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One Rook Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
      "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one rook in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
      15,00 €Prix
      One Rook Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
          "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one rook in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
          15,00 €Prix
          One Knight Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
              "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one knight in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
              15,00 €Prix
              One Knight Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
                  "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one knight in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
                  15,00 €Prix
                  Mikhail Zinar's Difficult Pawn Endings de Sergei Tkachenko
                      "Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has selected 100 pawn endings composed by the leading Ukrainian problemist Mikhail Zinar. Zinar is a prolific endgame expert who has produced several hundred studies since the 1970s, with a focus on pawn endings. His...
                      10,99 €Prix
                      Mikhail Zinar's Difficult Pawn Endings de Sergei Tkachenko
                          "Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has selected 100 pawn endings composed by the leading Ukrainian problemist Mikhail Zinar. Zinar is a prolific endgame expert who has produced several hundred studies since the 1970s, with a focus on pawn endings. His...
                          10,99 €Prix
                          The Queen Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
                              "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just the queen in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
                              15,00 €Prix
                              The Queen Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
                                  "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just the queen in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no...
                                  15,00 €Prix
                                  One Bishop Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
                                      "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one bishop in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. 
 There are no...
                                      15,00 €Prix
                                      One Bishop Saves the Day de Sergei Tkachenko
                                          "Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins! Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one bishop in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. 
 There are no...
                                          15,00 €Prix
                                          Oleg Pervakov's Industrial Strength Endgame Studies de Sergei Tkachenko
                                              "Oleg Pervakov (born in 1960 in the city of Kirov) is widely recognized as Russia’s greatest living chess composer. He has composed nearly 500 studies and he has won the individual chess composition world championship three times: in 2004-2006, 2007-2009 and 2013-2015. In this book, Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition...
                                              15,99 €Prix
                                              Oleg Pervakov's Industrial Strength Endgame Studies de Sergei Tkachenko
                                                  "Oleg Pervakov (born in 1960 in the city of Kirov) is widely recognized as Russia’s greatest living chess composer. He has composed nearly 500 studies and he has won the individual chess composition world championship three times: in 2004-2006, 2007-2009 and 2013-2015. In this book, Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition...
                                                  15,99 €Prix
                                                  Improve Your Practical Play in the Endgame de Alexey Dreev
                                                      "The author’s aim in this volume is to improve the tournament chess player and professional alike in their ability to evaluate and execute crucial and hard-fought practical endgames – either in converting a winning position or holding a draw. This book will also sharpen the player’s overall cognitive competences in practical situations, where the normal laws of endgame theory have little or...
                                                      27,99 €Prix
                                                      Improve Your Practical Play in the Endgame de Alexey Dreev
                                                          "The author’s aim in this volume is to improve the tournament chess player and professional alike in their ability to evaluate and execute crucial and hard-fought practical endgames – either in converting a winning position or holding a draw. This book will also sharpen the player’s overall cognitive competences in practical situations, where the normal laws of endgame theory have little or...
                                                          27,99 €Prix
                                                          Endgames of the World Champions vol.2 de Karsten Müller
                                                              "All world champions left their mark on chess. They had different styles but each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well. The material on this DVD is based on the ChessBase MasterClass series, and gives you a good opportunity to enjoy some of the best endgames in the history of chess. Enjoy Capablanca’s fine technique, Tal’s magic, Lasker’s fighting spirit,...
                                                              29,90 €Prix
                                                              Endgames of the World Champions vol.2 de Karsten Müller
                                                                  "All world champions left their mark on chess. They had different styles but each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well. The material on this DVD is based on the ChessBase MasterClass series, and gives you a good opportunity to enjoy some of the best endgames in the history of chess. Enjoy Capablanca’s fine technique, Tal’s magic, Lasker’s fighting spirit,...
