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The Catalan de Alex Raetsky et Maxim Chetverik
  • Nouveauté 2026
    The Catalan de Alex Raetsky et Maxim Chetverik
    • Nouveauté 2026
      The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favorite of many of the world's leading players. Its rich tactical and positional subtleties provide an excellent platform for players wishing to improve their overall understanding of the game. In this groundbreaking book, Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik provide a comprehensive coverage of this opening, outlining the most common...
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      The Catalan de Alex Raetsky et Maxim Chetverik
      • Nouveauté 2026
        The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favorite of many of the world's leading players. Its rich tactical and positional subtleties provide an excellent platform for players wishing to improve their overall understanding of the game. In this groundbreaking book, Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik provide a comprehensive coverage of this opening, outlining the most common...
        24,99 €Prix
        • Nouveauté 2026
          Play the Catalan de Nigel Davies
          • Nouveauté 2026
            Play the Catalan de Nigel Davies
            • Nouveauté 2026
              The Catalan is a sophisticated opening system which is popular at all levels of chess, and is an excellent choice for players who are keen to improve their overall understanding of the game. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by the former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas. He has utilized the Catalan with enormous success...
              24,99 €Prix
              Play the Catalan de Nigel Davies
              • Nouveauté 2026
                The Catalan is a sophisticated opening system which is popular at all levels of chess, and is an excellent choice for players who are keen to improve their overall understanding of the game. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by the former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas. He has utilized the Catalan with enormous success...
                24,99 €Prix
                100 Basic Endgames You Must Know de Jesus de la Villa
                    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...
                    27,99 €Prix
                    100 Basic Endgames You Must Know de Jesus de la Villa
                        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...
                        27,99 €Prix
                        Gambits de Jade Hoube
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                            Gambits de Jade Hoube
                                Ce livre est un répertoire des gambits du jeu d'échecs. Ses deux cent trente diagrammes, accompagnés de parties notables, constituent un aide-mémoire des gambits les plus connus et de ceux que nous avons choisi de faire mieux connaître. Des variantes mènent à quelque cinq cents autres gambits. Le gambit du Roi est particulièrement détaillé. Si vous êtes un joueur de gambits, ce livre...
                                21,90 €Prix
                                Gambits de Jade Hoube
                                    Ce livre est un répertoire des gambits du jeu d'échecs. Ses deux cent trente diagrammes, accompagnés de parties notables, constituent un aide-mémoire des gambits les plus connus et de ceux que nous avons choisi de faire mieux connaître. Des variantes mènent à quelque cinq cents autres gambits. Le gambit du Roi est particulièrement détaillé. Si vous êtes un joueur de gambits, ce livre...
                                    21,90 €Prix
                                    Le manuel des échecs en bande dessinée de Tristan Garnier et Louis VendelLe manuel des échecs en bande dessinée de Tristan Garnier et Louis Vendel
                                        Comment devenir bon rapidement aux échecs ? Contrôler le centre, roquer, développer et activer ses pièces... On ne peut découvrir les échecs, ni passer un cap, sans en étudier les principes. Si les livres théoriques peuvent parfois décourager les débutants, cette bande dessinée inédite saura vous embarquer dans une initiation ludique et didactique, pour progresser facilement....
                                        23,00 €Prix
                                        Le manuel des échecs en bande dessinée de Tristan Garnier et Louis VendelLe manuel des échecs en bande dessinée de Tristan Garnier et Louis Vendel
                                            Comment devenir bon rapidement aux échecs ? Contrôler le centre, roquer, développer et activer ses pièces... On ne peut découvrir les échecs, ni passer un cap, sans en étudier les principes. Si les livres théoriques peuvent parfois décourager les débutants, cette bande dessinée inédite saura vous embarquer dans une initiation ludique et didactique, pour progresser facilement....
                                            23,00 €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
                                                    First Steps: the Modern de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                        The Modern Defence is an important opening that can be played by Black against absolutely any White opening system. It is an ambitious, counterattacking weapon, favoured by dynamic players. White is initially allowed to occupy the centre but Black plans to undermine this structure in the middlegame with well-timed blows from the pieces and pawns. If Black gets it right then the white centre...
