“I recognize style. But you see, when I played a game with Bobby, there was no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.” - Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf IM Donaldson examines Fischer’s life and career from his days...

Jan Timman is one of the greatest chess players never to win the world title. For many years ‘the Best of the West’ belonged to the chess elite, collecting some splendid super tournament victories. Three times Timman was a Candidate for the...

International Master Tibor Karolyi and FIDE Master Tigran Gyozalyan have written a comprehensive two-volume treatise on the life and games of Tigran Petrosian, who was world champion from 1963-1969. The present Volume I takes the reader on a journey from...

A winning streak in chess, says Cyrus Lakdawala, is a lot more than just the sum of its games. In this book he examines what it means when everything clicks, when champions become unstoppable and demolish opponents. What does it mean to be ‘in the...

  In Magnus Wins With White Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 32 of Magnus Carlsen’s most instructive games where he wins with the white pieces. This book is written in “move by move” style, a good training tool containing...

The author presents a collection of 120 instructive positions, each of which with mostly three proposed solutions, followed by the detailed discussion of both the correct and the incorrect solutions in the second part. The selected examples stem from...

At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko,...

Efim Bogoljubov was one of the world’s very strongest players in the 1920s and 1930s. Twice he played Alexander Alekhine for the world championship title (1929 and 1934) and he won the famous Moscow 1925 tournament, ahead of Jose Capablanca,...

The Anand Files offers a detailed insight into the strategies Viswanathan Anand used to win three World Championship matches in a row. It takes the reader behind the scenes to show the inner workings of Team Anand, including pre-game planning and...

Soviet Outcast comprises Levenfish’s annotations to 79 of his finest games, translated from his Russian autobiography, plus extensive bonus material including several games compiled from other sources, mostly with annotations by Levenfish...

Sergey Karjakin has consistently been one of the strongest chess players of the early 21st century. World U12 Chess Champion in 2001. The world’s youngest ever grandmaster at the age of 12 in 2003. World Rapid Chess Champion in 2012. World Chess...

CHESS INFORMANT’S 144th ADVENTURE Jubilee   Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess: Matanovic Jubilee – A Tribute to Chess Legend Rogers - Keres Memorial 1985 (Rogers’ Reminiscences) Harikrishna – FIDE Nations Cup...

Efim Geller (1925-1998) was one of the giants of Soviet chess. Over his lifetime he beat the World Champions more often than he lost, and had healthy plus scores over Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Botvinnik among others. So he deserves the nickname...

CHESS INFORMANT proudly presents the book about the most famous team match in history of our royal game: 2 outstanding teams 20 best chess-players in the World 4 rounds of epic battle 40 thrilling, hard-fought games The match between the...

Planning is of crucial importance in chess and yet this is an area that has not been well discussed or explained to ambitious players who wish to improve. A very well known saying in chess is “Better a bad plan than no plan at all”. Playing...

This book will bring something new to your chess library. In our computer era, focus is usually on openings. Watching recent broadcasts, the new generation would rather choose games of a certain opening and look for an interesting idea or...

This edition was revised by Grandmaster Reuben Fine immediately after his victorious result in the famous tournament at AVRO, the strongest chess tournament in history up until that time. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight...

Yakov Vilner (1899-1931) was one of the leading Soviet chess masters in the 1920s. He won the Ukrainian championship three times (1924, 1925 and 1928), the Odessa championship five times (1918, 1923, 1925, 1926 and 1928) and competed in five USSR...

A major event in the history of the gambit took place in 1990 when the German master and publisher, Volker Drueke, organized an international thematic correspondence tournament.  Spanning from May, 1990 to April, 1993, the field of twelve players,...

The games are given with exceptionally fine notes by Osbun. Roger Chapman of Australia won ahead of Claude Pare (Canada), Max Salm (Australia), Chris Van Dyke (USA), David Eisen (USA), and 12 other top notch postal players from North America and the...

Invitation Chess Tournament of the City of the London Chess Club Edition limited to 700 numbered copies, of which only two hundred copies are for sale in Europe, to be distributed exclusively by us. ISBN: 9789061946304 Year: 1962 Size: 8vo Binding:...

This book entails the life, times, games, and annotations of the Austrian Chess Wizard, Carl Schlechter.

The third Moscow international chess tournament in 1936 had an impressive field of participants, including two former world champions (Jose Raul Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker) and one future world champion (Mikhail Botvinnik). The tournament took place at...

