Platonov's Chess Academy: Using Soviet-era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings

Two world-class chess champions give readers the benefit of the visionary ideas of one of the brightest stars of the famed Soviet School of Chess.

Two of the most renowned chess trainers in the world, introduce and explain the revolutionary ideas of their old friend and mentor, Igor Platonov. Platonov was one of the most profound thinkers and theoreticians in the old Soviet Union, which held a grip on the world chess championship for decades, as the title passed from one of its stars to another. For intermediate players to grandmasters, Platonov’s visionary insights, examined and explained here for the first time, provide you with the keys to understanding the foundational concepts of the game, strengthening your chess understanding and giving you effective methods to help you find the most powerful moves in the game. 100's of Illustrations

Platonov's Chess Academy: Using Soviet-era Methods to Improve 21st-Century Openings

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Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces

Ludek Pachman was both one of the world's strongest chess grandmasters and one of the world's greatest writers and teachers of the game. He led a remarkable and amazing but somewhat tragic life. Although one of the world's strongest players who won 15 international tournaments, he never quite made it to the top elite. He won four zonal tournaments and played in six Interzonal tournaments, possibly a record, but he missed qualifying to the World Champion Candidates Tournament by a half-point twice. He played in Interzonals at Saltsjöbaden 1948, Saltsjöbaden 1952, Gothemburg 1955, Portoroz 1958, Amsterdam 1964 and Manila 1976. Pachman was the first chess grandmaster to truly publicly endorse, investigate and recommend computer chess. Pachman played eight tournament games against Bobby Fischer, finishing with an even score. His most famous game is his win over Bobby Fischer in Chile in 1959.

Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces

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Marshall's Best Games of Chess (formerly titled My Fifty Years of Chess)

Marshall's Best Games of Chess (formerly titled My Fifty Years of Chess)

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The New Sicilian Dragon

Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this famous opening. Concentrating on his favourite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black, one which is perfect for the modern Dragon player who wishes to cause his opponents maximum problems in the opening. Drawing upon his considerable experience and using illustrative games, Williams covers the key tactical and positional ideas for both players, and highlights crucial modern day themes such as the importance of move orders.

The Sicilian Dragon is a highly popular opening, ideal for players of all levels. It enjoys such a great appeal because it leads to fascinating and fun-to-play positions in which both players regularly attack each other’s kings with a complete lack of inhibition.

* A repertoire for Black in the Sicilian Dragon
* Provides answers to all of White’s options
* Packed with exciting games, and original ideas and analysis

The New Sicilian Dragon

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Teach Yourself Chess (Teach Yourself Sports & Games)

Teach Yourself Chess contains all you need to know to learn and develop an understanding of good chess. It begins with the basics, the moves of the pieces, elementary tactics and basic combinations to force checkmate. It then explains how to fight for control, how to exploit strengths and weaknesses and how to develop a strategic plan. It also includes useful commentaries on historic games and exercises for the reader. It has an accessible style which won't overburden you with too many complex ideas too quickly, but gradually builds your understanding and confidence.

Teach Yourself Chess (Teach Yourself Sports & Games)

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Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

Is the ability to make combinations something you are born with or can it be acquired by practice? Soviet chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience of teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the recognition of combinational themes. As you work your way through this carefully graded series of tests, themes such as 'diversion', 'interference', `X-ray' and many more will become an integral part of your chess armoury, to be employed in your own games. Solving these positions will not only provide many hours of pleasure but will also enable you to test - andimprovel - your chess IQ.

Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

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The Modern Chess Instructor (Classic Reprint)

The chief purport of the work on Chess, of which the present volume forms the first part, is the theoretical application of new principles and of the reasoning by analogies of positions which have been my guide in practice, especially during the last twenty years. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the task which I have set before me was beset with enormous difficulties. Many variations that have been the product of vast changes in the style of play which has taken place in modern times, have no doubt been duly noticed in able treatises on the game, but no attempt has yet been made in any book on Chess to base the analysis systematically on general ideas which would assist the judgment of the student in similar positions. In the present work great efforts are essayed in that direction, especially in the annotation of illustrative games from practical play where the results of the application of the principles recommended for the conduct of the openings and the middle part can be more distinctly traced in the end. But as will be seen from the few examples given in this volume, of reasoning out the opening moves by comparison of different maxims, it would have been practically impossible within the scope of this work to adopt the same sort of commentation throughout the analysis of the openings, and I had to confine myself in that respect to pointing out the most striking examples of the adaptation of principles in the early part of the game. However, I have carefully examined the debuts treated in this volume on the basis of such general maxims, and as the openings have been hitherto analysed by the authorities chiefly in an empirical manner, it became necessary to introduce a very large number of novelties at various stages of variations which, up to the present, had been generally recognized as standard lines of play. In short I have come to conclusion
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

The Modern Chess Instructor (Classic Reprint)

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