                                                        19,95 €Prix
                                                        First Steps: the Modern de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                            The Modern Defence is an important opening that can be played by Black against absolutely any White opening system. It is an ambitious, counterattacking weapon, favoured by dynamic players. White is initially allowed to occupy the centre but Black plans to undermine this structure in the middlegame with well-timed blows from the pieces and pawns. If Black gets it right then the white centre...
                                                            19,95 €Prix
                                                            My First Chess Opening Repertoire de Christof Sielecki
                                                                In My First Chess Opening Repertoire you will learn how to play the opening. This book gives you a compact and easy-to-learn repertoire for White, starting with the move 1.e4. And it gives you a similar repertoire for Black, with answers to all of White's approaches. For beginners and improvers, for anyone with a rating up to 1200 (or even higher!), there is probably no...
                                                                19,95 €Prix
                                                                My First Chess Opening Repertoire de Christof Sielecki
                                                                    In My First Chess Opening Repertoire you will learn how to play the opening. This book gives you a compact and easy-to-learn repertoire for White, starting with the move 1.e4. And it gives you a similar repertoire for Black, with answers to all of White's approaches. For beginners and improvers, for anyone with a rating up to 1200 (or even higher!), there is probably no...
                                                                    19,95 €Prix
                                                                    The Accelerated Dragon de Andrew Greet
                                                                        Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                        The Accelerated Dragon is a dynamic choice for Black and arguably the most natural way to play the Sicilian Defence: Black develops rapidly and chooses the most active squares to place his or her pieces. Unknowing white players looking for a direct attack similar to the one used against traditional Dragon are shocked by Black's increased options due to the flexible move order. Instead, White...
                                                                        24,99 €Prix
                                                                        The Accelerated Dragon de Andrew Greet
                                                                            Documentation échiquéenne
                                                                            The Accelerated Dragon is a dynamic choice for Black and arguably the most natural way to play the Sicilian Defence: Black develops rapidly and chooses the most active squares to place his or her pieces. Unknowing white players looking for a direct attack similar to the one used against traditional Dragon are shocked by Black's increased options due to the flexible move order. Instead, White...
                                                                            24,99 €Prix
                                                                            Le jeu d'échecs et le mat de Jean Poyard
                                                                                Rares sont les livres qui traitent en profondeur de la spiritualité et du symbolisme du jeu d'échecs. Aussi le présent ouvrage permettra à l'amateur d'échecs, comme à toute personne curieuse des choses de l'esprit, de découvrir dans le Livre muet des échecs un condensé de la connaissance spirituelle. Le lecteur découvrira de nombreux points essentiels dans ce jeu de la sagesse immémoriale,...
                                                                                24,90 €Prix
                                                                                Le jeu d'échecs et le mat de Jean Poyard
                                                                                    Rares sont les livres qui traitent en profondeur de la spiritualité et du symbolisme du jeu d'échecs. Aussi le présent ouvrage permettra à l'amateur d'échecs, comme à toute personne curieuse des choses de l'esprit, de découvrir dans le Livre muet des échecs un condensé de la connaissance spirituelle. Le lecteur découvrira de nombreux points essentiels dans ce jeu de la sagesse immémoriale,...
                                                                                    24,90 €Prix
                                                                                    Typical King's Indian de Karsten Müller
                                                                                        In designing this book, the author was guided by the following considerations. If you want to learn this or that opening, you can choose from dozens or even hundreds of textbooks. But what if you want to get familiar with the middlegame strategy used in positions that have emerged from exactly this or that opening? Or to put it another way: in positions that are typical for this or that...
                                                                                        23,00 €Prix
                                                                                        Typical King's Indian de Karsten Müller
                                                                                            In designing this book, the author was guided by the following considerations. If you want to learn this or that opening, you can choose from dozens or even hundreds of textbooks. But what if you want to get familiar with the middlegame strategy used in positions that have emerged from exactly this or that opening? Or to put it another way: in positions that are typical for this or that...
