The Working Tool for the Club Player

This is a product of what happens when two chess players start a relationship (which started over six years ago) and enter a dialogue about how to get ready for the next tournament. The content of this book is a training program for players who plan to play an over-the-board tournament a few weeks from the time they start training with this book.

This book, unlike other similar books in the field of improvement, does not have a central theme. In other words, we are not focused solely on openings, middlegames or endgames.

Never-before-seen exercises to keep you sharp and expand your Horizons

"The easiest, quickest and most effective way to improve your overall game is to increase your tactical vision. Many good positions are lost because a key moment is passed by and a player misses the opportunity to win by a beautiful combination. This book is designed simply to help you improve your play by seeing tactics better." - Martyn Kravtsiv

From Tactics to Strategy-Winning Knowledge

This is the second book of the Thinkers' Chess Academy series. In the first book we started at a beginner´s level with checkmates in 1, 2 or 3 moves and the most common tactical motifs. If you have already worked with the first book you will now be much more experienced and ready for some more difficult lessons.

We will start with 50 combinations to refresh our memory of the motifs from the first book. The chess friends who have not read the first book can treat it as a kind of self test. If you cannot solve many of the examples it may be better to go back and work through the first book again. It's not a good idea to leave basic knowledge out. It will certainly hinder your progress if you do so.

A Practical Guide to a Vital Skill in Chess

Most chess games of beginners and post-beginners are decided by fairly straightforward tactics. Anyone who wants to progress beyond this level and become a strong club player or a candidate master, needs to understand that somewhat mysterious-looking resource, the positional sacrifice.

International Master Merijn van Delft has studied and loved positional sacrifices for as long as he can remember. This non-forcing tool is not just a surprising and highly effective way of creating a decisive advantage during a game. Positional sacrifices are also instruments of superior beauty.

A Skeptic´s Guide to Getting Better at Chess

The way a beginner develops into a strong chess player closely resembles the progress of the game of chess itself. This popular idea is the reason why many renowned chess instructors such as former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Max Euwe, emphasize the importance of studying the history of chess.

snatch victory from a losing position

A book by stalwart chess writer on an aspect of chess that is quite common, but little is written about, swindling in chess. In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. Renown chess writers Horowitz and Reinfeld observe that swindles, "though ignored in virtually all chess books", "play an enormously important role in over-the-board chess, and decide the fate of countless games".

Deutsche Ausgabe von "Candidate Moves"

Die Methode eines Großmeisters

Der französische Großmeister Christian Bauer ist einer der führenden Spieler in seinem Land. Er ist ein ehemaliger französischer Meister, der in zahlreichen internationalen Treffen mit der französischen Mannschaft Frankreich vertreten hat. Er hat viele Artikel und Bücher für mehrere Verlaghäuser geschrieben: "Play 1 ... b6", "The Philidor Files" und "Play the Scandinavian". Seine Bücher wurden in anderen Sprachen übersetzt. Das hier ist das vierte Buch und das erste bei Thinkers Publishing.

Trainingsmeth., Strategien, Kombinationen

Seit Jahrhunderten begegnet man dem Schachspiel in vielen künstlerischen Werken, so zum Beispiel in der Malerei, in Filmen und auf Theaterbühnen. Unzählige Dichter, Schriftsteller und Poeten äußerten sich über die historischen, inhaltlichen, vergleichenden und ethischen Wesenszüge des so alten und gleichzeitig modernen Schachspiels. Schach verbindet in sich die Elemente der Kunst, des Sports und der Wissenschaft. Durch diese Eigenschaften wird das Spiel zu einer Begleitung, Ergänzung, ja sogar zu einem Teil des Lebens.

I may be old-fashioned, but I keep using for my inspiration the treasure of the past. It does not make sense to speculate whether, for instance, Carlsen is stronger than Fischer or Korchnoi, as matches between players separated in time by so many decades are impossible. But this book aims to prove that some of the basic aspects of our game did not change over the generations.

Entscheidungsfindung - Strategie+Positionsspiel

Aus dem Vorwort:

"Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung von sorgfältig kommentierten Partien. Ich habe versucht, deren Kern zu entdecken und will Ihnen, so lebendig wie möglich, Ideen aufzeigen, die Ihr Schachspiel verbessern können.

Die Kunst des Manövrierens

Das Thema dieses Buches widmet sich dem wichtigen Bereich des positionellen Spiels: die Kunst mit den Figuren zu spielen, für sie die besten Felder zu finden und die Fähigkeit zum Manövrieren. Dieses Buch gehört zur Reihe "Trainingshandbuch", einer Sammlung von Übungen zum selbständigen Training. Nach einer Einführung, wo ich die unterschiedlichen Aspekte von Manövern untersuche, kommt eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Übungen und zum Schluss deren Lösungen ...

"Der Gegner hat auch das Recht mitzuspielen”, sagte ironisch Savely Tartakower. Manchmal lassen wir uns von eigenen Gedanken so stark hinreißen, dass wir den Gegner vergessen und müssen dann dafür hart büßen. ...

I think about chess dynamics, therefore I am!

In this book I collected 40 games of the World Champions which should depict their usage of the dynamic play in the most accessible manner. You will be able to examine how they treated all the dynamic aspects of chess throughout their careers, and how much their ideas contributed to de­velopment and evolution of chess technique. Also, you fill find 120 additional exercises with 120 different types of positions exploring the Champions’ ability to sense the dynamics, tactics and victories!

The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory of the openlng, but it is aimed at juniors. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined uslng examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name