The Improving Chess Thinker
by Dan Heisman
The true secret to improvement lies not in studying additional chess material but in learning a more powerful thinking process.
The Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level.
Chess: Tactics and Strategies
by Graham Burgess
Develop your chess tactics and strategies with this book : great games, test positions, openings, 900 illustrations.
This 3rd volume of the,’Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess’ series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.
Part I The Opening. He deals with basic opening strategy, castling, development. Part two The Middlegame, attacks on the enemy king, the classic Bishop Sacrifice etc ,combinations and combinational themes.Part III The Endgame Minor Pieces in The Endgame, Passed Pawns in The Endgame ...Part IV deals with Practical Matters .
Even if you don't know the first thing about chess, this book can help you learn the fundamentals behind chess strategy and become a good player within a short period of time. The book is profusely illustrated with hundreds of diagrams and annotated games.
Instead of technical language and difficult diagrams, The Kids' Book of Chess explains all the basic elements of the game in a colorful, dramatic story of the medieval battlefield that the chessboard represents.
The successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions.
International Master and experienced chess teacher Angus Dunnington has carefully assembled an abundance of positional chess puzzles to test players of all levels
This book presents a number of important strategical ideas that all chessplayers should know, e.g. blockade, weak colour complexes. Nimzo had a number of catchy terms which help people remember them, e.g. a passed pawn's lust to expand, absolute 7th rank. The book also contains instructive annotated games.
This volume is devoted to the twelfth world champion Anatoly Karpov and his historic opponent Viktor Korchnoi, and to their staggeringly dramatic struggle for the chess throne, which filled the unusual vacuum that had arisen after Fischer's untimely departure
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" has one checkmate problem per page. The checkmates are as basic as possible. Anyone, who isn't a beginner will solve every problem and be done with the book in minutes if they weren't so bored with the simplicity of each problem.
This is the second in Seirawan's four volumes, taking the reader from the very basics of chess through appreciation of advanced play. He does a remarkable job of discussing tactics that usually appear only in books for advanced players and communicating them to anyone with a grasp of playing fundamentals.
A great new book on the endgame that will make you play better! Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual is sure to become a classic on one of the most difficult and subtle phases in chess
Snyder teaches the basic principles and then builds on students' knowledge, giving clear instructions on how to choose and employ opening, middle, and endgame strategies to win.
If you love chess puzzles, this massive tome is for you. It's simply one chess challenge after another. With problems fit for beginner and grand master alike, Polgar's collection will feed your craving for years.
Instead of technical language and difficult diagrams, The Kids' Book of Chess explains all the basic elements of the game in a colorful, dramatic story of the medieval battlefield that the chessboard represents.
