Voici le tout premier tome d'une série de Susan Polgar, excellente pour les débutants qui connaissent les règles du jeu, y prennent goût et veulent désormais progresser. Avec ses 500 exercices construits autour du thème de l'échec et mat, cet ouvrage a pour but de vous accompagner dans votre reconnaissance de motifs incontournable dans le jeu d'échecs !
Do you want to do the same chess homework that world-famous grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Robert Hess and Peter Heine Nielsen did in their formative years as chess players? This book will test you with hundreds of positions created by their coach Miron Sher (1952-2020). Just like Fabiano, Robert and Peter, you are not supposed to stop after the first...
Danny Gormally is a Chess Grandmaster stuck in a fugue state. He has forgotten how to analyse - blinded by the brilliance of chess engines, every time he gets stuck he turns on the machine. In this book he attempts to discover his love of analysis and the game of chess by attempting different methods of analysis and calculation. He asks what separates the...
Qu'il y ait longtemps que l'on n'ait plus touché un échiquier ou que l'on joue seulement entre amis et qu'on se demande comment on s'en sortirait si l'on devait s'inscrire à un tournoi, il peut être bon de faire le point. C'est ce à quoi vous invite Jérôme Maufras dans ce livre pertinent, motivant et plein d'humour ! En 64 problèmes aux solutions...
Much biographical colour is supplied on his life and character, with this period including his defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1976. Like in Volume I, original material is provided from interviews with key protagonists and their relatives, while sources in Russian, German, Dutch and Hungarian as well as English are used to paint the most...
Much biographical colour is supplied on his life and character, with this period including his defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1976. Like in Volume I, original material is provided from interviews with key protagonists and their relatives, while sources in Russian, German, Dutch and Hungarian as well as English are used to paint the most...
Verlinsky possessed a sharp attacking style. As Grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin highlights in his foreword, “I think that this great attacking player was way ahead of his time, and in his best years he played spectacular, beautiful, dynamic and modern chess more characteristic of the famous players of the second half of the twentieth century. As you study...
Ukrainian historian and former world champion at composing chess studies Sergei Tkachenko presents a comprehensive biography of this unique player. This book analyzes 130 games and fragments, in which opponents include Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Bronstein, Bogoljubov, Spielmann and other stars. The games are frequently annotated by Verlinsky or his...
Magazine sur l'actualité internationale du monde du jeu d'échecs New In Chess 2024 n°1 : Battle Royal at Tata Steel.
In this second volume, Sergei moves on to discuss piece play and unique chessboard situations. Topics covered include the bishop pair, opposite-coloured bishops, centralization and the almost-ignored question of when and whether to castle.
Cette ouverture est réputée à juste titre comme étant l'une des plus solides défenses contre l'ouverture du pion-roi. Pour autant, cela ne veut pas dire que les Noirs se contentent de rechercher une plate égalité : les lignes dynamiques abondent, qui conduisent à une lutte âpre et passionnante. Encore faut-il se retrouver dans le labyrinthe des...
Pour les débutants, on a aujourd'hui très peu de manuels qui proposent de nombreux exercices qui sont vraiment adaptés à leur niveau. Le but de cet ouvrage est de parer à ce manque et il propose un programme complet d'exercices, pour ceux qui découvrent et commencent à apprendre le jeu d'échecs.
American Chess Magazine n° 37. February 2024. Cover : Jacob Aagaard, highly acclaimed chess coach !
Au rythme où évolue la théorie des ouvertures, attirer rapidement l’adversaire sur son terrain sans prendre des risques inconsidérés est devenu un luxe – et c’est précisément ce que vous offre une sortie précoce du Fou avec l’attaque Trompowsky et le système de Londres.
Books on how to improve your results over the board have been written before but in these changing times when chess has propelled onto the public consciousness, an update is badly needed. Grandmaster Daniel Gormally uses his 25+ years of experience to take the readers through the fires of the tournament cauldron, while illustrating some of his battles...
Books on how to improve your results over the board have been written before but in these changing times when chess has propelled onto the public consciousness, an update is badly needed. Grandmaster Daniel Gormally uses his 25+ years of experience to take the readers through the fires of the tournament cauldron, while illustrating some of his battles...
Unlike almost all other books on the Dragon, the focus is not purely on theoretical development. Instead, the author has combined the most historically important games, the famous players who chose to fight either side (sometimes both sides!) of the opening, and the most unexpected and interesting stories featuring the Dragon.
The idea of the move 1. Nc3 is to confuse the second player, as White plays a supposedly unambitious move to mislead Black. This is why we found the name "Trojan Horse" very appropriate for the move 1. Nc3, just as the gift from Ulysses to the Trojans appeared to be a tricky and poisoned gift. The appropriate term for chess will, therefore, be the Trojan...
Dragoljub Velimirovic was a former Yugoslav – Serbian, chess grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by political intrigues and his outspoken temperament. During the heyday of the USSR as the greatest national chess power, the former Yugoslavia was capable of running the Soviet Union a good second. Dragoljub Velimirovic posed a real threat...
This new volume covers a dozen topical structures including various pawn formations in the flexible Ruy Lopez, Italian and Petroff openings. But also Black's doubled f-pawn in the Rauzer Sicilian, the notorious Maroczy Bind, the mysterious Hedgehog, the versatile Sveshnikov and the paradoxical French Winawer.
In this two-volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spassky’s brilliant career and life story.
Understanding Chess Exchanges shares expert insights into using exchanges as a strategic weapon. Your newfound knowledge will then be tested using exercises taken from elite modern practice. With a particular focus on Magnus Carlsen – the master of exchanges – this book reveals the principles behind a vital part of chess strategy.
This book presents a multi-faceted approach to the Reti – 1.Nf3 d5, followed by c2-c4. The core of the proposed repertoire is the topical system 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 and 2.e3 c5 3.c4 d4 4.b4. Play often transposes to the English Opening with White having sidestepped 1.c4 e5.
This book provides you with an essential component - decision-making in the crucial positions of a real game of chess, played by club players rather than grandmasters. You have to answer the same questions that you face when you stare at the chess board and have to find a move.