebraic Edition. — Batsford Chess, 2000. — 256 p. I. Chernev explains 33 games in detail. The explanations make the moves of the master easy to follow and show the reader where to place his pieces to make powerful, telling combinations.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-1665-0. One of America’s best-known authors of chess instruction books has culled his favorite and funniest anecdotes concerning the game. The Chess Companion shares stories and profiles of players that will interest chess players of all ages and levels. With tips, advice, and diagrams filing the second half of the...
ChessMood, 2020. — "Commented classical games by Grandmaster". About This Course Do you face problems during your games, when all your pieces are in good places, but you don't know what plan to choose? Your opponent has a weak pawn but you don't know how to attack it? You can exchange the knights but you don't know whether it's good or bad? You solve lots of puzzles but still...
Smashwords Edition, 2014. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-1310724497. Книга в формате PGN. Three masters recall their four decades as teammates from a strong New Jersey chess club. Annotated games, theoretical novelties in the opening, and wide-ranging anecdotes from the chess scene in Spain, Cuba, and Metro New York from the 1940s through 2014 complement the authors’ personal chess...
Everyman, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN13: 978-1857449938. Книга в формате PGN. What separates the best chess players from the rest? What gives them the edge over their rivals? Chess legend Vladimir Kramnik believes it’s their fighting skills and the ability to continuously find ways to keep a game alive. Colin Crouch agrees, and is fascinated that the world’s strongest players seem...
Everyman Chess, 2010. — 160 p. — ISBN13: 978-1857446333. Книга в формате PGN. How can you improve at chess? This is the eternal question asked by players of all levels. Which part of the game should you focus on? How often should you play? Should you change your opening repertoire? What's the best way to learn from your defeats? So many questions... and yet direct answers are...
Everyman Chess, 2009. — 192 p. — ISBN: 9781857445961. Книга в формате PGN. Some players seem to be naturally gifted at chess. Almost effortlessly they seem to know what to do in every position. They recognize the best squares for their pieces; they know whether to seize the initiative with a bold attack or play quietly; whether to trade pieces or avoid exchanges; how to exploit...
Thinkers Publishing, 2021. — 398 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201314. This book in front of you assists all players in their efforts to improve, and along their way, our young chess guns provided fresh insights how to trap and trick your opponent in the opening and early middlegame. With the many computer-assisted learning tools available, the player’s capacity to improve is limitless....
GAME MIND Ltd., 2001. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-2-957-2890-2-4. lossif Dorfman was born in 1952 at Jitomir (Ukraine). He learned to play chess when he was 8. He became a full-time player only on graduation from Polytechnique in 1974. His trainer was Michael Trosman who also trained Alexander Huzman, and Irina Krush in New York. In 1977 he became an IM, USSR champion and European...
New In Chess, 2020. — 274 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-921-4. 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. Alex...
Chessable, Oct 22, 2018; Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-030-3. Книга в формате PGN. 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....
Quality Chess, 2011. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1-906552-82-4. Книга в формате PGN. For Lluis Comas Fabrego chess is about more than just winning as many games as possible, it is a creative search for the truth. In True Lies in Chess Comas Fabrego takes on the challenging task of separating the truth from lies in chess literature. Guided by many practical examples and clear advice,...
Quality Chess, Sep 23, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-064-9. In Technical Decision Making in Chess former World Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand discusses his path to decision making in endgames and positions where one side possesses a structural or material advantage. This investigation into a top Grandmaster’s technical understanding will illuminate difficult parts...
Gambit, 2006. — 157 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1904600411. Steve Giddins has chosen 50 supremely instructive games - some old, some new, and including many that few readers will have seen before. He has annotated these games in detail from a modern perspective, explaining the useful lessons that can be learnt from them, while avoiding the harmful dogma that characterized many older...
Thinkers Publishing, 2022. — 232 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201536. This book takes a closer look at the Classic mistakes by amateur players include: 1. Moving a piece too often in the opening. This is one of the mainstays which we think relates at least partly to the desire to create something in the opening, when we would be better advised to focus on simple development. 2....
