This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the post-Fischer period in the 1970's and early 1980's. This period was dominated by Anatoly...

*** COMING SOON *** In this sixth book of the series we deal with how to face the ‘Queen’s Gambit Declined’ with a specific focus on the recently-revived ‘Janowski Defence’. There are two ways...

The fourth world champion Alexander Alekhine has gone down in history not only as the winner of numerous tournaments and matches and the creator of hundreds of chess masterpieces. He is...

If you had to choose a single luxury chess item to take to a desert island, then how about this: a superb selection of 400 puzzles to solve? Each author has carefully chosen 100 original positions,...

*** COMING SOON *** The 125 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with over 1,000 chess diagrams. Join the...

*** COMING SOON *** Peter Romanovsky (1892-1964) was the Soviet chess champion in 1923 (outright) and 1927 (jointly with Bogatyrchuk). According to Chessmetrics he was ranked 12th in the world in...

*** COMING SOON *** Skills in chess do not arrive all at once; experienced coaches know well that defensive skills are not among the first to appear in the arsenal of a young...

The Grünfeld Defence is is a combative reply to 1 d4 which has been favoured by many world champions including those two legends of the game, Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. It is an opening in the...

This book is a 2020 CHESS JOURNALISTS AWARD WINNER. 58 chess people have submitted the 184 stories in this book, such as the two below: 1. "I was a tournament director called to a board in a 7th...