Game Collection Books

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 lesser-known aspects of a precocious chess prodigy who became a ruthless Grandmaster or, in other words, Not the Best of Reshevsky. Includes: Evidence of Reshevsky's real date of birth – Foreign articles specially translated for this book – Contemporary newspaper accounts – 12 Annotated rare games covering every decade of Reshevsky's career – Gamesmanship & Worse – An Erratum to Gordon's Compendium.

International Master Tibor Karolyi has studied Carlsen’s career and selected more than 90 of his best endgames. He reviews them in chronological order to show how Magnus developed his skills. His technique and his choices are being explained in a manner that is easy to understand for club players.

CHESS INFORMANT’S 136th ADVENTURE

Where Chess and Football Meet

CONTENTS:

THE FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH 2018 GM Danilo Milanović

THE 4TH MUSKETEER RISES GM Danilo Milanović

EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 GM Ivan Šarić

ATTACKING WITH SIMPLE MOVES GM Mihail Marin

TRICKY AND AMBITIOUS WAY OF TACKLING THE CARO-KANN GM Ferenc Berkes

HOW TO AVOID THE PETROFF IN STYLE GM Markus Ragger

THE SEMI-SLAV DEFENCE GM Aleksander Delchev

NEW IDEAS IN THE REALMS OF ANTI-MARSHALL GM Shyam Sundar Mohanraj

THE SICILIAN OFFROAD II GM Miloš Perunović

THE BEST OF CHESS INFORMANT – Anish Giri

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!

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!

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

Sergei Tkachenko has written a fascinating account of Alexander Alekhine’s time spent in Odessa during World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, as well as of the impact of Odessa on his later life. The book includes 24 complete games (some handicapped) with annotations from Alekhine, Sergei Tkachenko and Sergei Voronkov (co-author with David Bronstein of Secret Notes), as well as five puzzles and one fragment. Alekhine played in 22 of these games and the fragment and set three of the puzzles.