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Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess prodigy from New Jersey. On June 30, 2021, he became the youngest grandmaster in the world at the of 12 years 4 months and 25 days, beating a nineteen year old record.
Short - Winning. Livre en anglais sur le GMI, Nigel Short. Grandmaster Nigel Short realised that every tournament win has a unique narrative and challenge. In this exceptional chess book, Short discusses eight of his foremost tournament wins, describing the drama with insightful game annotations and entertaining anecdotes. For those wanting to win in...
The value of this volume lies also in the parts where Bossi and Brovelli, with painstaking accuracy, have quoted both direct impressions of the two protagonists (interviews, articles, letters and quotations from their works) and evaluations (in the comments and memories of their contemporaries). In such a way, a contest of wider significance is described,...
Fifty years on, Gudmundur Thorarinsson has written a tell-all book about ‘The Match of the Century’, crammed with behind-the-scenes stories and improbable twists and turns. Reading his gripping account of probably the most iconic sports contest during the Cold War, you will understand why he prefers to call it ‘The Match of All Time’.
When the Icelandic Chess Federation made a bid to host the 1972 world title match between Soviet icon Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer, many Icelanders were rightly shaking their heads in disbelief.
Since every world champion was the most outstanding player of his time, it makes sense to study the various aspects of the royal game using the world champions' games – and of course to enjoy them. In this second of two volumes on the world champions' art of combination, the authors (both recognized experts in the field of chess literature) offer the...
In Chess Odyssey Silman touches on all these aspects of the game. Starting on the light side with behind-the-scenes tales of tournament life, Silman’s Chess Odyssey then takes a serious turn to history, and profiles the life and careers of eleven legendary players (Adolf Anderssen, Ignatz Kolisch, Johannes Zukertort, Siegbert Tarrasch, Wilhelm Steinitz,...
The Ukrainian chess community is helping Ukraine in the war against Russia. The chess genius Vasyl Ivanchuk is giving online simuls to raise funds. European champion and Olympic gold medal winner Natalia Zhukova is working as a politician in Odessa. And FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov coordinated this wonderful collection of chess games from...
Karolyi & Gyozalyan - Petrosian Year by Year: Volume I (1942-1962). Livre en anglais sur le GMI Petrosian. International Master Tibor Karolyi and FIDE Master Tigran Gyozalyan have written a comprehensive two-volume treatise on the life and games of Tigran Petrosian, who was world champion from 1963-1969.
This book tells the story of one of the most enigmatic and tragic figures in chess history – the Latvian grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs (1908 – 1943). His name was struck out of chess literature for decades. His games and biography are largely unknown to the public – even though Petrovs defeated Alekhine, Fine, Reshevsky, Boleslavsky and many other great...
This book tells the story of one of the most enigmatic and tragic figures in chess history – the Latvian grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs (1908 – 1943). His name was struck out of chess literature for decades. His games and biography are largely unknown to the public – even though Petrovs defeated Alekhine, Fine, Reshevsky, Boleslavsky and many other great...
Magnus Carlsen’s Middlegame Evolution allows the reader to celebrate the brilliance of the highest-rated chess player in history while learning from his example. With insightfully annotated games, Sokolov takes us inside the mind of a chess genius.
Taimanov - I was a Victim of Bobby Fischer. Livre en anglais sur le GMI Taimanov et ses parties contre Bobby Fischer. In 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 6–0 in Vancouver, but the match games were far more competitive and tension-filled than the final score would suggest. Twenty years later Taimanov put pen to...
This final volume of the Lasker trilogy covers the later part of his life from 1914 onwards and his manifolds ambitions and writings in chess and science. The biographical compass by Richard Forster shows the ups and downs of the world champion during World War I, his loss of the world championship, the subsequent economic crisis in Germany, the raise of...
In this book, Judit Polgar - the strongest of the three sisters and a former world top-10 player – reveals some of the secrets of her success. Together with the prize-winning coach, International Master Andras Toth, she has created a course based on the training she received as a young player. It is like having a private lesson from one of the best...
Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischer’s unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly...
Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischer’s unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly...
In this unique book, Oleg Stetsko has compiled 80 of Tal’s most interesting games, as annotated by the Magician himself in a variety of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the very first time here.
This book contains games from every single female World Champion, as well as young up and comers, top seasoned professionals, streamers, and even a section at Beth Harmon from the recent famed Queen’s Gambit hit show. This book is not just for girls and women, however. Any chess player can learn from these games and discover female chess history, both...
