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The Berlin Defence has been a highly popular opening in top level chess ever since Vladimir Kramnik famously used it in the 2000 World Championship match to wrest the title from Garry Kasparov.Club players often hesitate to include ‘the Berlin’ in their repertoire because they see the typical Berlin...

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge....

Desde las reglas básicas hasta las estrategias más completas. Ejemplos sacados de partidas entre campeones. Numerosos ejercicios con sus respectivas soluciones

You have limited time to devote to chess study, and most of that goes to reviewing your openings to move 25, with all their sidelines. Sound familiar? Here’s a solution: surprise your opponent in the first four moves with The Elshad System!In a groundbreaking survey of this emerging counterattack,...

Bestselling author Viktor Moskalenko takes on another important chess opening! The Pirc and Modern are flexible openings, rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Kramnik, Grischuk and Ivanchuk, but are also quite popular at club level.Moskalenko, a renowned...

The Journey Continues! Mark Dvoretsky has long been considered one of the premier chess coaches and trainers in the world. He is renowned for taking talented masters and forging them into world-class grandmasters and champions. His literary achievements are also quite distinguished. For example, Dvoretsky’s...

In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible...

The Polgar Way to Better Chess! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and...

It will be as I'm taking you on a chess tour through history. It will be as if you are by my side as we enter into people's homes along the way. Some will be ordinary folks, some will hold high positions, and all will have some kind of connection with the game we know today as ‘Chess.'

You may be surprised at how much demand there is for chess coaches in the scholastic systems of the world, and this demand grows constantly. This book, ‘The Chess Coach,’ can ease the way into this realm for someone who is considering taking on this very enjoyable endeavor. You do not have to...

The Fourth Edition of a Modern Classic When you are serious about improving your endgame skills, it is time for Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. Perhaps the best known and most respected instructor of world class chessplayers, Mark Dvoretsky has produced a comprehensive work on the endgame that will reward...

The 21st Century Edition of Spielmann’s Classic Work Austrian Grandmaster Rudolf Spielmann’s The Art of Sacrifice in Chess first appeared in the mid-1930s. It was immediately recognized as a classic, a masterpiece that examined the nature of chess sacrifices. In this modernized, 21st century edition,...

This exciting and unique book deals with an aspect of chess that is hard to pin down: those monumental moments in a game when the tide turns and the course of the game is altered.

Join an expert chess player at the table to analyze crucial decisions from major tournaments. Develop a better understanding of the game through a series of themed chapters, each of which examines a particular technique and unravels the thought processes of expert players.