First published in Russian in 2004 and now available in English for the first time, The Lubyanka Gambit is a classic work investigating the darkest side of chess history in the Soviet Union. It is the culmination of nearly two decades of research by Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, historian and human rights campaigner Sergei Grodzensky, whose own father was sent to the Gulag in Stalin’s times. It describes the careers and life stories, based on archival documents and witness testimony, of Soviet chess composers, players and famous amateurs who were repressed by the Soviet authorities, ending up either executed or sent to the Gulag. Featured names include Lazar Zalkind, Arvid Kubbel, Vladimirs Petrovs, Petr Izmailov, Georgy Schneideman, Nikolai Krylenko and Natan Sharansky, among many others. The theoretical contribution to the history of composition is one key theme in this work.
The Lubyanka Gambit also looks in detail at the historical context of the purges of chess players and describes how chess was played by prisoners in the Gulags and internal exile. Perhaps the icing on the cake is provided by Grodzensky’s personal memories of the Soviet Union’s foremost Gulag writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn (his schoolteacher) and Varlam Shalamov (his father’s close friend). This book contains 72 full games and fragments analyzed by the participants, contemporaries, the author and other leading players, as well as 145 computer-checked compositions.
Are you bored with playing it safe in the opening? Had enough of developing your pieces sensibly, aiming to control the centre and getting your king castled? Do you yearn to tear the opposition apart in the style of the great 19th century masters? Then Grandmaster Gambits 1 e4 is the book for you!
The highly successful writing duo of Richard Palliser and Simon (GingerGM) Williams have teamed up again to create a repertoire based on jettisoning a pawn (and often a whole lot more) very early on. Whatever opening your opponent favours against 1 e4, the authors have a dynamic gambiteering counter which will throw them onto their own resources.
The Sicilian Defence? Attack it with the Wing Gambit.
1...e5? Tear Black apart with the Max Lange Attack.
The French? Suffocate Black with the Advance Variation including Magnus Carlsen’s souped-up version of the Milner-Barry Gambit.
The Caro-Kann? Play the Hillbilly Attack with 2 Bc4! Your opponent might laugh but they won’t be laughing when you crash through on f7.
Forget about playing “properly” in the opening. Open 1 e4, play the Grandmaster Gambits and rip your unprepared opponents apart!
CHESS INFORMANT’S 136th ADVENTURE
Where Chess and Football Meet
CONTENTS:
THE FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH 2018 GM Danilo Milanović
THE 4TH MUSKETEER RISES GM Danilo Milanović
EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 GM Ivan Šarić
ATTACKING WITH SIMPLE MOVES GM Mihail Marin
TRICKY AND AMBITIOUS WAY OF TACKLING THE CARO-KANN GM Ferenc Berkes
HOW TO AVOID THE PETROFF IN STYLE GM Markus Ragger
THE SEMI-SLAV DEFENCE GM Aleksander Delchev
NEW IDEAS IN THE REALMS OF ANTI-MARSHALL GM Shyam Sundar Mohanraj
THE SICILIAN OFFROAD II GM Miloš Perunović
THE BEST OF CHESS INFORMANT – Anish Giri
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!
CHESS INFORMANT’S 154th ADVENTURE
ECLIPSE
Leitao – Opening Trends in South American Chess
Moradiabadi – European Club Cup (Tournament Review)
Navara – European Club Cup – Novy Bor
Shyam Sundar – This or That? – Part 2
Gormally – 4NCL and Crypto Blitz (Tournament Review)
Marin – Benoni Files (Old Wine in New Bottles)
Kotronias – King’s Indian – Fianchetto Variation (Survey)
Perelshteyn – Dzindzi-Indian (Theoretical Survey)
Davies – The 3…g6 Ruy Lopez – Part 2 (Theoretical Survey)
Perunovic – Catalan (Theoretical Survey)
Rogers – Toluca 1982 Interzonal (Roger’s Reminiscences)
Griffin – Karpov – Timman 1981 (From Informant Archives)
Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
In this book, German-English Grandmaster Mieses has selected 125 interesting positions from games played by various masters such as Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Steinitz, Tarrasch, Mieses himself and many more from the classic period of chess up to the mid-1930.
The material is split into three sections: The Opening, The Middlegame, and The Endgame.
All of the examples and the analysis have been re-examined by Carsten Hansen, often adding a fascinating new perspective to these classic games.
There is lots of exciting material to examine and learn from for dedicated students.
Originally published at the beginning of the 20th century as part of a series for chess improvers on all phases of the chess game, this little book contains examples of pawn play in endgames that inexperienced and club players will greatly benefit from studying.
With more than 100 well-chosen positions, the author illustrates the types of chess endgames that players should master once they understand and master the fundamentals.
The material has been reexamined, reanalyzed, and edited by FIDE Master Carsten Hansen.
This is the first time this book has been published in algebraic notation.
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