The 1962 Candidates’ Tournament in Curaçao was one of the fiercest chess battles of all time. At the height of the Cold War, eight players contested the right to challenge World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The format of the tournament was a gruelling quadruple round-robin. Twenty-eight games were to be played on the tropical island, in a contest that...
The Immortal Games of Capablanca was – and continues to be – one of Reinfeld’s most popular books. A detailed biography of the third world chess champion introduces the 113 games. They are presented chronologically, with clear and instructive annotations.
Acclaimed author Vassilios Kotronias has assembled a splendid collection of Petrosian’s games, exemplifying the artist at work. The Greek grandmaster presents 36 games – all deeply annotated – in which he puts the Tiger’s signature sacrifice under the analytical microscope. And each game has an exceptional introduction putting it into historical perspective.
Power Fritz 18 Version Téléchargeable, la nouvelle version qui succède Fritz 18 et qui inclus Powerbook 2022. Logiciel de programme de jeu d'échecs multilingue.
The definitive biography of America's greatest chess player, covering the year 1869. The author has compiled all the available American (and other) chess sources for this year
My aim with the book was to provide you with a lot of insights into this remarkable variation, The Ark, and to entertain the reader with spectacular, resourceful lines to illustrate the ideas.
We must be trained not only in concrete opening moves, but on the middlegame, the endgame and the tactical part of the opening in question. And this is exactly what this book offers: a complete structural think-tank on the non-open form of the Sicilian Defense.
The Staunton Gambit is a very rewarding opening. White’s piece development follows the classical principles of gambit play. White is ahead in development and obtains a fine initiative.
ChessBase Magazine 209 (Septembre 2022). ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyze their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in...
German grandmaster Karsten Müller has selected what he considers to be Fischer's 60 most instructive games and checked them with various newer engines. Although he noticed numerous errors in the old analyses, Bobby's games still shine in their former glory or even brighter. Since even top programs rarely find errors, every reader can learn more than ever...
Chess greats such as Anand, Shirov and Ivanchuk (and probably any other top player you can think of), authors and commentators such as Jeremy Silman, Jennifer Shahade, and Tania Sachdev nominated memorable games. This anthology presents the 45 most exciting of these most exciting games.
In Opening Repertoire: Richter-Veresov Attack, Lakdawala guides the reader through the complexities and carves out a repertoire for White. He examines all aspects of this highly complex opening and provides the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable lessons on how to play the opening and contains...
This is a thoroughly modern opening that has only achieved prominence in the last decade or so. It is named after the Georgian chess visionary Baadur Jobava, a highly imaginative and creative grandmaster. The Jobava System is based around the opening moves 1 d4 d5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bf4. For many years this was considered to be a quiet and unassuming backwater...
This book features 25 of Viktor Korchnoi’s best games from the latter stages of his glorious career. The latest game is from 2011, when Korchnoi was still potent enough to defeat Fabiano Caruana. The annotations are mainly in Korchnoi’s own words, with insightful additions from other top players and the author. Between the annotated games are numerous...
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.
The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer – Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human...
The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer – Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human...
Vous connaissez tous cet objet iconique, l’avez très certainement déjà manipulé. Le Rubik’s Cube a suscité l’engouement de plus d’un milliard de personnes depuis 1974. Mais d’où vient-il ? Et comment expliquer un tel succès ? Son créateur, adepte des puzzles et des casse-têtes en tous genres, retrace la folle aventure de son invention.
The year 2022 marks the 125th anniversary of one of the most influential chess publications in American history, The American Chess Magazine. It was short-lived, being established in June 1897 and folding up by the end of 1899. Nevertheless, it made an impact. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote that “it credits upon its compilers,” while at the time the...
American Chess Magazine n° 28 (août 2022). Revue spécialisée en anglais sur le jeu d'échecs. Bruce Pandolfini – America’s Chess Teacher. During a 50-year chess teaching career, from the Fischer–Spassky match to Beth Harmon in Queen's Gambit, Pandolfini has dedicated his life to inviting the general public into the mysterious world of chess!
In this book, International Grandmaster and senior FIDE trainer Thomas Luther offers something for all chess fans at amateur level. The ambitious tournament player can use it to improve his playing strength. However, not all chess fans have enough time for an extensive study of their game in general and tactics in particular.
