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The study of well-annotated master games is the best way to improve. Acclaimed chess author Steve Giddins has assembled the most didactic examples from New In Chess. There are masterclasses by dozens of chess legends and no fewer than eight World Champions. Together they provide the high standard of instructional material that today’s club player needs.

Bologan's King's Indian

The King’s Indian is the most uncompromising way to meet 1.d4: Black hands White the centre, then throws everything at the enemy king. It was the weapon of Tal, Fischer and Kasparov, and it remains hugely popular. In this book Victor Bologan builds a complete King’s Indian repertoire for Black — and, characteristically, gives two ways to play in many of the critical lines.

The coverage is genuinely complete. Every serious White system gets its own treatment: the Averbakh, the Sämisch, the Four Pawns Attack, the Classical with all its branches (Bayonet, Petrosian, Gligorić), the positional Fianchetto, and the various Anti-King’s-Indian set-ups including the London and Torre — so whatever White does, you have a prepared, principled answer.

Bologan’s strength as a writer is accessibility: he grounds the reader in the recurring strategic and tactical motifs of each structure before diving into the lines, and he has unearthed a wealth of new ideas and resources along the way. A closing section of solving exercises lets you test your grasp.

A rich, ambitious repertoire for club players and above who want to play the King’s Indian as the fighting, attacking opening it was meant to be.

Kalinin helps players seeking the master title by showing how concrete knowledge leads to improved decisions at the board. He stresses the essence of the classics and the importance of human interaction in reaching analytical mastery.

Chess Strategy for Club Players is a comprehensive and structured curriculum designed to enhance players’ understanding of various types of positions and how to formulate strategic plans accordingly. Basing his teachings from Wilhelm Steinitz’s renowned foundational “Elements”, the author IM Herman Grooten expands upon these principles using contemporary examples.

Working through this book, the players will learn key elements of positional understanding, pawn structure, material advantage, king safety, piece coordination, centralization, and much more. 

Each chapter concludes with practical exercises allowing the readers to apply and reinforce their newfound knowledge. 

The set-up is based on sound principles and is easy to learn and understand. The Slow Italian may look innocent, but is actually full of venom. Ideal for the average club player but is also regularly adopted by many strong Grandmasters including the very best, such as world champion Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri.

In this fascinating book he portrays ten World Chess Champions that played an important role in his life and career. Timman has a keen eye for detail, a fabulous memory and he visibly enjoys sharing his insider views, including many revelations.

This book began as a teaching curriculum developed for the DYSS — the elite Russian state sports school that has trained some of the world's strongest grandmasters. Konstantin Sakaev and Konstantin Landa, both grandmasters with extensive coaching experience, adapted that material into a course that any serious player can follow independently.

Despite the title, this is not a positional chess textbook in the traditional sense. It covers a much wider range than piece coordination and pawn structures: the authors address opening principles and quick development, calculation and decision-making in the middlegame, material imbalances and when to disturb them, as well as practical topics including physical conditioning, psychological preparation, and how to structure study sessions without becoming over-reliant on computer analysis.

The DYSS framework gives the book an unusual coherence — these are not isolated tips but interconnected elements of a complete training approach tested with real students. The level is advanced; this is material designed for players aiming at master strength and above.

A companion second volume extends the same approach to more complex material.

The book provides valuable insight into the qualities that made Karpov such a great endgame player, maybe the greatest of all time.