In this first of two volumes on the world champions' art of combination, the authors (both recognized experts in the field of chess literature) offer the reader the opportunity of trying to find plenty of these best combinations themselves – and thus to assess and improve their own tactical skills.
This is the third volume of our project to publish all the available games annotated by the fourth world chess champion Alexander Alekhine - not only his own games, but also games by other players for which he contributed notes in various publications.
This book takes the reader on a journey from early 19th century developments in the game up to the present-day. It takes in the revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz’s early summation and establishment of a firm positional basis for chess and the considerable contributions made by all of the subsequent world champions and certain other great players, including...
Karolyi & Gyozalyan - Petrosian Year by Year : Volume II (1963-1984) - couverture rigide. Deuxième volume pour le livre en anglais dédié au GMI Petrosian. Petrosian’s opponents in Volume II include world champions and challengers Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Spassky, Tal, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Bronstein, as well as leading players such as...
Karolyi & Gyozalyan - Petrosian Year by Year : Volume II (1963-1984). Deuxième volume pour le livre en anglais dédié au GMI Petrosian. Petrosian’s opponents in Volume II include world champions and challengers Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Spassky, Tal, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Bronstein, as well as leading players such as Timman, Larsen,...
Lakdawala - The Greatest Attacker in Chess : The Enigmatic Rashid Nezhmetdinov. Livre en anglais sur le grand maitre Rashid Nezhmetdinov, originaire de l'actuelle région du Kazakhstan.
Chess publishing business and autobiography with an assassination's manual for guiding your decision making and moves on the chessboard.
Andy Soltis, The United States Chess Championship, 1845–2011 3nd Ed
lex Dunne, The Absolute Correspondence Championship of the United States Chess Federation, 1976–2010
A Chess Master’s Life in America, 1871–1931, Julius Finn
The Man Chess Made, Albert Beauregard Hodges
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi - World Chess Championship 2021. Livre en anglais d'analyse des parties de Carlsen et Nepomniachtchi lors du championnat mondial d'échecs 2021.
Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824–1987, Tim Harding, McFarland edition.
Mikhail Botvinnik, Andrew Soltis, McFarland edition.
Mikhaïl Botvinnik est reconnu comme étant à la fois l’un des plus grands maîtres d’échecs de tous les temps.
Version Hard Cover. Walter Penn Shipley was crucial to the development of chess in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume II (1938-1947) par Sergey Voronkov. Version Hard Cover.
Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume II (1938-1947) par Sergey Voronkov.
Before you is the tournament book of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. The event that has been won in sensational fashion by the young Dutch grandmaster Jorden van Foreest.
Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures tells the story of the reigning World Chess Champion. Magnus Carlsen, born in 1990 in Oslo, Norway, became a Grandmaster by 13. Carlsen was crowned World Champion in 2013, when he defeated Anand and has successfully defended his title three times. He will again play for the title in November in Dubai.
Merijn van Delft, Peter Boel - Chess Buccaneer : The Life and Games of Manuel Bosboom. There aren’t many chess players who can say they’ve both beaten Garry Kasparov in an official blitz game and crushed Peter Leko in a classical game in 26 moves. And who regularly win blitz tournaments high on marihuana. But then Manuel Bosboom is not an ordinary chess...
Izmailov, Marin - From Chess Champion of Russia to Enemy of the People : The Truth About my Father.
Izmailov, Marin - From Chess Champion of Russia to Enemy of the People : The Truth About my Father.
Ian Nepomniachtchi, challenger to Magnus Carlsen’s World Championship title in 2021, is an outstanding chess talent. “Nepo” as he is universally known is a fascinating player and this book assesses his career and analyses his original and creative style in great depth with numerous deeply annotated games.
Okhotnic - It is Never Too Late to Become a Grandmaster. Livre en anglais sur les GMI au jeu d'échecs. “Chess is not for the faint of heart,” Steinitz once said. I agree 100%! Chess players do not need pumped up muscles, they need a stable neuropsychic organization. How else can you resist the constant pressure that every nerve cell of the player...
Colovic - The Sinquefield Chess Generation – Young Guns at Work! Livre en anglais sur les jeunes GMI américains. “To write proper “characteristics”, I had to go over hundreds of games of each player. I wanted to learn what they liked and disliked, how they reacted in different situations, what was their preferred way of playing, how they handled...
Neiman - The Magnus method. Livre en anglais sur le jeu du GMI, Carlsen.What is it that makes Magnus Carlsen the strongest chess player in the world? Why do Carlsen’s opponents, the best players around, fail to see his moves coming? Moves that, when you replay his games, look natural and self-evident?