New In Chess Magazine 2022/5 : Nepo is Challenger Again ! Magazine en anglais sur l'actualité du monde du jeu d'échecs.
Quelle est la quête symbolisée par le jeu d’échecs? Quels liens pouvons-nous établir entre Beth Harmon de la récente série télévisée The Queen’s Gambit et des personnages littéraires comme Loujine ou Monsieur B., de Nabokov ou Stefan Zweig?
Revue spécialisée sur l'univers du jeu d'échecs. Route 64 n°5 (juin-septembre 2022) vous parle encore des échecs hors des cases ! Une revue pour les joueurs et les curieux du jeu d’échecs et bien plus encore…
Tactic Workbook : Informant’s Collection of Instructive Tactics and Studies. Contains : 500 carefully selected puzzles, 5 levels of difficulty, 42 instructive prizewinning studies and detailed solutions. Study, practice and improve with our selection of tactical jewels !
Each chapter focuses on a concrete tactical theme. Those will allow you to set traps, and play tricks, but will also develop your general understanding of opening play with concepts as development and the importance of the center.
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.
Informateur des échecs n°152 : Equinox en version CD.
In Opening Repertoire: The Slav, highly experienced chess author and coach Cyrus Lakdawala guides the reader through the complexities of the Slav and carves out a repertoire for Black. He examines all aspects of this highly complex opening and provides the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable...
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...
A Matter of Endgame Technique offers the second-best happiness – the misfortune of others – as well as deep explanation of the underlying patterns of how and why we misplay winning endgames. At just under 900 pages, this hardcover book is actually six books in one, explaining the technical and practical areas of chess endgames plainly, simply and deeply....
In the second part of the series, I am sharing my knowledge about the Slav Defense. I am confident that the book contains many new and interesting ideas and I have tried to provide you with the best practical options. Objectively speaking Black looks good in many lines but in practice things may look different. While I cannot promise you a big advantage...
This sentiment can be felt throughout this book, and together with great material, it gives the reader that little extra something, that can’t be described by words, but only felt. Taking advantage of the doubled pawns has always been my forte. Sometimes it feels like I based my chess career on it almost entirely! And I can’t emphasize enough the...
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,...
Jeroen Bosch provides you with all the tools you need to dominate the opening phase of the game: how to use move order and how to use tactics. He explains when to play a main line, when to come up with an opening surprise, or when to risk a gambit. And much, much more.
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’.
ChessBase Magazine 208 (Juillet-Aout 2022). ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyze their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers...
This book offers a full repertoire based on the Taimanov move order 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6! 5.Nc3 Qc7. It is especially effective against the English Attack and early kingside pawn storms. However, the fianchetto 6.g3 and the Classical system with 6.Be3 a6 7.Be2 pose certain problems. I propose to meet them with the Scheveningen set-up...
American Chess Magazine n° 27 (juin 2022). Revue spécialisée en anglais sur le jeu d'échecs. Ukrainian grandmaster living in America, Illia Nyzhnyk, triumphs with a remarkable perfect score in the nine-round Colonial Open in Virginia! All nine games are here annotated by the winner.
Solving puzzles brings not only feelings of joy, but is a must for any player who wants to improve their rating and show better results. As for myself, I have solved all the puzzles in Csaba’s books since the beginning and hopefully that tradition will continue for many more years! I wish you every success in solving the most interesting and beautiful...
King's Kalashnikov Sicilian, A Dynamic Black Repertoire for Club Players, par Daniel King. Version Hard Cover.
Dans une déclaration écrite de 2011, le parlement européen déclare le jeu d'échecs « comme un sport accessible aux enfants de toutes les catégories sociales et que ce jeu pourrait contribuer à la cohésion sociale et à la réalisation d'objectifs de politique générale.
Livre spécialisé sur l'art du Sacrifice au jeu d'échec, par David LeMoir.
This book not only covers the most-played opening in online chess, but a complementary opening system as well.
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.
The Rossolimo is the Anti-Sicilian that is by far the most popular with club players – and with elite grandmasters such as Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, and Alireza Firouzja.
Jeu de stratégie par excellence et discipline à la popularité incontestée, les échecs sont indémodables et permettent de mettre en œuvre vos capacités de réflexion et d’analyse. Véritable phénomène, la série Le Jeu de la dame a amplifié l’engouement pour les échecs.