Elk and Ruby, May 21, 2022. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-5-6041770-0-6. First published in Russian in 2004 and now available in English for the first time , The Lubyanka Gambit is a classic work investigating the darkest side of chess history in the Soviet Union. It is the culmination of nearly two decades of research by Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, historian and human rights...
Mongoose Press, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936277-81-0. Книга в формате PGN. Cowering in the middlegame, towering in the endgame: chess theory teaches that the king needs protection from enemy pieces until the ending, when finally it can come out from hiding to decisive effect. But what if the king can take care of itself, and even march out to battle with its army? FIDE Master...
Mongoose Press, 2012. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936277-40-7. Книга в формате PGN. How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title? The secret was knowing what to study and how to learn as efficiently as possible. Focusing his attention firmly on the endgame, Jonathan devised a number of...
Everyman Chess, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-1857446494. Книга в формате ChessBase. A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman’s multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects:...
Everyman Chess, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-1857446494. Книга в формате PGN. A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman’s multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: general...
2nd edition, revised and enlarged. — Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN: 9781936490868. Identify and Deal with Threats! This book is written to address and underemphasized area of chess training and study, the identification of and reaction to threats. For beginning and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take...
New in Chess, 2020. — 596 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-879-8. The way a beginner develops into a strong chess player closely resembles the progress of the game of chess itself. This popular idea is the reason why many renowned chess instructors such as former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Max Euwe, emphasize the importance of studying the history of chess. Willy Hendriks agrees...
Выходные данные отсутствуют. Файл в формате PGN. The question is always the same: How to win chess games against a good player? In order to beat a stronger player, you need to be ready to induce and exploit mistakes, but how to do that? This video series focuses on concepts, ideas and patterns that are essential to know in order spot those opportunities. Even the best players in...
Thinkers Publishing, May 18, 2020. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-9492510778. “To be able to raise your level of play you will need to work hard on your chess. This book will arm you with some important chess ideas and skills but, more importantly, you will get into the grandmaster’s mind. I don’t want you to play chess the following way: he attacked me — I need to move away, I attacked...
Chess24, 2020. — (Game Analysis). Winning Technique: Converting an Advantage – GM Artur Jussupow Artur Jussupow is back! The former world no. 3, renowned coach, and student of Mark Dvoretsky teaches us how to convert advantages. Enjoy games from Carlsen, Karpov, Capablanca and the author himself. Goals To become a better technical player by learning the four core principles...
New In Chess, 2021. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-933-7. Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess...
Collier Books, 1984. — 158 p. — ISBN 0-02-011760-4. A complete course in 40 parts, which can either form the curriculum for a school club or be used by adults for self-instruction. Numerous exercises are included to test the reader's understanding of all points, and a timetable provides a suggested period for studying each phase of the game. Perfect for chess teachers.Beginner.
New in Chess, 2019. — 652 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-860-6. Giving up material is one of the most difficult decisions a chess player has to take. But the reality is that winning a game very often requires you to make that choice. The nagging question is always: what about my compensation? The old school used to relate compensation to ‘correctness'. A sacrifice was correct if the...
Thechessworld, 2022. How to win your games with ease, zero hassle, and perfect execution… Most club players think that Grandmasters' success comes from enormous talent and brilliant moves. Let me tell you a big SECRET. It's NOT about the talent nor brilliance… it's all about the supreme consistency. Have you ever played against a Grandmaster? You'll be surprised, especially...
New in Chess, 2017. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-719-7. Книга в формате PGN. Winner of the 2017 Best Instructional Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA) Are you a dove or a hawk? Is your natural instinct at the chessboard for caution and strategy or do you crave adventure and confrontation? This question may be more important than you think because being aware of...
London: Everyman Chess, 2023. — 209 p. — ISBN: 978 1 78194 649 7. The vast majority of chess games witness familiar strategies and well known tactical motifs. These are the games that you will find in the anthologies and opening repertoires. Sometimes however, games appear that seem to have been played on a different planet. Conventional strategies go out of the window....
New in Chess, June 12, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN-13: 978-9056918286. A lucid, compelling and funny book. When was the last time you won a perfect game? A game that wasn’t tainted by inferior moves? Every chess player knows that smooth wins are the exception, that play is often chaotic and positions are frequently irrational. The road to victory is generally full of bumps and...
