New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine

In issue 2018#2 you will find 108 pages of the best in chess with Carlsen, Kasparov, Aronian, Kramnik, Fischer and many others
Carlsen sets record with 6th win
The 80th Tata Steel Chess ­Tournament in Wijk aan Zee ended with a blitz playoff between Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri. The World Champion tends to win playoffs. Always. And this one was no exception.
 
Levon Aronian wins Gibraltar
In his first appearance in an Open in more than a decade, Levon Aronian won the play-offs of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess. The traditionally generous prize for the best female player, £ 15,000, was pocketed by Pia Cramling.
 
Kasparov's musical favourites
Garry Kasparov chose his musical favourites - from Mozart to Lloyd Webber - for a BBC radio program 
 
Letters
How fair was the AlphaZero-Stockfish match?
 
Fischer Facts
Ten years after his death the 11th World Champion continues to fascinate.
 
Fair Square
What did John Maynard Keynes see as one of the benefits of chess?
 
Nigel Short's column
If ever an activity should long ago have expired and been buried with dignity, it is surely correspondence chess, Nigel Short suggests.
 
Interview: Vidit Gujrathi
He may well be Indias brightest hope for the coming years.
 
Veni, Vidit, Vici
In a personal account, the winner of the Tata Steel Challengers reveals how he transformed into a Master.
 
Judit Polgar
Its not easy to play after a loss, Judit Polgar argues. Or a win!
 
Maximize Your Tactics
Find the right moves.
 
Fischer Random anyone?
Maxim Dlugy followed the Carlsen-Nakamura match and looks at the merits of Fischer Random.
 
Secrets of Opening Surprises
An aggressive weapon against the English Opening on move 2!
 
NICs Café
An Armenian banknote honouring Tigran Petrosian and a Russian plane named after Mikhail Botvinnik.
 
Chess Pattern Recognition
Impossible break moves that are a feast to the eye.
 
Sadler on Books
Matthew Sadler gets into raptures about a superb account of the match in New York with fascinating insights by former champ Vladimir Kramnik.
 
Living in bad times
Hans Ree read the biography of Paul Felix Schmidt (1916-1984), a prominent player in his time, but now almost forgotten.
 
Jan Timman shows how top-level games often inspire chess study composers. And the other way around!
 
Just Checking: What is Pia Cramlings all-time favourite movie?
Celeb64: Hugh Laurie

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New In Chess 2018/7: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018/7: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018#7 brings you 108 pages of the best in chess Double Gold for China  In a nail-biting finish China became the big winner of the 43th Olympiad in Batumi. In a unique double strike, the Chinese were victorious both in the Open and the Womens competition. The Best of Batumi  With teams from 180 different countries, the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi was a gathering of old and new friends from all corners of the world. Summer of Chess  In another month packed with chess, the St. Louis Che

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Tactics Time 2

Tactics Time 2

Tim Brennan and Anthea Carson are back! The best way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. Tim and Anthea only take positions from genuine amateur games and put them out there, warts and all. They have assembled thousands of games by everyday players, and selected the most instructive tactical examples. If you want to improve at chess but have limited time and energy available, this is your book! Now you can study positions that are happening in games you yourself might have play

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The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement: Lessons From the Best Players in the World

The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement: Lessons From the Best Players in the World

Masterclasses by Kasparov, Carlsen, Tal, Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Smyslov, Larsen, Karpov and many others. For more than three decades, every issue of New In Chess magazine has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the worlds best players of their own best games. Because studying well-annotated master games is the best way to learn the skills that really matter, acclaimed chess author Steve Giddins has revisited the New In Chess vault and assembled the clearest and most didactic

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Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key Moves Motifs in the Middlegame

Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key Moves Motifs in the Middlegame

In this sequel to his instant classic, Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents players of almost every level with a fresh supply of easy-to-remember building blocks for their chess knowledge. Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation. In short, well-defined and practical chapters, IM Van de Oudeweetering presents hundreds of surprising middlegame themes. 

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1001 Exercises for Advanced Club Players

1001 Exercises for Advanced Club Players

Miękka okładka. Wydanie w języku angielskim.  Opis ze strony wydawnictwa: An advanced club player must look deeper! In this follow-up to his acclaimed 1001 Chess Exercise for Club Players, FIDE Master Frank Erwich teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively.