  Publisher: Caissa Editions Author: Tony GIllam Year of Publication: 2005 Pages: 443 Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)   Book Description Finally this complex and great tournament appears just about one hundred years...

  Publisher: Caissa Editions Author: John Owen Year of Publication: 1994 Pages: 205 Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)   Book Description Notes by Maroczy, Charousek, & other contemporary masters with editing and...

John Hilbert, 354 pp. Hardcover (Caissa Editions 1997) William Napier met and defeated the strongest players of his era. Yet his story has remain untold for almost a century. Author and historian John Hilbert has changed all that. In a splendid Caissa...

Milan Vidmar was the instigator of the major chess tournament that became Bled 1931. His idea was well received in both Ljubljana ( his birthplace ) and the nearby health resort of Bled. An organizing committee was set up and at the end of July 1931,...

The fourth world champion Alexander Alekhine went down in history not only as a winner of many tournaments and matches and the creator of hundreds of masterpieces of chess creativity. He is also rightfully considered one of the most prominent analysts of...

This book is a collection of practically all the combinations and instructive tactical operations from the games of the 6 world champions from Boris Spassky to Vishvanatan Anand. The volume II contains 926 chess combinations to solve. Each...

The first Hastings international chess tournament games collection was published in England in 1895, not long after the competition took place. The participants themselves commentated the games. The second games collection appeared a year later, in...

Emanuel Lasker. Vol.1. All games, 1889-1903. Emanuel Lasker. Vol.2. All games, 1904-1940. This book set contains all of Lasker's match and tournament games from this periods with annotations by various Russian masters. The notes are...

Like other titles in the Training Program for Chess Players series, this volume is both an excellent textbook for independent study and a powerful training aid for chess coaches. In the view of many experts, no better...

In the present book, you will be challenged 404 times but unlike most tactics puzzle books you don't know what your objective is: do I need to find a mate, find an opportunity skewer or pin a piece, use a tactical turn to gain a positional advantage and...

Part I: 2000 Chess Exercises. Pin, Double Attack Pin, Double Attack 1-2 rank, 1700-2000 Elo. This collection of chess tasks and combinations is the continuation of the series "theatre company". You have matured, so and tasks have become...

Contains 100 masterpieces of chess composition in each book, a distinctive feature of which is a beautiful, bright, but not very difficult decision. Therefore, all works, among other things, excellent educational examples. They are recommended to be...

This book is a collection of practically all the combinations and instructive tactical operations from the games of the 9 world champions from Wilhelm Steinitz to Tigran Petrosian. The volume I contains 1455 chess combinations by 9 World Champions...

This manual, written by an experienced trainer, the international grandmaster of the ICCF, contains more than 600 tasks, which are classified in detail by combination of motives. A thoughtful sequence of tasks helps the development of combination vision...

This book is devoted to the games of a great chess player who has done much to set the agenda for the development of modern chess - Bulgarian Grandmaster, FIDE 2005 World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. After becoming Under 14 Would Chess Champion in...

Alexander Mazia is an international master and coach of the highest rank. Since 1992 he has headed the Pioneers Palace chess school on the Vorobiov Hills — a famous Moscow Pioneers Palace, which has produced such well–known players as Yuri...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Boris Spassky in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Mikhail Tal in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to use...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Vishy Anand in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to use...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Garry Kasparov in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Alexander Alekhine in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Vladimir Kramnik in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to...

This book is a collection of the best combinations played by Robert Fischer in chronological order. Each exercise features a number of points - 1 to 4 - given for solving it, depending on the exercises's difficulty. This allows trainers and teachers to...

The duel for the crown of the world's best player has been the absolute highlight of international chess since the beginning of tournament chess. In November the world champion was determined in London in a match over 12 games and a tie-break –...

  CHESS INFORMANT’S 141st ADVENTURE INFINITUM Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess! Navara – The Czech Championship Artemiev – Champion’s Report from Skopje Berkes – European Chess...

In this book I collected 40 games of the World Champions which should depict their usage of the dynamic play in the most accessible manner. You will be able to examine how they treated all the dynamic aspects of chess throughout their careers, and how...

Edward Lasker was an expert and authority on many games, not only chess and checkers but also go, the Oriental game he introduced to the United States. General strategic principles rather than analyses requiring memorizing are stressed throughout the...