In this, his penultimate work, legendary chess instructor Mark Dvoretsky (1947-2016) explores identifying and dealing with problems on the chessboard.
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
The Nimzo-Indian and Queen’s Gambit Declined are among Black’s soundest and most universal answers to 1.d4. In his trademark style, Milos investigates the most positional ways to proceed after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6
Robert Ris wrote this book especially for club players who want to do more than opening theory.
Play 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6!
The Queen’s Gambit Declined is the most classical and dependable way to meet 1.d4: with 1...d5 and 2...e6 Black builds a solid, flexible structure that has anchored the repertoires of World Champions for over a century. This book turns it into a complete, modern Black repertoire.
Every recommendation is chosen in line with current top-level practice, so you are playing the same lines the world’s best grandmasters trust today rather than dusty theory. The coverage is thorough: the main QGD systems after both 3.Nc3 and 3.Nf3, the important Catalan lines that arise when White fianchettoes with g3, and a dedicated section of sharper ...a6 set-ups for when a win is required and Black needs to unbalance the game.
In the Chess Stars house style, the lines are presented clearly and supported by complete annotated games, so you absorb the typical plans, pawn breaks, and piece manoeuvres rather than just a list of moves.
A reliable, low-risk repertoire for club players and above who want a sound answer to 1.d4 that will serve them for years — with enough bite in reserve to play for the full point when the occasion demands.
Grandmaster Insides takes you into the inner world of the American Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy, a former World Junior Champion.
The correct handling of pawns is one of the hardest things to teach in chess, because the guidelines are rarely spelled out. In this book, American grandmaster and former US Champion Sam Shankland sets out to do exactly that — reduce pawn play to a set of clear, memorable principles any player can actually apply.
The structure follows the simple truths that make pawns unique. The four parts are built around the facts that pawns cannot move backwards, can be compelled forwards, seldom move sideways, and can be forced to do so — and each principle is developed through themed chapters with names like “Protecting Your Children,” “Driving on Open Roads,” and “Keeping Your Door Locked.”
Shankland begins with strikingly simple positions and then raises the level steadily, repeatedly showing how even grandmasters could have made better decisions had they applied the book’s guidelines. Each chapter ends with exercises so you can test the idea before moving on.
The approach is practical rather than encyclopaedic: instead of cataloguing every structure, Shankland teaches a way of thinking about pawns that transfers to your own games. Suitable for club players and above who want their positional understanding to rest on principles they can state out loud.
This ebook is a part of Bundle: Pawn Play Bundle
Strategic Chess Exercises
Almost every chess puzzle book trains tactics — find the forced win. But in most of the positions you actually face in a game, there is no combination to find. What you are really doing, move after move, is trying to improve your position or worsen your opponent’s by applying strategic judgement. This book trains that neglected skill directly.
Experienced trainer Emmanuel Bricard has assembled a manual of carefully selected and tested positions where the task is not to calculate a tactic but to find the right plan: which piece to improve, which structure to aim for, where to create a weakness, when to exchange. Each exercise asks you to think the way you must in a real game when no forcing solution exists.
The positions are split into middlegame and endgame exercises and indexed by strategic theme, with detailed solutions that explain the reasoning rather than just giving the move. The benefits are practical: better strategic understanding, the ability to apply principles in concrete positions, and even time saved on the clock when you know what you are trying to do.
A rare and valuable training resource for club players and above who want to sharpen the part of their game that decides most non-tactical positions.
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