Matanović Aleksandar (ed.). Classification of Chess Endings. The Best Endings of Capablanca and Fischer

Electronic Edition, 2017. — 158 p. — ASINB07DYC66GR. This book is going to help you to become better in the same-colored bishop endgames (SCBE). Being an adherent of Mark Dvoretsky’s method of coaching, author supports his idea about optimal way to study chess endgames. First, one needs to study the theory of a given type of endgame; secondly, a player needs to improve his or her...

Batsford, 2000. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-0713480092. Pawns are the soul of chess--and one of the aspects of the game that chess computers just don't handle well. This modern guide to pawn structures, written by an experienced grandmaster, analyzes a variety of typical formations, and explains the approaches, patterns, and techniques used by professionals in all phases of the...

Chess Evolution, 2017. — 525 p. — ISBN: 978-615-5793-00-4. GM Arkadij Naiditsch: The work of Efstratios Grivas is, as usual, very well organized, with logical explanations accompanying the practical examples he has chosen. There are, of course, almost unlimited options in the middlegame but I am very sure that after examining the current book’s examples, you will most definitely...

New in Chess, 2019. — 665 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-818-7. It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The artificial intelligence system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in...

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-020-4. In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening often stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fight their opponents. In this second volume of my "Chess Middlegame...

London: Batsford, B.T. Ltd., 2021. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-1849947398. An instructional book about the crucial questions that masters ask themselves before committing to a move – a checklist for all players to ask themselves before making their own moves. Beginners learn to ask themselves the key questions. As they improve, they ask more sophisticated questions: ‘What did my...