Positional Chess Sacrifices-(Quality Chess, 2012)

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Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman

Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman

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Chess Secrets - Heroes of Classical Chess

Chess Secrets - Heroes of Classical Chess

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Chess Developments: The Sicilian Dragon - Vigorito (2011)

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Chess Developments: The Sicilian Dragon by International Master David Vigorito is part of a new series by Everyman that is a break from traditional opening books that attempt to cover all variations in a comprehensive fashion. Recognizing that the explosion of opening theory in the past decade has made such books all but impossible to write and even harder to use, this series focuses instead on the most critical lines of the past five years. 

This selectivity can be seen in the variations Vigorito has chosen to cover. The reader will not find lesser lines like the Levenfish (6.f4), Classical (6.Be2) or Fianchetto variations (6.g3) where Black has no existing theoretical difficulties. Nor will they find Black tries in the Yugoslav Attack with Qa5 which however exciting have proved wanting against precise play. Instead Vigorito covers the following critical variations: 

Part I: 9 Bc4 Bd7 

1 Soltis Variation: 10 0-0-0 Rc8 11 Bb3 Ne5 12 h4 h5 9 

2 Modern Variation: 10 0-0-0 Rc8 11 Bb3 Ne5 12 Kb1 58 

3 Topalov Variation: 10 0-0-0 Rc8 11 Bb3 Nxd4 89 

4 Chinese Variation: 10 0-0-0 Rb8 116 

5 Accelerated Variation: 10 Bb3 Nxd4 11 Bxd4 b5 141 

Part II: 9 0-0-0 and 9 g4 165 

6 9 0-0-0 d5 10 exd5 167 

7 9 0-0-0 d5 10 Qe1 206 

8 9 0-0-0 d5 10 Kb1 225 

9 9 0-0-0 Nxd4 and 9...Bd7 255 

10 9 g4

Chess Analytics: Training With A Grandmaster (2012)

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Code:  2062-SP- Chess Analytics: Training With A Grandmaster (2012)

Efstratios Grivas is a Greek grandmaster probably best known nowadays for three things. First, he has with some justification named a variation of the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6) after himself. Second, he has made a name for himself as a writer of training materials, and this book is best considered as another entry in that genre. And third, alas, he has recently walked into a plagiarism scandal, and that brings us to the book at hand.

The book is a loose collection of 45 lessons in three sections. There are 24 lessons on the middlegame, 15 on the endgame, and six miscellaneous pieces to close out the book. Each lesson begins with a discussion under the heading "concept", proceeds with a number of well-chosen, well-analyzed examples, and finishes with a short summary of the lessons learned ("conclusion").

The book's general level is pretty high - I'd say it's best suited to players over 2000, though as always ambitious players a little below that could work with it as well. I also think that in terms of format, it's more suited for trainers than those wishing to be trained, but that shouldn't stop those who are interested. It's not a book on the level of work by Dvoretsky, Aagaard, Mueller or Yusupov, but it has merit and I wouldn't try to dissuade interested players from picking it up.

Modern Chess Preparation: Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age

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