Everyman Chess, 2015. — 392 p. — ISBN: 9781781942048. Книга в формате ChessBase. The computer has changed the way top players think about chess. The silicon mind has no psychological barriers. It is "willing" to check moves that most humans, including top players, consider absurd and reject instantly. Thus this brave, new computer era inevitably leads to a reassessment of old...
Everyman Chess, 2015. — 392 p. — ISBN: 9781781942048. Книга в формате PGN. The computer has changed the way top players think about chess. The silicon mind has no psychological barriers. It is "willing" to check moves that most humans, including top players, consider absurd and reject instantly. Thus this brave, new computer era inevitably leads to a reassessment of old axioms,...
Sahovski Chess, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-86-7297-104-0. I may be old-fashioned, but I keep using for my inspiration the treasure of the past. It does not make sense to speculate whether, for instance, Carlsen is stronger than Fischer or Korchnoi, as matches between players separated in time by so many decades are impossible. But this book aims to prove that some of the basic...
Quality Chess, Jun 02, 2021. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-1-78483-142-4. "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. How exactly can we best make use of computers? What’s the ideal, step-by-step way to prepare against a specific...
Quality Chess, 2018. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-049-6. The most significant difference between a grandmaster and a club player is not simply that the grandmaster calculates more accurately, but rather that he sees more deeply. This book invites you beneath the surface, where you can learn to navigate the depths of chess. Jan Markos shows how a strong player perceives chess,...
Batsford Ltd., 1997. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0713482157. The relative strengths of the Bishop and Knight have long been debated. Traditional thinking has been that the Bishop is better in open positions while the Knight is better in blocked positions. Top players differ in their views. Chigorin was a staunch advocate of the Knight, while Botvinnik was a master of the raking...
Everyman Chess, 2019. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78194-515-5. Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It’s rarely a lack of talent or practice or opening knowledge that holds them back. Usually they get left behind because they don’t know how to make best use of the time they have available to study chess. This book addresses this...
Independently published, 2023. — 151 p. — ISBN: 979-8390702680. Update & Edited by Carsten Hansen. In this book, German-English Grandmaster Mieses has selected 125 interesting positions from games played by various masters such as Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Steinitz, Tarrasch, Mieses himself and many more from the classic...
ChessBase, 2015. In chess, the technique of exchanging pieces is the ultimate knowledge. The biggest specialists of this were such greats as Akiba Rubinstein and Vasily Smyslov. The exchange bishop for a knight is the most common case. The technique of exploiting the individual power of these pieces is completely different. The bishop is well placed on certain strategical...
Chessbase, 2017. Critical moments are crucial moments. The skill to find the right move in critical positions makes the difference between winning, drawing or losing. Here real chess ability shows! On this 60 Minutes renowned and successful coach Adrian Mikhalchishin presents critical positions and shows how to handle them. An additional database invites you to further...
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, Oct 10, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-94-6420-128-4. 60 years have passed since the day I took up chess seriously. Agree, this is still a serious date that gives the right to sum up some results. I have tried to make the book presented to the attention of the reader biographical. Not everything worked out, because some events from my chess life were not...
Chessbase, 2016. — ISBN: 978-3-86681-553-7. Which pieces to keep and which to exchange is one of the most important questions in chess. This is true in the opening, the middlegame and the endgame. Less experienced players often think exchanging means to swap pieces of equal value and fail to take strategic factors into account. Of course, you have to keep the material balance...
Touchstone, 1987. — 224 p.
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This is a veritable textbook on how to conduct a complete game. It emphasizes the game as a WHOLE, not just opening, middle, and end parts. Six games are given with each move given commentary and/or analysis. Questions are given to the reader at key points during each game to stress certain points. GrandMaster and past...
IChess.net, 2018. Файл в формате Chessbase и PGN. Most players are let down by their weaknesses. The Polgar Method fixes that with a specific course on each aspect of chess. First up is the opening. While this is probably the least important phase of the game until you’re over 2100 ELO, you still need to get to the middlegame with a decent position. That’s why Susan gives you...
