Three masters recall their four decades as teammates from a strong New Jersey chess club.

Because of the sheer volume of variations, possible transpositions and ever-changing theory, chess openings can be overwhelming – even intimidating. This book is an introduction to understanding and playing chess openings. The author, Danish Master Carsten Hansen, stresses opening play based on comprehending opening principles as well as useful, fundamental knowledge. With an overview of all the most important opening variations, examples of good and bad opening play, opening traps and problems to solve, chess openings and its major principles are covered thoroughly. Many games are lost as a result of a player’s poor grasp of even the most basic principles of opening play. This book will help you enhance your understanding and give you guidelines on how to best study and play chess openings, reaching good, playable middlegame positions.

This book focuses on patterns based on material left on the board – bishops of opposite color and rooks. It explains the ideas of bishop endgames alone, and then shows how the strategy changes when rooks are also present on the board.

Now including all World Championship Games! (FREE RE-DOWNLOADABLE FOR THOSE WHO PURCHASED THE FIRST EDITION) The rivalry of reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana began 2010 in the Dutch village Wijk aan Zee and culminated in the World Chess Championship 2018. Over the past years, they have crossed swords 71 times: In classical, rapid and blitz chess. All their games against each other - including the thrilling World Championship match - are thoroughly annotated in this book.

This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations covered in this volume are all minor Semi-Open Games, such as: 1) The Pirc & Modern Defenses, 2) The King's Fianchetto, 3) The Alekhine Defense, 4) The Scandinavian Defense, 5) Owen's Defense, Nimzowitsch Defense

This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations covered in this volume include: 1) Scotch Game, 2) Italian Game & Evans Gambit, 3) Two Knights, 4) Ruy Lopez, 5) Three & Four Knights 6) King's Gambit, 7) The Petroff, 8) Philidor & Minor Defenses, 9) Various Gambits

This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations in this volume cover the Caro-Kann & French Defenses.

A collection of games in the Indian Defenses showing a catalog of typical mistakes, misunderstandings, mis-evaluations and how to exploit these: either through simple execution or brilliant chess tactics.

Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by to players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess

A collection of games in Flank Openings showing a catalog of typical mistakes, misunderstandings, mis-evaluations and how to exploit these: either through simple execution or brilliant chess tactics.

This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics. It covers the Dutch, Benoni and various d-pawns specials

This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian Defense such as 1) Alapin Variation 2 c3​, ​ ​​2) The Grand Prix Attack, ​3) The Closed Sicilians​,​ 4) The Rossolimo ​5) Moscow Attack (2…d6 3 Bb5+) ​,​ ​6) O’Kelly (2…a6), Ultra-Fianchetto (2…g6) and Nimzowitch (2…Nf6) ​ and others​