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The Queen's Gambit is easily the most talked-about chess opening since the immensely popular Netflix TV series of the same name became a hit.

The Ukrainian chess community is helping Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Working on chess tactics and checkmates will help you win more games.

Russland ist stolz auf eine lange und ruhmreiche Tradition in der Schachausbildung, und die russischen Schachlehrer und -trainer gelten als die besten auf der ganzen Welt.

In 1973 legendary organizer Bill Goichberg created the model for what would become an iconic American chess tournament.

Initially things looked gloomy for Bobby Fischer.

The Scandinavian Defence is one of the most popular chess openings among amateur players, and it is easy to see why.

Attacking your opponent's King is not just a short-cut to victory, it's also one of the most enjoyable and gratifying experiences in chess.

If you are aware of endgame patterns, you spot key moves quicker, analyse and calculate better, and memorize what you have studied more fully.

For any advanced club player (Elo 1800 - 2300) one thing remains true: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills.

Oscar de Prado has revisted the London Chess Opening, after the enourmous success of The Agile London System, the book he co-authored in 2016.

Schach ist ein grausames Spiel.

Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them.

Viktor Moskalenko's bestselling books ';The Flexible French' (2008) and ';The Even More Flexible French' (2015) were hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, and inspirational.

A new approach in one of the most widely played chess openings.

Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmasterLarry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math.

The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess is an efficient toolkit as well as an entertaining guide.

Every chess player wants to improve, but many, if not most, lack the tools or the discipline to study in a structured and effective way.

If you want to improve your middlegame play, you will have to develop a FEEL for positions.

Only the very best dared to play for a win against Tigran Petrosian.

This book is based on real amateur games and shows you how an average club player can proceed through the ranks and reach master level.

If you want to improve your chess the best place to start is looking how the great champs did it.

Jan Timman is one of the greatest chess players never to win the world title.

Magnus Carlsen is arguably the strongest player of all time.

Chess is a cruel game.

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.