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Mat et mots vous propose un large choix de livres consacrés aux échecs, essentiellement en français (Olibris, Payot, Grasset, Le Pion passé, etc.) et en anglais (Quality chess, New in chess, Russell, Mongoose Press, etc.).
Mat et mots vous propose également une sélection de logiciels, sous Windows ou sous Mac, qui vous permettent d'apprendre rapidement les règles de base, de vous approprier avec facilité les principes tactiques ou stratégiques, d'analyser vos parties afin de ne plus commettre les mêmes erreurs, d'affronter un adversaire façonnable à merci.
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Grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov narrates his journey through chess and life, with special focus on the 2020-2024 period, when he seconded his long-time friend Ian Nepomniachtchi. ‘Team Nepo’ dominated the 2020/21 and 2022 Candidates Tournaments, qualifying for the World Championship matches of 2021 and 2023, and finished second in the 2024 Candidates Tournament.
With memoirs of chess...
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Vous travaillez les échecs mais ne progressez plus ? Ce guide du GM Kuljasevic vous apprend à vous entraîner efficacement par vous-même. Quinze méthodes de travail éprouvées, des stratégies concrètes pour étudier ouvertures, tactique, finales et milieu de partie, et surtout un cadre complet pour construire votre propre plan d'entraînement et vous y tenir. Idéal pour tout joueur motivé qui...
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Ce livre, rédigé en anglais, présente les 100 finales d’échecs les plus essentielles, c’est-à-dire les positions de base que tout joueur de club est susceptible de rencontrer en partie réelle.
Apprendre à maîtriser ces positions permet non seulement de gagner davantage de parties, mais aussi d’en sauver un grand nombre. Une fois que les résultats ne sont plus déterminés par de simples...
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Jan Timman achève une trilogie impressionnante et fascinante avec ce recueil de ses études. Après Timman’s Titans — livre en anglais couronné ECF Book of the Year en 2017 —, dans lequel il écrit sur les champions du monde qu’il admire, puis Timman’s Triumphs, où il annote ses cent meilleures parties, Timman’s Studies réunit l’ensemble de ses compositions d’études de finales.
Tout au...
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Pourquoi les adultes peinent-ils à progresser aux échecs ? Quelles attitudes mentales donnent les meilleurs résultats et comment les adopter ? Les Blancs jouent les premiers, mais est-ce vraiment un avantage ? Drôle de zèbre lui-même, le Grand Maître Jonathan Rowson vous invite à une passionnante excursion hors des sentiers battus. Découvrez une nouvelle façon de voir les échecs et...
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Develop Imaginative and Preventive Thinking
Nowadays, chessplayers spend almost all their free time preparing openings, and rarely spend the time necessary to perfect the vitally important technique of calculating. Regular training in solving and playing out endgames studies is a good recipe for eliminating that shortcoming.
This book – the sequel to Studies for Practical...
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In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can be challenging.
As the Perpetual Chess Podcast host, USCF Master Ben Johnson has spent hundreds of hours talking chess with many of the world’s top players and most accomplished trainers. In the popular Adult Improver Series, he has spoken with dozens of passionate amateurs who have...
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This remarkable book is a tribute to a man who is probably the greatest chess coach of all time. Mark Dvoretsky was a fascinating, intelligent, honest, decent, hard-working and good-natured man who dedicated his life to chess and its players.
When Dvoretsky started coaching after a fairly successful career as a player, he became a kind of doctor who could quickly spot what his...
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Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and also one of the most exciting areas of chess, with mind bending tactical opportunities and dizzying nuances available. They have unsurprisingly been a big topic in endgame literature, with a heavy focus on the set theoretical positions and their logic and fixed conclusions (see the excellent Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam...
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Rook endgames are the most important to study, because they are the type of endgame you will face most often over the board. Working on rook endgames gives the biggest bang for your buck.
World-class grandmaster Sam Shankland explains technical rook endgames in a way that is clearer, better organized, more concise, and easier to understand than any previous work. After learning the...
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Grandmaster Vlado Kovačević is an expert in the field of chess endgame theory, offering an educational approach for players of various skill levels. The first of seven books, spanning 304 pages, provides a definite guide to pawn endgames. The book is organized based on the number of pawns in the endgame, creating a clear division for readers. Kovačević’s focus is on the clear explanation of...
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Magnus Carlsen’s brilliant endgame play is one of the key reasons for his success. The World Chess Champion can win positions which look drawn to anybody else. And more than any other player, he is able to save bad endings.
For this second volume of Magnus Carlsen Endgame Virtuoso, International Master Tibor Karolyi has selected Carlsen’s best endgames from 2018-2022, whereas the...
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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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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...
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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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In this widely acclaimed chess classic, Russian trainer Mikhail Shereshevsky explains how to master the most important endgame principles. Where other endgame manuals focus on the basics and theoretical endgames, this book teaches the ‘big ideas’ that will help you find the most promising and most practical moves in any endgame.
Even in endgames, it helps to think schematically...
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In Decision Making in Major Piece Endings former World Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand discusses his path to decision making in endgames involving rooks or queens, as well as the often neglected “4th Phase.” Countless games are decided by good or bad technique in such endgames, so readers are certain to benefit from the insights of a world-class Grandmaster on this vital...
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Née en 1983 de l'imagination de l'écrivain américain Walter Tevis, l'héroïne du Jeu de la dame enchaîne les succès avec autant de facilité sur l'écran et que sur l'échiquier. La carrière fulgurante de cette orpheline surdouée pour le jeu des rois captive, fascine et inspire. Oeuvre de fiction remarquablement documentée ― le champion du monde d'échecs Garry Kasparov compte parmi les...
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Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. In this guide, psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft provides access to the underlying scientific...
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Vasily Smyslov, the seventh world champion, had a long and illustrious chess career. He played close to 3,000 tournament games over seven decades, from the time of Lasker and Capablanca to the days of Anand and Carlsen. From 1948 to 1958, Smyslov participated in four world championships, becoming world champion in 1957.
Smyslov continued playing at the highest level for many years and...
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When it appeared in 2003, the first edition of Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame. The enlarged and revised fifth edition is better than ever!
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"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 pulled off a gigantic upset and became the youngest U.S. Champion since...
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Mark Dvoretsky has long been considered one of thepremier chess coaches and trainers in the world. He is renowned for taking talented masters and forging them into world-class grandmasters and champions. His literary achievements are also quite distinguished. For example,Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, now in its fourth edition, established itself as the sine qua non of endgame theory...
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