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- Opening, Theory
The Scheveningen Sicilian Revisited A Complete Repertoire for the Sicilian Player – Daniel Gormally
- €39.00
- Hardback - 176 pages The Scheveningen Sicilian Revisited A Complete Repertoire for the Sicilian Player - Daniel Gormally The Sicilian Scheveningen Defense is a highly respected and flexible variation of the Sicilian Defense, characterized by the pawn structure Black adopts with pawns on e6 and d6. It arises after the moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4…
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- History
Unveiling the Victory – How Spassky Won The Third World Junior Chess Championship Antwerp 1955 – Henri Serruys
- €45.00
- Hardback - 250 pages Unveiling the Victory - How Spassky Won The Third World Junior Chess Championship Antwerp 1995 - Henri Serruys In this book, the Belgian chess historian Henri Serruys traces back how Spassky became the first Soviet World Junior Chess Champion in Antwerp 1955. Endowed with recently discovered original material from the tournament organizer, the Belgian youth chess…
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- Tactics
Thinkers’ Chess Academy with Grandmaster Thomas Luther – 365 Steps to Advanced Tactical Mastery – VOLUME 6 – Heinz Brunthaler
- €35.00
- Daily bite-sized puzzles to improve your tactical ability Paperback – 274 pages Thinkers’ Chess Academy with Grandmaster Thomas Luther – 365 Steps to Advanced Tactical Mastery - VOLUME 6 - Heinz Brunthaler *365 Steps to Tactical Mastery* offers a practical, tactic-centered approach to improving your chess game. Instead of spending countless hours studying, this book delivers bite-sized lessons and tasks…
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- Theory, Opening, Strategy, Tactics
Reloaded Weapons in the Benoni – Second Revised & Updated Edition – Milos Pavlovic
- €35.00
- A Fearless, Dangerous Chess Opening for Black. Hardback – 164 pages Reloaded Weapons in the Benoni – Second Revised & Updated Edition - Milos Pavlovic Step into the world of high-level, aggressive chess with the much-anticipated “Second Revised and Extended Edition of the Benoni” by Milos Pavlovic. This updated volume takes you deeper into the strategies and tactics of one of…
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- Languages, English
AlphaBetChess – Volume 2: Enjoy the Colorful World of Chess from A-Z – Vishnu Warrier
- €18.00
- Paperback - 68 pages - coloring book AlphaBetChess - Volume 2: Enjoy the Colorful World of Chess from A-Z - Vishnu Warrier Introducing ABChess, Volume 2, the perfect guide for young beginners and chess lovers ! This engaging chess workbook combines vibrant, colorful assignments with playful stories, offering step-by-step lessons that inspire creativity and sharpen strategic thinking. Letter tracing is…
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- Languages, English
AlphaBetChess – Volume 1: Learn To Play Chess in 26 Stories – Vishnu Warrier
- €35.00
- Hardback - 64 pages AlphaBetChess - Volume 1: Learn To Play Chess in 26 Stories - Vishnu Warrier Each letter of the alphabet is paired with a key chess term, such as A for Attraction, B for Bishop, and C for Checkmate, brought to life through colorful illustrations and whimsical stories. This isn’t just a book about chess—it’s a book about…
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- Strategy, English
Lessons on Uncompromising Play – Mastering Strategies for Winning Concepts – David Navara
- €45.00
- Hardback - 352 pages Lessons on Uncompromising Play - Mastering Strategies for Winning Concepts - David Navara If you want to win a game, you should be ready to progress in small steps. In most games, you first need to gain the initiative, then transform it into a positional advantage or into an attack and eventually win the game. Reality…
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- Biography, English, History, Languages
FIDE President Folke Rogard: The lawyer who organized modern chess in the shadow of the cold war – Henrik Malm Lindberg
- €50.00
- Hardback - 336 pages Teaser FIDE President Folke Rogard: The lawyer who organized modern chess in the shadow of the cold war This book is, in one way, a biography of Folke Rogard, focusing mostly on his roles as FIDE President and organizer of modern chess. However, it only briefly discusses the other facets of his life as a father, husband, lawyer,…
