People who are really, really good at something - unbelievably good, incomprehensibly good, have always held a strong fascination for those fellow humans who are less extraordinarily gifted. In this respect chess does not differ from other areas of human endeavour.

A Chess Biography with 719 Games

Louis Paulsen (1833-1891) was one of the 19th century’s strongest chess players and a world record holder in blindfold chess. He maintained an unbeaten record in matches, created several opening systems and was an originator of the positional approach to the game.

Awakening (1989 - 1996)

This work was originally envisioned as a single-volume collection of my most memorable games, annotated by me, à la Bobby Fischer´s My 60 Memorable Games. However the more I delved into the past, the more things started to rise up from the recesses of my memory, which, along with deeper analysis and more detailed introductions to the games, made it more like an anthology of chess stories. Thankfully, my gracious editors decided to split the work into two volumes. 

A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games

This book describes the intense rivalry-and collaboration-of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details-many for the first time in English.

Romain Edouard, highest rating 2702, has been a member of the French national team since 2011. As a teenager, he won the gold medal at the European U16 Championship in 2006 and silver at the European and World U18 Championships in 2007. He became an IM at the age of 16, GM at 17, French Champion at 21, and has won numerous international events all over the world.

A Comprehensive Record of an American Chess Career, 1929-1951.

American Grandmaster Reuben Fine grew up in the East Bronx in an impoverished Russian-Jewish family, learning to play chess from an uncle at the age of eight. During his high school years, his stake winnings and coins earned from playing at a Coney Island concession helped support his family. After graduating from college, he decided to become a professional player.

Learn from the Games of a Chess Legend

Emanuel Lasker was world champion for a remarkable 27 years (1894-1921) and is generally regarded as having been way ahead of his time in his understanding of chess. He primarily regarded chess as a fight and considered that the strongest move in a position was the one that created greatest problems for the opponent and not necessarily the one that was objectively “best”.

World Chess Champion for 27 Years

001 Chapter 1 - A Biographical Compass: Part 1 (Michael Negele)
051 Chapter 2 - Ancestors, Family, and Childho450 Seiten, Leinen mit Goldprägung, 1. Auflage 2018od (Wolfgang Kamm and Tomasz Lissowski)
101 Chapter 3 - Lasker in Great Britain (Tony Gillam)
145 Chapter 4 - Lasker: The American Views (John Hilbert)
187 Chapter 5 - Lasker and Mathematics (Joachim Rosenthal)
223 Chapter 6 - Lasker's Endgame Studies (Jürgen Fleck)
239 Chapter 7 - Lasker's Chess Problems (Ralf Binnewirtz)
257 Chapter 8 - The Battle Lasker vs. Tarrasch (Raj Tischbierek)
329 Chapter 9 - Dominator of the Chess World (Mihail Marin)

450 Seiten, englisch, Leinen mit Goldprägung, 1. Auflage 2018

Around 1860 a wave of talented youth intensified the Berlin chess scene. Within a short time Berthold Suhle, Philipp Hirschfeld and Gustav Neumann ranked among the best players in the world. After a few years, Suhle went on to become an authority in ancient Greek, and Hirschfeld proved a successful businessman (while remaining a sparring partner of Johannes Hermann Zukertort). Neumann retained a fascination for the game and grew into one of the world’s strongest players.

First published in Russian in 2014 and written by Genna Sosonko ? widely recognized as the number one writer on the history of Soviet chess ? this is a truly unique book about the life and destiny of the great chess player David Bronstein (1924-2006).
Emerging from a challenging background ? he narrowly escaped the holocaust in WWII, during which he starved, and his father spent seven years in a gulag ? Bronstein faced Botvinnik in the world championship match in 1951 and nearly defeated him. But this ?nearly? inflicted a wound on David so deep that it would not heal for the rest of his life.

First published in Russian in 2016, this book of memoirs describes key events from Tal’s life, portrays his mentors and opponents, and reveals previously unknown facts and funny stories about the Magician of Riga.

1929 betritt Malik Mir Sultan Khan die Weltbühne und erspielt sich bemerkenswerte Turniererfolge. Der junge Mann, der zu dem Gefolge eines indischen Diplomaten gehört, zählt vorübergehend zu den zehn besten Schachspielern der Welt. Die erstaunliche Karriere endet abrupt im Jahre 1933. Khan kehrt zusammen mit seinem Herrn nach Britisch-Indien zurück. Er verstirbt dort im Jahre 1966, ohne dass er noch einmal international in Erscheinung trat. Dieses Buch zeichnet den außergewöhnlichen Lebensweg dieses Schachmeisters, soweit es die schmale Quellenlage zulässt, nach.

Anatoly Karpov was World Champion from 1975 to 1985 and is universally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Award-winning author Tibor Karolyi explains Karpov's genius with a particular focus on Karpov's unrivalled grasp of strategy.

Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky (1868-1927) stellt eine der schillerndsten Figuren der Schachwelt dar:

Er gewann mit seinem bedingungslosen Spiel auf Angriff zahlreiche bedeutende Turniere, um die gewonnenen Preisgelder gleich wieder beim Roulette auf's Spiel zu setzen.

Er unterlag Emanuel Lasker in einem WM-Kampf 1910 in Berlin mit +0 -8 =3, um sich dann abfällig über das Spiel seines Gegners zu äußern.

Spieler, gegen die er verlor, bezeichnete er als "Kaffeehausspieler", "Korkser" und "Dominospieler" und wollte ihnen eine Figur vorgeben.

Selected Games of the Ex-World Chess Champion

Veselin Topalov is one of the best known names in global chess.
One of the world´s top grandmasters, ex-FIDE World Champion Topalov has been a stable feature of elite chess for many years. His dynamic, uncompromising style has gained the adulation of countless fans among both amateurs and professional grandmasters, including the author of this book.