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Max Euwe's Best Games de Jan Timman
      World Chess Champion Max Euwe, who held the title from 1935-1937, is one of the greatest chess players in history. Much has been written about him, and he authored dozens of books himself. But missing was an outstanding collection of games of this 'efficient, man-eating tiger' as the American chess master William Ewart Napier once called Euwe. Max Euwe's Best Games fills this...
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      Max Euwe's Best Games de Jan Timman
          World Chess Champion Max Euwe, who held the title from 1935-1937, is one of the greatest chess players in history. Much has been written about him, and he authored dozens of books himself. But missing was an outstanding collection of games of this 'efficient, man-eating tiger' as the American chess master William Ewart Napier once called Euwe. Max Euwe's Best Games fills this...
          36,95 €Prix
          Bird's opening de Timothy Taylor
              Bird's Opening is an underrated and dynamic choice for White that immediately directs the game into relatively unexplored territory, setting Black players early problems and forcing them to think for themselves rather than having the luxury of relying on the theory of more mainstream openings. It's also a very flexible option that can lead to both sharp gambit play, such as the notorious...
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              Bird's opening de Timothy Taylor
                  Bird's Opening is an underrated and dynamic choice for White that immediately directs the game into relatively unexplored territory, setting Black players early problems and forcing them to think for themselves rather than having the luxury of relying on the theory of more mainstream openings. It's also a very flexible option that can lead to both sharp gambit play, such as the notorious...
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                  The Open Sicilian de Ivan Saric
                      The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and most complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority. Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4...
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                      The Open Sicilian de Ivan Saric
                          The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and most complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority. Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4...
                          34,95 €Prix
                          The Chess Alchemist de Mikhail Tal
                              Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, who confounded his opponents and dazzled chess fans around the world. Seemingly breaking every rule in the book, yet also breaking records with his accomplishments, Tal truly was The Chess Alchemist. In this unique book, Oleg Stetsko has compiled 80 of Tal’s most interesting games, as annotated by the Magician...
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                              The Chess Alchemist de Mikhail Tal
                                  Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, who confounded his opponents and dazzled chess fans around the world. Seemingly breaking every rule in the book, yet also breaking records with his accomplishments, Tal truly was The Chess Alchemist. In this unique book, Oleg Stetsko has compiled 80 of Tal’s most interesting games, as annotated by the Magician...
                                  32,99 €Prix
                                  The Road to Reykjavik de Tibor Karolyi
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                                      Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischer’s unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to...
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                                      The Road to Reykjavik de Tibor Karolyi
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                                          Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischer’s unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to...
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                                          How I Became a Chess Grandmaster de Vinay Bhat
                                              Vinay Bhat rose through the ranks of American chess in the 1990s and 2000s, overcoming plateaus, competitive challenges, and academic and professional commitments, before achieving the highest title in chess. Follow Vinay’s path to improvement and the struggles he had to go through, to carve out your own path to improvement and achieve your chess goals. How I Became a Chess...
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                                              How I Became a Chess Grandmaster de Vinay Bhat
                                                  Vinay Bhat rose through the ranks of American chess in the 1990s and 2000s, overcoming plateaus, competitive challenges, and academic and professional commitments, before achieving the highest title in chess. Follow Vinay’s path to improvement and the struggles he had to go through, to carve out your own path to improvement and achieve your chess goals. How I Became a Chess...
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                                                  King's Indian vol.2 de Gawain Jones
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                                                      King’s Indian 2 is the concluding volume of a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the ideal guide, as a world-class player and longstanding expert on the King’s Indian. This book version of Jones’s Chessable course has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess. Volume 1 analysed the main lines after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6. This book...
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                                                      King's Indian vol.2 de Gawain Jones
                                                          Documentation échiquéenne
                                                          King’s Indian 2 is the concluding volume of a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the ideal guide, as a world-class player and longstanding expert on the King’s Indian. This book version of Jones’s Chessable course has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess. Volume 1 analysed the main lines after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6. This book...
