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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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Endgame mastery separates great players from the good. First-rate endgame play requires a mix of calculation, pattern recognition, abstract themes, theoretical knowledge and resilience few have mastered. In this rich collection of seventy mini-lessons, written over six years, acclaimed author GM Daniel Naroditsky guides you to every corner of the endgame world in the engaging, humorous, and...
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Mastering Complex Endgames is a rich collection of practical endgame examples whose assessments require more than just standard theory. Daniel Naroditsky drew heavily on his own experience as a player. The material is lively and instructive, with wonderful practical advice and insights into the minds of the chess greats. This highly systematic work will take your endgame technique to the...
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L’explosion des échecs en Angleterre dans les années 1970 a servi de détonateur à un âge d’or durant les années 1980, lorsqu’une génération exceptionnelle de joueurs britanniques s’est hissée au sommet des échecs mondiaux. L’Angleterre est alors devenue une puissance majeure de la compétition internationale, formant des joueurs capables de rivaliser avec les nations traditionnellement...
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Avez-vous l’impression de stagner aux échecs ? Vous arrive-t-il de peiner à trouver un plan ou de découvrir, après la partie, que la stratégie que vous aviez choisie était totalement inadaptée ? Expand Your Chess Strategy vous aidera à progresser de manière significative dans cet aspect essentiel du jeu et vous donnera les clés nécessaires pour franchir un nouveau cap.
Dans ce livre...
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La famille des ouvertures Benoni a fait chuter des champions du monde, décidé de matchs sous une pression extrême et récompensé les joueurs assez audacieux pour les adopter par quelques-unes des parties les plus électrisantes que les échecs puissent offrir. Dans ce Fritztrainer en anglais, le grand maître Ivan Sokolov — poursuivant sa série à succès Understanding Middlegame Structures — vous...
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Dans ce cours vidéo en anglais, le grand maître Ivan Sokolov s’intéresse à un champ encore peu exploré des ouvertures modernes : les systèmes inversés, en particulier la Grünfeld inversée et la Hollandaise inversée. Bien que ces ouvertures paraissent éloignées, elles posent des questions communes sur la valeur du tempo, la structure de pions et la dimension psychologique liée à l’inversion...
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Le coup candidat est sans doute l’un des concepts les plus insaisissables de la théorie des échecs. Introduit pour la première fois par Alexander Kotov dans son célèbre livre Think Like a Grandmaster — ouvrage de référence écrit en anglais —, il paraît à la fois clair et méthodique : lorsque vous envisagez un coup, vous dressez mentalement une liste de « coups candidats », vous en comparez...
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Practical Chess Strategy
Julen Arizmendi
Quality Chess
2025
424 pages
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Think Like a Super-GM
Michael Adams et Philip Hurtado
Quality Chess
2024
464 pages
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L'aptitude à prendre en compte les intentions de l'adversaire permet de désamorcer ses menaces, lui tendre des pièges subtils et bâtir des plans réalistes - c'est souvent ce qui distingue un excellent joueur d'un joueur moyen. Le célèbre entraîneur Mark Dvoretsky a extrait de sa fameuse cartothèque près de 500 exercices pour vous aider à acquérir cette compétence clé. Multipliez votre force...
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All chess players know that they need to study tactics, calculation, endgames, and openings, but when it comes to defense, far too many wait until they're under pressure. The truth is that more games are lost because of defensive mistakes than strategic ones.
By improving your defense, you could do more for your win rate than perhaps any other area of chess study. Mastering Chess...
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Après avoir posé les bases de l'excellence positionnelle dans le Volume 1, le Volume 2 plonge encore plus profondément dans le cœur technique du jeu pratique. Ce nouveau cours d'entraînement se concentre sur la conversion des avantages, la gestion des déséquilibres typiques en finale, et la maîtrise des techniques essentielles d'attaque et de défense. Que vous ayez un pion d'avance ou que...
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English chess grandmaster Daniel Gormally is a man with a plan. He wants to develop a chess analytical quiz, to help amateur players discover what type of chess player they truly are. While putting together this quiz, Gormally also shares his chess philosophy and his experience of playing chess tournaments up and down the breadth of the United Kingdom and beyond.
If you are interested...
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Composing and solving chess problems can seem like an entirely different world from regular chess, and in many ways, they are, but there are plenty of overlapping issues and applications.
In this volume, James Rayner, who was a leading composer in his own right and the editor of the chess problem section in British Chess Magazine, dives into how to compose and solve chess problems,...
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Perhaps the greatest beauty in chess can be found in endgame studies. Delightful twists and turns on the board are combined into true works of art. In studies, chess is distilled into its purest form, with all pieces making only the most essential moves. Endgame studies are also useful exercises for practical chess players, as they show patterns, improve calculation, and inspire...
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There are already many endgame books, so why this one? Well, most books deal with elementary endgames, or are very advanced and contain few exercises. But you have only really learned something when you can execute it at the board, with the clock ticking. And solving exercises is very close to this scenario.
The authors present 450 endgame exercises designed to improve your...
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Who is the greatest chess player of all time, the GOAT? Who is in the top ten? Let the debate ensue!
How do you measure greatness? Is Morphy "greater" than Carlsen? Can such judgements be made, and do they mean anything?
This fascinating topic is tackled head on in The Greatest by prolific chess author Cyrus Lakdawala. Avoiding presentism with carefully established...
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Rook endgames are the most frequently occurring endgames, as well as one of the most exciting and challenging areas of chess. In 2023, Quality Chess published Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam Shankland and its sister volume Conceptual Rook Endgames by GM Jacob Aagaard – a dazzling dyad of domination in endgame literature.
This new book tops off the triumphant trio...
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Think Like Ivanchuk is a celebration of a true chess genius. This book is a collection of Vasyl Ivanchuk's best games, a chess biography and a highly entertaining training manual all in one.
Vasyl Ivanchuk, a super-grandmaster from Ukraine, was born in 1969 and was the best player in the world in the 1990s behind World Champion Garry Kasparov. He has won the Olympiad, the...
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Although Jose Raul Capablanca was the World Chess Champion a century ago, his games remain among the most interesting to study. The clear logic and simplicity of his moves inspired other great players such as Mikhail Botvinnik and Bobby Fischer. And the clarity of his play will boost the confidence of any chess student. It all seems so easy when you read the explanations, says a student in a...
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While Josef Kling is mostly known for his partnership with Bernhard Horwitz in their classic work 'Chess Studies and Endgames', the present book of chess problems and endgame studies precedes that work by a few years.
In this new edition, all of the compositions and accompanying analysis have been thoroughly reanalyzed by FIDE Master Carsten Hansen.
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The mate in two chess problems is the most popular category of problems because they can be solved by nearly everybody, simply through the process of elimination. That, however, does not mean that they are easy to solve, are not artistic, elegant, or even outright brilliant.
In this work by the renowned writer, editor, and chess problem composer, B. G. Laws (1861-1931) goes over the...
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In his day, Philip H. Williams was widely considered a genius in the world of chess problems. Like many of his age, he dies too young and suddenly, yet he made a name for himself with several books on chess problems and a broad production of excellent chess problems.
This volume presents his compositions from 1891-1895.
In this new edition, FIDE Master Carsten Hansen thoroughly...
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Have you ever wondered how chess grandmasters always seem to know which pieces need to be exchanged? Or how an attack is influenced by the number of pieces on the board? When should we keep the queens on, and when should we switch to an endgame?
Understanding Chess Exchanges shares expert insights into using exchanges as a strategic weapon. Your newfound knowledge will then...
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