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Rezvov lived a long and tragic life: it was at the age of nearly 90 that he was awarded the titles of Ukrainian chess composition grandmaster and FIDE chess composition international master, and his love of chess kept him going through life as a child laborer, WWII solder, prisoner of war and later prisoner in the Soviet Union. His compositions appeared in leading chess magazines such as Chess in the USSR, 64 – Chess Review and The Problemist, and he won many prizes. Several of these compositions were produced jointly with Sergei Tkachenko. 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 selected 100 studies and problems by Odessite chess master Nikolai Vasilevich Rezvov (1921–2013), which will help you to appreciate the splendor and depth of the royal game.

I assume that most of you have read (and enjoyed!) the first volume of this series, but for those who haven’t: don’t worry. The level of the content of the two books is identical and you can work through the second volume without having studied the first one. However, it’s still not too late to get a copy of the first volume! In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with limited material left on the board. Endgames, yes, but also positions where the initiative plays an important role. My aim is to illustrate the specific features of all the pieces and this can best be done without too many other pieces on the board.

CHESS INFORMANT’S 138th ADVENTURE

DUEL!!!

CONTENTS:

FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GM Ernesto Inarkiev

JU WENJUN’S MARVELOUS 2018 WGM Aleksandra Dimitrijević

THE UNCONQUERABLE GREAT WALL OF CHINA GM Danilo Milanović

BATUMI 2018 OLYMPIAD – Opening Survey GM Miloš Perunović

THE 2018 EUROPEAN CLUB CUP GM Dragoljub Jacimovic

b4 PAWN – A BRAVE FOOT SOLDIER GM Mihail Marin

MAMEDYAROV’S SURPRISE IN THE OPEN RUY LOPEZ GM Markus Ragger

THE SEMI-SLAV DEFENCE – PART III GM Aleksander Delchev

THE FRENCH WINAWER – 6...Qa5 GM Robert Markuš

THE PANOV-BOTVINNIK ATTACK – 6...Be6 GM Ivan Ivanišević

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, correspondence chess, endgame blunders, Tournaments review, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

In The Longest Game Jan Timman returns to the Kasparov-Karpov matches. He chronicles the many twists and turns of this fascinating saga, including his behind-the scenes impressions, and takes a fresh look at the games.

Now including all World Championship Games! (FREE RE-DOWNLOADABLE FOR THOSE WHO PURCHASED THE FIRST EDITION) The rivalry of reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana began 2010 in the Dutch village Wijk aan Zee and culminated in the World Chess Championship 2018. Over the past years, they have crossed swords 71 times: In classical, rapid and blitz chess. All their games against each other - including the thrilling World Championship match - are thoroughly annotated in this book.

The Dutch defense is a highly popular opening nowadays with the idea to get a sharp and assymetrical position against 1.d4. Together with the second part, the book gives the reader a full Dutch repertoire with black. The first volume will be useful for players who want to play the Stonewall, the Ilyin-Zhenevsky or the Hort systems without allowing the French or the Pirc defences.

Queen's Indian Defense

The Queen’s Indian is one of Black’s most reliable and respected defences after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6, and its most important main line is the fianchetto with 4.g3, where White contests the long diagonal with his own bishop. This book is a deep, dedicated study of that system, the one most often seen at the very top level.

International Master Maxim Chetverik examines the 4.g3 complex in exhaustive detail — alongside the related Petrosian System (4.Nc3 with a3), the 4.e3 and 4.Bd2 set-ups, and the Catalan-flavoured transpositions — so the reader gets a complete picture of the structures rather than a single narrow line.

The book is built around 181 complete games plus several hundred analysed fragments, all with detailed original commentary. Rather than pushing one verdict, Chetverik aims for balanced, honest evaluations of these famously subtle positions, where small differences in plan and move-order decide the game.

A thorough reference for club players and above who play the Queen’s Indian from either side, or who want to understand one of the cornerstone openings of modern grandmaster practice.

The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action. The solutions rarely involve spectacular fireworks, as is the case in most chess puzzle books. Instead, you may be asked to find a quiet move or a reasoned evaluation. Solving the puzzles in this unusual and entertaining book is a most effective way to improve your chess. It will help you to develop a vital skill: the ability to take practical decision in critical moments.

Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners

Pattern recognition is the engine of chess improvement: the more standard images you carry in your head, the faster you grasp a position and find the right plan. Arthur van de Oudeweetering’s earlier books on the subject became instant favourites — but they assumed you already knew the fundamentals. This book supplies those fundamentals, written for the ambitious beginner and post-beginner.

It teaches the essential patterns a developing player actually needs: how to develop and coordinate the pieces, how to manoeuvre pawns into strong formations, how to put pressure on the opponent and attack the enemy king, and how to execute the standard sacrifices that seize the initiative. The chapters are built around memorable, named images — the rook on the seventh, the bad bishop, the isolated pawn, the classic h7 bishop sacrifice — so the ideas stick.

Each part ends with exercises, and a foreword by grandmaster Vladimir Chuchelov frames the method. The whole approach is designed so that recognising a familiar pattern does the heavy lifting that calculation alone never could.

Study it and your results should climb noticeably. Ideal for improving beginners — and the perfect on-ramp to the author’s more advanced pattern-recognition books later.

Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.

The Queen's Indian Defence has the reputation of a very reliable system for Black. Although his chances of obtaining sharp double-edged positions are restricted, good knowledge of piece set-ups and different plans should offer Black chances of seizing the initiative even in calm variations. The opening monographs on the QID, as a rule, focus on the move order 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6. What is Black supposed to do if the opponent wishes to avoid the QID and begins the game with the moves 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4, or 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3?. How should Black deploy his pieces and what should he aim for in the middlegame? The book of the grandmaster from Saint Petersburg and chess-coach Evgeniy Solozhenkin answers these questions!