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- Opening, English, Theory
The Modernized London System – Milos Pavlovic
- €42.00
- Hardback - 264 pages Teaser The Modernized London System - Milos Pavlovic Although the London System has been known for a long time, it has only surged in popularity in the last decade or so. This rise can likely be attributed to many players' desire to focus more on the practical aspects of chess, emphasizing positional understanding over the heavy…
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- Tactics, English, Theory
Thinkers’ Chess Academy with GM Thomas Luther – Vol. 5 – 365 Steps to Tactical Mastery – Heinz Brunthaler
- €35.00
- Paperback - 258 pages Teaser Thinkers’ Chess Academy with GM Thomas Luther – Vol. 5 – 365 Steps to Tactical Mastery Do you like chess and want to become a better player without putting in hundreds of hours training? 365 Steps to Tactical Mastery has a practical approach with a focus on the tactics. This book helps to eliminate hours of…
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- Modernized, English, Opening, Theory
The Modernized Flank Attack – Christian Bauer & Pierre Laurent-Paoli
- €45.00
- Hardback - 364 pages Teaser The Modernized Flank Attack You can hardly find a more unconventional idea than pushing your g-pawn 2 squares down the board. Some may say it belongs to a backroom chess game in a café, some may say it belongs to olden times – back when the King’s Gambit was the main line after 1. e4…
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- Opening, English
Moves 3 to 10 – Understanding the Opening Phase for Improving Chess Players – Nery Strasman
- €42.00
- Hardback - 264 pages Teaser Moves 3 to 10 – Understanding the Opening Phase for Improving Chess Players - Nery Strasman About 10 months ago, Nery approached me. We already knew each other; Nery had been my student in group online classes for about 2 years. Nery’s main goal and desire is to help chess lovers like himself. Let’s say we don’t…
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- Tactics, English, Psychology, Strategy
The Imparable Logic and Psychology in Chess – Boroljub Zlatanovic –
- €42.00
- Hardback - 316 pages Teaser The Imparable Logic and Psychology in Chess We live in era of computers (unfortunately!) and we are simply forced to use them often and widely. Chess is no exclusion – it is impossible even to imagine modern chess without computers, engines, databases, online platforms, etc. Modern generations have their first connection with chess through computers,…
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- Theory, English, Opening, Strategy
The Modernized Semi-Slav – Milos Pavlovic
- €39.00
- Hardback - 176 pages Teaser The Modernized Semi-Slav The Semi-Slav Defense transcends its classification as a mere defensive response to 1.d4. It embodies a dynamic and multifaceted system that offers Black not only solidity in defense but also active counterplay and strategic flexibility. Here's why the Semi-Slav is more than just a defense: Rather than passively defending, the Semi-Slav allows…
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- Opening, English, Modernized, Theory
Delchev’s Practical Opening Repertoire – Volume 1 – The Scandinavian, Pirc & Modern Defenses – Aleksander Delchev
- €42.00
- Hardback - 314 pages Teaser Delchev’s Practical Opening Repertoire - Volume 1 – The Scandinavian – Pirc & Modern Defenses What does it take to become an expert in opening preparation? How can we learn the secret methods which allow the top players to dominate everyone else in the opening? Books can hardly be useful in this regard because modern…
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- English, Strategy
Someday I’ll Be a Queen – PICTURE BOOK & TOOLBOX
- Original price was: €50.00.€44.00Current price is: €44.00.
- A Pawn’s Journey Across the Chessboard – Christel Minne Hardback – SKU 9789464201888 – 56 pages How is this book now different from other chess books for young children? Well, it starts as a fairy tale about a King, a Dragon and a young Girl with a dream. Author Christel Minne: “A young girl is the main character because by…
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- Biography, English, History, Strategy
The Life and Games of D.Velimirovic – Volume 1 & 2 – George Mohr & Ana Velimirovic
- Original price was: €90.00.€80.00Current price is: €80.00.
