Board games: Chess Books
New in Chess Trompowsky Attack & London System: New Ideas,
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£22.91
Chessable The Checkmate Patterns Manual: The Killer Moves
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£29.71
New in Chess The Rossolimo for Club Players: New Ideas and
Book SynopsisThe 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. If you play 3.Bb5 in the Sicilian, you do not need to keep up-to-date with the dazzling theoretical developments in all kinds of Open Sicilians. You can sidestep theory, play your own creative game and put your opponent in trouble! You will love the harmonious, easy development and reach unbalanced positions with winning opportunities and surprisingly dynamic play.
£22.91
Chessable The Dragon Sicilian: A Take-No-Prisoners
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£22.91
New in Chess The Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The
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£20.66
New in Chess The Hidden Laws of Chess: Mastering Pawn
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£999.99
New in Chess Beating The Hedgehog System: Using a Space
Book SynopsisThis opening manual, which could double as a positional middlegame manual, explains how White can beat the Hedgehog System, a personal favourite of many club players. White will learn to use the space advantage in this chess opening with maximum results. Included are fifteen model games and thirty strategy and tactics exercises. Co-author Laszlo Hazai, who coached the Polgar Sisters in Hungary, is a famous chess opening expert.
£20.66
New in Chess From Ukraine with Love for Chess
Book SynopsisThe 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 Ukrainian players, published by New In Chess. All games were nominated and annotated by the players themselves. The proceeds of this book will support Ukrainian charities. The book also covers the three legendary Olympic victories by Ukraine, in 2004 and 2010 for the mens team and 2006 for the womens team. Oleg Romanishin remembers his training match against Mikhail Tal. And Jan Timman has a look at his favourite Ukrainian study composers. With contributions by Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, Anton Korobov, Vladimir Tukmakov, Pavel Eljanov, Andrei Volokitin, and many, many others.
£16.16
New in Chess Speed Demon: The Fascinating Games and Tragic
Book SynopsisChess Grandmaster Alexey Vyzhmanavin died in 2000 at forty, in circumstances that remain unclear. He was a gifted chess player, self-taught, who excelled in rapid and blitz chess, frequently outplaying World Champions like Vladimir Kramnik. He was the ultimate Speed Demon, living for chess but battling depression and alcoholism. This book pays tribute to this forgotten chess genius with fascinating chess games and beautiful stories.
£20.66
New in Chess Endgame Virtuoso Magnus Carlsen Volume 2: The
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£20.66
New in Chess The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook:
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£19.46
New in Chess Kings, Queens and Rookies: Celebrating 85 Years
Book SynopsisIn 2023, the Tata Steel Chess tournament celebrates its 85th edition. Hundreds of amateur chess players come to Wijk aan Zee and play in the same hall as the elite grandmasters. This beautiful hardcover full-colour book tells the stories of the winners, the amateurs and their favourite restaurants. Dozens of pictures highlight how photogenic the event is. And, of course, the book includes magnificent chess games annotated by the winners. Wijk aan Zee and the Tata Chess Tournament bring out the best in chess.
£20.66
New in Chess Rock Solid Chess: Tiviakov's Unbeatable
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£22.46
New in Chess The Chess Pub Quiz Puzzle Book: Who is MC Hammer
Book SynopsisChess players play chess, but almost all of them love other games, puzzles and quizzes. This full-color paperback offers a collection of hundreds of chess trivia and chess-related trivia. Highly entertaining questions, created by a chess grandmaster and former Dutch Champion, Dimitri Reinderman. This book can be used by readers who love solving puzzles on their own, but also for multiple thematic pub quizzes at their local chess café or chess club.
£15.26
New in Chess Chessboard Combat: The Give and Take of Chess
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£21.21
Independently Published Chess For Beginners: Discover how to become a
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£14.76
Independently Published Manual de Aberturas de Xadrez: Volume 1:
Book SynopsisO Manual de Aberturas de Xadrez é um guia rápido de aberturas de xadrez para para melhorar a sua compreensão do jogo nos primeiros lances. O primeiro volume aborda as Aberturas e Defesas que iniciam com 1.e4 e5, tradicionalmente definidas como Aberturas Abertas.
