"You have learned the rules of chess and developed some tactical skills. You are fascinated by the game and want to know more. So, the question is: what's next? What is the best way to improve your play and start winning? Yaroslav Srokovski, one of the most successful chess …
This is the ultimate book for lovers of chess. The beauty, the battle, the culture, the fun, the art and the heroism of chess are the main themes of this fascinating and often surprising journey. Your private guide is Christian Hesse, a Harvard-trained professor of Mathematics a…
The Reliable Past is the eagerly awaited sequel to Russian Silhouettes, Genna Sosonko's marvellous collection of portraits from the golden age of Soviet chess. Sosonko, who left Leningrad to settle in Holland in 1972, described champions and other key figures of Soviet chess fro…
Johannes Zukertort: artist of the chessboard
Acclaimed chess author Jimmy Adams presents a selection of Zukertort's best games, mainly annotated by Zukertort himself, and a collection of insightful articles on Zukertort from contemporary sources. Jimmy Adams brings Zukertort's masterpieces to the notice of today's chess wo…
"Magnus Carlsen's brilliant endgame play has been one of the key reasons for his success. At the age of 13 the Norwegian became the youngest grandmaster in the world, at 19 the youngest number one in the FIDE world rankings, and at 22 the second youngest World Champion in histor…
The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence continues to be extremely popular, both with top grandmasters and club players. And for very good reasons: it is a flexible, ambitious, wonderfully rich and diverse system, offering one of the best ways for Black to play for a win. B…
The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence continues to be extremely popular, both with top grandmasters and club players. And for very good reasons: it is a flexible, ambitious, wonderfully rich and diverse system, offering one of the best ways for Black to play for a win. B…
This collection brings together more than 120 of Bent Larsen s best games, annotated by himself. His comments are lucid, to the point, instructive and humorous.
'What do you do for fun?', Johnny Carson asked Bobby Fischer when he appeared on the Tonight Show shortly after he had become world chess champion. Bobby looked at Carson as if he'd lost his marbles and replied, dead earnest, 'I play chess.'Bobby Fischer's lone fight against the…