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.
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.
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!
Christian tackles one of the most important issues in chess: how to select candidate moves. He illustrates and discusses many different themes such as: > entering relatively uncharted territory > replying on your acquired knowledge > using intuition > play prophylactically