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1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners
The Tactics Workbook that also Improves Your Endgame Skills
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Willemze || New in Chess
The best place to start your tactics training is in the endgame! Chess is 99% tactics – and if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training tactics. Win a piece or find a mate. That will get you results.
Since most of the pieces have left the board, endgame tactics have the clarity that enables you to grasp all basics concepts quickly and comprehensively. In the endgame, you can focus on what is important without any distractions by a couple of random pawns and pieces.
In ...
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The Ink War
Romanticism versus Modernity in Chess
2023 || Paperback || Willy Hendriks || New in Chess
The rivalry between William Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort, the world's strongest chess players in the late nineteenth century, became so fierce that it was eventually named The Ink War. They fought their battle on the chessboard and in various chess magazines and columns. It was not only about who was the strongest player but also about who had the best ideas on how to play the game.
In 1872, Johannes Zukertort moved from Berlin to London to continue his chess career. Ten years earlier, Wil...
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Ding Liren’s Best Games
2023 || Paperback || Davorin Kuljasevic || Vrije Uitgevers, De
On 30 April 2023, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren sensationally defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in a dramatic battle for the chess crown. Ding Liren not only became the 17th World Chess Champion, but he also won the hearts of chess fans across the globe with his incredible fighting spirit and disarming interviews. At the final press conference, the new champion said the match ‘reflected the deepest of his soul’.
Humble and almost vulnerable in his demeanour, D...
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The Chess Pub Quiz Puzzle Book
Who is MC Hammer and other Chess Trivia
2023 || Paperback || Dimitri Reinderman || New in Chess
The most famous team ever participating in a chess pub quiz was MC Hammer. The team members are pretty decent chess players and happened to know their bit of chess trivia and chess history. Do you know or can you guess their names?
This book offers a collection of hundreds of chess trivia and chess-related trivia. You can use it by yourself, solving puzzles. Or you can use the book for multiple thematic pub quizzes at your local chess café or chess club.
Enjoy. The best game ever.
Grandmaste...
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Improve Your Chess Calculation
The Ramesh Chess Course - Volume 1
2023 || Paperback || Ramesh RB || New in Chess
Calculation is key to winning chess games. Converting your chess knowledge into concrete moves requires calculation and precise visualization.
The bad news: calculation is hard work. You cannot rely on feeling or intuition – you will have to turn on your brainpower. The good news: you can improve your calculation skills by training. Set up a position on a chessboard and try to solve exercises without moving the pieces!
Grandmaster Ramesh RB is the perfect coach to awaken your chess brain an...
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World Champion Chess Strategy Training for Club Players
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Willemze || New In Chess
Chess players can look ahead, formulate a clear plan, and act accordingly. That's why chess is the perfect learning environment for becoming a strategic expert. But how do you train this? It starts with playing many games and analysing them carefully afterwards.
At the same time, you should learn from the best by studying the games of the world's strongest players and gradually build their techniques into your play. This book offers you 100 strategic exercises from the games of the best of th...
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The How To Study Chess on Your Own Workbook Volume 2
2023 || Paperback || Davorin Kuljasevic || New In Chess
This second-volume workbook in Davorin Kuljasevic's How to Study Chess on Your Own series is optimized for chess players with an Elo rating between 1500 and 1800 but is helpful for anyone between 1200 and 2000. The astounding success of his How to Study Chess on Your Own made clear that thousands of chess players want to improve their game and like to work on their training at least partially by themselves.
Kuljasevic has used his coaching experience to identify the typical mistakes of club ...
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The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook
Volume 1: Exercises and Training for Club Players (1800 - 2100)
2023 || Paperback || Davorin Kuljasevic || New in Chess
The astounding success of How To Study Chess on Your Own made clear that there are thousands of chess players who want to improve their game. And chess players like to work on their training at least partially by themselves.
The bestselling book by GM Kuljasevic offered a structured approach and provided the training plans. Due to popular demand, Kuljasevic now presents a Workbook with the accompanying exercises and training tools a chess student can use to immediately start his training.
Mos...
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The Longest game
The Five Kasparov — Karpov Matches for the World Chess Championship
2023 || Paperback || Jan Timman || New in Chess
On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. The clash between the reigning champion and his brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have foreseen what was in store. In the next six years they would play five matches for the highest title and create one of the fiercest rivalries in sports history. The matches lasted a staggering total ...
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Chess Buccaneer
The Life and Games of Manuel Bosboom
2023 || Paperback || Peter Boel e.a. || New in Chess
There aren’t many chess players who can say they’ve both beaten Garry Kasparov in an official blitz game and crushed Peter Leko in a classical game in 26 moves. And who regularly win blitz tournaments high on marihuana. But then Manuel Bosboom is not an ordinary chess player.
The Dutch International Master never made it to the top in chess, but over the course of his swashbuckling career he has produced an astonishing amount of brilliantly creative games. When Manuel Bosboom enters the ro...