                                                                                            23,00 €Prix
                                                                                            The Colle Move by Move de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                                                                This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and...
                                                                                                24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                The Colle Move by Move de Cyrus Lakdawala
                                                                                                    This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and...
                                                                                                    24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                    The English Opening Vol.1 de Jerzy Konikowski et Uwe Bekemann
                                                                                                        What does a chess player need who is familiar with the rules, but often gets into trouble right away in the opening? This question was the starting point for the authors before they began to compile the material for a book about the English Opening. As their work progressed, they realized that there was too much material to be accommodated in a single work. That's why they decided to...
                                                                                                        23,00 €Prix
                                                                                                        The English Opening Vol.1 de Jerzy Konikowski et Uwe Bekemann
                                                                                                            What does a chess player need who is familiar with the rules, but often gets into trouble right away in the opening? This question was the starting point for the authors before they began to compile the material for a book about the English Opening. As their work progressed, they realized that there was too much material to be accommodated in a single work. That's why they decided to...
                                                                                                            23,00 €Prix
                                                                                                            How to Choose a Chess Move de Andrew Soltis
                                                                                                                International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis brings you a foolproof guide to choosing your best next chess move, every time. There are more than 20 moves you can choose from an average position, yet Chess Masters regularly manage to select the best moves and they do it faster, more confidently and with less calculation than other players. This practical guide, in a fully revised and...
                                                                                                                20,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                How to Choose a Chess Move de Andrew Soltis
                                                                                                                    International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis brings you a foolproof guide to choosing your best next chess move, every time. There are more than 20 moves you can choose from an average position, yet Chess Masters regularly manage to select the best moves and they do it faster, more confidently and with less calculation than other players. This practical guide, in a fully revised and...
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                                                                                                                    Double Trouble Scandinavian Style de Marek Soszynski
                                                                                                                        In response to 1.e4, White’s most common first move, it has long been recognized that when and if Black can play ...d5 safely, the result is approximate equality. Scandinavian devotees argue all that can happen on Move 1! But it’s hardly a ”peaceful“ equality. But do we really need a book that is a blur of all sorts of black and white possibilities with countless tightly-nested game...
                                                                                                                        24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                        Double Trouble Scandinavian Style de Marek Soszynski
                                                                                                                            In response to 1.e4, White’s most common first move, it has long been recognized that when and if Black can play ...d5 safely, the result is approximate equality. Scandinavian devotees argue all that can happen on Move 1! But it’s hardly a ”peaceful“ equality. But do we really need a book that is a blur of all sorts of black and white possibilities with countless tightly-nested game...
                                                                                                                            24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                            100 Tactical Patterns You Musk Know de Frank Erwich
                                                                                                                                Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance. This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced...
                                                                                                                                24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                100 Tactical Patterns You Musk Know de Frank Erwich
                                                                                                                                    Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance. This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced...
                                                                                                                                    24,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                    Starting out: the Colle de Richard Palliser
                                                                                                                                        The Colle is a solid, reliable system of development based on the popular opening move 1 d4. One of its major advantages is that although the system is very easy to learn and play, it leads to exciting middlegame positions where White often launches a violent attack against Black's king. The Colle is a particular favourite amongst club players, but is also seen at grandmaster level; perhaps...
                                                                                                                                        22,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                                        Starting out: the Colle de Richard Palliser
                                                                                                                                            The Colle is a solid, reliable system of development based on the popular opening move 1 d4. One of its major advantages is that although the system is very easy to learn and play, it leads to exciting middlegame positions where White often launches a violent attack against Black's king. The Colle is a particular favourite amongst club players, but is also seen at grandmaster level; perhaps...
                                                                                                                                            22,50 €Prix
                                                                                                                                            Comment gagner aux échecs de Levy Rozman
                                                                                                                                                Apprenez les échecs avec Levy Rozman (alias GothamChess), Maître International et professeur d'échecs plébiscité sur YouTube, avec ce guide innovant et ludique destiné aux joueurs débutants et intermédiaires. Intelligent et instructif, Comment gagner aux échecs vous enseigne tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le jeu, les mouvements importants et les stratégies indispensables pour...
