Board games: Chess Books
Quality Chess Black and White Magic
£22.94
Quality Chess UK LLP Understanding Chess Exchanges
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£21.24
Quality Chess TurboCharge Your Tactics 1
Book SynopsisTurbo-Charge Your Tactics 1 is essentially a chess puzzle book, but not a typical one. It's a multi-year effort by GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and his world-renowned trainer IM Vladimir Grabinsky to introduce you to the world of unnatural tactical moves. Presenting examples of extreme beauty, no matter where they come from be it online bullet or world-class grandmaster praxis this book will cure your selective blindness by destroying the false notion of chess principles being a set of rules, instead of helpful guidelines. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the most effective path to improvement.
£21.24
Quality Chess Playing the NimzoIndian
Book SynopsisThe Nimzo-Indian Defence is an ideal weapon for Black at all levels. It has been popular for over a century due to its positional soundness, yet has experienced a revolution in recent years, with modern analysis increasingly highlighting its dynamic potential.Playing the Nimzo-Indian offers a complete repertoire for Black after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4, with an active, counterattacking emphasis on the choice of lines. The forthcoming companion volume, Beating the Queen's Gambit Indian Style!, will complete the coverage of 1.d4 Nf6 from Black's perspective by covering White's alternatives on moves 2 and 3, with 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 the biggest topic.With bulletproof analysis, more novelties than we could keep track of, and deep explanations of plans and concepts, Playing the Nimzo-Indian offers everything you need to learn and play the Nimzo-Indian successfully.
£21.24
Quality Chess Converting an Extra Pawn in Chess
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£25.08
Quality Chess UK LLP Conceptual Rook Endgames Workbook
Book SynopsisRook endgames are the most frequently occurring endgames, as well as one of the most exciting and challenging areas of chess. In 2023, Quality Chess published Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam Shankland and its sister volume Conceptual Rook Endgames by GM Jacob Aagaard a dazzling dyad of domination in endgame literature. This book tops off the triumphant trio by presenting 208 instructive exercises of varying difficulty, testing and reinforcing the reader's skill and understanding. Conceptual Rook Endgames Workbook will skyrocket your endgame abilities, whether used as a standalone workbook or as the last step in the Aagaard-Shankland Rook Endgames trilogy.
£17.99
Quality Chess Mastering Chess Exchanges
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£21.24
Continental Sales Mikhail Tals Best Games 1 2nd Edition
£24.30
Quality Chess UK LLP Soviet Chess Primer
£17.99
Quality Chess Chess Evolution 1
£22.94
Quality Chess UK LLP Chess Evolution 1
£25.49
Quality Chess UK LLP Chess Evolution 2
£25.49
Quality Chess UK LLP My System
£21.24
Continental Sales Benoni Mayhem
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£20.85
Continental Sales Strategic Play with 1 E4
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£24.67
Continental Sales Exploiting a Space Advantage
£22.42
Chess Elevation My Great Predecessors 5
£36.30
Third Millennium Press Ltd. Play Attacking Chess From Move One
Book SynopsisLearn to play attacking chess from move one by studying the Fried Liver Attack, the Fishing Pole, the Bishop Sacrifice, the Halosar Trap, and other attacks used by the masters of the past.This book is a compilation of some of the best chess opening traps and attacks.
£26.99
Third Millennium Press Ltd. Chess Strategy
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£22.50
Siles Press,U.S. Silman's Chess Odyssey: Cracked Grandmaster
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£33.29
Quality Chess UK LLP Champions of the New Millenium
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Attacking the Spanish
Book SynopsisThe Spanish opening, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, is so respected that many Black players immediately start defending. Brunello shows that Black can engage in a tense fight for the win right from the start. The three gambits considered in this book have all been tested by top-10 players, with good results, within the last year.The Marshall AttackThe Marshall Attack,1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5, is sound and aggressive, so it is no surprise that it is favoured by the world's best. The theory is so complex that an expert guide is required, and Brunello is well suited to the task, having played the Marshall for most of his chess career.The SchliemannThe Schliemann 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5, with its reversed King's Gambit flair, has always been popular with club players, but grandmasters knew it was unsound. Then Teimour Radjabov started playing it successfully against the elite and sparked a revival.The Gajewski variationThe Gajewski variation, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 d5, is brand new. The position after White's tenth move had been reached a thousand times with 10c5 universally played, when in the summer of 2007 the Polish grandmaster Gajewski revealed that Black has a fascinating gambit at his disposal.
