Savoir bien jouer les pions est essentiel à une bonne stratégie. Cependant, même les champions se trompent à l'occasion. En dégageant des principes dont il illustre très bien le domaine de définition grâce à des exemples et contre-exemples marquants, le fort grand maître Sam Shankland explique très clairement quelles embûches vous attendent, comment les éviter et comment faire trébucher vos...

As late as 1950, many chess clubs in America excluded women. The Marshall Chess Club in New York City was an exception, organizing the U.S. Women’s Chess Championship beginning in the late 1930s. Since the 1980s, the average rating of the players has increased. The Saint Louis Chess Club has organized the championship since 2009, with record-setting prizes. Drawing on archives and original...

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,...

This book presents 100 of best and most beautiful chess problems composed by Rev. A. Cyrill Pearson - a leading English chess problem composer in the middle of the 19th century. In this new edition, FIDE Master Carsten Hansen thoroughly reanalyzed all of the compositions and analyses and made the material accessible to modern readers and fans of chess problems.

IM Richard Palliser outlines a combative Trompowsky (1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5) repertoire for White. The lines analysed deal with all of Black’s common responses. A perennial favourite of creative players, the ‘Tromp’ sets Black complex problems from the very beginning. It has been played by Anand in a World Championship match and used as a surprise weapon by Carlsen, Nakamura, Erigaisi,...

For forty years Paul Keres remained one of the world’s strongest grandmasters, admired for the way he played chess, famous for his spectacular surprise attacks, sparkling combinations, opening innovations, middlegame planning, and endgame technique. Six times he narrowly missed a world title match, earning the nickname “The Eternal Second” or “The Crown Prince of Chess”. He was highly...

This opening manual completes the Black repertoire against the Sicilian that uses the Kalashnikov as the main line. When possible, Black will opt for the adventurous moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5, covered in the book King’s Kalashnikov. But everyone playing 1... c5 has to be ready when White chooses to avoid the Open Sicilian. In this volume King gives you the answer...

Many players are attracted to the Dragon Sicilian, but are put off by the fierce mating attacks that White can launch. In the Accelerated Dragon, Black aims for an improved version, saving a move with his queen's pawn. If White tries to ignore the difference, Black's instant detonation of the centre will come as an unwelcome cold shower! The authors show that White's main reply, the...

En 1914, à l'issue du grand tournoi de Saint-Pétersbourg, José Raúl Capablanca, qui venait de livrer un chassé-croisé d'anthologie avec le Dr Emanuel Lasker pour la première place, défia publiquement ce dernier pour le titre de champion du monde, prophétisant que le prochain champion du monde serait lui-même, Capablanca. Le Dr Lasker, le géant prussien champion du monde depuis vingt ans, ne...

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...

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...

The Nimzo-Indian Defence is an ideal weapon for Black at all levels. It has been popular for over a century due to its positional soundness, yet has experienced a revolution in recent years, with modern analysis increasingly highlighting its dynamic potential. Playing the Nimzo-Indian offers a complete repertoire for Black after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4, with an...

Pour la plupart des joueurs, affronter le système de Londres a quelque chose d'agaçant. Longtemps délaissé par les grands joueurs, superficiellement peu agressif, c'est le type d'ouverture dont on se dit que si on la rencontre devant l'échiquier, on arrivera bien à la neutraliser avec un peu de bon sens et en respectant quelques grands principes. Or, ce système est loin d'être...

Enfin un livre du célèbre entraîneur Mark Dvoretsky en français ! Artur Jussupow, qui fut son disciple et l'un des tous meilleurs joueurs mondiaux, a repris les analyses du maître pour vous permettre d'acquérir une excellente technique grâce à une section théorique et 101 exercices pratiques aux solutions très détaillées. Vous disposez maintenant du meilleur matériel pour vous entraîner à ne...

Des grands champions d'échecs, on sait, au fond, peu de choses... Nous connaissons certes leurs parties, et, quand ils veulent bien les commenter, une infime partie de la multitude d'idées qui a traversé leur esprit pendant celles-ci. Nous savons que, pour préparer leurs ouvertures et arriver bien armés dans les grands tournois, ils font appel à des « secondants » qui leur livrent...

Korchnoi and his Chess Grandchildren features 25 of Viktor Korchnoi’s best games from the latter stages of his glorious career. The latest game is from 2011, when Korchnoi was still potent enough to defeat Fabiano Caruana. The annotations are mainly in Korchnoi’s own words, with insightful additions from other top players and the author. Between the annotated games are numerous...

Grandmaster David Smerdon plays the Scandinavian, but not in the typically solid style of this popular opening. He gives the Scandinavian a welcome twist by using it as an all-out attacking weapon! The repertoire he presents in this book is an enhanced version of the one he has successfully employed at grandmaster level over many years. The backbone of his repertoire in the main lines is...

Endgame Labyrinths presents the reader with 1002 challenging studies selected and truncated, with their usefulness for the practical player in mind. It is common for studies to be extended by less interesting manoeuvres or by incomprehensible sequences, before the main themes come into play. The studies in this book have been pruned to leave the reader with 1002 clear and solvable...

Forging New Paths in an Ancient Opening The Queen’s Gambit Accepted is one of the oldest known openings in chess. It was first mentioned in chess literature in the late 15th century. Over 500 years later, American Grandmaster Max Dlugy demonstrates in this groundbreaking work that the QGA is still a fighting, uncompromising opening that allows Black to play for a win...

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...

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...

Written by Belgian FIDE master Luc Henris, this book contains comprehensive presentation of the present-day theory of the Albin Counter-Gambit. The opening is experiencing a remarkable renaissance lately, notably trough the efforts of elite Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich. The author has thoroughly re-analysed many positions and reveals the ideas behind his pet lines in the...

Wesley So, l'un des tous meilleurs joueurs du monde, clot avec ce livre une série de quatre dans laquelle des auteurs différents ont choisi 100 positions qui les ont particulièrement marqué et qui sont à la fois amusantes et instructives. Celles de ce livre sont extraites des parties de So entre 2018 et 2020. Les exercices sont distribués en 4 sections de difficulté croissante, et l'auteur...

C'est le 3e livre d'une série de quatre pour laquelle des auteurs différents ont choisi 100 positions qui les ont particulièrement marqué et qui sont à la fois amusantes et instructives. Dans chaque livre, les positions sont réparties en 4 sections de difficulté croissante. Auteur et éditeur de livres d'échecs depuis un quart de siècle, Graham Burgess a pu puiser les pépites présentées ici...