Forum Readers from all over the world join in discussions on previous Surveys. Titled players, correspondence players and club players shed their light on opening developments and search for the truth together. With contributions by Alexey Kuzmin, Viktor Moskalenko, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Emil Anka...

Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calcula...

The aim of this book is to teach you how to put Black into a positional squeeze in the most popular gambits against 1d4. It offers a White repertoire based on understanding and not on memorisation of long variations. Georgiev preaches a solid strategic approach which allows to decrease the role of c...

Mastering Positional Chess Practical Lessons of a Junior World Champion by Daniel Naroditsky “If you want to excel at chess, you have to delve deeper, and appreciate not only visually pleasing combinations, but much more subtle positional ideas as well”, writes Daniel Narodi...

Vom 2. bis 10. 11. 1983 wurde in Bath/England das Turnier der Schachgroßmeister ausgetragen. An diesem Turnier nahmen 8 der hervorragendsten Schachspieler der Welt teil. Im Weihnachts-Sonderprogramm der III.deutschen Fernsehprogramme wurde diese Sendung ausgestrahlt. Dieses Begleitbuch enthält die ...

In How to Win Quickly at Chess, IM John Donaldson provides the reader with practical information on winning quickly at chess. The book places a heavy emphasis upon opening theory and basic strategic and tactical themes. These themes occur in a variety of openings and they often are the determining f...

This book is devoted to the endgame study and it is for pre-intermediate to advanced players. Lessons are divided by themes into 9 main chapters (Blockade, Zugzwang etc.) and themes are well explained on real samples. In the end of each chapter are studies, detailed solutions of which are at the end...

The title continues: ...with Rice gambit supplement and appendix for correspondence players. Includes 25 annotated games played by telegraph and correspondence between the Riga and other clubs, and by individual members of the Riga club. More than 25 pages are devoted to the Rice gambit, with histor...

In dit boek van Géza Maróczy staan 407 partijen van een van de meest geniale speler ooit, namelijk Paul Morphy. Morphy werd geboren in 1837 en was op schaakgebied een wonderkind. Op zijn 21ste jaar kon hij feitelijk aanspraak maken op de titel van wereldkampioen schaken, omdat hij iedereen op dit te...

Wer hätte gedacht, daß der WK-kampf zwischen Garry Kasparow und Anatoli Karpow nach dem Drei-Punkte-Vorsprung des Titelverteidigers noch einmal so spannend werden würde? In einer beispiellosen Aufholjagd legte der Herausforderer Karpow einen Hattrick hin, und alles war wieder offen. Aber dieses Buc...

Two big chess events took place in March and April 1970. The Match of the Century and the Blitz Tournament in Herceg Novi. The idea to record the games from the Blitz Tournament had been given by Mihail Tal. It proved to be a very difficult task, but we managed to take down the most important games ...

The middlegame has tended to be the most difficult subject for authors to define for the chess student. Yet, for this reason the chess player needing to improve his or her game needs the greatest help, not in trying to memorize some set of ''rules'' which have more exceptions than uses, but in under...

in this book Mikhail Tal concentrates on the combination, which is the very heart of chess. Tal himself is renowned as possibly the greatest expert in its use. Here he examines more than 200 mating combinations so that the reader learns both how to find and how to execute them. Yhe 14 chapters are ...

Mark Dvoretsky ist einer der besten Trainer der Gegenwart und ein Erfolgsautor. Sein Bestseller Die Endspieluniversität hat viele Schachliebhaber begeistert. Dieses neue Endspielbuch kann man gleichzeitig als Fortsetzung und als Einführung zur Endspieluniversität ansehen. An Beispielen von lehrreich...

The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz was one of the most feared players in the U.S. tournament circuit. Using his dynamic, Catalan-based opening repertoire, the "Polish Magician" won hundreds of tournaments before his untimely death in 2006. Now, Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hil...

NU EINDELIJK VERKRIJGBAAR!!!!! Grandmaster Repertoire is a new series of high quality chess books based on the main lines, written by strong grandmasters. The aim is to provide the reader with a complete repertoire at a level good enough for elite tournaments, and certainly also for the club cham...

Dreev is a leading expert on opening theory. The Moscow variation and the Anti-Moscow Gambit are his ''trademark'' systems. Alexey is also a renown chess author. His previous book, My One Hundred Best Games, was selected in the short list of the English Chess Federation A Book of the year 2007 conte...

Tijdens zijn actieve loopbaan speelde Hans Ree tegen bijna alle schaakgrootmeesters, onder wie acht wereldkampioenen, van Max Euwe tot Anatoli Karpov. Mijn schaken gaat over hen, maar ook over andere schakers en schrijvers uit het verleden die door Ree worden vereerd. Doordat dit boek geen objectiev...

Chess Opening Essentials is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavour of how every opening works and explains the similarities with other openings as well as the differences. In addition, it also points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening...

The Scotch Game is a solid positional opening which has been studied and tested in practice by the strongest chess players in the world in a period of more than two centuries. The idea behind the Scotch Game is simple and easily understandable. White eliminates in a purely mechanical fashion Black’...