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  • Langue : anglais
  • Contenu : pédagogie/coaching
  • Contenu : sciences humaines
  • Nouveauté 2026
    Chess Metamorphosis de Nikita Vitiugov
    • Nouveauté 2026
      Chess Metamorphosis de Nikita Vitiugov
      • Nouveauté 2026
        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...
        29,99 €Prix
        Chess Metamorphosis de Nikita Vitiugov
        • Nouveauté 2026
          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...
          29,99 €Prix
          Comment étudier seul les échecs de Davorin KuljasevicComment étudier seul les échecs de Davorin Kuljasevic
          • Nouveauté 2026
            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...
            36,00 €Prix
            Comment étudier seul les échecs de Davorin KuljasevicComment étudier seul les échecs de Davorin Kuljasevic
            • Nouveauté 2026
              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...
              36,00 €Prix
              Les échecs pour les zèbres de Jonathan RowsonLes échecs pour les zèbres de Jonathan Rowson
                  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...
                  37,00 €Prix
                  Les échecs pour les zèbres de Jonathan RowsonLes échecs pour les zèbres de Jonathan Rowson
                      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...
                      37,00 €Prix
                      Becoming an IM de Cyrus Lakdawala
                          Documentation échiquéenne
                          Many decently strong players aspire to become an international master. They see very clearly that the grandmaster title is most likely beyond them but the IM title is one they feel they could achieve, if only... It's this "if only" bit that gets in the way. If only... what? Do they need to study the openings more? Should they focus on improving tactical skill? Do they need to study...
                          23,99 €Prix
                          Becoming an IM de Cyrus Lakdawala
                              Documentation échiquéenne
                              Many decently strong players aspire to become an international master. They see very clearly that the grandmaster title is most likely beyond them but the IM title is one they feel they could achieve, if only... It's this "if only" bit that gets in the way. If only... what? Do they need to study the openings more? Should they focus on improving tactical skill? Do they need to study...
                              23,99 €Prix
                              A Zillion Chess and Life Hacks de Maria Manakova
                                  How should a chess player, be they amateur or professional, achieve their full potential? What’s the best way to prepare psychologically for the game, opponents, tournaments? How can they set goals at the board and achieve them? What techniques can they employ to react when the game takes an unexpected turn? How should they plan to avoid time trouble, and then handle it (or their opponent’s)...
                                  27,95 €Prix
                                  A Zillion Chess and Life Hacks de Maria Manakova
                                      How should a chess player, be they amateur or professional, achieve their full potential? What’s the best way to prepare psychologically for the game, opponents, tournaments? How can they set goals at the board and achieve them? What techniques can they employ to react when the game takes an unexpected turn? How should they plan to avoid time trouble, and then handle it (or their opponent’s)...
                                      27,95 €Prix
                                      Perpetual Chess Improvement de Ben Johnson
                                          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...
                                          24,95 €Prix
                                          Perpetual Chess Improvement de Ben Johnson
                                              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...
                                              24,95 €Prix
                                              Someday I'll Be a Queen (Toolbox) de Christel Minne
                                                  This toolbox full of tips and games accompanies the picture book, Someday I’ll Be a Queen, which incorporates all the rules of chess. Teachers, parents, grandparents, and chess coaches learn how to build it up step by step. The message is, have fun! Enjoy the book and the game together. Take your time. Don’t go through the book all at once but learn piece to piece after which you...
                                                  20,00 €Prix
                                                  Someday I'll Be a Queen (Toolbox) de Christel Minne
                                                      This toolbox full of tips and games accompanies the picture book, Someday I’ll Be a Queen, which incorporates all the rules of chess. Teachers, parents, grandparents, and chess coaches learn how to build it up step by step. The message is, have fun! Enjoy the book and the game together. Take your time. Don’t go through the book all at once but learn piece to piece after which you...
                                                      20,00 €Prix
                                                      The Mental Game de Alexander Galkin
                                                          We all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game . Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an...
                                                          27,99 €Prix
                                                          The Mental Game de Alexander Galkin
                                                              We all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game . Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an...
                                                              27,99 €Prix
                                                              Chess Coach de Vladimir Narsky dvoretsky
                                                                  Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                  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...
