Chess category: 725 books
Bobby Fischer for Beginners
The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume. His youth in Brooklyn, his astonishing career, his many conflicts, his girlfriends and his tragic death in exile...
by Larry Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fascinating, intriguing, and controversial, the dean of American chess tells the never-before-told machinations and stories of world championship chess and what really goes on behind the scenes of the game at its highest level. If you think that chess and marbles are the only games free from politics,...
Dynamic Chess Strategy
Extended & Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this enlarged edition of a modern classic (first published in 1991) on the battle of chess ideas, grandmaster Mihai Suba developed the concept of ?dynamic potential? in modern chess strategy. In improving your position on the board the old strategy principles often lead to conflicting conclusions....
by David Bronstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. When its participants are the world's strongest players . . . the tournament as a whole represents a step forward in the development of chess creativity. We may take as examples of such tournaments the events at Hastings 1895, St....
by Fred Wilson, Bruce Alberston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided...
by Bill Robertie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Targeted for beginning and novice players, this step-by-step approach uses more than a hundred actual chess diagrams to bring out the excitement of chess and show you an easy method of learning and playing. You learn the basic principles of opening, middle and end game strategies, development and pawn...
Excelling at Positional Chess
How the best players plan and manouvre
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Positional chess remains a mystery to many and yet an understanding of the finer points of the game so often makes the difference between two equally matched players. Improve your positional play and you will see chess in a totally new dimension!In this unique book, International Master Jacob Aagaard...
by Neil McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess: strategy, attack, opening play and gambits, classical play, endgames and preparation. In each book the author studies a number of great players from chess history who have excelled in a particular...
Tactics Training Alexander Alekhine
How to improve your Chess with Alexander Alekhine and become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was the 4th World Champion in the history of chess. In 1927 he defeated Jose Raul Capablanca in a World Championship Match by 18,5 - 15,5 (the winner was the first to win six games). Apart from a short intermission - in 1935-37 het lost his world title to the Dutchman...
Improve Your Chess Tactics
700 Practical Lessons & Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills. Experienced Russian Grandmaster Jakov Neishtadt...
Tactics Training - Hikaru Nakamura
How to improve your Chess with Hikaru Nakamuraand become a Chess Tactics Master
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Have you always wanted to play chess like American #1 chess player? This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same wonderful moves as Nakamura did in his games. One hundred puzzles are offered in which the bullet-expert turned the game in his favour. The puzzles start at a moderate level then get steadily more difficult. Can you match the performances of Nakamura?
Knack Chess for Everyone
A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Moves & Winning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Chess is a refreshing pastime for most players, and an all-encompassing obsession for a few. And yet much of chess literature—heavy on notation, low on useful illustrations, frustrating for the beginner—is directed at those already in the know. Knack Chess for Everyone provides an alternative: a...
Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Volume 3: Flank Openings
Winning Quickly at Chess Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
WIN FAST!
Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics.
Through...
Why You Lose at Chess
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This updated chess classic demonstrates how to learn from your losses by recognizing the warning signs as they develop and by analyzing games gone wrong. In addition to expert analysis of each stage of the game, this guide offers insights into why players lose from good positions as well as weak ones,...