- Teaser The Life and Games of D.Velimirovic – Volume 1 – George Mohr & Ana Velimirovic Teaser Forgotten Genius -The Life and Games of Grandmaster D. Velimirovic - Volume 2 - Mohr & Ana I sincerely hope that you, dear readers, will enjoy the wonderful masterpieces you will find in this book. In addition to the authors, some of Drasko’s…
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- Biography, English, History, Strategy
Forgotten Genius -The Life and Games of Grandmaster D. Velimirovic – Volume 2 – Mohr & Ana
- €45.00
- Hardback - 380 pages I sincerely hope that you, dear readers, will enjoy the wonderful masterpieces you will find in this book. In addition to the authors, some of Drasko’s contemporaries were also involved in the writing, and they immediately responded with pride and love to the request to keep the memory of the Serbian genius alive. I would like…
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- Opening, Modernized, Theory
Unknown Weapons in the Grünfeld – Second revised and updated edition – Milos Pavlovic
- €39.00
- Paperback - 404 pages In my first book I wanted to enlighten the reader on those various lines that were less explored, and those that have been almost forgotten but were nevertheless interesting. However this time the book is about cutting-edge lines, which is a very modern approach to this fascinating opening. Moreover it is important to say that…
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- Modernized, English, Opening, Strategy, Theory
The Queen’s Gambit Declined – A Dynamic Repertoire for Black – Louis Rodi
- €49.00
- 620 pages - hardback The history of the Queen's Gambit is connected with the very beginnings of modern chess, the opening being cited in the earliest published books on the science of the game, such as the Göttingen manuscript (1490) and the books of Ruy Lopez (1561) and Salvio (1604). The so-called Queen's Gambit Declined – or Refused – is,…
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- Theory, Modernized, Opening, Spanish
La Defensa Philidor Modernizada – Sergio Trigo
- €30.00
- 401 pages - paperback Revised updated edition of the English edition from 2021 but only available in Spanish. Teaser La Defensa Philidor Modernizada
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- Strategy, English
Someday I’ll Be a Queen – Toolbox
- €20.00
- Playing chess with a group / Playing chess with one child - Christel Minne Paperback - SKU 9789464201895 - 48 pages This toolbox full of tips and games accompanies the picture book, Someday I'll Be a Queen, which incorporates all the rules of chess. Teachers, parents, grandparents, and chess coaches learn how to build it up step by step. The message is,…
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- Strategy, English
Someday I’ll Be a Queen – PICTURE BOOK
- €30.00
- A Pawn's Journey Across the Chessboard - Christel Minne Hardback - SKU 9789464201888 - 56 pages How is this book now different from other chess books for young children? Well, it starts as a fairy tale about a King, a Dragon and a young Girl with a dream. Author Christel Minne: "A young girl is the main character because by…
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- Opening, English, Theory
The Modernized Trojan Knight 1.Nc3 – Bruno Dieu
- €45.00
- The idea of the move 1. Nc3 is to confuse the second player, as White plays a supposedly unambitious move to mislead Black. This is why we found the name "Trojan Horse" very appropriate for the move 1. Nc3, just as the gift from Ulysses to the Trojans appeared to be a tricky and poisoned gift. The appropriate term for…
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- Biography, English, History, Strategy
The Life and Games of D.Velimirovic – Volume 1 – George Mohr & Ana Velimirovic
- €45.00
- Dragoljub Velimirovic was a former Yugoslav – Serbian, chess grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by political intrigues and his outspoken temperament. During the heyday of the USSR as the greatest national chess power, the former Yugoslavia was capable of running the Soviet Union a good second. Dragoljub Velimirovic posed a real threat to the men from Moscow. Velimirovic was…
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- Theory, English, History, Opening
DragonMasters – Volume 1 – Andrew Burnett
- €45.00
- DragonMasters volume 1 charts the history of the most exiting and dangerous opening known to chess - the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Unlike almost all other books on the Dragon, the focus is not purely on theoretical development. Instead, the author has combined the mist historically important games, the famous players who chose to fight either side (sometimes…
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- Psychology, English
Tournament Battleplan – Daniel Gormally
- €39.00 – €45.00
- There have been plenty of chess books that have been published which have tried to give practical advice and tips for tournament players, so the genre is hardly new. However given the changes in the chess world over the last few years I feel that we badly need an update. The pandemic giving rise to vastly underrated junior and amateur…
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- English, Strategy, Tactics
365 Endgames Lessons for Novices
- €36.00
- The core material of this book has 365 positions. The reader is given a daily task. These tasks resemble those that players face over the board. In this book we have collected typical positions and situations frequently seen. If you master these you can avoid a lot of common mistakes. Or even better, you can exploit your opponent's mistake. There…
