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Play the Trompowsky Attack

The Trompowsky Attack — 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 — lets White set the terms from move two, pinning the knight and steering the game away from the heavily-analysed Nimzo-Indian, Grünfeld, and King’s Indian into sharp, original middlegames. In this book, grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin presents it as a complete and notably aggressive White repertoire.

Kryakvin’s treatment leans into the opening’s combative side. He covers all of Black’s defensive tries — 2...e6, 2...c5, 2...Ne4, and 2...d5 — but where the position allows it he favours the most testing, attacking continuations, making this a good fit for players who want the Trompowsky to be a genuine winning weapon rather than merely a theory-avoidance device.

In the Chess Stars house style, each chapter pairs a "Main Ideas" overview of the typical plans and structures with a detailed "Step by Step" theoretical section and annotated games, so you can study the recommendations at whatever depth you need. The level is pitched at the ambitious club player and above.

A sharp, well-organised Trompowsky repertoire for those who want to surprise opponents early and play for the initiative.

In the fifteen chapters and 480 exercises in this book, we will encounter many subjects, for example attack, defense, surprises and hidden moves, while some chapters will be especially dedicated to four great players – Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer and Kramnik – in order to learn about their styles. The last two chapters are also of a very special kind, ‘Extraordinary Wins’, where you will see moves of the kind you won’t meet very often in life, and ‘Special Section’, with exercises requiring special instructions.

This ebook is a part of Bundle: Chess Calculation Training

After reading this book the reader will increase his or her knowledge of the typical and not-so-typical methods of play in the middlegame, become familiar with ideas of non-standard solutions to practical problems arising during the game and be able to apply this knowledge in his or her own games.

TACTICS TRAINER AVAILABLE!

Improving chess tactics is crucial for many reasons including calculation skills, pattern recognition, decision-making speed, broader board vision and awareness, and confidence. The Woodpecker Method, authored by GM Axel Smith and GM Hans Tikkanen, is an innovative tactics training approach that focuses on developing these skills through repetitive and structured practice. 

The book is organized around solving over 1,100 tactical puzzles, advancing from beginner to intermediate and advanced levels. This systematic approach ensures that players can progressively build and reinforce their tactical knowledge and “re-program” their unconscious mind. They will notice a significant improvement in their games as a result.

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.