                                                                  29,90 €Prix
                                                                  Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Gamesde Lázló Polgár
                                                                      "This book includes 5334 different instructional situations - many taken from real matches - including 306 problems for checkmate in one mone, 3412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 600 miniature games, 144 simple endgames, and 12 tournament game combinations, plus solutions, the basic rules of the gamen and an international bibliography."
                                                                      27,50 €Prix
                                                                      Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Gamesde Lázló Polgár
                                                                          "This book includes 5334 different instructional situations - many taken from real matches - including 306 problems for checkmate in one mone, 3412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 600 miniature games, 144 simple endgames, and 12 tournament game combinations, plus solutions, the basic rules of the gamen and an international bibliography."
                                                                          27,50 €Prix
                                                                              Chess Tutor vol.3
                                                                                  22,80 €Prix
                                                                                  Chess Tutor vol.3
                                                                                      Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                      Logiciel d'apprentissage, qui peut être utilisé de manière individuelle ou collective (avec l'appoint d'un tableau interactif par exemple) ! Avec cette troisième étape, vous apprendrez les principes de l'ouverture et les finales élémentaires.  Vous apprendrez également à construire un plan, tandis que vous approfondirez vos connaissances...
                                                                                      22,80 €Prix
                                                                                      Chess Tutor vol.3
                                                                                          Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                          Logiciel d'apprentissage, qui peut être utilisé de manière individuelle ou collective (avec l'appoint d'un tableau interactif par exemple) ! Avec cette troisième étape, vous apprendrez les principes de l'ouverture et les finales élémentaires.  Vous apprendrez également à construire un plan, tandis que vous approfondirez vos connaissances...
                                                                                          22,80 €Prix
                                                                                          Understanding Minor Piece Endgames de Karsten Müller and Yakov Konoval
                                                                                              "Knowing the abilities and limitations of the minor pieces is very valuable for mastering the secrets of the royal game, and this can be studied best in the endgame. It is essential to understand the management of the long-range bishop, albeit confined to one color, as well as the short-range, ubiquitous knight. This book is the second volume in the authors’ acclaimed...
                                                                                              29,95 €Prix
                                                                                              Understanding Minor Piece Endgames de Karsten Müller and Yakov Konoval
                                                                                                  "Knowing the abilities and limitations of the minor pieces is very valuable for mastering the secrets of the royal game, and this can be studied best in the endgame. It is essential to understand the management of the long-range bishop, albeit confined to one color, as well as the short-range, ubiquitous knight. This book is the second volume in the authors’ acclaimed...
                                                                                                  29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                  The Bishop de Sergey Kasparov
                                                                                                      Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                      "In his new, ground-breaking series, The Power of the Pieces , Belorussian grandmaster Sergey Kasparov examines the strengths, weaknesses and overall characteristics of each piece on the chessboard. This first volume in the series is about the bishop. Its role in the opening, middlegame and endgame is discussed in detail, amply supported by over 140...
                                                                                                      24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                      The Bishop de Sergey Kasparov
                                                                                                          Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                          "In his new, ground-breaking series, The Power of the Pieces , Belorussian grandmaster Sergey Kasparov examines the strengths, weaknesses and overall characteristics of each piece on the chessboard. This first volume in the series is about the bishop. Its role in the opening, middlegame and endgame is discussed in detail, amply supported by over 140...
                                                                                                          24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                          Test Your Chess Skills de Sarhan Guliev et Logman Guliev
                                                                                                              "The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action. Sarhan Guliev and his brother Logman Guliev have carefully selected the positions from their own games. That is why these puzzles...
                                                                                                              19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                              Test Your Chess Skills de Sarhan Guliev et Logman Guliev
                                                                                                                  "The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action. Sarhan Guliev and his brother Logman Guliev have carefully selected the positions from their own games. That is why these puzzles...
                                                                                                                  19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                  Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player vol.2 de Robert Ris
                                                                                                                      "I assume that most of you have read (and enjoyed!) the first volume of this series, but for those who haven’t: don’t worry. The level of the content of the two books is identical and you can work through the second volume without having studied the first one. However, it’s still not too late to get a copy of the first volume! In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with...