                                                                  29,95 €Prix
                                                                  Chess Coach de Vladimir Narsky dvoretsky
                                                                      Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                      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...
                                                                      29,95 €Prix
                                                                      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...
                                                                          27,99 €Prix
                                                                          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...
                                                                              27,99 €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...
                                                                                  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...
                                                                                      29,99 €Prix
                                                                                      The Human Factor in Chess - The Testbook de Karsten Müller, Luis Engel et Makan Rafiee
                                                                                          After the great success of the first book (The Human Factor in Chess) on the model of the four player types, this follow-up volume contains not only specific tasks and exercises but also general questions such as: Do you prefer to calculate concrete lines or do you make your decisions more intuitively? Do you have a good sense of harmony and coordination? This approach is intended to...
                                                                                          23,00 €Prix
                                                                                          The Human Factor in Chess - The Testbook de Karsten Müller, Luis Engel et Makan Rafiee
                                                                                              After the great success of the first book (The Human Factor in Chess) on the model of the four player types, this follow-up volume contains not only specific tasks and exercises but also general questions such as: Do you prefer to calculate concrete lines or do you make your decisions more intuitively? Do you have a good sense of harmony and coordination? This approach is intended to...
                                                                                              23,00 €Prix
                                                                                              Silman's Chess Odyssey de Jeremy Silman
                                                                                                  From the bestselling author of How to Reassess Your Chess and Silman’s Complete Endgame Course comes a new book. Part instructional, part history, and part memoir, International Master Jeremy Silman pays homage to the game he loves. Chess is a strategic battle, a struggle for power and dominance. It can become an obsession, or can simply be a game to be enjoyed. When played...
                                                                                                  34,95 €Prix
                                                                                                  Silman's Chess Odyssey de Jeremy Silman
                                                                                                      From the bestselling author of How to Reassess Your Chess and Silman’s Complete Endgame Course comes a new book. Part instructional, part history, and part memoir, International Master Jeremy Silman pays homage to the game he loves. Chess is a strategic battle, a struggle for power and dominance. It can become an obsession, or can simply be a game to be enjoyed. When played...
                                                                                                      34,95 €Prix
                                                                                                      Master your Chess with Judit Polgar de Judit Polgar et Andras Toth
                                                                                                          The story of the Polgar sisters is extraordinary. The idea that Laszlo Polgar, a mediocre chess player, could decide to turn his children into chess geniuses, and then succeed beyond his wildest dreams, is incredible. It suggests that, with the right training, anything’s possible. In this book, Judit Polgar - the strongest of the three sisters and a former world top-10 player –...
                                                                                                          39,95 €Prix
                                                                                                          Master your Chess with Judit Polgar de Judit Polgar et Andras Toth
                                                                                                              The story of the Polgar sisters is extraordinary. The idea that Laszlo Polgar, a mediocre chess player, could decide to turn his children into chess geniuses, and then succeed beyond his wildest dreams, is incredible. It suggests that, with the right training, anything’s possible. In this book, Judit Polgar - the strongest of the three sisters and a former world top-10 player –...
                                                                                                              39,95 €Prix
                                                                                                              Genna Remembers de Genna Sosonko
                                                                                                                  Half a century ago I left a country whose red color dominated a large portion of the world map. One way or another, the fate of almost every single person described in this book is forever linked with that now non-existent empire. Many of them ended up beyond its borders too. Cultures and traditions, and certainly not least of all a Soviet mentality, couldn’t have just left them without a...
                                                                                                                  29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                  Genna Remembers de Genna Sosonko
                                                                                                                      Half a century ago I left a country whose red color dominated a large portion of the world map. One way or another, the fate of almost every single person described in this book is forever linked with that now non-existent empire. Many of them ended up beyond its borders too. Cultures and traditions, and certainly not least of all a Soviet mentality, couldn’t have just left them without a...
                                                                                                                      29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                      Chess Board Options de Larry Kaufman
                                                                                                                          Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                          Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty. ...
                                                                                                                          24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                          Chess Board Options de Larry Kaufman
                                                                                                                              Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                              Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty. ...
                                                                                                                              24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                              Chess for Educators de Karel van Delft
                                                                                                                                  Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                  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...
                                                                                                                                  24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                  Chess for Educators de Karel van Delft
                                                                                                                                      Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                                                                                      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...