Russell Enterprises, 2016. — 461 p. — ISBN: 978-1-941270-24-0. Книга в формате PGN. Generations of chess players have grown up on Fred Reinfeld s books. He has a way of reducing the most intricate, complicated combinations to their basic components. After Reinfeld explains a combination, it makes sense. Reinfeld not only taught us how to play the game well, but also implanted...
Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 395 p. — ISBN: 9789492510228. Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player is split into three parts: Endgame, Tactical Play and Middlegame Strategy. The endgame part of the book mostly concentrates on rook endgames. Every player needs to possess the knowledge of some elementary positions. This essential knowledge not only enriches your understanding of...
Thinkers Publishing, 2019. — 675 p. — ISBN: 978-9492510457. In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with limited material left on the board. Endgames, yes, but also positions where the initiative plays an important role. My aim is to illustrate the specific features of all the pieces and this can best be done without too many other pieces on the board. Chapter...
Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2021. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1949859423. 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! Learn the stories behind the most embarrassing moment any chessplayer can suffer, while trying to outmatch the poor, unfortunate player who...
Gambit Publications, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-1901983854. Jonathan Rowson, author of the highly acclaimed Seven Deadly Chess Sins, investigates three questions important to all chess-players: 1) Why is it so difficult, especially for adult players, to improve? 2) What kinds of mental attitudes are needed to find good moves in different phases of the game? 3) Is White's alleged...
Thinkers Publishing, 2020. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-94-9251-094-5. Our author has provided the most important key elements to practice one of the most difficult decisions: exchange or not! With most competitive games nowadays being played to a finish in a single session, this knowledge may prove invaluable over the board. His brand new coverage is the best tool for anyone looking to...
New in Chess, 2021. — 987 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-983-2 Matthew Sadler presents a unique set of methods to work out using an engine. Preparing openings and training early middlegame play, the conversion of advantages, positional play,and defense. And of course: how to analyze one’s own games. These generic training methods Sadler supplements with concrete middlegame and opening...
Milford: Russell Enterprises, 2021. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-1-949859-38-6. The Fearsome Fascination of Kingwalks! Marching your king across the board – at times right through or into enemy lines – may be both exhilarating and terrifying. Nothing may be quite as satisfying as a majestic kingwalk across the board which brings you glorious victory. And nothing as tragicomic as a...
Chess-teacher.es, 2019. Файл в формате PGN. Este primer video es una introducción a este curso llamado Campeón de la defensa, el curso que te enseñará a defender como los jugadores profesionales. Empezamos con una frase muy instructiva:”El ataque gana partidas, ¡pero la defensa gana campeonatos!” ¡Nada más cierto! La capacidad de defender es extremadamente importante en los...
Production House GM Igor Smirnov, 2019. “There are many things you need to learn from Fischer” Learn from the greatest chess player of all time. Implement Bobby’s crystal clear playing style in your game. Why we created this course? Bobby Fischer is an American chess hero. He managed to beat all Soviet elite players and became the eleventh World Chess Champion. Fischer’s style is...
Chess Bee, 2018. Do you want to learn: how the PRO’s prepare their openings? The MOST common chess mistakes that amateurs make and how to avoid them? How to get rid of those blunders and MORE? This FREE chess improvement course will get you started in the RIGHT direction. This course contains some powerful practical tips. They will help you to find the best moves and to do it...
Quality Chess, 2013. — 376 p. — ISBN: 978-1-907982-73-6. Any man in the street knows how to increase his physical strength, but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength. Axel Smith's training methods have guided his friends, teammates and pupils to grandmaster norms and titles. Hard work will be required, but Axel Smith knows...
Quality Chess, Mar 10, 2021. — 248 p. — SBN 978-1-78483-121-9. Street Smart Chess is an expert guide to scoring more points at the chessboard. When does it pay off to play hard for a win? Or safe for a draw? And how do you adapt your playing style accordingly? GM Axel Smith answers these questions, and more, by using a world-class player as a model for each chapter. Learn how...
IUniverse, Inc., 2007. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-0-595-89658-5. In More Unbeatable Chess Lessons, chess coach Robert Snyder takes his Unbeatable Chess Lessons book a step further by covering twenty-four additional games with commentary on every move in each game. Games arranged by opening with original analysis.Detailed analysis of critical lines.Important tactical and positional...
