Strategy and Tactics

Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace the chess world.

All elements of the game explained in an easy-to-digest and highly entertaining fashion.

Dear readers, it is both our solemn duty and exceptional honour to present you a collection of Ivkov’s instructive explorations on various chess themes. In this book you will find a great number of intriguing anecdotes casting a new light on some of the greatest chess players of all time, and some lesser known heroes of our bellowed game.

Grandmaster Knowledge

The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more – losing a winning position. No serious chessplayer is new to the misery of spoiling hours of hard work in a few minutes...

Chess Endgame Magic & Tactics 1

Headingly Hard

This book might cause a headache!

Warning! The book contains 100 really hard mate-in-two puzzles by one of the best chess composers to have lived. You might get severely challenged while solving these puzzles.

About Sam Loyd

The Eternal Battle (with other pieces)

Bishop or knight? An eternal dilemma!

The legendary Bobby Fischer would likely vote for the bishop. Other authorities like Nimzowitsch would prefer the knight. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Of course, it is clear a bishop usually dominates in open positions while the knight should be preferred in blocked positions.
But what does that "usually" mean? Are there exceptions

A World Champion’s Favorite Studies

Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just two knights in the finale, yet manages to win or draw.

Edited by Karsten Muller and Alex Fishbein

The FastTrack to Endgame Expertise!

Since it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been acclaimed as the best single volume ever written on the endgame. With staggering depth and accuracy, it clearly reveals the secrets of this most important stage of the game.

One of the unique characteristics of the Endgame Manual has been the highlighting of text considered to be essential to the understanding of endgame theory. The late, great trainer Mark Dvoretsky carefully selected the text to be highlighted so that players at all levels could benefit from this monumental work.

von Petrosjan bis Carlsen

Da die Schachweltmeister natürlich in allen Bereichen des Spiels herausragen, kann man von ihrem Können am meisten lernen, und es versteht sich von selbst, dass das Endspiel diesbezüglich keine Ausnahme bildet. Ganz gleich, ob sie renommierte Taktiker oder hervorragende Positionsspieler waren - ganz gleich, ob sie ihre Eröffnungen in aller Tiefe analysierten oder diese eher intuitiv spielten: Es ist vollkommen ausgeschlossen, dass einer von ihnen den höchsten Titel hätte erlangen können, wenn er nicht auch die Endspielphase weltmeisterlich beherrscht hätte.

Dear readers and Informant aficionados, this book is intended to be a companion volume to our 2020 PUZZLE QUEST. Our primary intention was to provide you with as much quality material for self-study as possible. So, it was quite natural to present to you a book with a complete coverage of most instructive and entertaining endgames that were played in 2020

A Memoir of Players, Games and Engines

Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster

Larry Kaufman started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty.

5. Auflage des legendären Endspielklassikers.

Das Endspiel-Standardwerk des berühmten Schachtrainers. Der Erfolgsautor und Toptrainer bietet mit seiner Endspieluniversität einen kompakten und umfassenden Überblick über alle wichtigen Endspielthemen. In jeder Endspielgattung werden die entscheidenden Verfahren und Prinzipien von außerordentlich tiefschürfenden und hochklassigen Analysen begleitet. Dworetski gelingt hier das Kunststück, aus der verwirrenden Vielfalt des Endspiels klare Essenz zu destillieren.

Das dritte Trainingswerk der Erfolgsautoren und Spitzentrainer erscheint nun in einer neuen Auflage. Zeitgemäße Veränderungen wurden vorgenommen.
Durch die veränderten Regeln im Turniersport, muss eine Entscheidung des Partieverlaufs am Schachbrett während des Turniers gefällt werden. Ohne ausgezeichnete Kenntnisse und ohne das Verständnis der Endspielgesetze ist es schwer, diese Aufgabe zu bewältigen. Dieses Buch soll allen Spielern helfen, schnell Erfolge am Schachbrett zu haben

In Technical Decision Making in Chess former World Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand discusses his path to decision making in endgames and positions where one side possesses a structural or material advantage. This investigation into a top Grandmaster’s technical understanding will illuminate difficult parts of the game that many players find elusive. Concepts like the “Zone of one mistake” are certain to be a revelation to many.

Endgame studies and mating Problems to enhance your tactical ability

Rewire Your Chess Brain is not your average chess book. It does not deal with opening theory or middlegame strategy. It focuses purely on problems and studies, all of which are the results of artificial construction rather than scenes from real-life battles.

This endgame tactics textbook by Grandmaster Alexander Galkin, who was named Children's Trainer of the Year in 2016 by the Russian Chess Federation, provides a large volume of practical knowledge. The vast majority of chess combination textbooks contain a selection of positions and exercises where the student is asked to find a tactic or carry out an attack against the enemy king. That way, they learn to develop their combinational vision and ability to attack. However, there is not much focus on the mistake by one of the players that led to the critical position where the combination or decisive attack became possible.