£7.79
Permuted Press Strategic Moves
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£12.99
Anness Publishing Complete Step-by-step Guide to Chess & Bridge
Book SynopsisChess and bridge have been two of the world's most popular games for centuries, and this superb instructional book will tell you everything you need to know about them, from their intriguing histories to how to play and win. Biographies of the most well-known players are included, from famous bridge players such as Terence Reese and Omar Sharif to world-class chess players such as Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.With stepby-step guidance and over 1200 photographs and illustrations, this easy-to-follow book will show players how to play and increase their enjoyment of two of the most tactical and complex games around today.
£999.99
Little, Brown Book Group Endgame
Book SynopsisWhen Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life: he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him. What motivated him from such a young age, and what was the source of his remarkable intellect? How could a man so ambivalent about money and fame be so driven to succeed? What drew this man of Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how was it that a mind so famously disciplined could unravel so completely? From his meteoric rise, to an utterly dominant prime, to his eventual descent into madness, the book draws upon hundreds of newly discovered documents and recordings, and numerous firsthand interviews conducted with those who knew Fischer best, to paint, for the very first time, a complete picture of one of the most enigmatic icons. This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question: 'Who was Bobby Fischer?'Trade ReviewFascinating. * The Times *A rapt, intimate book... Fascinating. * New York Times *Frank Brady's superlative Endgame is a biography more than worthy of its charismatic subject ...the second half of his life is one of the saddest stories, even as this is one the year's best biographies. * Washington Post *A superb storyteller. * Literary Review *(An) engaging account. * Sunday Telegraph *Well-researched and enjoyable. * Jewish Chronicle *The Mozart of the chessboard is inseparable from the monster of paranoid egotism in this fascinating biography. Brady, founding publisher of Chess Life magazine and a friend of Fischer, gives a richly detailed account of the impoverished Brooklyn wunderkind's sensational opening--he was history's first 15-year-old grandmaster--and the 1972 match with Boris Spassky, in which Fischer captivated the world with his brilliant play and towering tantrums. Brady's chronicle of Fischer's graceless endgame is just as engrossing, as the chess superstar sinks into poverty after rejecting million-dollar matches; flirts with cults; and becomes, though himself Jewish, a raving anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.... Brady gives us a vivid, tragic narrative of a life that became a chess game. * Publishing News (Starred review) *Rich in detail and insight...I consider this book essential reading in the effort to understandBobby Fischer and his place in our world. -- David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us.The definitive portrait of the greatest- and most disturbed-chess genius of all time. -- Paul Hoffman, author of The Man Who Loved Only NumbersTells the full and fair story of Fischer's astonishing rise and heartbreaking fall...Brady is the perfect biographer for Bobby Fischer. -- Christopher Chabris, author of The Invisible GorillaA heartbreaking story of failed hopes and torment. * Catholic Herald *Well-researched. * Mail on Sunday *Review. * Oldie *Frank Brady knew Fischer well as a young man and has now written this biography with sympathy and skill. * Sunday Business Post *
£12.34
Quality Chess UK LLP Python Strategy
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at their
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£21.59
Quality Chess UK LLP The King's Gambit
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Beating the Anti-Sicilians
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£999.99
Quality Chess UK LLP Strategic Play
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£17.99
Mongoose Press Wojo's Weapons, Volume 2: Winning with White
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£23.96
Starry Forest Chess
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£999.99
Edition Olms School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play
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£17.99
Thinkers Publishing Thinkers Chess Academy with Grandmaster Thomas
Book SynopsisDo you like chess and want to become a better player without putting in hundreds of hours training? 365 Steps to Tactical Mastery has a practical approach with a focus on Tactics. This book helps to eliminate hours of game study and provides bite-sized lessons and tasks that you can implement each day to improve your chess game over the course of a year. We’ve collected an array of typical positions and situations that are frequently seen on the board so that you can better anticipate common mistakes, as well as teach you how you can exploit your opponent’s mistakes. If you make 5-10 minutes of chess study a daily habit, you will improve your chess game and your “chess brain” by opening your mind to planning and moves you wouldn’t otherwise see on the chess board.
£25.19
House of Loki Moves 3 to 10
Book SynopsisWho will benefit from this book? If you feel you need to improve your openings - this book is for you. Some of the positions may be very simple, others not so much - but these are all positions that have happened and represent a wide range of possibilities. My suggestion is to try and think which moves are best to play but also why others may be mistakes. This introduction opened with a quote from Confucius. The second part of the quote is: “...thinking without learning is dangerous”. This book is not intended to replace learning theory. Every player certainly must learn theory. But the book is helpful for understanding theory and for being able to tackle unexpected conditions - a situation that happens very often in games of chess.