                                                                                                                      31,85 €Prix
                                                                                                                      Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player vol.2 de Robert Ris
                                                                                                                          "I assume that most of you have read (and enjoyed!) the first volume of this series, but for those who haven’t: don’t worry. The level of the content of the two books is identical and you can work through the second volume without having studied the first one. However, it’s still not too late to get a copy of the first volume! In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with...
                                                                                                                          31,85 €Prix
                                                                                                                          Chess Calculation Training vol.2 de Romain Edouard
                                                                                                                              "I have always found that existing puzzle books, however good they are, only provide a rather mechanical form of mental training. In this new collection, you will fi nd exercises to help you improve in specifi c areas of thinking, such as you may encounter in your own games. To help this, all the problems are taken from real games, with most of them having taken place in the last year. The...
                                                                                                                              27,30 €Prix
                                                                                                                              Chess Calculation Training vol.2 de Romain Edouard
                                                                                                                                  "I have always found that existing puzzle books, however good they are, only provide a rather mechanical form of mental training. In this new collection, you will fi nd exercises to help you improve in specifi c areas of thinking, such as you may encounter in your own games. To help this, all the problems are taken from real games, with most of them having taken place in the last year. The...
                                                                                                                                  27,30 €Prix
                                                                                                                                  Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics de Ger Van Perlo
                                                                                                                                      "Why is it that most amateur chess players love opening and middlegame tactics but hate endgames? Why do you usually look at only a couple of pages in any endgame theory book you see? Sit back, forget about theoretical endgames, and enjoy the entertainment of real life chess in Endgame Tactics! There is no substitute for hard work in getting better at chess,...
                                                                                                                                      29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                      Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics de Ger Van Perlo
                                                                                                                                          "Why is it that most amateur chess players love opening and middlegame tactics but hate endgames? Why do you usually look at only a couple of pages in any endgame theory book you see? Sit back, forget about theoretical endgames, and enjoy the entertainment of real life chess in Endgame Tactics! There is no substitute for hard work in getting better at chess,...
                                                                                                                                          29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                          Why You Lose at Chess de Fred Reinfeld
                                                                                                                                              Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                              "Beginning with a chapter on self-appraisal, Why You Lose at Chess links a lack of understanding of your own personality with erroneous choices of moves and plans in a chess game. He goes on to delve into playing blindly (with no idea what you are actually doing) or by rote (memorization vs. understanding). A couple of technical mistakes he points out include a lack of...
                                                                                                                                              13,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                                              Why You Lose at Chess de Fred Reinfeld
                                                                                                                                                  Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                                  "Beginning with a chapter on self-appraisal, Why You Lose at Chess links a lack of understanding of your own personality with erroneous choices of moves and plans in a chess game. He goes on to delve into playing blindly (with no idea what you are actually doing) or by rote (memorization vs. understanding). A couple of technical mistakes he points out include a lack of...
                                                                                                                                                  13,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                  Better Thinking, Better Chess de Joel Benjamin
                                                                                                                                                      "Joel Benjamin knows that pointing out the moves his students missed is just half the job. They need to understand that they were looking in the wrong direction. Chess engines offer little help in this because they can’t explain why you went astray. What’s more: an engine may send the wrong message! Many chess players don’t realise that the top computer move frequently...
                                                                                                                                                      27,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                      Better Thinking, Better Chess de Joel Benjamin
                                                                                                                                                          "Joel Benjamin knows that pointing out the moves his students missed is just half the job. They need to understand that they were looking in the wrong direction. Chess engines offer little help in this because they can’t explain why you went astray. What’s more: an engine may send the wrong message! Many chess players don’t realise that the top computer move frequently...
