Are you ready to shock your opponent on move 3?
The Reti Opening is a dynamic opening invented by Richard Reti more than a century ago. It has since been featured in the repertoires of countless grandmasters and world champions, including Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Garry Kasparov, Tigran Petrosian, Vassily Smyslov, and many others.
The Navara Gambit takes dynamic chess into a bizarro world on move 3: 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 3.b4 g5!
It looks ridiculous, but that doesn't make it so. It is the brainchild of Czech grandmaster David Navara and was first introduced in 2011. Since then, it has been played in the games of many grandmasters and international masters, in regular tournament games, and in many of the most important online events over the last decade.
The book presents a full repertoire for Black against the Reti Opening proper (1.Nf3 d5 2.c4), thus including not only the lines where White plays 3.b4 but also 3.g3, 3.e3, and 3.d3, but also much less frequently seen lines such as 3.e4, 3.a3, and even 3.c5.
It is time to have fun against the Reti and 1.Nf3!
Selection of books that focuses on mastering endgame strategy and tactics, offering clear explanations, essential concepts and practical exercises to improve your endgame skills. From fundamental positions and key themes to advanced techniques and real-game puzzles, they provide structured training for players of all levels, helping you navigate endgames with confidence and precision.
This selection of books focuses on simplifying chess concepts for beginners and intermediate players, offering clear strategies, tactical exercises and pattern recognition to improve gameplay. From mastering basic tactics and endgames to developing attacking plans and understanding key patterns, each book provides practical tools and exercises to help players win more games and build a strong foundation.
These books explore the lives, games and strategies of chess legends, offering deep analysis, captivating stories and practical lessons. From world champions like Alekhine and Tal to iconic tournaments like Zurich 1953, each work combines historical insights with annotated games, helping players of all levels improve while celebrating chess history.
"Chess Duels" shares Yasser Seirawan’s encounters with chess legends, blending game analysis and personal stories. "Lessons with a Grandmaster" and "World’s Most Instructive Amateur Game Book" provide practical insights for improving players, focusing on strategy, psychology, and learning from amateur mistakes to elevate gameplay.
This book presents 174 of best and most beautiful chess problems composed by John Brown or as he referred to himeself "J.B. of Bridport" - a leading English chess problem composer in the middle of the 19th century.
In this new edition, FIDE Master Carsten Hansen thoroughly reanalyzed all of the compositions and analyses and made the material accessible to modern readers and fans of chess problems.
This book presents 100 of best and most beautiful chess problems composed by Rev. A. Cyrill Pearson - a leading English chess problem composer in the middle of the 19th century.
This is a little collection of chess problems by J. Paul Taylor, one of several important English chess problem composers of the late 19th century.
In addition to 50 mate in two problems, and 5 mate in three problems, the book provides advice to those who will want to try their hand at composing problems of their own.
In this book, German-English Grandmaster Mieses has selected 30 instructive and interesting endgames played in top tournaments in the period up to 1900. The games feature the top players of the time, including World Champions Lasker and Steinitz, as well as top players such as Morphy, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Chigorin, Zukertort and several others, including the author himself.
The material is split into six chapters, covering most of the typical of endgame types.
All of the games and analyses have been re-examined by FIDE Master & FIDE Trainer Carsten Hansen, adding new insights to these classic games.
The Bogo-Dutch is a hypermodern defense to 1.d4 which is based on 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5. It is a hybrid opening that is based on the Bogo-Indian Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+) and the Dutch Defense (1.d4 f5).
Black tries their hardest to wrest control of the e4–square from White by checking on b4, plus having a pawn on f5 at the same time.
It is undoubtedly an underrated defense, to the point that most players, from super-GMs all the way down to amateur level, are completely unfamiliar with this entire set-up.
In this book, the authors aim to assist the reader in becoming better at finding combinations, constructing plans, and calculating long, forcing variations. For the purpose of instruction, the material is based on the output of the brilliant endgame composer and player Herman Mattison (1894-1932), using his endgame compositions from various works and publications as well as several of his practical endgames from games entirely too short career.
In this volume, the authors cover the main lines of the Closed Ruy Lopez. These lines include: The Marshall Attack, The Anti-Marshall, The Zaitsev Variation, The Breyer Variation, The Chigorin Variation, and a number of minor lines, such as the Bogoljubow Variation, The Smyslov Variation, The Keres Variation and more.
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