Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game.

The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.

Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

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GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge

This book is about the language of chess. more specifically, this book is about the essential building blocks of chess. In a logical scientific approach to chess one must first master the basic building blocks and from there begin to build a personalized "vocabulary" which will be the foundation for mastery.

In Russian chess folklore it is said that there are 300 positions which comprise the most important knowlege an aspiring player must acquire. In this book are 253 unique positions; the remaining 47 are left to the reader who can complete the collection with those most meaningful to them. In addition there are 59 games every developing master would be advised to know.

GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge

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Elements of Chess: An Essential Guide to the Game

Improve your game, your understanding, and your appreciation of chess with this complete, concise guide, specifically designed for beginning to intermediate players. Elements of Chess is an ideal first chess book and a great reference for more serious students of the game. Chapters cover topics such as tactics, strategy, pieces, and pawns, as well as openings, endgames, and checkmates. Sections on the use of clocks, notation, and commonly misunderstood rules are also included. Every major component of the game is explained clearly and illustrated with carefully chosen diagrams.

Elements of Chess: An Essential Guide to the Game

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How to Beat the French Defence: The essential guide to the Tarrasch

The French Defence is considered to be one of Black’s most reliable answers to 1 e4. Indeed, many players have become frustrated in their attempts to prove an advantage and make headway against Black’s ultra-solid formation.

In How to Beat the French Defence, Andreas Tzermiadianos meets this difficult challenge head on. He advocates his favourite weapon against the French – the Tarrasch Variation – and reveals an abundance of opening ideas and novelties, providing the reader with a complete repertoire which is aimed at posing Black serious problems. Read this book and fight the French Defence with renewed confidence and vitality.

How to Beat the French Defence: The essential guide to the Tarrasch

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Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

Ivan Sokolov, a famous grandmaster who has beaten world champions like Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, has written a lucid guide on how to win chess middlegames, by addressing an almost universally ignored but extremely important topic: pawn structures. With very accessible verbal explanations this book helps you to solve the basic problems of chess middlegames: space, tension and initiative. Study of this important book, with dozens of highly instructive and clearly explained games from the greats of chess, will enhance your middlegame skills and will let you understand why pawns are considered to be ?the souls of chess?.

Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

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