The book Together with the Candidates that you are holding is firstly a book of tests with their solutions, given in the format of game fragments with detailed comments. All the tasks in this book have been taken from games of the Candidates competitions. They differ very much in their degree of complexity. I hope this will allow a wide circle of readers to find the tests corresponding to their own chess level here.
In this companion volume to the author’s highly-regarded The Nimzo-Indian Defence, the starting point is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6. The main focus is on 3.Nf3 b6 while Roiz also covers 3.g3 (Catalan) and miscellaneous options."
In the first book we discussed basic positions and methods for playing both simple and complicated rook endings. Now, in this book, we will discuss typical positions — which means positions that frequently appear in practical play. Knowledge of such positions and the methods of handling them is a third key element of correct play in rook endgames.
(Free re-downloadable for those who purchased the first edition!) One of the remarkable things about the Accelerated Dragon is its appeal to players with vastly different styles. In this book International Master Raja Panjwani presents a repertoire for Black demonstrating a dynamic way to fight 1.e4 from the second move.
CHESS INFORMANT’S 137th ADVENTURE
The Quest for the Golden Fleece
CONTENTS:
FORWARD, ALWAYS FORWARD GM Aleksandar Inđić
USEFUL TRICKS AND TRAPS IN FAST TIME CONTROLS GM Pentala Harikrishna
EXCHANGING QUEENS DURING A SACRIFICIAL ATTACK GM Mihail Marin
A MODERN TREATMENT OF 4.f3 NIMZO-INDIAN GM Ferenc Berkes
DOMESTICATING THE KING’S INDIAN DEFENCE! GM Markus Ragger
THE SEMI-SLAV DEFENCE – PART II GM Aleksander Delchev
THE ARMENIAN VARIATION GM Robert Markuš
THE FRENCH COMBATS GM Miloš Perunović
THE BEST OF CHESS INFORMANT – Hikaru Nakamura
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!
Better Thinking, Better Chess
Finding strong moves is not simply a matter of how much you know — often, more knowledge makes the choice harder by multiplying the directions your mind can wander. What really matters, argues grandmaster Joel Benjamin, is how you think. This book is his attempt to fix the thought process itself.
Years of coaching taught Benjamin that pointing out the move a student missed was only half the job; the real task was explaining why they failed to find it. A chess engine won’t do that — it shows the best move but not the flawed reasoning that led you astray. So Benjamin works on the reasoning directly, across every phase of the game.
The chapters span openings, endgames, tactics, grandmaster calculation and analysis, the handling of material versus initiative, the surprisingly difficult skill of winning a won game, and the dark art of swindling a lost one — closing with a chapter of practical "words of wisdom" for clearer thinking and a set of challenges.
A practical, experience-driven improvement book for club and tournament players who keep making the same kinds of mistakes and want to understand the habits of mind behind better moves.
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 diverse set of tactical ideas involving a single queen in the finale will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of the queen’s resourcefulness
The diverse set of tactical ideas involving a single king in the finale will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of the king’s resourcefulness.
The most testing reply to 1.c4 is the direct 1...e5 — Black grabs the centre and plays a "reversed Sicilian" with an extra tempo. This book, the first of Kiril Georgiev and Semko Semkov’s two-volume English repertoire for White, is devoted entirely to meeting it.
The authors focus on the modern, flexible approach: after 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 they recommend the restrained 4.e3 and 4.d3 set-ups rather than the older, heavily-analysed main lines. The idea is to reach sound, strategically rich middlegames where understanding matters more than memorised theory — and where White’s extra tempo gives genuine, low-risk chances to play for the advantage.
Coverage includes the critical 4.e3 Bb4 lines with 5.Qc2, the Suba Variation, Anand’s pet 2...Bb4, and the various King’s-Indian-style set-ups Black can adopt with ...d6 and ...g6. As usual for Chess Stars, each chapter combines a "Main Ideas" overview, a "Step by Step" theory section, and annotated games.
Aimed at club players and above who want a complete, modern way to handle 1...e5 against the English. Volume 2 completes the repertoire against everything else.
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