£17.09
Quality Chess UK LLP The Secret Life of Bad Bishops
Book SynopsisThe Bad Bishop is a notorious villain in chess, but often a perfectly respectable bishop is falsely accused. The Secret Life of Bad Bishops takes an in-depth look at the bishop ? not just dealing with good and bad bishops but also more nuanced cases where a ?double-edged bishop? could turn out to be a game-winning hero or a fatal liability. All phases of chess are covered, from opening to middlegame to endgame. The final two chapters test the reader?s newly enhanced understanding with carefully chosen exercises and instructive solutions.
£14.39
Quality Chess UK LLP Carlsen's Assault on the Throne
Book SynopsisIn 2013 chess returned to world headlines. The energetic Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen was front page news and his fans were not disappointed: the World Number 1 won the World Championship.Carlsen's Assault on the Throne gives an inside view of Carlsen's dramatic journey: from one of eight challengers in the London Candidates tournament, with the near disaster in the final rounds, ending with triumph in Chennai.With behind-the-scenes stories and top-level analysis of the games Kotronias & Logothetis have written the ultimate book on how Carlsen became the 16th undisputed World Champion.
£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP Reggio Emilia 2007/2008
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates fifty years of the famous Italian chess tournament. All the games are analyzed, many of them by the players themselves: those sharing their wisdom include award-winning author Mihail Marin, rising star Ni Hua, tournament winner Zoltan Almasi and the legendary Viktor Korchnoi. In addition, photographs and entertaining stories take the reader behind the scenes at a top-class chess tournament.
£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Genius in the Background
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP 1.e4 vs The Sicilian I
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP The Cutting Edge: The Open Sicilian 1
Book SynopsisThis book is the first in a new series from Quality Chess examining the cutting edge of opening theory. The idea is to identify the most important theoretical battlegrounds of the moment and then analyse as deeply as possible in search of improvements. Thus the reader will be ahead of the current state-of-the-art, rather than lagging behind trying to memorize old games.In The Cutting Edge1 The Open Sicilian 1 the variations covered are:Sveshnikov 13.Nxb5 piece sac: 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.c3 Bg7 13.Nxb5 axb5 14.Bxb5Sveshnikov 18.h4 pawn sac: 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 00 12.Nc2 Bg5 13.a4 bxa4 14.Rxa4 a5 15.Bc4 Rb8 16.b3 Kh8 17.Nce3 g6 18.h4!Sveshnikov: 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c4Rauzer, doubled f-pawn variation: 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.000 Bd7 9.f4 b5 10.Bxf6 gxf6Chinese Dragon: 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.000 Rb8Dragon, 12Re8 system: 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.000 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.Kb1 Re8Dragon, Topalov variation: 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.000 Rc8 11.Bb3 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5Taimanov, English Attack main line: 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nf6 8.f3 Bb4 9.000Taimanov, English Attack with 8 Be7: 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nf6 8.000 Be7 9.f3Taimanov with 5a6: 5.Nc3 a6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 Kan: 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.0-0 Bc5 Kan: 5.Bd3 Bc5The Najdorf is covered in The Cutting Edge: The Open Sicilian 2.
