A step-by-step guide to brilliant chess

Colin Crouch

416 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2009. Englisch

Lars Bo Hansen

192 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2009, englisch.

Game of Queens completes the trilogy in which one of the greatest players of our time transforms her personal journey to the top into a roadmap for everyone who ever wanted to better themselves in the game of chess. This volume covers the period from 2001 until the present day. These were the years when Judit was in the Top Ten in the world, and facing the likes of Kasparov, Karpov, Korchnoi and Anand.

Schach und Matt ist der Höhepunkt der Partie. Das gilt insbesondere, wenn das Matt "zwingend" zu Stande kam, der Gegner also keine Chance hatte, unter Materialverlust zu entkommen. Martin Weteschnik, Autor zahlreicher Schachpublikationen, hat die wohl umfassendste und aktuellste Sammlung solcher echten, zwingenden Mattkombinationen zusammengestellt. Die meisten davon stammen aus jüngster Zeit und aus Turnieren aus aller Welt, gespielt sowohl von Weltmeistern und Topspielern, wie auch von Amateuren. Dies bietet dem Leser verschiedene interessante Trainingsmöglichkeiten:

Practical Chess Exercises: Tactics, Strategy ..

Viktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors of our time. Not only has he coached Masters and Grandmasters, including Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk, he has also taught hundreds of classes for amateurs and his best-selling books have inspired thousands of ambitious club players all over the world.

Calculation training tools and practical decision making

The book that you are holding in your hands is a continuation of the famous Kuzmin series. The two prior books concerning the chess creativity of Alexander Morozevich and participants in the Candidates tournaments was written for rather experienced players. That last book on the Candidates recently won the FIDE Chess Book Award of the Year 2018.

Winning starts with planning before the game, teaches legendary chess coach Vladimir Tukmakov. In this ground-breaking book he shows how chess preparation has become a systematic process and how today’s top players make their game plans.

The most important aim of modern preparation, both for professionals and for ambitious amateurs, is to get a playable position that you understand better than your opponent.

Das Buch enthält Porträts und Partien von zehn herausragenden Schachspielern der Gegenwart. Es gibt interessante Einblicke in die Spielkunst von Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Wladimir Kramnik, Weselin Topalow, Levon Aronjan und anderen aktiven Supergroßmeistern. Die Mehrzahl von ihnen war schon Weltmeister bzw. kämpfte in einem WM-Finale um die Schachkrone.