2496-SP-Improve Your Chess by Learning from Champions (Hansen) [2009]

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Code: 2496-SP-Improve Your Chess by Learning from Champions (Hansen) [2009]

"If you want to reach the heights, you should study the entire history of chess. I can't give any clear logical explanation for it, but I think it is absolutely essential to soak up the whole of chess history." - VLADIMIR KRAMNIK

In this book Lars Bo Hansen shows how chess understanding has evolved and explains how and why a study of the great champions of the past and present will significantly improve your chess. Although modern chess is a highly concrete game where calculation is paramount and principles often appear to take a back seat, Hansen argues that the principles have become implicit at top level: "you cannot win games only by following Steinitz's or Nimzowitsch's principles, but you will certainly lose games if you don't know these principles!"

Hansen shows that pattern recognition - one of the most vital aspects of chess mastery - is built up highly effectively by studying historic games, and cites many examples which will immediately form part of your armoury. Building upon the structure of his acclaimed work How Chess Games are Won and Lost, Hansen also argues that the transitions opening-to-middlegame and middlegame-to-endgame are best understood by studying the games of the great champions.

Throughout the book, the emphasis is firmly on improving your chess, and equipping you to improve your chess further by studying on your own. At the same time, you will enjoy a feast of the most instructive chess games of all time - both classical and modern. The final chapter discusses the future development of chess style.

2633-SP-Techniques of Positional Play - Bronznik [2013]

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Code: 2633-SP-Techniques of Positional Play - Bronznik  [2013]

Opening preparation is useful, but understanding the middlegame is much more important. This book, an improved edition of a Russian classic, teaches amateur chess players 45 extremely effective skills in a crystal-clear manner.

Quite a few of the ideas presented here will surprise the reader, because they offer solutions for problems the club player is only subconsciously aware. How do you activate your rook pawn? How do you prevent your opponent from opening a file? How do you restrict the efficacy of your opponents pieces? Which rook belongs on the c-, d- or e-file? What is the best way to exchange a piece? How do you castle artificially?

In most cases the techniques are easy to understand and memorize. Bronznik and Terekhin do not burden the reader with deep analysis and only present those variations that are really necessary to get the point. There is a special training section at the end of the book where you can test your skills.  – Amazon

2063-SP-Beating Unusual Chess Defences 1 e4 [ [2012]

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Code:  2063-SP-Beating Unusual Chess Defences 1 e4 [ [2012]

Anyone who plays 1 e4 as White must be prepared not only for Black’s main defences but also an assortment of less popular lines. These, when taken together, represent a significant percentage of the replies you can expect to meet when opening 1 e4. Dealing with these slightly offbeat variations is often a daunting task, especially since your opponents are likely to be specialists in these lines and therefore know them inside out.

This book provides the perfect solution. International Master Andrew Greet gets to grips with each of these tricky openings. He identifies how to exploit their weaknesses whilst avoiding their strengths, thus constructing a practical and dependable repertoire for White. This book covers everything a 1 e4 player needs to know about facing these defences.

* Written by a renowned opening expert

* Full of original ideas and analysis* Ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players. – Amazon

2059-SP- Developing Chess Talent - Van Delft - [2010]

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Code: 2059-SP- Developing Chess Talent - Van Delft - [2010]

The Dutch father-and-son team of Karel van Delft and IM Merijn van Delft have put together a work best exemplified by the subtitle of this book: "Creating a chess culture by coaching, training, organization and communication."

Developing Chess Talent, an English translation of the original 2008 Dutch edition, was clearly a labor of love for the van Delfts and serves as an encyclopedic work describing their efforts in truly developing an allencompassing chess culture. An American attempting to visualize the actualization of the van Delft processes might try imagining a melding of Greg Shahade's youth-centric U. S. Chess School with the impressive organization and public relations machine that is the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis.

For an organizer or coach searching for new ideas, Developing Chess Talent might well be the Mother lode. While there is very little technical chess instruction in the book, its 240 pages cover an incredible gamut of suggestions for stimulating chess students to approach their potential, and for a community to embrace its chess activities.

2058-SP-Greatest Ever Chess Endgames -S. Giddins - [2012]

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Code: 2058-SP-Greatest Ever Chess Endgames -S. Giddins - [2012]

Chess players are known to be obsessed by openings. However, world champions have recommended that up-and-coming players should actually begin by studying the endgame first. This is because only by studying simplified positions can one fully develop an understanding of how chess pieces work - both in isolation and with each other. It is also the endgame where the true depth and subtlety of chess is revealed. In this instructive and entertaining book, renowned endgame expert Steve Giddins selects 50 of the finest examples of endgame play in the history of chess. Giddins examines each example in great detail and uses them to demonstrate the essential principles of high-quality endgame play. This book is full of essential guidelines and tips which all players should follow if they want to become a successful endgame player.

2057-SP-The Black Lion-The Chess Predator's Choice Against Both 1.e4 and 1.d4 - V. J. Rekom [2009]

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Code: 2057-SP-The Black Lion-The Chess Predator's Choice Against Both 1.e4 and 1.d4 -  V. J. Rekom [2009]

More than 85% of all chess games start with either 1.e4 or 1.d4, and The Black Lion presents a flexible, logical and sensible way for Black to meet both of these moves. This robust, multipurpose opening system looks quiet, like a sleeping lion, but when this predator is provoked, and the game heats up, Black eats its prey in an extremely swift and efficient way. The moves are easy to learn, Black has a good choice of middlegame plans, the positions are fresh and interesting, and White will often struggle to counter Black's ideas.

2047-SP-The Strategic Nimzo Indian – I. Sokolov - [2012]

Php 540.00

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Code: 2047-SP-The Strategic Nimzo Indian – I. Sokolov - [2012]

The Nimzo-Indian Defence continues to be one of the most important chess openings, an immensely popular choice both at club level as well as with almost all top players. It is a solid but flexible opening which gives rich tactical and positional play with winning chances for both sides.

In this ground-breaking and well-structured book, one of today's greatest Nimzo-Indian experts,Ivan Sokolov, presents a complete guide to the important 4.e3(Rubinstein) Variation and clearly explains the plans and counterplans for both sides.

The Rubinstein is the historical main line and the most consistently popular. It requires a through positional understanding and Sokolov, renowned author of Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures, clearly presents the ideas, structures and plans in the various continuations.

Besides in-depth explanations of strategy and concepts The Strategic Nimzo-Indian also contains quite a few new ideas and previously unknown resources for both Black and White. Ivan Sokolov not only provides you with crucial up-to-date information and strategic lessons in the Nimzo-Indian Defence; after studying this book you will have become a better allround chess player as well. -  Amazon