£34.88
Thinkers Publishing The Imparable Logic and Psychology in Chess
Book SynopsisMuch has been written in chess about specific openings, players and tournaments. From experience, those are not easy books to write (because you need to be analytically laser-sharp), but at least you know what you’re signing up for. By contrast, books like the one you currently hold might be laxer on the minutiae, but as a whole can be harder to conceive and transform into finished reality. While not requiring using cloud engines on depth-56 to find a novelty, they are instead (so to speak) “painted with a broader brush”. Two examples of what I mean are Vukovic’s The Art of Attack in Chess and the famous classic, Nimzowitsch’s My System. In each, the author is a professional who brings across nothing more nor less than their philosophy of how the game should be played, and the degree of emotional energy they pour into it manifests in a work that rightly reflects the status of our game, not merely as an academic endeavor but as a cultura
£31.34
House of Loki The Modernized Flank Attack
Book SynopsisYou can hardly find a more unconventional idea than pushing your g-pawn 2 squares down the board. Some may say it belongs to a backroom chess game in a café, some may say it belongs to olden times - back when the King’s Gambit was the main line after 1. e4 e5. But we are seeing more and more occurrences at the top-level. Is it a coincidence ?? It’s safe to say that g2-g4 (or ...g7-g5) is one of the most weakening moves available. As a matter of fact, the objectively worst first-move happens to be 1.g4, accompanied by an evaluation of -1.30 when running Stockfish 15 on low-depth (we did not see the point on letting it run in this position, it will probably get lower, that’s not good advertising). Now, there are quite a few positions where g2-g4 (or ..
£29.74
Thinkers Publishing The Modernized SemiSlav
Book SynopsisThe Semi-Slav Defense transcends its classification as a mere defensive response to 1.d4. It embodies a dynamic and multifaceted system that offers Black not only solidity in defense but also active counterplay and strategic flexibility. Here''s why the Semi-Slav is more than just a defense: Rather than passively defending, the Semi-Slav allows Black to counterattack in the center and on the flanks. Moves like ...e6-e5 and ...c6-c5 often lead to sharp, tactical positions where Black can seize the initiative. By delaying the development of the knight to f6, Black achieves a solid pawn structure with pawns on d5, e6, and c6. This structure provides a firm foundation for Black''s pieces and restricts White''s options for pawn breaks. The Semi-Slav leads to strategically rich positions with multiple pawn breaks and piece maneuvers. Both sides must navigate intricate plans, making it a fertile ground for cre
£28.79
Quality Chess UK LLP Calculation
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£999.99
Quality Chess The Mental Game
Book SynopsisWe all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game.Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an 18-month period in which she worked with Grandmaster Alexander Galkin. A year later, Maltsevskaya became World Junior Champion. Galkin holds nothing back in revealing the highs, lows, jubilations and frustrations that were experienced in their collaboration, all while providing expert insights that will benefit chess players and coaches alike. The book contains a wealth of bonus material, including all eleven annotated games from Maltsevskaya?s World Championship victory.
£21.24
Quality Chess UK LLP Theoretical Rook Endgames
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£21.24
Quality Chess TurboCharge your Tactics 1
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£28.02
Quality Chess UK LLP Understanding Chess Exchanges
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£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.
£30.00
Quality Chess UK LLP Chess Tactics from Scratch: Understanding Chess
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£20.25
Quality Chess UK LLP Mayhem in the Morra
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£17.99
Quality Chess UK LLP From GM to Top Ten: Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 2
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£17.99
Russell Enterprises Recognizing Your Opponent's Resources: Developing
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£21.21
New In Chess The Real Paul Morphy
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£21.21
New In Chess The Sponsor
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£15.26
New In Chess Sunrise in the Bronx
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£15.26
New In Chess 50 Mistakes You Should Know
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£29.53
Thinkers Publishing Forgotten Genius The Life and Games of
Book SynopsisDragoljub 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 to the men from Moscow. Velimirovic was born in 1942 to a prominent family from Valjevo, in the former Yugoslavia. He was introduced to chess at the age of seven by his mother, Jovanka Velimirovic, one of Yugoslavia’s leading female chess players. He died at the age 72, being one of the last players to develop a system or strategy that is so inventive it bears its creator’s name. It is a feat that is unlikely to be repeated in the modern era, when computer-based games and databases so thoroughly dominate competition that it is almost impossible to come up with something new. That does not mean that players wer
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