Board, table top and strategy games

Hein Donner (1927-1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one the greatest writers on chess of all time.

';I left chess in 2012.

Giving mate is the ultimate goal of every chess player.

Most chess games of beginners and post-beginners are decided by fairly straightforward tactics.

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The way a beginner develops into a strong chess player closely resembles the progress of the game of chess itself.

A winning streak in chess, says Cyrus Lakdawala, is a lot more than just the sum of its games.

The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory, often focusing on lines that are popular among grandmasters.

After the success of his award-winning book ';Keep it Simple 1.

The secret of its success may be its anti-positional looks.

Seven years after his acclaimed and bestselling The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White, Grandmaster Larry Kaufman is back with his new repertoire book, covering the entire scope of chess openings in one volume.

Giving up material is one of the most difficult decisions a chess player has to take.

Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills.

Every chess fan marvels at the wonderful combinations with which famous masters win games.

Eine neue Klassiker von Herman Grooten.

In Schachaufgabenbuchern geht es ublicherweise um die Taktik.

The Hippopotamus Defence is just what a club player needs.

Viktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors of our time.

When was the last time you won a perfect game?

Pawn endings do not arise out of nowhere.

Chess is 99% tactics.

It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world.

Jesus de la Villa's worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and endgame books are necessarily tedious.

Yuri Razuvaev (1945-2012) was an outstanding Russian chess player.

On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship.

The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know.

Why is this repertoire called simple?

One of the most effective ways to improve your chessPattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement.

How good are you at bringing in the full point when you hold a clear advantage or are just plain winning?

The Caro-Kann is one of the most important and popular responses to 1.

If you want to improve in chess you usually have to settle for instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all.

Judit Polgar is the strongest female chess player of all time.

Magnus Carlsen (1990) became World Champion in 2013 by winning the World Championship Match against Viswanathan Anand with 6,5 - 3,5.

Paul Morphy (1837-1884) is considered to have been the greatest chess player of his era.

Two instructional classics condensed into one practical volume!

Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was the 4th World Champion in the history of chess.

AWARDS:Shortlisted for the Guardian Chess Book of the Year AwardRunner-up for the English Chess Federation 2009 Book of the Year AwardCHESS Magazine: Best Books of 2009Back in Print!

This training book can help you warm up your chess brain before every game of a classic chess tournament.

Anish Giri (1994) is a Russian-born Dutch grandmaster.

Veselin Topalov (1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, a former #1 in the world rankings and a former World Champion.

Jan Timman (1951) is a former World Championship Candidate who rose to the number two spot of the FIDE world rankings.

Bobby FischerRobert James Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) was the eleventh World Chess Champion.

This training book can help you warm up your chess brain before every game of a classic chess tournament.

This training book can help you warm up your chess brain before every game of a classic chess tournament.

This training book can help you warm up your chess brain before every game of a classic chess tournament.

This training book can help you warm up your chess brain before every game of a classic chess tournament.

Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?

Today's young players have benefited greatly from working with chess computers.

Anatoly Karpov (1951) is one of the greatest chess players of all time.

Sergey Karjakin (1990) will be the challenger of World Champion Magnus Carlsen in November 2016.