                                                                                                                                      24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                      Bobby Fischer and his World de John Donaldson
                                                                                                                                          IM Donaldson examines Fischer’s life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldson’s meticulous research has uncovered previously lost games and a wealth of unknown material about Fischer - ranging from his close friendships with players and supporters to his acrimonious relationships with...
                                                                                                                                          29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                          Bobby Fischer and his World de John Donaldson
                                                                                                                                              IM Donaldson examines Fischer’s life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldson’s meticulous research has uncovered previously lost games and a wealth of unknown material about Fischer - ranging from his close friendships with players and supporters to his acrimonious relationships with...
                                                                                                                                              29,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                              Improve your Life by Playing a Game de Jana Krivec
                                                                                                                                                  “The book Improve Your Life by Playing a Game takes us on an exciting journey through a wide range of topics from psychology and explains these topics by putting the reader in the role of a tournament chess player. Gaining a deeper understanding of the mind of a chess player during training, playing and analysing chess games suddenly takes on a different dimension when explained...
                                                                                                                                                  32,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                  Improve your Life by Playing a Game de Jana Krivec
                                                                                                                                                      “The book Improve Your Life by Playing a Game takes us on an exciting journey through a wide range of topics from psychology and explains these topics by putting the reader in the role of a tournament chess player. Gaining a deeper understanding of the mind of a chess player during training, playing and analysing chess games suddenly takes on a different dimension when explained...
                                                                                                                                                      32,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                      Livre de coloriage Teaching Chess Step by Step
                                                                                                                                                          Les activités proposées dans le troisième livre de la série  Teaching Chess Step by Step constituent une manière amusante de renforcer la compréhension des règles et des principes du jeu d'échecs. Des personnages de dessins animés en couleur sont associés à des pages que le jeune élève peut colorier. Toutes les activités sont conçues pour aider l'élève à comprendre les règles, les...
                                                                                                                                                          10,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                          Livre de coloriage Teaching Chess Step by Step
                                                                                                                                                              Les activités proposées dans le troisième livre de la série  Teaching Chess Step by Step constituent une manière amusante de renforcer la compréhension des règles et des principes du jeu d'échecs. Des personnages de dessins animés en couleur sont associés à des pages que le jeune élève peut colorier. Toutes les activités sont conçues pour aider l'élève à comprendre les règles, les...
                                                                                                                                                              10,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                              Teaching Chess Step by Step vol.2 de Igor Khmelnitsky, Michael Khodarkovsky et Michael Zadorozny
                                                                                                                                                                  This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step – Teacher’s Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher’s presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the...
                                                                                                                                                                  19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                  Teaching Chess Step by Step vol.2 de Igor Khmelnitsky, Michael Khodarkovsky et Michael Zadorozny
                                                                                                                                                                      This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step – Teacher’s Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher’s presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the...
                                                                                                                                                                      19,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                      Teaching Chess Step by Step vol.1 de Igor Khmelnitsky, Michael Khodarkovsky et Michael Zadorozny
                                                                                                                                                                          Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a...
                                                                                                                                                                          24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                          Teaching Chess Step by Step vol.1 de Igor Khmelnitsky, Michael Khodarkovsky et Michael Zadorozny
                                                                                                                                                                              Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a...
                                                                                                                                                                              24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                              Great moves: Learning Chess Through History de Sunil Weeramantry, Alan Abrams, et Robert McLellan
                                                                                                                                                                                  What’s the best way to learn chess? Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History blends the intricacies of chess play with the game’s compelling and colorful history, putting real people at the 64 squares. Tracing the development of chess from its origins in ancient India, the authors take the student on a far-ranging journey through the palaces of medieval and Renaissance Europe to...
                                                                                                                                                                                  26,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                  Great moves: Learning Chess Through History de Sunil Weeramantry, Alan Abrams, et Robert McLellan
                                                                                                                                                                                      What’s the best way to learn chess? Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History blends the intricacies of chess play with the game’s compelling and colorful history, putting real people at the 64 squares. Tracing the development of chess from its origins in ancient India, the authors take the student on a far-ranging journey through the palaces of medieval and Renaissance Europe to...
                                                                                                                                                                                      26,00 €Prix