The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement

The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement

Miękka okładka. Wydanie w języku angielskim. 560 stron.Książka jest zbiorem partii komentowanych oraz analiz gry silników szachowych. Traktuje o technikach i ideach używanych przez komputery i jest próbą określenia elementów jakie każdy szachista może poprawić ucząc się poprzez obserwację gry silników.Opis ze strony wydawnictwa:Matthew Sadler presents a unique set of methods to work out using an engine.Preparing openings and training early middlegame play, the conversion of advantages, positional play,and defense. And of course: how to analyze ones own games.These generic training methods Sadler supplements with concrete middlegame and opening tools (techniques, ideas) developed by various top engines. Sadler illustrates his lessons with a collection of fantastic games, explained with his trademark enthusiasm. For the first time the superhuman powers of the chess engine have been decoded to the benefit of all players, in a rich and highly instructive book.Ten thousands of players own a chess engine, but they mostly just use it to check and calculate variations.Matthew Sadler presents unique methods to work out with a chess engine and shows specific middlegame tools and opening strategies developed by engines.For the first time, the superhuman powers of the chess engine have been decoded to the benefit of all chess players.Matthew Sadler (1974) is a Grandmaster who twice won the British Championship and was awarded an individual Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympiad. He has authored several highly acclaimed books on chess and has been writing the famous Sadler on Books column for New In Chess magazine for many years. He is the co-author of Game Changer, the award-winning bestseller on the chess playing AI-system of Google subsidiary Deep Mind.

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Build up your Chess 2 - Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Build up your Chess 2 - Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know. Now Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.Follow this link for more detailed

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How I Became a Chess Grandmaster by Vinay Bhat (miękka okładka)

How I Became a Chess Grandmaster by Vinay Bhat (miękka okładka)

Książka w miękkiej okładce, język angielski.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 Vinays 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 Grandmaster is a personal story that entertains as it instructs. With numerous photographs

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Build up your Chess 2 by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Build up your Chess 2 by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know. Now Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.Follow this link for more detailed

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Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess

3rd Edition - with a new epilogue: 'The Discussion Continues'The chess instruction establishment claims that all you need to do is concentrate on the characteristics of a position. Stick to some rules of thumb and good moves will pop up more or less automatically.But that is not how it works, finds International Master Willy Hendriks. Chess players, both weak and strong, dont first make a plan before looking at candidate moves. Trial and error is a very common and in fact highly effective way to get to th

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The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi

The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi

Wersja w twardej okładce. Książka w języku angielskim Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischers unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to Reykjavik.The second volume, Fischer – Spassky 1972, is devoted to the

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Build up your Chess 3 - Mastery by Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Build up your Chess 3 - Mastery by Artur Yusupov (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Renowned grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his "Build up Your Chess" chess-improvement course. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club players the basic ideas they should know; Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, set off on the road to mastery, and now in  Volume 3, Mastery, we arrive at our final destination.Yusupov guides the reader using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.Follow this link for more detaile

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The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi (twarda okładka)

The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa - angielska. Expected Publication October 2021Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischers unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to Reykjavik.The second volume, Fischer – Spassky 1972, is devoted

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The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi (miękka okładka)

The Road to Reykjavik by Tibor Karolyi (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa - angielska. Expected Publication October 2021Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischers unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to Reykjavik.The second volume, Fischer – Spassky 1972, is devoted

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Chess training Pocket Book II

Chess training Pocket Book II

320 Key Positions to improve your chess skills. 'The Chess Training Pocket Book II: How to spot tactics and how far ahead to calculate' gives you the knowledge and training you need to become a master-strength player. It will test, train, and sharpen your thinking skills.The first chapter has a number of extremely useful, no-nonsense tips on how to think about a position, such as: how to battle tunnel-vision, handle candidate moves, use 'support positions', and switch perspective.The bulk of the book cons

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Chess Lessons by Vladimir Popov (twarda okładka)

Chess Lessons by Vladimir Popov (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Vladimir Popov is a distinguished Russian chess coach who has guided his two most celebrated pupils, the Kosintseva sisters, into the Top 10 of womens chess. In Chess Lessons Popov shares his secrets of chess improvement.Chess is of course a complex game, but Popov has the ability as a coach and author to offer clear principles to help the reader achieve a deeper understanding of chess.A top Russian chess coach shares his secrets of chess improvement. Written by a high

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Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado

Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip 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 player in o

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Boost your Chess 2 - Beyond the Basics by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Boost your Chess 2 - Beyond the Basics by Artur Yusupov (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska. Boost your Chess 2 continues Yusupovs Beyond the Basics series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.Grandmaster Artur Yusupov, from Germany, was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992,

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Small Steps 2 Success by Sam Shankland (twarda okładka)

Small Steps 2 Success by Sam Shankland (twarda okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.Pawn play is a fundamental aspect of chess strategy, yet often neglected in chess literature. In this, his second book on pawn play, Super-GM Sam Shankland sheds light on the vital topic of Passed Pawns.Passed pawns – whether connected, lone or protected – are common occurrences in middlegames and endgames, and your effectiveness in playing with or against them will make the difference between victory and defeat. Just like in his previous book, Shankland breaks down eac

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Small Steps 2 Success by Sam Shankland (miękka okładka)

Small Steps 2 Success by Sam Shankland (miękka okładka)

Wersja językowa książki - angielska.Pawn play is a fundamental aspect of chess strategy, yet often neglected in chess literature. In this, his second book on pawn play, Super-GM Sam Shankland sheds light on the vital topic of Passed Pawns.Passed pawns – whether connected, lone or protected – are common occurrences in middlegames and endgames, and your effectiveness in playing with or against them will make the difference between victory and defeat. Just like in his previous book, Shankland breaks down eac

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Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best...

Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your SchoolIf you want to amaze your friends with your chess skills, this is exactly the book you have been looking for. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to play Power Moves, winning tactics that require thinking ahead. But how do you find Power Moves? Experienced chess trainer Charles Hertan will show you and help you to become a very dangerous player! You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just consider

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