The Best Games of Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru is a five-time US chess champion, ranked as high as second in the world with a stratospheric peak rating of 2816, the 10th highest of all time. He is also a top chess streamer with over a million followers across social media, consistently on the l ist of the five wealthiest gamers in the world. Nakamura has represented the US in 5 Olympiads, earning a team Gold and two Bronze medals.

Third World Chess Champion (Chess History)

An exhaustive biography of J. R. Capablanca covering all his chess activities in 1910. The book is divided into 10 chapters, covering his starts in the NYSCA championship tournaments in February 1910, the Capablanca v. Jaffe match, the analytical Capablanca v. Marshall match, and more than 50 pages are devoted to the Capablanca´s Third Chess tour of the USA (autumn and winter 1910).

A Master of British Chess

While today, Reginald Pryce Michell (1873-1938) is largely forgotten, he was a quiet giant of his time. A leading British master, he beat all nationally leading players from Blackburne and Atkins to Golombek, as well as internationally renowned players such as Bogoljubow, Reti and Sultan Khan, and drew former, reigning, and future world champions such as Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, and Botwinnik.

Bent Larsen is one of the most celebrated chess players of the twentieth century. Larsen is the man who pushed Bobby Fischer down to Board 2 on the Rest of the World team in 1970. The Danish grandmaster had spectacular results, but chess fans appreciated even more his creativity and fighting spirit.

For Larsen, a drawish-looking position was no reason to halt a game, as he had the ability to create magic out of thin air.

Schach in der DDR und im geteilten Berlin ist ein weitgehend vernachlässigtes Thema in der Literatur, obwohl es hin und wieder für Schlagzeilen gesorgt hat und sich zeitweise in Anlehnung an das Vorbild UdSSR staatlicher Förderung erfreute. Die Namen der Schachmeister und der herausragenden Ereignisse vor und nach der Schacholympiade in Leipzig 1960 sind bald nur noch den Älteren ein Begriff.

Four WCC Matches: 1954, 1957, 1958 and 1963

The writings of Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911 1995) are legendary. And Botvinnik’s legacy is deeply imprinted in the DNA of every grandmaster today, says Andy Soltis in his foreword tot this book. ‘The Patriarch’ took professionalism in chess to a new level and was the first to emphasize preparation: what a player does before a game plays an enormous, if not decisive, role in what happens during a game.

Lessons, motivation and coaching to make you a better chess player. In an ideal world, any aspiring chess player, at almost any level, would get better with a coach. If that’s not possible, having chess champion coach Thomas Engqvist’s book at your side is the next best thing.

In his series of lessons, Engqvist guides you through not only the most important elements of chess to master but also the psychology, how to marry knowledge with imagination, and how to stay motivated.

2021

005 Editorial Notes

CHESS ARCHIVE

007 Franz Kafka and Chess

CHESS BIOGRAPHIES

043 A Biography of Albert W. Fox

077 The strange destiny of Inspector Dermenon

FORGOTTEN CHESS TOURNAMENTS

The book consists of 36 attacking games from the 21st Century divided into four chapters.

Mastering attacking play in chess is a dream that we all long to achieve, but of course the art of attack does not arise by itself.

Constructing positions which favour the attack is the most difficult task.

A Chess Biography

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century.

A Silicon Reappraisal of 25 Classic Game

Are you ready for new strategic insights about thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters? Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and renowned chess writer Steve Giddins take a fresh look at some classic games ranging from Anderssen-Dufresne, played in 1852, to Botvinnik-Bronstein (1951) and Geller-Euwe (1953). They unleashed the collective power of Leela, Komodo and Stockfish to help us humans understand what happened in games of fan favourites such as Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen and Bobby Fischer.

On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924, kart.

One of the greatest chess legends of all time, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), is best known for founding the Hypermodernism school of chess, which emerged after World War I to challenge the chess ideologies of traditional central European masters. This first full-scale biography of Nimzowitsch chronicles his early life in Denmark, his family and education, and his fascination with the game that would become the focus of his life.

..und wichtigsten Partien im Spiel der Könige

Das Coffeetable-Buch für Schachfans Das repräsentative, mit Fotos, Diagrammen und Infografiken herausragend illustrierte Buch stellt alle 16 Schachweltmeister vor und porträtiert die berühmtesten Schachspielerinnen.

October 26 - December 7 (HTC038)

Aus der Reihe »Historical Chess Tournaments«

64 Seiten, Broschüre, Caissa 90-Olomouc, 1. Auflage 2022

...according to Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex positions was legendary.

With his rare strategic feeling and exceptional vision, Petrosian gradually became one of the top exponents of the art of the exchange sacrifice, and perhaps the leading protagonist for the positional exchange sacrifice.