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In this comprehensive workbook, IM Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, tactical and positional middlegames, and endgames.
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Truly a modern classic. Step-by-step course to create marked improvement in your game. Revised 4th edition completely rewritten, featuring all new examples. Takes Silman's concept of imbalances to a whole new level. For players rated 1400 to 2100.
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With Weapons of Chess, National Master and highly acclaimed teacher Bruce Pandolfini brings us the most accessible and easy-to-use chess strategy book ever.
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Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the world's top chess players!
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"The Amateur's Mind is eminently readable and instruction-rich. Jeremy Silman never disappoints those who seriously wish to improve their game." - Joel Benjamin, International Grandmaster, 1987 U.S. Champion
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John Watson has again produced a classic that will be a strong tool of learning in any player's armory. Watson has an excellent writing style that makes his book essential reading, this is a book you will not readily put down!
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Endorsed by world champion Gary Kasparov as revealing "the once-secret Russian method of chess training," this new edition has material on the 2006 Absolute World Championship match between Kramnick and Topalov.
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Avni, a highly experienced and respected chess writer, provides a detailed understanding of the many ways of surprising the opponent.
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Being able to solve puzzles and combinations is one of the major components of a successful chess player. But how can one improve on such an important skill? How can one acquire combinational vision?
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Modern grandmasters plan with great purpose but also flexibly, ready to adjust or even change direction completely when the situation demands it. Grivas provides 75 superb practical examples where it is important to make the right plan.
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This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's course is devoted to questions of strategy, and is aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding.
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Lars Bo Hansen provides a thought-provoking and convincing treatise on how players can maximize the practical problems for their opponents while emphasizing the strengths of their own position.
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An essential guide to attacking chess, this book helps you focus on planning and strategy as well as introduces some easy-to-learn techniques.
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Chess is an easy game to learn, but a difficult one to master.
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In this unique book, International Master Jacob Aagaard selects many original examples of positional chess, the creme de la crème of those that he uses for training and study. Aagaard also delves deeply into the ideas of positional evaluation and analysis.
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Are you realizing your chess potential? Are you performing to the best of your capabilities? Find out in this book!
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Gambit Busters! Take it, keep it, and win! Practical advice on how to win against gambits and ultra-aggressive opening play.
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In this entertaining test-yourself book, suitable for young players and novices of all ages, John Walker shows how to master each of the pieces.
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It is now seventy years since Nimzowitsch wrote his monumental work My System.
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"This book has everything you will ever need to know about the basic building blocks of chess strategy, tactics, and psychology." - Tal Shaked, International Grandmaster
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A challenging repertoire versus five king's fianchetto defences. This is an unusually deeply researched and creative repertoire book. Grivas reveals many 'secret' ideas and gives abundant strategic guidance on how to handle the middlegame positions that result.
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