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- Strategy, English, Psychology
- David Navara – My Chess World
- €35.95
- "This book is not a pure (auto)biography, rather a games collection. It consists mainly of interesting high-class games played by me, including many losses. Most of the games are preceded by accompanying texts, which vary from essays to tournament reports. The title of the book might seem presumptuous, but I wanted to show how I see or experience the competitions…
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- English, Psychology, Strategy
- Alojzije Jankovic – The Grandmaster Mindset – A First Course to Chess Improvement
- €22.95
- "To be able to raise your level of play you will need to work hard on your chess. This book will arm you with some important chess ideas and skills but, more importantly, you will get into the grandmaster’s mind. I don’t want you to play chess the following way: he attacked me -- I need to move away, I…
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- Strategy, Bundle promotions, English
- Robert Ris – Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player, Vol. 1 & 2 (bundle)
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€59.60€40.00 - "My aim is to illustrate the specific features of all the pieces and this can best be done without too many other pieces on the board." ~ Robert Ris
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Alexander Ipatov – Unconventional Approaches to Modern Chess – Volume 2 – Rare Ideas for White
- €30.95
- To win a game, it is enough to be just a little bit better than your opponent. To make this happen, especially when facing a strong player, you must force your opponent to solve practical problems. You must get them into a position where the cost of a potential mistake is much higher than usual. ~ GM Alexander Ipatov
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- Endgame, English, Strategy
- Efstratios Grivas – Your Jungle Guide to Rook Endings
- €31.95
- "The endgame is the moment of truth. It is the phase of the game where we will try to reap the seeds of our effort regardless of whether that is the full point of victory or the half point of the draw. The significance of errors increases in the endgame as the opportunities for correcting them are few." ~ Efstratios…
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- Opening, English, Middlegame, Strategy
- Daniel Hausrath – Double Fianchetto – The Modern Chess Lifestyle
- €28.95
- "This book is definitely not a book full of theoretical lines. Of course, I will give some advice if possible and necessary. But the main purpose is to explain the structures that can result from double fianchettoed positions." ~ Daniel Hausrath
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- Psychology, Spanish, Strategy
- Romain Edouard – Mis Magicos Años con Topalov
- €26.95
- "Este libro trata sobre cómo surgen las ideas durante la preparación, sobre lo que sucede tras las cortinas. No tuve conciencia de sus planes hasta que Romain me contó que lo estaba escribiendo. Creo que los entusiastas del ajedrez apreciarán la honestidad de las historias pues nada se ocultó. Espero que lo disfruten." ~ Veselin Topalov
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- German, Middlegame, Strategy
- Christian Bauer – Kandidatenzüge
- €29.95
- Im Verlauf des gesamten Buches, verweise ich auf strukturelle Parallelen aus bekannteren Eröffnungen, um zu zeigen, wie Ideen übertragen werden können und wurden. Somit kann der Leser seine Fähigkeit der strukturellen Wiedererkennung trainieren.
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- Psychology, English, Strategy
- Alexey Kuzmin – Together with Mamedyarov
- €30.95
- “Together With Mamedyarov” is not a collection of his selected games but it is primarily a study-book. It contains test positions taken from games of the famous Azeri grandmaster with detailed comments on the solutions to the tasks. In this book the solutions have been placed right after a diagram with a test except for the six positions given as a warm-up in the beginning…
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- Gata Kamsky – Gata Kamsky – Chess Gamer, Volume 1 & 2 (bundle)
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€65.90€50.00 - “Clearly there were some triumphs and failures during this period of my chess career, but ultimately I feel that I have left a certain mark on the generation from which the world’s current top players have emerged.” ~ Gata Kamsky
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- Middlegame, English, Strategy
- Boroljub Zlatanovic – Fundamental Chess Strategy in 100 Games
- €32.95
- "The focus should be on understanding strategical concepts, principles and underlying logic. Fashionable opening lines will be forgotten (or re-evaluated) sooner or later, but understanding cannot be lost, and can be only upgraded. It is sad to see some players that are well equipped with opening lines, who are unable to realise a big positional advantage in an endgame. So,…
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- English, Opening, Strategy
- Ivan Cheparinov – Cheparinov’s 1.d4! – Vol.1 – King’s Indian & Grünfeld
- €24.95
- "In this first volume of Cheparinov’s 1.d4! readers will find my own way of working on openings, and the way I analyze. Many of the lines and conclusions in this book are based not only on computer evaluation, but also on the practical point of view. Of course all the lines have been deeply analyzed by strong engines, and although…
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Herman Grooten – Understanding before Moving 3.1: Sicilian Structures – The Najdorf and Scheveningen
- €31.95
- "But I am writing for an audience that, by and large, is not interested in chess as a memory contest. So I’m not going to offer you lots of novelties and dense variation trees. On the contrary. The approach is to take the reader into the seemingly impenetrable labyrinth of variations without flinching, but then to base my comments on…
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- English, Opening, Strategy
- Ivan Ivanisevic – The Modernized Delayed Benoni
- €28.00
- "In my opinion, the Delayed Benoni is a kind of mystery for White also, since it has not been covered deeply enough in chess publications. So I think that this work could be useful for White players, too." ~ Ivan Ivanisevic
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Priyadharshan Kannappan – The Modernized Berlin Wall Defense
- €24.95
- "The Berlin Defense is an opening system Priyadharshan Kannappan is very familiar with, and I am very confident that his knowledge will be invaluable to anyone who wants to master this incredibly solid opening." ~ Susan Polgar **Available from 19/11/2019**
