Chess list 20

Chess & Criminal Trials

by Bob Bodede
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

The purpose of this book is to enlighten you on the similarities between the game of chess and criminal trials. Chess and Criminal trials are divided into three elements, the opening, middle and end game. Chess masters know that they must start strong and end strong. As it is with chess, so it is...

Chess Opening Essentials

1.d4 d5 / 1.d4 Various / Queen's Gambits

by Dimitri Komarov, Stefan Djuric, Claudio Pantaleoni
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016

The ideas & plans behind all chess openings. Volume 3 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.Comprehensive: covers all main...

Ivanchuk: Move by Move

by Junior Tay
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Vassily Ivanchuk has been one of the World's leading chess players for over two decades. He announced his arrival as a 21-year-old when he defeated Garry Kasparov on the way to winning the Linares Super-Grandmaster event. In a distinguished career he has won countless elite tournaments and was a FIDE...

Carlsen: Move by Move

by Cyrus Lakdawala
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Despite his relatively young age, Magnus Carlsen has already secured his place in chess history as a legend of the game. In a short space of time his accomplishments have been extraordinary. In December 2012 he broke Garry Kasparov's record to become the highest-rated chess player of all time. He...

The Chess Endgame Study

A Comprehensive Introduction Second Edition

by A. J. Roycroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

The endgame study, like the chess problem, eliminates over-the-board competition to concentrate on an invented endgame position carefully plotted to fox, bewilder, challenge, and otherwise stimulate the solver. Unlike problems, studies do not stipulate the number of moves to the solution; they demand...

Petrosian: Move by Move

by Thomas Engqvist
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Tigran Petrosian was a World Chess Champion and a true legend of the game. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" because of his incredible defensive skills that made him a formidable opponent who was virtually impossible to defeat. Petrosian was the master of restraint, prophylaxis and prevention. He could...

Bologan's Caro-Kann

A Modern Repertoire for Black

by Victor Bologan
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018

The Caro-Kann is one of the most important and popular responses to 1.e4. World champions Botvinnik, Petrosian, Karpov and Anand have played this reliable chess opening in many of their games. Present-day elite players such as Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are proving that the ‘drawish’...

Test Your Chess Skills

Practical Decisions in Critical Moments

by Sarhan Guliev, Logman Guliev
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018

The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action. Sarhan Guliev and his brother Logman...

The Right Way to Play Chess

by David Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Since its first publication in 1950, The Right Way to Play Chess has taught chess to generations of beginners, taking them to the standard expected of good club players. It gives full details of exactly how to play the game, explains basic theory and includes many examples of play.There are...

Endgame

Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

by Frank Brady
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

Acclaimed biographer Frank Brady traces the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic chess genius Bobby Fischer. Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. ...

The Queen of Katwe

A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

by Tim Crothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

Now a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong**’**o and David Oyelowo, directed by Mira Nair. The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awareness) true story of Phiona Mutesi—a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda. One...

Your Best Move

by Per Ostman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

I look one move ahead... the best!, Siegbert TarraschChess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give...

The Tarrasch Defence: Move by Move

by Sam Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

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....

Tactics Training – Anatoly Karpov

How to improve your Chess with Anatoly Karpov and become a Chess Tactics Master

by Frank Erwich
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

Anatoly Karpov (1951) is one of the greatest chess players of all time. The Russian grandmaster was World Champion from 1975 to 1985. He became World Champion when the American Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title. And he was dethroned when he lost a match to Garry Kasparov in 1985. Karpov was...