Jesus de la Villa is Internationaal Grootmeester en voormalig kampioen van Spanje. De la Villa heeft diverse boeken geschreven en is een gerespecteerde schaakcoach. Dit boek is aanbevolen aan iedereen die zijn kennis op prachtische eindspelen wil verbeteren!
BOOST YOUR CHESS 1 continues Artur Yusupov’s Fundamentals series, helping players to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Renowned chess teacher and grandmaster Artur Yusupov continues his complete course of chess improvement. Volume 1, The Fundamentals, showed club chess players the basic ideas they should know. Now Volume 2, Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Volume 3 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Volume 2 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Final Volume of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Gives a flavour of how every opening works, and points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening has ended.
Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Vind het juiste plan en de goede zetten zullen volgen.
Iedere clubspeler kent het probleem: de opening is afgelopen en wat nu?
Internationaal Meester Herman Grooten presenteert de clubspeler een complete en gestructureerde weg om de juiste stellingskenmerken te interpreteren aan de hand van de door Wilhelm Steinitz opgestelde 'elementen'.
Are you tired of studying endgames that NEVER come up in real life? Here's help! Enjoying endgame tactics is the all-important (but oft-forgotten) first step in mastering this important phase of the game. Endgames are actually fun.
Karpov werd wereldkampioen schaken in 1975, met zijn fijne eindspeltechniek slaagt Karpov erin stellingen te winnen die door bijna iedereen als remise worden beschouwd.
The English Opening, from the Flank Games group, was developed by Howard Staunton. In this opening, white avoids or delays the occupation of the centre with Pawns. This book provides an introduction to the opening, and is suitable for all players, particularly club players.
Garry Kasparov heeft de schaakwereld gedomineerd. Langer dan welke wereldkampioen dan ook. De periode 1999 - 2005 manifesteerd een van de meest fascinerende en tegenstrijdige fasen in zijn carriere, incluis de herhaaldelijke en op niets uitlopende pogingen om het wereldkampioenschap van de twee bonden weer te doen herenigen, gevolgd door zijn terugtrekking uit de schaakwereld in 2005.
“If you want to excel at chess, you have to delve deeper, and appreciate not only visually pleasing combinations, but much more subtle positional ideas as well”, writes Daniel Naroditsky (1995) in this book.
Daniel is a unique talent. He became World Junior Chess Champion in 2007, and now, at the age of 14, he is also the youngest published chess author in history.
Begin november 2008 komt Batsford met een nieuwe uitgave van het fameuze boek "My sixthy memorable games'' van Robert James van Fischer. Dit boek dat oorspronkelijk verscheen in 1969 mag gerust tot de klassiekers worden gerekend.
Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the greatest chess players of the 1920s and 1930s, ranked just behind the famous World Champions Alekhine and Capablanca. His reputation as an author is higher still.
Ever since its launch in 1984, New In Chess has been the most popular and widely-read chess magazine in the world, with a readership that ranges from world champions to the humblest club player.
No other magazine in chess history can boast such a glittering array of world-class grandmasters amongst its regular contributors.