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- Alexey Dreev – Improve Your Practical Play in the Middlegame & Endgame (bundle)
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€54.25€40.00 - The book before you engages the reader in useful calculations all the while expanding the player’s perception and confidence in a phase of the game where computer theory and preparation are of little value. ~ Alexander Hart
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Milos Pavlovic – The Modernized Scotch Game – A Complete Repertoire for White and Black
- €27.95
- "Credit can mostly be given to Kasparov for reviving this old opening, but there are many others who have contributed to exploring new ideas and forging new paths. A lot of discoveries have been made by some young grandmasters who don’t shy away from analysing deep tactical solutions with the aid of the silicon beast." ~ Milos Pavlovic
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Z.Kozul & A.Jankovic – The Richter Rauzer Reborn, The Kozul Variation
- €31.95
- "The fact that this opening has become part of a standard repertoire against 1.e4 for many top players such as Rapport, Dubov, Li Chao, Korobov, Gupta, Vovk etc . speaks for itself about the quality and the fascination of the variation and also about the many possibilities it offers. It’s hard to pinpoint the real reasons for this popularity, but…
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- Middlegame, Dutch, Strategy
- Herman Grooten – Begrijp wat je doet 3.1 (Najdorf & Scheveningen)
- €27.95
- "Waarom het Siciliaans? Zoals we in ons eerste deel van Begrijp wat je doet hebben gesteld, is er niets mis met 1.e4 e5. Dat is tot de dag van vandaag nog steeds zo. Toch blijkt dat het voor sterke spelers, die met zwart tegen een Elozwakkere moeten spelen, soms heel erg lastig is om er een echte strijd van te…
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- Middlegame, Bundle promotions, English, Strategy
- Ivan Sokolov – Chess Middlegame Strategies, Vol. 1, 2 & 3 (bundle)
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€83.40€70.00 - "In the first volume I have annotated 37 games representing different aspects (chapters) of ‘chess middlegame strategies’. In the second volume of my “Chess Middlegame Strategies” series I have decided to focus on this connection between the opening and the middlegame. In the third volume I have taken strategic themes from specific openings and combined these with standard strategies such…
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- Strategy, English, Middlegame
- Ivan Sokolov – Chess Middlegame Strategies, Vol. 3
- €29.95
- "My aim in this book, as well as its two predecessors, is not only to help you improve your middlegame understanding but to give you new and different ideas/concepts to employ in your own play." ~ Ivan Sokolov
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- Endgame, English, Strategy
- Alexey Dreev – Improve Your Practical Play in the Endgame
- €28.00
- The book before you engages the reader in useful calculations all the while expanding the player’s perception and confidence in a phase of the game where computer theory and preparation are of little value. ~ Alexander Hart
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- Psychology, English, Strategy
- Gata Kamsky – Chess Gamer, Vol 2: Return 2004-2013
- €32.95
- "Clearly there were some triumphs and failures during this period of my chess career, but ultimately I feel that I have left a certain mark on the generation from which the world’s current top players have emerged." ~ Gata Kamsky
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- Opening, English, Strategy
- Adrien Demuth – The Modernized Dutch Defense
- €32.95
- Do you prefer to avoid symmetrical games against white's 1. d4? And do sharp and complex positions not frighten you? If the answer is yes, the Modernized Dutch Defense might be a worthy surprise weapon to add to your opening repertoire!
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- Strategy, Endgame, English, Middlegame, Psychology
- Hans Böhm & Yochanan Afek – The Royal Chess Couple in Action
- €31.95
- "The Royal Chess Couple is a combined attempt to introduce the various traits of the most significant piece with the most powerful piece on the chessboard." ~ Yochanan Afek
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- English, Middlegame, Strategy
- A. Mikhalchishin & G. Mohr – Understanding Maroczy Structures
- €27.95
- "Geza Maroczy left a strange legacy: the discovery that certain pawn formations can impose a near decisive cramp on one's opponent."
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- Middlegame, English, Psychology, Strategy
- Evgeny Bareev – Say No To Chess Principles!
- €28.95
- "A lot of the topics listed demand a very straightforward type of thinking or approach. However it also happens that chess players often discover significant resources which formally exist outside the typical rules of chess. Those who know how to break all the rules and work around those specific guidelines reach the very top." ~ Evgeny Bareev
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- Strategy, English, Psychology
- Vladimir Tukmakov – Coaching the Chess Stars
- €29.95
- "Many of the chess players who appear in these pages are still young; their whole life, including their sports career, lies ahead. That is why I tried to avoid purely personal details and did not reveal any professional secrets. I hope that these players, like me, will be curious to reflect on their own achievements and mistakes, and to take…
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- Psychology, English, Strategy
- Gata Kamsky – Chess Gamer, Vol 1: The Awakening 1989-1996
- €32.95
- "What you are going to find in this first volume is a selection of my most memorable battles on the chessboard during the first of two different periods. It covers the time from my arrival in the USA as an up-and-coming young talent in early 1989, acquiring the freedom to play in any open tournament in the world and quickly…
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- Opening, English, Psychology, Strategy
- Alexander Ipatov – Unconventional Approaches to Modern Chess, Volume 1: Rare Ideas for Black
- €30.85
- "This book is about the practical approach to the game of chess. It shaped me as a player and now I would like to share my philosophy with you. My objective is to combat several generally accepted misconceptions, such as a) only studying opening theory will make you a better player, b) one should always follow the first or second…
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