                                                                                                                                                          27,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                          Training with Moska de Viktor Moskalenko
                                                                                                                                                              Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                                              " Training with Moska is based on the best instructive material Moskalenko collected while working with amateurs for three decades. The book covers a wide variety of aspects of the game and the more than 500 instructive positions are accessible for players of different strengths. If you have an Elo rating between 1400 and 2100, this book will help you make a big step...
                                                                                                                                                              27,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                              Training with Moska de Viktor Moskalenko
                                                                                                                                                                  Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                                                  " Training with Moska is based on the best instructive material Moskalenko collected while working with amateurs for three decades. The book covers a wide variety of aspects of the game and the more than 500 instructive positions are accessible for players of different strengths. If you have an Elo rating between 1400 and 2100, this book will help you make a big step...
                                                                                                                                                                  27,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                  The New in Chess Book of Chess Improvement de Steve Giddins
                                                                                                                                                                      "Masterclasses by Kasparov, Carlsen, Tal, Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Smyslov, Larsen, Karpov and many others. For more than three decades, every issue of  New In Chess magazine  has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the world’s best players of their own best games. Because studying well-annotated master games is the best way to learn the skills that...
                                                                                                                                                                      22,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                      The New in Chess Book of Chess Improvement de Steve Giddins
                                                                                                                                                                          "Masterclasses by Kasparov, Carlsen, Tal, Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Smyslov, Larsen, Karpov and many others. For more than three decades, every issue of  New In Chess magazine  has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the world’s best players of their own best games. Because studying well-annotated master games is the best way to learn the skills that...
                                                                                                                                                                          22,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                          Liquidation on the Chess Board de Joel Benjamin
                                                                                                                                                                              "Pawn endings do not arise out of nowhere. Before emerging as endgames with just kings and pawns, they 'pre-existed' in positions that still contained any number of pieces. Liquidation is the purposeful transition into a pawn ending. It is a vital technique that is seldom taught. Strange, because knowing when and how to liquidate can help you win games or save draws. <br...
                                                                                                                                                                              19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                              Liquidation on the Chess Board de Joel Benjamin
                                                                                                                                                                                  "Pawn endings do not arise out of nowhere. Before emerging as endgames with just kings and pawns, they 'pre-existed' in positions that still contained any number of pieces. Liquidation is the purposeful transition into a pawn ending. It is a vital technique that is seldom taught. Strange, because knowing when and how to liquidate can help you win games or save draws. <br...
                                                                                                                                                                                  19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                  Bishop Endings de Efstratios Grivas
                                                                                                                                                                                      Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                                                                      "This publication is an almost exhaustive collection of all you can fi nd about bishop endings – it is ‘ready knowledge’: you will learn hundreds of rules, patterns and key positions. The author guides you through the examples in a highly instructive and easy-to-understand way."
                                                                                                                                                                                      24,70 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                      Bishop Endings de Efstratios Grivas
                                                                                                                                                                                          Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                                                                          "This publication is an almost exhaustive collection of all you can fi nd about bishop endings – it is ‘ready knowledge’: you will learn hundreds of rules, patterns and key positions. The author guides you through the examples in a highly instructive and easy-to-understand way."
                                                                                                                                                                                          24,70 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                          Mastering Complex Endgames de Adrian Mikhalchishin et Oleg Stesko
                                                                                                                                                                                              "There are many great endgame books on the market, and almost all of them deal with the kind of technical positions which closely resemble theoretical ones. Transferring complex and complicated endgames into theoretical positions is oft en what we need to do in chess, and for this we use various methods such as making the right exchanges, improving the King’s position, exploiting the power...
                                                                                                                                                                                              30,85 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                              Mastering Complex Endgames de Adrian Mikhalchishin et Oleg Stesko
                                                                                                                                                                                                  "There are many great endgame books on the market, and almost all of them deal with the kind of technical positions which closely resemble theoretical ones. Transferring complex and complicated endgames into theoretical positions is oft en what we need to do in chess, and for this we use various methods such as making the right exchanges, improving the King’s position, exploiting the power...
                                                                                                                                                                                                  30,85 €Prix