New In Chess, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-472-1. Книга в формате PGN. You have learned the rules of chess and developed some tactical skills. You are fascinated by the game and want to know more. So, the question is: what’s next? What is the best way to improve your play and start winning? Yaroslav Srokovski, one of the most successful chess trainers in Europe, has...
Gambit Publications, 2007. — 159 p. — ISBN: 978-1-904600-82-4. Andrei Volokitin is one of a rare breed of players: he achieved a ranking in the world's top 20 while still a teenager, playing dynamic and often brilliant chess. Although we cannot all aspire to emulate his achievements, there is much that we can learn from his training methods, his games and his general approach...
Batsford Chess Book, 2005. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-0-71-348988-X. One of the most influential books on chess ever published now in digital format. The Tiger is a vicious beast. He doesnt care about the aesthetic side of chess. He doesnt even care about making the best moves. All he cares about is winning. Do you want to win more games? Then become a Tiger.
Mongoose Press, 2020. — 398 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936277-90-2. In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player’s reasoning skills. Questions such as: “Who has the better position?”, “Should I resolve the tension in the center?”, “How can I improve the placement of my pieces?”. In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess...
New In Chess, April 15, 2021. — 224 p. — ISBN:978-90-5691-932-0. Many club players think that studying chess is all about cramming as much information in their brain as they can. Most textbooks support that notion by stressing the importance of always trying to find the objectively best move. As a result amateur players are spending way too much time worrying about subtleties...
Thinker's Press, 1994. — 324 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-938650-58-0. Книга в формате PGN. How one man, tired of languishing in the ditch of chess, rose above it and became a master, after 50! -3rd printing. Reaching a plateau of chess strength after many years of playing, Rolf Wetzell devised new and unusual methods of study. These methods propelled him through several USCF rating...
Everyman, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 978-1857446319. Книга в формате PGN. Let's face facts: everyone enjoys winning. And the only thing better than winning is to win quickly! Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game – at all levels of chess – but a key skill is to recognise these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency. This is a...
Chessgate AG, 2004. — 206 p. — ISBN 3-935748-07-8. Between 1999 and 2002 Artur Yusupov produced and published in Germany a series of ten small booklets, each one covering a particular chess theme. These lectures included topics of a differing complexity, such as 'Candidate Moves', 'Passed Pawns in the Middlegame' or 'Back-Rank Combinations'. These booklets became quite popular,...
Russell Enterprises, Inc., Dec 16, 2020. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-949859-26-3. File is in PGN format. Grandmaster Igor Zaitsev ranks as one of the most creative chess minds ever in the history of the royal game. This is his book of secrets and methods, his remarkable life’s work. Zaitsev unearthed astonishing ideas which even giants of the game had overlooked. World champions...
Thinkers Publishing, 2022. — 453 p. — ISBN 9789464201444 The material is divided into four chapters, and two parts, depending if we have an endgame with queens or rooks on the board. I have decided to keep the focus on endgames because in middlegames, some other factors may simply prevail. In endgames, the importance of having a knight against a bishop just increases! For...
New Jork: Dover Publications, 2003. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486209203. Файл в формате Chessbase, PGN. Beginners and even fairly advanced players agree on one thing: analyzing the strength or weakness of a position (material being equal) is the hardest part of chess to learn. It is also one of the hardest elements to teach, and there are some who claim it is unteachable. But...
М.: Новости, 2007. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-5-88149-264-9. Иосиф Дорфман — талантливый гроссмейстер, тренер Г. Каспарова и Э. Бакро впервые предстает перед русскоязычным читателем в новом качестве: как автор и пропагандист оригинальной теории. Два учебника, иллюстрирующие практическое применение его своеобразного метода, стали на Западе шахматными бестселлерами последних лет....
Харьков: Факт, 2007. — 208 с. В этой книге я попытался описать метод работы в позициях, где возможно серьёзное изменение развития игры. Она может быть использована в качестве справочного пособия для шахматных тренеров. Предлагаемый метод анализа критического момента является результатом моего опыта и исследования, синтезом карьеры игрока и тренера.Иосиф Дорфман — талантливый...
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