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This book is designed to boost your positional understanding to new heights!

In this book, you'll find 500 examples from real games, sorted into four different levels. We've picked the best and most helpful examples from games played in the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. Most of these games were played by very strong players.

This book continues the journey we started last year, using the same concept. Our goal here is to introduce new ideas, creating a complete and comprehensive learning experience when combined with the previous book.

These exercises are perfect for intermediate and club players aiming to reach a FIDE rating of 2200-2300. They're also incredibly helpful for CM and FM-level players aspiring to become International Masters or Grandmasters.

This isn't just a collection of random positions. We've worked hard to bring you a wide variety of strategic ideas, from the simplest and most common positional thoughts to very complex and deep plans. Prepare to dive into the depths of modern chess and discover the secrets of strategic mastery!

This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations covered in this volume include: 1) Scotch Game, 2) Italian Game & Evans Gambit, 3) Two Knights, 4) Ruy Lopez, 5) Three & Four Knights 6) King's Gambit, 7) The Petroff, 8) Philidor & Minor Defenses, 9) Various Gambits

In this book Ivan Sokolov presents a set of practical tools that will help you to master the art of sacrifice.

The study of well-annotated master games is the best way to improve. Acclaimed chess author Steve Giddins has assembled the most didactic examples from New In Chess. There are masterclasses by dozens of chess legends and no fewer than eight World Champions. Together they provide the high standard of instructional material that today’s club player needs.

The author has countless practical suggestions for improving your endgame play in this era of rapid-time controls so that you don’t end up “drowning” in the ocean of endgame theory. Let Mark Dvoretsky help you win more games as he examines some elementary endgame errors from master play and shows you how to avoid making the same mistakes.

The second volume of Elk and Ruby’s treatise on Viktor Korchnoi, penned by FM Hans Renette and IM Tibor Karolyi, covers the period 1969-1980. This encompasses Korchnoi’s famous world championship fight with Karpov at Baguio City in 1978, his candidates final matches against Karpov in 1974 and Hubner in 1980, as well as the related candidates cycles and major tournament performances. Much biographical colour is supplied on his life and character, with this period including his defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1976. Like in Volume I, original material is provided from interviews with key protagonists and their relatives, while sources in Russian, German, Dutch and Hungarian as well as English are used to paint the most comprehensive portrait of Korchnoi available. 

140 games and fragments are analysed in detail in this work. As well as Karpov and Hubner, opponents include Fischer, Spassky, Petrosian, Smyslov, Portisch, Geller, Najdorf, Timman, Larsen, Mecking, Sosonko, Andersson, Ljubojevic, Polugaevsky, Nunn, and Miles among others. Many new discoveries are made in the analysis. In particular, the authors identify that Korchnoi worked hard to improve his endgame ability significantly during the time that he was boycotted in tournaments by the Soviets, which is most surprising given that he was in his mid-forties by then, and was the best player of his time at endgame tactics. Further, the authors found that his reputation as a pawn grabber was highly exaggerated, and that he carried out a huge number of king attacks on the h-file. They also discovered that Korchnoi more than matched Karpov for openings in the 1978 title bout despite the unprecedented preparation of the Soviet chess machine, and that the key reason he lost that match was time trouble. 

The book is supplemented with a generous supply of photos, many taken from the Korchnoi family archive and never before published.

The Modern Vienna

The Vienna Game — 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 — has quietly become a favourite way for ambitious White players to dodge the heavy theory of the Ruy Lopez and Italian while still playing for a real attack. This book presents a complete, up-to-date White repertoire built on it.

The recommended approach blends aggression with soundness. Rather than charging in blindly, White develops the bishop to c4, supports the centre with d3, plays the thematic f4 break, castles, and only then launches the kingside attack — so the assault rests on a healthy positional foundation and White is rarely left overextended.

The coverage is organised by Black’s defensive scheme, addressing the lines with ...Nf6 and ...Nc6, the various ...Bc5 and ...Bb4 set-ups, the tricky ...Nxe4 grab, and the King’s-Gambit-flavoured positions that arise after f4. Each is handled with the strategic ideas explained alongside the concrete lines.

A practical, modern repertoire for club players who want an attacking but principled answer to 1...e5 that keeps the game on their own terms and away from their opponents’ preparation.

There are many defences that Black can employ against the Queen’s Gambit and it’s easy to become confused by the countless options for both White and Black. Lemos tackles this problem by providing a concise, easy-to-learn and practical repertoire that is suitable for players of all levels. Using illustrative games, Lemos examines the typical tactics and strategies for both sides, and highlights the key move order issues. This book tells you everything you need to know about playing the Queen’s Gambit.

Bologan's King's Indian

The King’s Indian is the most uncompromising way to meet 1.d4: Black hands White the centre, then throws everything at the enemy king. It was the weapon of Tal, Fischer and Kasparov, and it remains hugely popular. In this book Victor Bologan builds a complete King’s Indian repertoire for Black — and, characteristically, gives two ways to play in many of the critical lines.

The coverage is genuinely complete. Every serious White system gets its own treatment: the Averbakh, the Sämisch, the Four Pawns Attack, the Classical with all its branches (Bayonet, Petrosian, Gligorić), the positional Fianchetto, and the various Anti-King’s-Indian set-ups including the London and Torre — so whatever White does, you have a prepared, principled answer.

Bologan’s strength as a writer is accessibility: he grounds the reader in the recurring strategic and tactical motifs of each structure before diving into the lines, and he has unearthed a wealth of new ideas and resources along the way. A closing section of solving exercises lets you test your grasp.

A rich, ambitious repertoire for club players and above who want to play the King’s Indian as the fighting, attacking opening it was meant to be.

Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one bishop in the finale, yet manages to win or draw

This book aims to offer an active Black repertoire against The English Opening 1.c4, the Reti 1.Nf3, and their siblings that arise after 1.g3. More importantly, it tries to offer not only variations, but also a philosophy of how to treat such openings.