Avrukh Grandmaster Repertoire
Let's face facts: everyone enjoys winning. And the only thing better than winning is to win quickly!
Mistakes are often made in the early part of the game - at all levels of chess - but a key skill is to recognise these critical moments as they happen and to exploit them with maximum efficiency. This is a skill which Grandmaster Simon Williams addresses in this book. Using instructive and entertaining games in which one side wins quickly, he examines all the typical mistakes chess players make in the opening and early middlegame, how you should look to exploit them, and how to avoid falling into similar traps yourself.
All too often opponents are let off the hook, mistakes go unpunished and the game drags on. Don't let this happen to you - become a ruthless winner!
The Polgar Way to Better Chess!
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Each of the five volumes will consist of over 500 puzzles.
In Volume 3, you will be introduced to 500 must-know defensive techniques. Each chapter will start with a few introductory examples and explanation about to what to look for in the puzzles that follow.
In chapter 1, the task is to move an attacked piece. In each puzzle, there is only one good solution by moving the attacked piece to a safe square. In chapter 2, one of the kings is in check. The goal is to find the correct response. In chapter 3, a piece is attacked, but has no good square to which to move. So, rather than moving the attacked piece(s), you will need to look for a way to protect it with another piece.
In chapter 4, we focus on defensive ideas against a direct checkmate threat. In chapter 5, one side “defends” by counter-attacking. In chapters 6 and 7, you will be introduced to the game-saving techniques of drawing by stalemate or perpetual check. In chapter 8, the task is to catch a pawn that is about to promote. In chapter 9, a certain piece is about to get “trapped.” The task is to prepare for the attack and avoid material loss. Finally, in chapter 10, you can practice solving a variety of defensive ideas, with the goal to avoid or minimize material losses or being checkmated.
With over 40 years of experience as a world-class player and coach, international grandmaster Susan Polgar has developed the most effective way to help young players and beginners – Learn Chess the Right Way. Let her show you the way to understanding the most common and critical patterns and let her show you the way to becoming a better player.
SUSAN POLGAR is a winner of four Women’s World Championships and the top-ranked woman chess player in the United States. She became the #1 woman player in the world at 15 and remained in the top 3 for over 20 years. In 2013, she received the U.S. Coach of the Year Award and the following year, she was named the Chess Trainer of the Year by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). She thus became the first person in history to be accorded both honors. Under her guidance, SPICE chess teams at both Texas Tech University and Webster University have won a combined six consecutive National Division I Collegiate Chess Championships.
1...b6 is a dynamic defence which allows Black to steer the game into relatively unchartered territory, where White players are unable to relax and rely on their 'opening book' knowledge. A major attraction of 1...b6 is that it can be employed against all of White's mainline openings, including 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.Nf3 and 1.c4. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations after 1...b6. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1...b6.
Bird's Opening, 1.f4, is an ideal choice for freethinking chess players who prefer to rely on their general chess knowledge and intuition rather than having to memorize and keep up to date with mainline opening theory. Bird's Opening is essentially the Dutch Defence with an extra move, and White can choose between a number of different set-ups, including the reversed Leningrad, Classical and Stonewall variations, depending on mood and opponents' responses. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations of Bird's Opening, including the sharp From's Gambit. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1.f4.
CHESS INFORMANT’S 161st ADVENTURE
OLYMPIC SPIRIT
CONTENTS:
• VELICKOVIC – EDITOR'S CORNER
• SPEELMAN – REAL-TIME ACTION AND BRITISH MISCELLANY
• PERUNOVIC – SERBIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
• AFEK – DUTCH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS
• KOTRONIAS – NAJDORF VARIATION – 6. h3 e6! Repertoire for Black
• PRUSIKIN – MICHAEL'S MUSINGS
• PERELSHTEYN – SICILIAN DRAGONDORF
• SPRENGER – OBSTRUCTING THE OPPONENT'S PLAN
• EDWARDS – CORRESPONDENCE CHESS MATTERS
• GONEN – WORLD OF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
• ROGERS – Candidates Semifinal Matches, London 1983
• GRIFFIN – FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES
Traditional sections: 287 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
The periodical that pros use with pleasure, and at the same time, a must-have publication for all serious chess students!
This book in front of you assists all players in their efforts to improve, and along their way, our young chess guns provided fresh insights how to trap and trick your opponent in the opening and early middlegame. With the many computer-assisted learning tools available, the player’s capacity to improve is limitless. This book offers the reader an insider’s candid view of how to unbalance the game in the modern age of chess.
Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th-grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world – in alphabetical order!
The Origins series is an attempt at a "big picture" view that displays the interlocking parts of a much larger mechanism in time.
In this volume, the authors cover lines where Black does not meet 3.Bb5 with 3...a7-a6, and vast portions of this volume, are devoted to Berlin Defense Closed lines and the Berlin Wall Ending.
Ntirlis and Aagaard radically change the theoretical lanscape for this classic opening.
CHESS INFORMANT’S 143rd ADVENTURE
EQUILIBRIUM
TATA Steel 2020 GM Ivan Sokolov
DAVID'S GIBRALTAR DUELS GM David Navara
JERUSALEM GRAND PRIX GM Danilo Milanović
BEWARE: Generation Z is here! GM Elshan Moradiabadi
FRESH IDEAS IN THE WINAWER GM Francesco Rambaldi
THE GRAND PRIX ATTACK GM Miloš Perunović
NEW TRENDS IN THE TARRASCH DEFENCE GM Ivan Ivanišević
Mr. FIRE ON BOARD IN BRAZIL! GM Rafael Leitão
A VENOMOUS LINE IN THE ENGLISH – PART I GM Aleksander Delchev
WOMEN'S WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH WGM Sabina-Francesca Foişor
DANNY'S CHESS DIARY GM Daniel Gormally
THE POSITIONAL PAWN SACRIFICE GM Michael Prusikin
FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES Douglas Griffin
Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, correspondence chess, endgame blunders, Tournament reviews, 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 144th ADVENTURE
JUBILEE
ALEKSANDAR MATANOVIĆ – TRIBUTE TO CHESS LEGEND
FIDE NATIONS CUP GM Pentala Harikrishna
NO LIMITS FOR CREATIVITY GM Rafael Leitão
CHESS IN THE TIME OF CORONA GM Milos Perunović
ELSHAN'S EXPLORATIONS GM Elshan Moradiabadi
PAWN STRUCTURES AND PAWN PLAY AT MAGNUS INVITATIONAL WGM Sabina-Francesca Foişor
THE ISOLATED PAWN COUPLE GM Michael Prusikin
WHEN h2-h3 PAWN ADVANCE BECOMES TOO COSTLY GM Mihail Marin
DISMANTLING THE DUTCH GM Ivan Ivanišević
ROGERS' REMINISCENCES – KERES MEMORIAL 1985 GM Ian Rogers
CHESS IN THE 1990s AND HOW IT INSPIRED ME GM Daniel Gormally