                                                                                                                                                21,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                Comment gagner aux échecs de Levy Rozman
                                                                                                                                                    Apprenez les échecs avec Levy Rozman (alias GothamChess), Maître International et professeur d'échecs plébiscité sur YouTube, avec ce guide innovant et ludique destiné aux joueurs débutants et intermédiaires. Intelligent et instructif, Comment gagner aux échecs vous enseigne tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le jeu, les mouvements importants et les stratégies indispensables pour...
                                                                                                                                                    21,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                    Amazing Artist, Dangerous Tactician de Sofia Polgar
                                                                                                                                                        This special hardcover edition will be limited to 200 numbered copies. Each will be signed and dated by Sofia. A Truly Unique Chess Book The chess triumphs of the Polgar sisters are legendary. Now, in this very special book, Sofia Polgar tells her own exceptional story: from her development as a prodigy and remarkable tournament successes to her eventually...
                                                                                                                                                        79,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                        Amazing Artist, Dangerous Tactician de Sofia Polgar
                                                                                                                                                            This special hardcover edition will be limited to 200 numbered copies. Each will be signed and dated by Sofia. A Truly Unique Chess Book The chess triumphs of the Polgar sisters are legendary. Now, in this very special book, Sofia Polgar tells her own exceptional story: from her development as a prodigy and remarkable tournament successes to her eventually...
                                                                                                                                                            79,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                            Openings Queen's Pawn Games de Jerzy Konikowski et Uwe Bekemann
                                                                                                                                                                What does a chess player need who is familiar with the rules, but often gets into trouble right away in the opening? This question was the starting point for the authors before they began to compile their material. The result is a book that gives explanations to help the reader understand the 'Queen's Gambit' - and instructions to show him how to use it. And no matter if he is little...
                                                                                                                                                                23,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                Openings Queen's Pawn Games de Jerzy Konikowski et Uwe Bekemann
                                                                                                                                                                    What does a chess player need who is familiar with the rules, but often gets into trouble right away in the opening? This question was the starting point for the authors before they began to compile their material. The result is a book that gives explanations to help the reader understand the 'Queen's Gambit' - and instructions to show him how to use it. And no matter if he is little...
                                                                                                                                                                    23,00 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                    Play the Orangutan: 1.b4 de Carsten Hansen
                                                                                                                                                                        BOOM! How did the author take a supposedly harmless, and eccentric opening and score 70% in his games with it, including a massive 75% against grandmasters? He started playing the Orangutan and went from Orangutan-curious to Orangutan-devotee in a few months and as he explored the opening further, the results got better and better! In this book, the author delivers a...
                                                                                                                                                                        18,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                        Play the Orangutan: 1.b4 de Carsten Hansen
                                                                                                                                                                            BOOM! How did the author take a supposedly harmless, and eccentric opening and score 70% in his games with it, including a massive 75% against grandmasters? He started playing the Orangutan and went from Orangutan-curious to Orangutan-devotee in a few months and as he explored the opening further, the results got better and better! In this book, the author delivers a...
                                                                                                                                                                            18,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                            Play 1.b4! de Yury Lapshun et Nick Conticello
                                                                                                                                                                                Do you wish to surprise your opponent on the first move? Do you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the game? Look no further than 1 b4! With this aggressive pawn lunge White takes the game into relatively unknown territory and forces Black players onto their own devices. In this landmark book, Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello take an in-depth look at 1...
                                                                                                                                                                                17,95 €Prix
                                                                                                                                                                                Play 1.b4! de Yury Lapshun et Nick Conticello
                                                                                                                                                                                    Do you wish to surprise your opponent on the first move? Do you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the game? Look no further than 1 b4! With this aggressive pawn lunge White takes the game into relatively unknown territory and forces Black players onto their own devices. In this landmark book, Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello take an in-depth look at 1...
                                                                                                                                                                                    17,95 €Prix