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- Biography, English, special edition
Illuminating Chess
- €45.00
- Finally, the epic photo journey of Fred Lucas, clearly one of the best photographers around, got caught into this amazing book. It’s simple unique and has no competitors. Fred Lucas’ photos have the power to connect people across time and distance. His photos capture moments and emotions that transcend language and cultural barriers. They preserve memories and remind us of…
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- English, Biography
Rolf Martens: Chess Genius – Maoist – Rebel
- €55.00
- The hardcover book is written with a lot of knowledge about, feeling for and love for the unique chess player Rolf Martens was. Few people in Swedish chess have had such a mythological status as the man of rebellion or resistance. Martens’ life is really made for being documented, and this well-written and well-researched book illustrates his many sides and…
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- English, Middlegame, Strategy, Tactics
The Modernized Anti-Sicilians volume 2
- €36.00 – €41.00
- Black is forced to make an immediate decision on move 3 and wait for the right moment to open the position. On top the author created practical difficulties for the Black. Naturally, it is not possible to find an advantage in every variation but Ravi added many detailed explanations to guide plans and aid understanding in the various positions…
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The French Defense Revisited
- €25.20 – €37.00
- The French Defense looks to be inexhaustible and there cannot be enough books dedicated to it. This book takes a step in the direction of revitalizing our favorite opening! The authors have decided to set the book in order from the less to the more popular and complex lines. In the case of the most popular moves…
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- Opening, English, Middlegame
The Modernized Barry Attack – Vladimir Okhotnik
- €32.00 – €36.00
- • The Barry Attack is a little rebellious but most dynamic opening • It’s one of the fastest ways to outplay your opponent in the opening. • The ‘’super repertoire’’ that always keeps Black under pressure in all variations. • Any reasonable opening set-up can work wonders for White or Black if they know it well. • Anyone who takes…
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- Opening, English, Strategy
The Taimanov Bible – Second Revised and Extended Edition – I.Ivanisevic et al.
- €36.00
- In addition to the basic Taimanov ideas we had to keep, we followed – in an original manner – our two main concepts: ‘almost never play an early …d6’ (Scheveningen-style) and ‘push …h5 whenever you can’ (Paulsen-style). The latest fashion, which we have to mention, did not even exist when we started to write our book – the 7.Qf3 line.…
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- Endgame, English, Strategy
The Bishop Pair – Power of the Sun
- €29.95
- Efstratios Grivas – The Bishop Pair – Power of the Sun – 248 pages – ISBN 9789464201499. Teaser [PDF] - The Bishop Pair – Power of the Sun Endgame theory teaches us two fundamental issues: First, how to extract the maximum from a basic theoretical position with little material, where the experts (from practice comprising thousands of games) have reached…
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- Opening, English
Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4! -1B – Queen’s Gambit Accepted – Aggressive Enterprise
- €35.95
- V.Kotronias & M.Ivanov – Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4 1B – Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Agressive Enterprise - ISBN 9789464201246 – 480 pages. Teaser [PDF] - Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4 1B – Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Agressive Enterprise What you are holding in your hands is the natural follow up of Volume 1 where some “lesser” openings aft er…
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- German, Middlegame, Strategy
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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- Opening, English
The Modernized Najdorf
- €29.80
- "Learning the Najdorf will help all players to understand Sicilians in a better way. Different aspects of chess such as defence, attack and sacrifice, positional themes and tactical storms, can be found in this book." ~ Milos Pavlovic
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- Dutch
NBC – Correspondentieschaken in Nederland
- €20.60
- In Nederland wordt al heel lang correspondentieschaak gespeeld. Op 19 november 1966 hebben de correspondentieschakers een eigen vereniging opgericht, de NBC, de Nederlandse Bond van Correspondentieschakers. Op 19 november 2016 bestaat de NBC 50 jaar. Ter gelegenheid van dit jubileum verschijnt dit boek. Een geschiedenis van een vereniging is een geschiedenis van mensen. Deze mensen, de correspondentieschakers, staan in dit…
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- German, Strategy
Ein Schachleben in 100 Partien
- €30.80
- Het lang verwachte epische levensschaakverhaal van grootmeester Karel van der Weide is eindelijk beschikbaar. In meer dan 260 pagina's volgen we zijn pad tijdens de vele schaaktoernooien en avonturen die Karel van der Weide beleefde.
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- French, Psychology, Strategy
Entraînement au calcul
- €28.85
- Ce livre est un fantastique outil d’entraînement pour tout joueur d’échecs souhaitant améliorer sa vision du jeu et son niveau de calcul.
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