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New In Chess 2017/2: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2017/2: The Club Player's Magazine

Issue 2017#2 brings you 108 pages of the best in chess: Living the dream As if he is casually checking off dream goals on a bucket list, Wesley So is going from strength to strength. In Wijk aan Zee the 23-year-old American reached a new milestone as he claimed another super-tournament, for the first time finishing ahead of the World Champion. Interview: Adhiban Baskaran Meet the next big thing from India. Still Writhing In Agon(y) Nigel Short cannot believe why hardly anyone wants to see wh

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Attacking 101 Volume #001: 60 Fully Annotated Games

Attacking 101 Volume #001: 60 Fully Annotated Games

The goal of the books in this series Attacking 101 is to provide detailed analysis of my own attack games played against lower rated players. The players are all rated in the range of 1000 to 1800 - the types of players you would frequently encounter at your local chess club, local tournaments, online, and at home. They make the same errors you regularly witness in your games but here you get to see a Chess Master dissect and exploit the moves, show why they are wrong, and how to punish the opponents poo

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Attacking 101 Volume #002: 110 Fully Annotated Games

Attacking 101 Volume #002: 110 Fully Annotated Games

The goal of the books in this series Attacking 101 is to provide detailed analysis of my own attack games played against lower rated players. The players are all rated in the range of 1000 to 1800 - the types of players you would frequently encounter at your local chess club, local tournaments, online, and at home. They make the same errors you regularly witness in your games but here you get to see a Chess Master dissect and exploit the moves, show why they are wrong, and how to punish the opponents poo

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Play 1...d6 Against Everything

Play 1...d6 Against Everything

The average club player doesnt need to study hundreds of pages of chess opening theory. Understanding structures and finding tactics are much more important than memorizing variations. Renowned German chess trainers Erik Zude and Jörg Hickl have created an ideal club players repertoire for Black. This compact manual presents a set of lines that is conveniently limited in scope, yet varied, solid and complete.  The core repertoire is based on lines that the authors have successfully played at (grand)ma

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Chess Tips for the Improving Player by Amatzia Avni (miękka okładka)

Chess Tips for the Improving Player by Amatzia Avni (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Chess Tips for the Improving Player gives practical advice for club players who want to take the next step towards chess mastery. Amatzia Avni looks at life from an unusual angle. His approach is far more creative than merely offering the usual tips such as develop your pieces and control the centre. Instead of repeating clichés seen before in countless books, the author scrutinized a huge number of chess positions, asking himself, What can be learned from them?

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Under the Surface by Jan Markos (twarda okładka)

Under the Surface by Jan Markos (twarda okładka)

Książka wydana w języku angielskim. Twarda okładka.   The most significant difference between a grandmaster and a club player is not simply that the grandmaster calculates more accurately, but rather that he sees more deeply. This book invites you beneath the surface, where you can learn to navigate the depths of chess. Jan Markos shows how a strong player perceives chess, which features of a position he focuses on, and how he thinks at the board. The authors philosophy is that understanding chess

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New In Chess 2018/5: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018/5: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018#5 brings you 108 pages of the best in Chess The new womens World Champion A profile of Ju Wenjun and exclusive game notes by the new champ. Fabiano Caruana wins Norway Chess Magnus Carlsen had an explosive start at Altibox Norway Chess. But then the World Champion stalled and it was his upcoming Challenger who crowned a mighty comeback. Play It Again, Sam... Hot on the heels of his win at the US Championship, Sam Shankland claimed the Capablanca Memorial and the America

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For Friends Colleagues Vol. II: Reflections on my Profession

For Friends Colleagues Vol. II: Reflections on my Profession

Mark Dvoretsky has long been considered one of the premier 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, Dvoretskys Endgame Manual, now in its fourth edition, established itself as the sine qua non of endgame theory from the moment it appeared over a decade ago. In this second volume of his highly-acclaimed autobiographical wor

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Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado Think Like a Super-GM - M. Adams, P. Hurtado

Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado Think Like a Super-GM - M. Adams, P. Hurtado

Książka wydana w języku angielskim. W książce występują symbole szachowe. Twarda okładka.    Think Like a Super-GM is a unique collaboration combining the chess insights of an elite grandmaster with a scientific investigation into thinking at the chess board. 40 chess puzzles were shown to a panel of players ranging from occasional club players up to Super-GM and co-author Michael Adams. Researcher Philip Hurtado recorded not only the moves chosen, but also the detailed thought processes of every pla

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New In Chess 2018/4: The Club Player's Magazine

New In Chess 2018/4: The Club Player's Magazine

Issue 2018#4 brings you 108 pages of the best in chess     Sam Shankland: The tallest king In St. Louis Caruana, So or Nakamura, who would be the new US Champion? Well, none of them, as Sam Shankland claimed the title, pocketed $ 50,000 and finally crossed the 2700 ELO mark. Magnus Carlsen: Hat-trick in Shamkir Mediocre play proved good enough for Magnus Carlsen to win the Vugar Gashimov Memorial for the third time (with a 2884 performance). Fabiano Caruana continued Only four days a

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