£17.09
Quality Chess UK LLP The Cutting Edge 2 - Sicilian Najdorf 6.Be3
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£16.19
Quality Chess UK LLP Tactimania: Find the Winning Combination
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£16.19
Mandrake of Oxford Rosicrucian Chess of the Golden Dawn
Book SynopsisThis is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess. Enochian Chess in part comes from the Elizabethan system of Enochian Magic originated by the Court Astrologer, Dr John Dee. It was developed into its current form in Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. This book includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina Mathers''s Alpha et Omega Enochian Chess papers together with a brief history of the game, notes on play and strategy, and instructions for Active divinatory methods utilised by this system. Notes and illustrations by Ithell Colquhoun (some previously unpublished) help explain this advanced system of magick in its own right. Originally it was only taught to Golden Dawn initiates who had risen to the rank of Zelator Adeptus Minor, and required a comprehensive knowledge of Tarot, Geomancy, Kabbalah, various magical formulae, the symbolism of the Candidate, the Ceremony of the Neophyte Grade, the art of Invocation and Banishing, Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, formation of Telesmatic Images, Sigils, and the Enochian Tablets. Enochian Chess subsumes other Passive systems of divination such as Tarot and astrology, and has powerful prophetic properties.
£25.50
Mandrake of Oxford Khemetic Chess / Hypermodern Magick
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£32.00
Quality Chess UK LLP Kotronias on the Kings Indian: Volume III: Mar
Book SynopsisThe King?s Indian Defense is one of Black?s most dynamic and aggressive responses to 1.d4. A favourite weapon of both Fischer and Kasparov, it remains a popular choice at all levels of play.In this, the third volume of the Kotronias on the King?s Indian series, grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias presents the second part of his world-class repertoire against the famous Mar del Plata variation, starting from the position after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0?0 6.Be2 e5 7.0?0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7, with the focus on 9.b4, 9.Nd2 and all other sensible alternatives to 9.Ne1. Once again, Kotronias provides a turbo-charged repertoire for Black, with a plethora of novelties and original analysis.As well as providing detailed analysis, the author also shares his considerable knowledge of typical middlegame themes, both positional and tactical. A special selection of test positions is provided, enabling the reader to sharpen his tactical skills and increase his middlegame understanding.
£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Kotronias on the King’s Indian Volume II: Mar Del
Book SynopsisThe King?s Indian Defense is one of Black?s most dynamic and aggressive responses to 1.d4. A favourite weapon of both Fischer and Kasparov, it remains a popular choice at all levels of play.In this, the second volume of the Kotronias on the King?s Indian series, grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias turns his attention to the main line of the famous Mar del Plata variation, which arises after the opening moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0?0 6.Be2 e5 7.0?0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1. This leads to some of the most complicated and theoretically challenging positions in the King?s Indian, but Kotronias provides a world-class repertoire for Black, including a wealth of original ideas and analysis.As well as providing detailed analysis, the author also shares his considerable knowledge of typical middlegame themes, both positional and tactical. A special selection of test positions is provided, enabling the reader to sharpen his tactical skills and increase his middlegame understanding.
£17.99
Edition Olms Win in the Opening: Opening Mistakes & How to
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£15.29
Edition Olms Learn Chess in 40 Hours!: A Self Tutor for
Book SynopsisTo achieve success in chess, a little talent is required, but it is even more important to have a thorough grounding in the different aspects of the game. This volume, which has sold well over a hundred thousand copies in its German edition, proceeds from the simple to the difficult, from checkmating with a couple of pieces to strategic planning. It has been used in numerous adult education classes, and is also highly suitable for private study. Rudolf Teschner is an Honorary FIDE International Grandmaster and a popular chess author, who for 38 years was editor of the magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung.
£15.29
Edition Olms Secret Notes
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£17.99
Edition Olms Leningrad System: A Complete Weapon Against 1 d4
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£17.99
Edition Olms Spanish Exchange Variation: A Fischer Favourite
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£15.29
Edition Olms French Defence Advance Variation: Volume 1 -- The
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£15.29
Edition Olms French Defence Advance Variation: Volume 2 --
Book SynopsisVolume 2 (Master Course) contains the following main chapters: 61 theoretically important games for independent analysis; Encyclopaedia of variations; Summary of the 3.e5 system; Games for further study; Latest theoretical developments. This two-volume work is intended for a broad range of chess enthusiasts. The author guarantees that anyone making a thorough study of the available material can expect an improvement in his playing strength in this system of approximate 200 Elo points.
