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Seit mehr als 100 Jahren raten die besten Schachspieler und Trainer ihren Schulern, das Endspiel zu studieren.

Schach mit neuem Schwung, die deutsche bersetzung der vierten und vollstndig uberarbeiteten Ausgabe von Silmans legendrem How to Reassess Your Chess, ist ein moderner Klassiker, in dem Silman sein bahnbrechendes Konzept der Ungleichgewichte auf eine ganz neue Stufe hebt.

This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to get in the shoes of the most famous attacking player of all time.

Judit Polgar is known for her aggressive chess style, which makes her a perfect role model for this tactics training series.

Have you always wanted to play chess like American #1 chess player?

This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to make the same winning moves as super Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana made in his games.

Have you always wanted to play chess like a World Champion?

Viswanathan AnandViswanathan Anand (1969) was the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2007-2013.

In My System, he expounded his theories of prophylaxis, blockade and much more, while providing ground-breaking insights in pawn structures.

Every chess player loves to attack the enemy King.

Willhelm Steinitz, der im Jahre 1886 das erste offizielle Duell um die Schachweltmeisterschaft gewann, wurde sich ob der heutigen Popularitt des Schachsports verwundert die Augen reiben: Es gibt Millionen von Schachspielern auf der ganzen Welt, grere wie kleinere Wettbewerbe werden live im Internet ubertragen, das Schulschach boomt Schach ist wahrlich zu einer weltweiten Leidenschaft geworden.

Wilhelm Steinitz, the winner of the first official World Chess Championship in 1886, would have rubbed his eyes in disbelieve if he could have seen how popular chess is today.

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow.

For casual players and club playersEvery chess player loves to win early in the game with a deadly combination or a cunning trap.

For casual players and club players.

Part 4 of the successful series introducing opening tactics for casual chess players and club players.

TACTICS, TRICKS AND TRAPS!

Tactics, tricks and traps!

TACTICS, TRICKS AND TRAPS!

New (4th) and improved edition of an all-time classicThe good news about endgames is:*; there are relatively few endings you should know by heart*; once you know these endings, thats it.

Die Mustererkennung ist eines der wichtigsten Werkzeuge bei der Verbesserung im Schach.

In this sequel to his instant classic Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, a highly original take on practical middlegame instruction, Arthur van de Oudeweetering presents players of almost every level with a fresh supply of essential, yet easy-to-remember building blocks for their chess knowledge.

Playing blitz is one of the great joys in every chess player's life.

Winning in chess is impossible without taking risks.

No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.

Mastering Positional Chess is a serious, but entertaining chess instruction book.

Chess is 99% tactics.

Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume.

In der Schachlehre wird allgemein behauptet, dass man sich nur auf die Merkmale einer Stellung zu konzentrieren braucht.

The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman presents a very effective way for White to disrupt the plans and demolish the position of players on the black side of the popular Grunfeld Defence.

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!

They did it!

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Anderssons Positional MasterpiecesOne of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example.

After you have learned the rules of chess and developed some tactical abilities, how do you go from there?

The Catalan is a solid yet flexible chess opening system that is popular on all levels.

The Grand Prix Attack is one of White's deadliest weapons against the Sicilian Defence.

Bestselling author Viktor Moskalenko takes on another important chess opening!

Opening, middlegame and endgame are the three universally recognized stages of a game of chess, but what about the art of preparation?

Alexey Bezgodov presents an unusual idea for White against the ever popular Caro-Kann Defence.

Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century.

Experienced grandmaster Sergey Kasparov presents a surprising way to combat The Sicilian Defence, Black's most popular choice against 1.

Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko shakes up the lines of yet another chess opening!

In 1972 Bobby Fischer famously beat Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in Reykjavik to win the world title.

As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective.

lThe sacrifice is one of the most beautiful, rewarding and complex aspects of chess.

Opening preparation is useful, but understanding the middlegame is much more important.

';Chuky, you're a genius.

If only real life were like a book on chess tactics!

On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport.