Who is MC Hammer and other Chess Trivia

The most famous team ever participating in a chess pub quiz was MC Hammer. The team members are pretty decent chess players and happened to know their bit of chess trivia and chess history. Do you know or can you guess their names?

This book offers a collection of hundreds of chess trivia and chess-related trivia. You can use it by yourself, solving puzzles. Or you can use the book for multiple thematic pub quizzes at your local chess café or chess club.

Enjoy. The best game ever.

Grandmaster Dimitri Reinderman won the Dutch championship in 2013, is one of the few chess players with purple (or blue) hair, and loves games. During the pandemic, he created the holiday season in-house chess pub quiz for New In Chess Publishers.

144 Seiten, kartoniert, New in Chess, 1. Auflage 2023

Using a Space Advantage in the Opening

Do you struggle to score against the Hedgehog and find it difficult to break the Black fortress? This opening manual, which could double as a positional middlegame manual, will show you how White can use a space advantage in this chess opening with maximum results.

Die Entscheidung fällt nach dem 40. Zug

Nicht immer liegt dem Gewinn eines bedeutenden Titels eine spektakuläre Angriffspartie zugrunde, sondern manchmal auch ein filigraner Sieg im Endspiel. Großmeister Matthias Blübaum wurde 2022 Europameister, weil es ihm gelang, auch aus schwierigen Endspielen das Beste herauszuholen. Außer Intuition und Nervenstärke sind in der letzten Partiephase auch fundiertes Wissen über theoretisch bedeutsame Positionen sowie die Kenntnis wichtiger Prinzipien im Endspiel unverzichtbar

Second revised & extended edition

Here is what has been added to this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has been examined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available for home computers at this time. For the first edition we had only Fritz 4 and 5, which compare to Stockfish like a Model T Ford to a Ferrari, and many games were given no computer examination at all.

Celebrating 85 Years Tata Steel Tournament

Every winter, the world's strongest chess players and most promising chess prodigies travel to a small seaside village in the Netherlands to immerse themselves for two weeks in chess and chess only. Usually, the World Champion is there, vying for victory. Garry Kasparov won three times, Vishy Anand won five times, and Magnus Carlsen won a record eight times.

Nach dem großen Erfolg des ersten Buches zum Modell der vier Spielertypen enthält dieser Folgeband außer gezielten Aufgaben auch allgemeine schachliche Fragen wie beispielsweise: Berechnen Sie lieber konkrete Varianten oder treffen Sie Ihre Entscheidungen eher intuitiv? Haben Sie ein gutes Gespür für Harmonie und Koordination?

Opening Repertoire

The Tarrasch Variation of the Queen’s Gambit Declined is a fierce counter-attacking line arising after 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 c5. In this variation Black gains free and easy piece play but in return usually has to accept the structural weakness of an Isolated Queen’s Pawn (IQP). In the early development of chess theory this line was somewhat frowned upon due to the vulnerability of the IQP. However, Siegbert Tarrasch, after whom the opening is named, famously declared that, “he who fears an Isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up chess”.