                                                          29,99 €Prix
                                                          King's Indian vol.1 de Gawain Jones
                                                              The King’s Indian is the ideal response to 1.d4 to combine dynamic counterattacking play with complete theoretical soundness. A past favourite of both Fischer and Kasparov, it continues to perform well at the highest levels of modern chess. King’s Indian 1 is the first of two books presenting a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the perfect guide, being both a...
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                                                              King's Indian vol.1 de Gawain Jones
                                                                  The King’s Indian is the ideal response to 1.d4 to combine dynamic counterattacking play with complete theoretical soundness. A past favourite of both Fischer and Kasparov, it continues to perform well at the highest levels of modern chess. King’s Indian 1 is the first of two books presenting a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the perfect guide, being both a...
                                                                  29,99 €Prix
                                                                  Analyzing the Chess Mind de Boris Gulko et Dr. Joel R. Sneed
                                                                      Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how. To write about chess psychology, the ideal authors would have world-class chess...
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                                                                      Analyzing the Chess Mind de Boris Gulko et Dr. Joel R. Sneed
                                                                          Analyzing the Chess Mind is an exploration of psychology in chess. Psychology affects the chess moves we make, as the authors entertainingly illustrate in expertly annotated examples, but our personal chess psychology is not fixed. We can improve our chess psychology, and the authors show how. To write about chess psychology, the ideal authors would have world-class chess...
                                                                          29,99 €Prix
                                                                          Re-Engineering the Chess Classics de Matthew Sadler et Steve Giddins
                                                                              Are you ready for new strategic insights about thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters? Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and renowned chess writer Steve Giddins take a fresh look at some classic games ranging from Anderssen-Dufresne, played in 1852, to Botvinnik-Bronstein (1951) and Geller-Euwe (1953). They unleashed the...
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                                                                              Re-Engineering the Chess Classics de Matthew Sadler et Steve Giddins
                                                                                  Are you ready for new strategic insights about thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters? Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and renowned chess writer Steve Giddins take a fresh look at some classic games ranging from Anderssen-Dufresne, played in 1852, to Botvinnik-Bronstein (1951) and Geller-Euwe (1953). They unleashed the...
                                                                                  34,95 €Prix
                                                                                  The Taimanov-Scheveningen Hybrid de Semko Semkov
                                                                                      This book offers a full repertoire based on the Taimanov move order 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6! 5.Nc3 Qc7. It is especially effective against the English attack and early kingside pawn storms. However, the fianchetto 6.g3 and the Classical system with 6.Be3 a6 7.Be2 pose certain problems. I propose to meet them with the Scheveningen set-up ...d6. Thus we take the best of two...
                                                                                      21,99 €Prix
                                                                                      The Taimanov-Scheveningen Hybrid de Semko Semkov
                                                                                          This book offers a full repertoire based on the Taimanov move order 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6! 5.Nc3 Qc7. It is especially effective against the English attack and early kingside pawn storms. However, the fianchetto 6.g3 and the Classical system with 6.Be3 a6 7.Be2 pose certain problems. I propose to meet them with the Scheveningen set-up ...d6. Thus we take the best of two...
                                                                                          21,99 €Prix
                                                                                          Squeezing the Caro-Kann: Simple Chess de Alexander Khalifman et Sergei Soloviov
                                                                                              The authors recommend an economical and quite promising method for White to fight against the Caro-Kann Defence – the Exchange system (3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3). This minimalist approach against this classical opening deserves very serious attention today. This is confirmed incidentally by the fact that at present the popularity of the Exchange system (particularly after the year 2017) has...
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                                                                                              Squeezing the Caro-Kann: Simple Chess de Alexander Khalifman et Sergei Soloviov
                                                                                                  The authors recommend an economical and quite promising method for White to fight against the Caro-Kann Defence – the Exchange system (3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3). This minimalist approach against this classical opening deserves very serious attention today. This is confirmed incidentally by the fact that at present the popularity of the Exchange system (particularly after the year 2017) has...
