A Chess Biography of Szymon Winawer

Szymon Winawer was a world top-10 player in the 1870s and 1880s, dueling with such titans as Steinitz, Lasker, Anderssen, Marshall, Chigorin, Zukertort, Louis Paulsen, Janowski, Maroczy, Tarrasch and others, and defeating most of the leading players of his time. He won or took prizes in major international tournaments, including Paris 1867 (second, behind Kolisch and above Steinitz), Leipzig 1877 (fourth, behind Paulsen, Anderssen and Zukertort), Paris 1878 (first equal with Zukertort, though he lost the play-off), Berlin 1881 (third equal with Chigorin, behind Blackburne and Zukertort), Vienna 1882 (first equal with Steinitz), and Nuremberg 1883 (first, ahead of Blackburne).

The Power of Middlegame Knowledge

• Compensation is a chess concept that we only fully understand when we enter the world of serious chess. • The relative value of pieces is perhaps the most difficult chess concept of all to explain. • It is one that every player must feel and believe in and can only be accepted with the help of our own practice, and when we feel it come together as though a part of us.

Life and Games of a World Champion

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Josef Stalin, his bitter rivalries, and his doomed effort to create the perfect chess-playing computer program.

Second revised & extended edition

Here is what has been added to this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has been examined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available for home computers at this time. For the first edition we had only Fritz 4 and 5, which compare to Stockfish like a Model T Ford to a Ferrari, and many games were given no computer examination at all.

The Fascinating Games and Tragic Life of...

Almost as fascinating as chess is the community of chess players. In every major city in the world, you are guaranteed to meet interesting people when you walk into a local chess club or chess cafe. This book pays tribute to one of those characters who gave colour to the chess world, the Russian grandmaster Alexey Vyzhmanavin.

Now in Hardcover - limited edition

In this modern chess classic, the great David Bronstein shares his insights in his wonderful games. The revised and expanded edition that was published in 2009, two years after Bronstein passed away, is now released in hardcover. The expanded edition contains additional material, 32 pages of unique photographs, extensive articles by Bronstein himself, and two moving In Memoriams, one by Bronstein’s widow Tatiana Boleslavskaya and one by his co-author and friend Tom Fürstenberg. Winner of The Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year Award and The British Chess Federation 1995 Book of the Year Award.

A Chess Memoi

American-Czech Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (1943-2021) was a three-time US Chess Champion and one of the best chess writers of the last decades. He reached millions of chess fans with his much-acclaimed columns in the Washington Post and the Huffington Post.

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

Chess, Philosophy, and Psychology

This final volume of the Lasker trilogy covers the later part of his life from 1914 onwards and his manifolds ambitions and writings in chess and science. The biographical compass by Richard Forster shows the ups and downs of the world champion during World War I, his loss of the world championship, the subsequent economic crisis in Germany, the raise of the Nazis, and Lasker’s escape, illustrated with dozens of private documents and letters

(1963-1984)

International Master Tibor Karolyi and FIDE Master Tigran Gyozalyan have written a comprehensive two-volume treatise on the life and games of Tigran Petrosian, who was world champion from 1963-1969. The present Volume II takes the reader on a journey from Tigran’s victory in the 1963 world title match against Mikhail Botvinnik, when he firmly established himself as the best player in the world, through his next two title matches against Boris Spassky in 1966 and 1969 and subsequent candidates matches against Bobby Fischer, Victor Korchnoi and other world-class players of the era. It covers all his tournaments and matches of the second half of his career, ending with his final games in 1983.

The Enigmatic Rashid Nezhmetdinov

Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974) played fearless attacking chess. With his dazzling style, the Soviet master already was a legend during his lifetime, but international fame largely eluded him. Only once did he get permission to show his exceptional talent in a tournament abroad.

The story in more than 200 photos

Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures tells the story of the reigning World Chess Champion. Magnus Carlsen, born in 1990 in Oslo, Norway, became a Grandmaster by 13. Carlsen was crowned World Champion in 2013, when he defeated Anand and has successfully defended his title three times. He will again play for the title in November in Dubai.

Die herausragenden Partien der Weltmeister

Das Jahrhundertwerk für alle ­Schach­freunde jetzt als Sonderausgabe in Paperback!

Dieses Jahrhundertwerk des 13. Weltmeisters mit seinen faszinierenden Analysen der bedeutendsten Partien der besten Spieler aller Zeiten ist die Einladung zu einer Zeitreise in die letzten 200 Jahre Schachgeschichte

Robert James Fischer

Robert James Fischer, geboren 1943 in Chicago, gilt als der rastloseste und rätselhafteste König des Schachs. Der energische Stil des einstigen Wunderkindes glich dem "eines Mörders auf dem Schachbrett“: eine ungeheure Zielstrebigkeit und ein ungestümer Drang, alles aus dem Weg zu räumen, was sich ihm entgegenstellt

Wassili Smyslow, Michail Ta

Wassili Smyslow (1957 bis 1958) – Im Gegensatz zu Botwinnik wirkt der positionelle Schachstil Wassili Smyslows leicht und anmutig. 1921 in Moskau geboren, hat er sich auch nie dem Kornmunismus verschrieben, sondem eine Religiosität bewahrt, die das Wiederaufleben der russischen Orthodoxie vorwegnahm. Als Sänger, der es beinahe in die Bolschoi-Oper geschafft hätte, weiß er, wovon er spricht, wenn er sagt: "Der Schachkünstler muss breit und kreativ nach neuen Wegen suchen“. Smyslow lebt in Moskau.