2070-SP-The Dark Knight System - A Repertoire with 1 ... Nc6

Php 350.00

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Code: 2070-SP- The Dark Knight System - A Repertoire with 1 ... Nc6  [2013]

Welcome to the Dark Knight System, a weapon which can be used against virtually every opening White can play!

In the Dark Knight System, Black begins with 1...Nc6 and adopts a dark-square strategy. The Dark Knight System is a potent mix of several other openings, blending portions of the King’s Indian, Pirc, Scotch and Tango, but it contains many independent lines too. It forces White onto his own devices very early on in the game. When forced to improvise, even strong players are prone to playing weak moves or expending their time and energy in the opening.

In this book, FIDE Master James Schuyler invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Black opening. Drawing on over 25 years’ experience with 1...Nc6, he presents a repertoire for Black, studies the important tactical and strategic ideas, examines key issues such as move orders, and tells you everything you need to know about the Dark Knight System.

*A repertoire for Black with 1...Nc6

*Covers 1 e4, 1 d4, 1 c4 and other moves

*Packed with new ideas and critical analysis

1292-SP-Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman - (Siles 2007)

1292-SP-Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman - (Siles 2007) 

Php 660.00 hardcover

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2014-SP-Understanding Chess Middlegames (Nunn,2011)

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2007-SP-How to Crush Your Chess Opponents (2008)

240.00

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Code:  2007-SP-How to Crush Your Chess Opponents (2008)

Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess-players, has selected his favourite attacking games from the modern era, and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that indicate it is time to stake everything on an all-out assault. We also get insights into the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defence.

The players featured in this entertaining collection include: * Judit Polgar * Alexei Shirov * Veselin Topalov * Viswanathan Anand * Vasily Ivanchuk * Peter Svidler * Alexander Grishchuk * Magnus Carlsen *

1264-SP-50 Essential Chess Lessons-Giddins (Gambit 2006)

1264-SP-50 Essential Chess Lessons-Giddins (Gambit 2006)

Php 230.00 hardcover

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2031-SP-Bobby Fischer Rediscovered [Batsford,2003]

2031-SP-Bobby Fischer Rediscovered [Batsford,2003] 

Php 410.00 - hardcover

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2021-SP-Grandmaster Preparation Calculation - Jacob Aagaard [2012]

430.00

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Code: 2021-SP- Grandmaster Preparation Calculation - Aagaard  (2012)    430.00

Grandmaster Preparation: Calculation by Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard is the first in a five book series (position play, strategic play, endgame play and thinking inside the box are the others) designed to give aspiring players without trainers the tools they need on the road to grandmastership. Such aims are ambitious to say the least but Aagaard delivers.

This reviewer remembers when an English language translation of Hort and Jansa’s What’s the Best Move was published in 1980 and what a big deal it was. Previous to that, students of the game had only books on combinations and chess solitaire to go through, but they were nothing like the work by the two Vlastimils. The 230 test positions, all from their own games, were challenging, even with three choices offered. I still remember taking a Greyhound bus from Philadelphia to Boulder, Colorado, in 1981 with IM Walter Morris and the difficulties both of us had finding the correct solutions.

The 75 positions offered in the final chapter (Difficult Positions) of Aagaard’s book are on a different order of magnitude of difficulty from those in What’s the Best Move. Fortunately, students have roughly 375 positions to solve before that to prepare themselves. These positions are arranged around eight chapters that deal with specific themes: candidate moves, combinational vision, prophylaxis comparison, elimination, intermediate moves, imagination and traps.

Each chapter starts with four to five pages of examples accompanied by explanatory prose which builds up to the exercises which are the heart of the book. They are challenging and the time to solve them reflects this. Don’t expect to gobble them down like three move checkmates.

Failing to solve the exercises can still yield benefits if the student tries their hardest. Calculation has detailed solutions that clear up misconceptions.