                                                                                                  23,99 €Prix
                                                                                                  Adolph Anderssen de Eduard Wildhagen et Georg Pollak
                                                                                                      Adolph Anderssen Eduard Wildhagen et Georg Pollak Verlag Dr E. Wildhagen 1968 196 pages + supplément indépendant de 30 pages
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                                                                                                      Adolph Anderssen de Eduard Wildhagen et Georg Pollak
                                                                                                          Adolph Anderssen Eduard Wildhagen et Georg Pollak Verlag Dr E. Wildhagen 1968 196 pages + supplément indépendant de 30 pages
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                                                                                                          Les plus belles parties d'échecs de Paul Morphy de Fred Reinfeld
                                                                                                              Paul Morphy est plus qu'une légende dans l'histoire du jeu d'échecs, il est un véritable mythe. Né dans le Quartier français de La Nouvelle-Orléans en Louisiane en 1837, Morphy est non seulement d'une certaine manière le fondateur des échecs en Amérique, mais aussi un joueur très francophile. Cependant, assez étonnamment, si tout novice aux échecs entend rapidement parler de Morphy...
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                                                                                                              Les plus belles parties d'échecs de Paul Morphy de Fred Reinfeld
                                                                                                                  Paul Morphy est plus qu'une légende dans l'histoire du jeu d'échecs, il est un véritable mythe. Né dans le Quartier français de La Nouvelle-Orléans en Louisiane en 1837, Morphy est non seulement d'une certaine manière le fondateur des échecs en Amérique, mais aussi un joueur très francophile. Cependant, assez étonnamment, si tout novice aux échecs entend rapidement parler de Morphy...
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                                                                                                                  Irrational Chess de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                                                                                      The vast majority of chess games witness familiar strategies and well known tactical motifs. These are the games that you will find in the anthologies and opening repertoires. Sometimes however, games appear that seem to have been played on a different planet. Conventional strategies go out of the window. Familiar tactical themes are nowhere to be seen. Chaos has broken out. The...
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                                                                                                                      Irrational Chess de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                                                                                          The vast majority of chess games witness familiar strategies and well known tactical motifs. These are the games that you will find in the anthologies and opening repertoires. Sometimes however, games appear that seem to have been played on a different planet. Conventional strategies go out of the window. Familiar tactical themes are nowhere to be seen. Chaos has broken out. The...
                                                                                                                          24,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                          Playing the Sveshnikov de Milos Pavlovic
                                                                                                                              The Sicilian Sveshnikov arises after the opening moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 , and is an ideal weapon based on sound principles of fast development and seizing central space. Decades of practical testing and analysis have proved the theoretical soundness of Black’s system, and its dynamic counterattacking potential makes it a popular choice among club players and...
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                                                                                                                              Playing the Sveshnikov de Milos Pavlovic
                                                                                                                                  The Sicilian Sveshnikov arises after the opening moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 , and is an ideal weapon based on sound principles of fast development and seizing central space. Decades of practical testing and analysis have proved the theoretical soundness of Black’s system, and its dynamic counterattacking potential makes it a popular choice among club players and...
                                                                                                                                  27,99 €Prix
                                                                                                                                  Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual de Mark Dvoretsky
                                                                                                                                      It is very important for the practical player to train his or her ability, understand when to rely on intuition, rules of thumb and more general positional considerations, when to try to solve the problems by calculating variations to the end, and how to manage time to avoid time pressure. With these goals in mind, Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual delivers a lot of excellent, high...
                                                                                                                                      32,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                      Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual de Mark Dvoretsky
                                                                                                                                          It is very important for the practical player to train his or her ability, understand when to rely on intuition, rules of thumb and more general positional considerations, when to try to solve the problems by calculating variations to the end, and how to manage time to avoid time pressure. With these goals in mind, Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual delivers a lot of excellent, high...
                                                                                                                                          32,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                          Batsford's Modern Chess Openings de Nick de Firmian
                                                                                                                                              This massive stand-alone work covers every principal line of play in every opening variation, thereby providing the distilled essence of contemporary chess theory. This latest updated edition - more comprehensive than ever - is an indispensable companion for club and tournament players. Introduction Modern Chess Openings (MCO) is a one-volume reference book covering all the chess...
