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The Full English Opening – Mastering the Fundamentals by Carsten Hansen is the first one-volume guide to cover all major variations of 1.c4 while focusing on what really matters: understanding. Instead of drowning you in endless theory, Hansen takes you inside the core plans, ideas, and strategies that make the English Opening a powerful weapon. Drawing on decades of experience and inspired by legends like Viktor Kortchnoi, he equips you to build your own repertoire with confidence—so you control the opening, not the other way around.

Rook endings are the most frequently seen among all endgames. In fact, more than 60% of all endings are rook endings, and the reason is simple: rooks generally enter the game much later than other pieces. Part 6 of the first FIDE-approved endgame manual, written by 3 of the world leading experts: FIDE Senior Trainers IGM Mikhalchishin, IGM Grivas and IGM Balogh and it covers basic rook endgames.

With twenty-five years’ experience getting underprivileged kids to achieve beyond all expectations, Cripe now takes his holistic instructional methods to the chess arena. Designed for both chess novices and their coaches, The Learning Spiral sets out the theory, explains how it works, and then applies it with more than 400 positions for the student to solve.

This book is written for the Black side, though new ideas for White are suggested and old ones occasionally improved. It contains not only the author’s personal take on how to deal with all major White tries after 1.e4 c6, but also a range of alternatives for Black to cater for different types of Caro-Kann player.

Victor Bologan presents a complete Caro-Kann repertoire for Black that is much more than just a lucidly explained and highly playable set of responses. In many lines Bologan provides two options to handle the Black position.

There are hundreds of opening books available, full of deep analysis, but many of them fail to explain the reasons for choosing one computer line over another. And how top players distinguish between good and bad opening lines remains a mystery to most of the chess world. Grandmaster Opening Preparation addresses such questions as how to balance computer preparation with human considerations, along with a wealth of practical advice on how to go about building the opening repertoire which is right for you. The book also provides an in-depth treatment of the evolution in understanding of Isolated Queen’s Pawn positions, which will enable the reader to become more effective in a multitude of openings, with either colour.

Playing 1.e4 - French Defence and Sicilian Sidelines

This is the second volume of John Shaw’s acclaimed three-part White repertoire after 1.e4 (Volume 1 covered the Caro-Kann, 1...e5 and minor lines). Here the focus narrows to two big jobs: the French Defence in full, and the first instalment of the Sicilian.

Against the French, Shaw advocates his own favourite weapon, the Tarrasch Variation (3.Nd2). He covers the entire French landscape through that lens — the various 3rd-move tries, the ...Nf6 main lines, the ...c5 systems with both recaptures on d5, and the solid Rubinstein and Fort Knox set-ups after 3...dxe4 — giving a clear recommendation and the plans behind it in each case.

The final section opens the "mammoth task" of the Sicilian by mopping up the tricky sidelines: Black’s rare second moves and the various 2...e6, 2...Nc6 and 2...d6 move orders that try to avoid the main roads. These get tidy, ready-to-use answers so nothing catches you off guard.

A serious, fighting repertoire for club players and above. With Volume 1 and the concluding Volume 3 (the main-line Sicilians), it forms one of the most respected complete 1.e4 repertoires available.

In the last of three volumes on 1.e4, GM John Shaw completes his state-of-the-art White repertoire by tackling the biggest challenge of all: the main lines of the Sicilian Defence. Including the Dragon, Taimanov, Sveshnikov and concluding with the nefarious Najdorf, this book provides everything you need to face all the major Sicilian systems with confidence.

CHESS INFORMANT’S 135th ADVENTURE

FRESHER THAN EVER

CONTENTS:

2018 GIBRALTAR CHESS FESTIVAL GM Richárd Rapport

LADIES IN GIBRALTAR WGM Aleksandra Dimitrijević

CHESS IN THE FAST LANE GM Baadur Jobava

BATTLE FOR THE CROWN IN ARABIA Jan-Krzysztof Duda & Kamil Mitoń

THE UNFAITHFUL QUEEN GM Mihail Marin

A NEW APPROACH TO THE ENGLISH OPENING GM Ivan Ivanišević

EXCHANGE SLAV GM Aleksander Delchev

MASTERING THE TRANSITION INTO THE PAWN ENDING GM Miloš Perunović

OUTPLAY YOUR OPPONENT IN CALM WATERS GM Robert Markuš

CORRESPONDENCE CHESS ICCF GM Leonardo Ljubičić & IM Srđan Šale

THE BEST OF CHESS INFORMANT – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, problems, 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!

Christian tackles one of the most important issues in chess: how to select candidate moves. He illustrates and discusses many different themes such as: > entering relatively uncharted territory > replying on your acquired knowledge > using intuition > play prophylactically