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, graded by difficulty and theme into four sections of 25...

Jakov Geller, born in Moscow in 1986, achieved the grandmaster title in 2011. Jakov has been one of Russia’s top modern coaches since 2007 and his pupils have included grandmasters Ivan Bukavshin and Alexandr Predke, international masters Darsen...

Alain Benlolo - trainer of the French Chess Federation - offers a large choice of combinations for the greater part extracted from games played in competitions by leading grand-masters.

This book is the continuation of the successful puzzle-book series, which started with the “Greatest 365 Puzzles” and “Greatest 501 Puzzles” from the practical games of 2012. This was followed by “Tactics, Tactics,...

Who would be silly enough to resign a tournament game they were not losing? As Oops! I Resigned Again! shows, almost anyone – including some of the world’s best players! Learn the stories behind the most embarrassing moment any chessplayer...

This book contains 50 mate in two puzzles for the intermediate-level chess player. As you work through the book, you’ll not only be looking for your best moves to solve the problems, but also to give your opponent their best moves in response.Also,...

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 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...

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...

The Chess GPS 2 invites you to delve into the set of requirements declared when choosing a chess move. A fairly common coaching mistake, according to the authors, is recommending that students concentrate on finding the "best," "strongest" move during...

The first chess world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, became the forefather of positional play more then 100 years ago. He dissolved the romantic notion that one can only taste sweet victory, by engaging in an attack, and searching for a combination with...

The Royal Chess Couple is a combined attempt to introduce the various traits of the most significant piece with the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Following a short historic review of the development and metamorphoses of each piece over time, the...

This book is the continuation of the successful puzzle-book series, which started with the “Greatest 365 Puzzles” and “Greatest 501 Puzzles” from the practical games of 2012. It was followed by "Tactics, Tactics, Tactics!”...

This book is the continuation of the successful puzzle-book series, which started with the “Greatest 365 Puzzles” and “Greatest 501 Puzzles” from 2012. It was followed by „Tactics, Tactics, Tactics!” Volumes 3 and...

The Woodpecker Method is the name given by Axel Smith to a training system developed by his compatriot and co-author Hans Tikkanen. After training with his method in 2010, Tikkanen achieved three GM norms within a seven-week period.     The...

  Students will be confident with their notation after recording their answers for many of the over 140 puzzles and 18 mini-lessons covering Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate,...

This is a collection of opening traps by Grandmaster William Lombardy. The traps are great and cover every opening system. They need to be studied. A chess trap succeeds not because one player is a dumbbell and the other is a clever fox, but rather...

This book is the continuation of the successful puzzle-book series, which started with the “Greatest 365 Puzzles” and “Greatest 501 Puzzles” from 2012. It was followed by „Tactics, Tactics, Tactics!” Volumes 3 and 4 which covered the best practical...

Surprising the opponent is a primary aim of modern opening preparation. You can’t afford to be a stationary target – gone are the days when players worked out an elaborate repertoire from which they never varied. These 125 opening surprises...

International Masters Souleidis and Sebastian started for Thinkers Publishing (TP) a yearly new series of exercise books. They selected for their first volume an exceptional amount of great tactical themes and puzzles. The authors have only one message...

This book is the continuation of the successful puzzle-book series, which started with the “Greatest 365 Puzzles” and “Greatest 501 Puzzles” from 2012. It was followed by „Tactics, Tactics, Tactics!” Volumes 3 and 4...

This book contains 50 advanced chess puzzles for experienced players. There are dozens of each of the following puzzles: Mate in 3, Mate in 4, Mate in 5 and an additional 14 puzzles that will challenge you to find the best move to win material and create...

Azerbaijan will play host to the World Chess Olympiad of 2016. Pearls of Azerbaijan is the official chess book of this 42nd Chess Olympiad. In this book you will find the brightest and most sparkling selection of tactical masterpieces from...

Warning: this book is not just entertainment. The author wants to teach you a lot about chess and improve the quality of your play!   He has selected 50 miniatures from throughout chess history – the earliest are from the 1850s, while the most...

This is a collection of problems and puzzles selected by Charles Dealtry Locock, a British Amateur Chess Champion, which he found to be the most valuable in teaching his students how to attack. These are problems which have a practical application. The...

The new Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures presents a rich collection of short games that will evoke a sense of surprise, sensation and even shock in the mind of the chess playing reader. The prime objective of this Encyclopedia, lie in...

The book consists of 501 practical puzzles from the second part of the Year 2012, selected into 3 different groups: "easy", "medium", and "hard". At the end of the book you can check your tactical skills in a test format and also can enjoy the 10 most...

There is one proven practice exercise that helps you improve chess ratings and stay in shape while having fun - chess puzzles. And what better than having the latest puzzles from the year 2012 by a top GM, and all that in one book!   GM Csaba...

This is a quiz based on very hard puzzles taken from master games, not from composed problems. Because of the difficulty and complexity of the puzzles, you score points just for getting the first move right. You do not have to see all the way to the end...

Chess Quiz is a collection of 15 chess quizzes each with 20 puzzles in them, for a total of 300 in all. The reader grades himself. If he gets 18 of the 20 right he is master strength. If he gets 16 right he is club player strength. If he gets 14 right he...

A modernized collection of 300 traps in the chess openings used today. The dead wood of traps in unused openings has been cut away and replaced try new traps in the latest openings. Each trap complete in itself-an introductory explanation, opening moves,...

Readers of this series can ignore large areas of the ever expanding chess opening theory. They can concentrate on these surprising ideas, because SOS variations deviate very early...

Publisher: New In Chess Author: Jeroen Bosch Year of Publication: 2008 Pages: 143 Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)Book DescriptionReaders of this series can ignore large areas of the...

Publisher: New In Chess Author: Jeroen Bosch Year of Publication: 2008 Pages: 143 Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)Book DescriptionReaders of this series can ignore large areas of the...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Sam Loyd Year of Publication: 2007(2nd) Pages: 392 Notation Type: Notationless (NO)   Book Description Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was the all time greatest inventor and developer of puzzles. He is...

Publisher: New In Chess Author: Jeroen Bosch Year of Publication: 2007 Pages: 143 Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)Book DescriptionReaders of this series can ignore large areas of the...

  Test your chess prowess and sharpen your tactical antenna 500 carefully selected exercises 5 levels of difficulty Practical training tool with detailed solutions Study, practice and improve with our selection of tactical jewels!

Publisher: Cardoza Author: Wilson & Albertson Year of Publication: 2005 Pages: 192 Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)Book DescriptionAn entertaining and instructive collection of carefully selected tactical chess puzzles will pay immediate dividends at the...

Trains and boats and planes are all part of a day in the life of globe-trotting Grandmaster Julian Hodgson, as is his constant surveillance of the chessboard in search of some lethal tactical strike. Now, in Chess Travellers Quiz Book, Hodgson reverses...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Author: Bruce Pandolfini Year of Publication: 1993 Pages: 254 Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)Book DescriptionThe opening is one of the most important parts of the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Author: Bruce Pandolfini Year of Publication: 1989 Pages: 245 Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)Book DescriptionIn the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches...