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Every chess player needs to decide which openings he or she is going to play.

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

';I started working with Fabiano when he was only five', remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini.

In amateur chess games, the most popular opening move for White is 1.

Finding strong moves does not simply depend on how much you know about chess.

New and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic.

Books on chess exercises are usually about tactics.

Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world.

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In amateur chess games, the most popular opening move for White is 1.

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

';I started working with Fabiano when he was only five', remembers legendary New York City chess trainer Bruce Pandolfini.

Bestselling author Viktor Moskalenko takes on another important chess opening!

Alexander M nninghoff tells the unforgettable tale of the fifth World Chess Champion.

They did it!

Finding strong moves does not simply depend on how much you know about chess.

New and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic.

Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) was one of the most successful chess trainers in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia.

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

Every chess player needs to decide which openings he or she is going to play.

Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world.

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

The Basman-Sale Variation is a relatively unexplored weapon for Black in the Sicilian Defence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Berlin Defence has been a highly popular opening in top level chess ever since Vladimir Kramnik famously used it in the 2000 World Championship match to wrest the title from Garry Kasparov.

When a chess master finds a winning strategic idea it is seldom by accident.

Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement.

The English Opening (1.

Alexey Bezgodov provides a complete chess opening repertoire for Black against 1.

The Stories and the Games: Alekhine Euwe Botvinnik Smyslov Tal - Petrosian Spassky Fischer - Karpov KasparovFor many years Jan Timman was one of the best chess players in the world.

Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world.

The back catalogue of New In Chess magazine is a fabulous source of chess instruction.

A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black & White with the King's FianchettoWhen experienced chess teacher Emmanuel Neiman learned that some of his pupils hesitated to play in competitions for fear of being crushed in the opening, he wanted to help.

Award-winning author Charles Hertan has written a lively and user-friendly chess primer for kids and other beginners.

';Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy.