Selected Games of Alvis Vitolins

Alvis Vitolins (1946-1997) was a seven-time chess champion of Latvia, a player with a ferocious attacking style, and one of the game’s last true openings innovators in the pre-computer age. He was a world-class blitz player and was a regular blitz sparring-partner of his friend, world champion Mikhail Tal. Vitolins often deployed gambits, and his attack-minded novelties in the Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, Nimzo-Indian and Bogo-Indian set trends that were copied at top-level chess, including in world championship and candidates matches. He gained the International Master title in 1980.

Schach hat längst die ganze Welt erobert und gehört zum Kulturerbe der Menschheit. Besonders verehrt werden die Weltmeister des Denksports. Doch um eine Glanzpartie zu spielen, muss man nicht unbedingt ein Champion sein. In diesem Buch werden 18 Meister aus 15 Ländern vorgestellt, die ein beachtliches künstlerisches Erbe hinterlassen haben. In ihrer jeweiligen Epoche zauberten sie brillante Züge und elegante Kombinationen aufs Schachbrett. Jeder von ihnen verdient unsere Bewunderung!

Mit einem Vorwort und Analysen von Großmeister Artur Jussupow

The publication is a continuation of the project to publish all the available games annotated by the Fourth world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. These are not only his own games but also games by other players for which he contributed notes in various publications.

Peter Romanovsky (1892-1964) was Soviet chess champion in 1923 (outright) and 1927 (jointly with Bogatyrchuk). According to Chessmetrics he was ranked 12th in the world in 1925. Romanovsky was also one of Soviet chess’s greatest teachers, standing at the very foundation of the Soviet Chess School. His pupils included Averbakh, Zak, Alatortsev, Lisitsin and many others, and he provided much guidance to Botvinnik in his early career. Author of 16 books, Romanovsky stood for active, fighting and objective chess where the requirements of the position took precedence over positional rules of thumb.

Masterpieces and Dramas of the...

In his three-volume treatise, leading Russian chess historian Sergey Voronkov vividly brings to life the long-forgotten history of the Soviet championships held in 1920-1953. Volume I covers the first 10 championships from 1920-1937, as well as the title match between Botvinnik and Levenfish. The key contestants also include world champion Alekhine and challenger Bogoljubov, lesser-known Soviet champions Romanovsky, Bogatyrchuk, Verlinsky, and Rabinovich, and names that today will be unfamiliar yet were big stars at the time:

Riumin, Alatortsev, Makogonov, Rauzer, Ragozin, Chekhover, and many others.

2020 Games in 20 Moves or Less

Enter the world of chess miniatures where games are decided in 20 moves or less! Marvelous Modern Miniatures features the largest collection of miniatures chess games played in the last half-century. Over 500 pages of cut and thrust!

Exploring the Most Difficult Challenge

Magnus Carlsen is arguably the strongest player of all time. His dominance is such that every loss comes as a shock. They remind us that even he has his weak moments. In fact, identifying the root causes of his losses holds valuable lessons for all players.

485 Seiten, kartoniert, englisch, 1. Auflage 2020

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Learn From the Greatest Players Ever

Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and shows what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them. He describes both their historical significance and how they inspired his own development as a player.

Benjamin presents the most instructive games of each champion. Magic names such as Kasparov, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, and Karpov, they’re all there, up to current World Champion Magnus Carlsen. How do they open the game?

In this book Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 32 of Magnus Carlsen´s most instructive games where he wins with the white pieces.
This book is written in "move by move" style, a good training tool containing exercises and tests. This format is a great platform for studying chess, improving both skills and knowledge, as the reader is continually challenged to find the best moves and the author provides answers to probing questions throughout.

Pawn Play, Sacrifices, Restriction and More

Efim Bogoljubov was one of the world’s very strongest players in the 1920s and 1930s. Twice he played Alexander Alekhine for the world championship title (1929 and 1934) and he won the famous Moscow 1925 tournament, ahead of Jose Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker and many other stars. He also won the Soviet championship in 1924 and 1925, as well as a host of other international tournaments. His play featured many sparkling combinations, as well as a deep positional understanding.

Games, Stories and Instruction

At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne.

Third US Chess Champion 1870

Tournament book - 13 players round robin. 59 available games are known from 79 played. No annotations, but accompanied by many diagrams. The book also contains 3-page foreword in Dutch taken from the Jaarboekje van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond 1874 and several newspapers news from contemporary Dutch papers. Joint winners were De Lelie and Gifford, with 10 of 12. Crosstable, index of players and openings. Series Historical Chess Tournaments no. 30.

167 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

A Chess Prodigy’s Career in 64 Games

Ivan Bukavshin, born in Rostov-on-Don in 1995, was a Russian chess prodigy. He was European U12, U14 and U16 champion and placed third in the world U16 championships among many other successes, gaining the Grandmaster title at just 16 years of age. Ivan finished third in the Aeroflot Open in 2015, behind Daniil Dubov and Ian Nepomniachtchi, where he put in a performance rating of 2803. Ivan achieved a series of 2700+ performances over 2013-2015. He tragically died in early 2016 at the age of 20.