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                                                                                                                                              Batsford's Modern Chess Openings de Nick de Firmian
                                                                                                                                                  This massive stand-alone work covers every principal line of play in every opening variation, thereby providing the distilled essence of contemporary chess theory. This latest updated edition - more comprehensive than ever - is an indispensable companion for club and tournament players. Introduction Modern Chess Openings (MCO) is a one-volume reference book covering all the chess...
                                                                                                                                                  27,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                  The Life and Games of Carlos Torre de Gabriel Velasco et Taylor Kingston
                                                                                                                                                      Here is what has been added to this edition: More accurate and extensive annotations using ChessBase and Stockfish 14. Torre’s own annotations to several games have been unearthed and added. Added games to give a more rounded view of Torre. Also the six games between players other than Torre that he annotated for the Mexican...
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                                                                                                                                                      The Life and Games of Carlos Torre de Gabriel Velasco et Taylor Kingston
                                                                                                                                                          Here is what has been added to this edition: More accurate and extensive annotations using ChessBase and Stockfish 14. Torre’s own annotations to several games have been unearthed and added. Added games to give a more rounded view of Torre. Also the six games between players other than Torre that he annotated for the Mexican...
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                                                                                                                                                          The Practical Endgame Bible de Broljub Zlatanovic
                                                                                                                                                              There are many books devoted to basic endgames, even from the Middle Ages. Principles of typical endgames (such as keeping the rook behind a passed pawn, not setting pawns on the same colored squares as your bishop’s, distant pawns being more dangerous than central ones etc.) are well known too. But what about “complex endgames”? I have in mind endgames with at least two pieces on each side;...
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                                                                                                                                                              The Practical Endgame Bible de Broljub Zlatanovic
                                                                                                                                                                  There are many books devoted to basic endgames, even from the Middle Ages. Principles of typical endgames (such as keeping the rook behind a passed pawn, not setting pawns on the same colored squares as your bishop’s, distant pawns being more dangerous than central ones etc.) are well known too. But what about “complex endgames”? I have in mind endgames with at least two pieces on each side;...
                                                                                                                                                                  39,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                  Un répertoire d'ouverture moderne pour les blancs de James Rizzitano
                                                                                                                                                                      Voici un répertoire d'ouvertures qui séduira de nombreux amateurs. En effet, il offre un savant dosage d'ambition et de solidité, tout en évitant les variantes suraîguës qui exigent un constant travail de mise à jour. En cela, il rejoint l'approche des grands maîtres de l'élite actuelle. Riche en analyses originales, ce livre constitue un remarquable travail de synthèse de la théorie des...
                                                                                                                                                                      27,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                      Un répertoire d'ouverture moderne pour les blancs de James Rizzitano
                                                                                                                                                                          Voici un répertoire d'ouvertures qui séduira de nombreux amateurs. En effet, il offre un savant dosage d'ambition et de solidité, tout en évitant les variantes suraîguës qui exigent un constant travail de mise à jour. En cela, il rejoint l'approche des grands maîtres de l'élite actuelle. Riche en analyses originales, ce livre constitue un remarquable travail de synthèse de la théorie des...
                                                                                                                                                                          27,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                          The Polish Defense de Jerzy Konikowsky et Marek Soszynski
                                                                                                                                                                              The Dawn of the Planet of the b-Pawns! “There can be no Plan B because there is no Planet B,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We disagree when it comes to chess. In this book you will see analyzed not only 1.d4 b5 (the Polish Defense) but also the St. George Defense (1.e4 e6 2.d4 a6 intending 3...b5), 1.Nf3 b5, also 1.f4 b5 and, most shocking of all, 1.e4 a6 2.d4 b5....
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                                                                                                                                                                              The Polish Defense de Jerzy Konikowsky et Marek Soszynski
                                                                                                                                                                                  The Dawn of the Planet of the b-Pawns! “There can be no Plan B because there is no Planet B,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We disagree when it comes to chess. In this book you will see analyzed not only 1.d4 b5 (the Polish Defense) but also the St. George Defense (1.e4 e6 2.d4 a6 intending 3...b5), 1.Nf3 b5, also 1.f4 b5 and, most shocking of all, 1.e4 a6 2.d4 b5....
                                                                                                                                                                                  25,50 €Prix