New in Chess, October 5, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-919-1. A broadly accessible book offering improvement on a wide range of skills Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and shows what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them. He describes both their historical significance and how they inspired his own...
New in Chess, 2021. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-9056919818. 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...
Thinkers Publishing, 2022. — 308 p. — ISBN: 978-9464201567. In "The Duel", Alessandro Bossi and Claudio Brovelli go deep into the lives of these two legendary World Champions, who have left their mark in an unforgettable manner on their epoch (the first forty years of the 20th century) and who remain – in part, due to their very different personalities and relationship with the...
Doubleday Books, 2019. — 137 p. — ISBN13: 978-0385545181. "A briskly told coming-of-age memoir...Chapin has a fine eye for the game's beauty...In the course of his entertaining odyssey, Mr. Chapin offers a Zen-like secret to chess, and to living." --Wall Street Journal Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart,...
Thinkers Publishing, Oct 06, 2021. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-9464201307. The idea was to write about the best players in the USA born at the turn of the century. These players grew and blossomed thanks to the continuous and generous support by the world’s biggest chess patron Rex Sinquefield and the Saint Louis Chess Club. Their success changed the scenery of American chess, set new...
Jiganchine at roman.jiganchine@outlook.com., 2015. — 224 p. A break is generally an unexpected or sacrificial pawn move that can serve multiple purposes, including, but not limited to: * Opening up files or diagonals * Directly attacking opponent's king * Gaining space * Freeing up a square (e.g. as an outpost for a knight) * Undermining opponent's pawn structure/chain * Creating...
New in Chess, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-9493257665. American-Czech Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (1943-2021) was a three-time US Chess Champion and one of the best chess writers of the last decades. He reached millions of chess fans with his much-acclaimed columns in the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. Kavalek could speak from experience as he had played with or met all...
Independent, Apr 28, 2022. — 322 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0578741642. For nearly forty years, FIDE Master David Lucky has been playing great players from around the world in chess tournaments. Along the way, he has won several brilliancy prize games, in addition to many other exciting games against Grandmasters, International Masters, and other champions. This book is a specially...
New In Chess, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN-13 978-9056916763. Viktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors in the world. Not only has he coached Masters and Grandmasters, including Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk, he has also taught hundreds of classes for amateurs and his best-selling books have inspired thousands of ambitious club players all over the world. Training...
New in Chess, May 2, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-9056918927. For more information about how to read the Interactive eBook, click on this link Hein Donner (1927-1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one the greatest writers on chess of all time. He was born into a prominent Calvinistic family of lawyers in The Hague. His father, who had been the Minister of Justice and later became...
Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2023. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-949859-59-1. The chess triumphs of the Polgar sisters are legendary. Now, in this very special book, Sofia Polgar tells her own exceptional story: from her development as a prodigy and remarkable tournament successes to her eventually settling down, with chess occupying a lesser role as she raised a family. Sofia presents...
Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015. — 507 p. — ISBN: 978-1-941270-33-2. In A World Champion’s Guide to Chess, Women’s World Champion Susan Polgar’s exclusive training methods will have you playing winning chess! Topics include Chess Essentials, Tactics, Strategy, Pattern Recognition, Endgames, Chess Etiquette, Advice for Parents & Coaches and much more! Susan Polgar is a winner of...
North Atlantic Books, February 25, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1623173579 (e-book). Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski. Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp's Pipe...
New in Chess, Jul 14, 2020. — 372 p. — ISBN13: 978-90-5691881-1. 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, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne. Instead, Rachels...
Sawyer Publications, August 14th 2019. — 210 p. — ASIN B07WGWHWW5. Tim Sawyer gives 150 chess games by Ray Haines with analysis or comments by the author. The collection is in ten chapters by chess opening. This book is dedicated to those who play chess for many years. Where would we be without opponents? Few people know their names. Who influenced you to play chess? Someone...
Siles Press, 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1-890085-5-13. In a game where the chess board's strongest piece the Queen is often referred to as a bitch, and where being female has been long considered a major disadvantage, this eye-opening account shows how young female chess players are successfully knocking down the doors to this traditionally male game.
Hodder & Stoughton, 2022. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-399701-3-72. For fans of The Queen’s Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous players of all time. Jennifer Shahade, a two-time US Women’s Chess Champion, spent her teens and twenties travelling the world playing chess....
Thinkers Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-9082256659. Ivan Sokolov was one of the most furious attacking and creative players of his time. The author presents an overview of is his Life in Chess, full of entertaining unpublished material. He is not shy to share his opinions and promises the reader a personal roller coaster loaded with fun stories and unexpected twists. We...
Thinkers Publishing, March 22, 2019. — 351 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-050-1. An inside look at the work of a chess coach, of interest to both specialists and chess fans. How does one achieve the unique ‘sound’ and distinct technique that are absolutely necessary to become successful at the highest level? It can only be done via a deep understanding of the chess player’s personality...
Thinkers Publishing, 2019. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-9492510532. People who are really, really good at something - unbelievably good, incomprehensibly good, have always held a strong fascination for those fellow humans who are less extraordinarily gifted. In this respect chess does not differ from other areas of human endeavour. To many chess lovers watching the great champions do...
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