£15.29
Edition Olms 222 Opening Traps: After 1.e4
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Edition Olms 222 Opening Traps: After 1.d4
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£15.29
Edition Olms Open Files
Book SynopsisOver a quarter of a century ago, the first edition of this book (published in East Germany in 1981) was a huge best seller. Yet unfortunately it was never reprinted and it soon became a scarce collector''s item. The reason: one of its co-authors, the chess trainer Gerhard Schmidt, left for the West. He thus became persona non grata in East Germany and the book was banned there. Despite the book''s excellent qualities, which were acclaimed in chess circles, from then on its success could only be an underground one. However, the subject of the book is timeless and transcends frontiers, and so at last we have a new edition, fully revised by the original authors themselves to include modern games by world-class players such as Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Judit Pólgar. The book explains, clearly, systematically and comprehensively, the strategy and tactics associated with the open file: how files are opened, blocked, occupied and exploited as roads along which to invade the enemy position. A brief introduction lays the theoretical foundations and is followed by carefully selected and organised material in the form of illustrative games, in all of which the open file is the dominant or deciding factor. In each game there is a pause at a key position where a clear verbal assessment is given; these assessments alone are of huge instructional value, since they do nothing less than teach the reader how strong chessplayers think: what to look for, how to assess, how to plan. The book benefits not only from Gerhard Schmidt''s experience as a trainer but also from the huge knowledge and skill gained by Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann during his long and successful career in top-class chess, which at one point brought him close to the world title, and made him indisputably one of Germany''s greatest ever chessplayers.
£17.99
Edition Olms Fighting Chess with Hikaru Nakamura
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New in Chess Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key
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£18.89
New In Chess Chess Board Options: A Memoir of Players, Games
Book SynopsisLarry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster. Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty. Yet his victories in the chess arena are considerable. Over a career span of nearly sixty years Kaufman won the state championships of Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, D.C. and Pennsylvania. He was an American Open Champion and won the U.S. Senior Championship as well as the World Senior Championship. Never a great chess player himself (his words), he met or played chess greats such as Bobby Fischer, Bent Larsen, Walter Browne, Boris Spassky, Viktor Kortchnoi and many others. He worked as a second to legendary grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili, and coached three talented youngsters to become International Master, one of them his son Raymond. This engrossing memoir is rife with stories and anecdotes about dozens of famous and not-so-famous chess players. In one of the most remarkable chapters Larry Kaufman reveals that the American woman chess player that inspired Walter Tevis to create the Beth Harmon character of Netflixs The Queens Gambit fame, is his former girlfriend. You will learn about neural networks, material values and how being a chess master helps when trading options. And find lots of memorable but little-known annotated games.
£20.66
New In Chess Attacking Strategies For Club Players: How to
Book SynopsisAttacking your opponents king is not just a shortcut to victory, its also one of the most enjoyable and gratifying experiences in chess. If you want to win more games you should become a better attacker. Studying typical attacking motifs and ideas easily brings dividends while you are having a good time. Michael Prusikin presents the prerequisites and the rules for a King attack in a lucid and attractive manner. In 15 thematic chapters he teaches you how to assess the nature of the position, identify the appropriate offensive patterns, find the preliminary moves and conduct your attack in a clear and effective way. Battering rams, obstructive sacrifices, pawn storms, striking at the castled position, sacrificing a knight on f5, Prusikin demonstrates the most important patterns of attack with lots of clear and well-chosen examples. Next, Prusikin tests your newly acquired insights and your attacking intuition with exercises covering all the themes and motifs. You will find that studying ATTACKING STRATEGIES FOR CLUB PLAYERS is both entertaining and rewarding.
£18.86
