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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.

The Ruy Lopez is one of the most important chess openings, hugely popular with amateurs and masters and grandmasters alike.

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.

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.

Jeder Schachspieler liebt es, den feindlichen Knig anzugreifen.

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.