2021

005 Editorial Notes

CHESS ARCHIVE

007 Franz Kafka and Chess

CHESS BIOGRAPHIES

043 A Biography of Albert W. Fox

077 The strange destiny of Inspector Dermenon

FORGOTTEN CHESS TOURNAMENTS

Are you a parent of a junior chess player who feels that because you don’t know how to play chess, you can’t help your child? Or are you an adult or junior chess player who has taken private chess lessons for years, but feels you haven’t been progressing?

In both cases, there can be a lot of reliance on a chess coach who has been given free rein with lesson content and direction. They probably have some sort of plan but it is likely to be a plan used for all their students. This is not ideal. More important is a well-thought out, individualized plan, that focuses on a specific player’s unique strengths and weaknesses. Formulating such a plan is crucial for making improvements.

The book consists of 36 attacking games from the 21st Century divided into four chapters.

Mastering attacking play in chess is a dream that we all long to achieve, but of course the art of attack does not arise by itself.

Constructing positions which favour the attack is the most difficult task.

The book consists of 36 attacking games from the 21st Century divided into four chapters.

Mastering attacking play in chess is a dream that we all long to achieve, but of course the art of attack does not arise by itself.

Constructing positions which favour the attack is the most difficult task.

The Ragozin & Anti-Catalan

For many chess-players, opening study is pure hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically once the opening is over, a player is puzzled what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit.

Chess in New York between 1866-1880

Inhalt : 005 Preface and Acknowledgments

007 A Note to the Reader PART I. NEW YORK CHESS IN 1876

011 Two Players Made It to the Finish Line

015 "Johnny Bull Grit" Is Second to "Yankee Pluck and Skill"

037 A Club with "a Sad Lack of Enterprise" Organized a Tourney

039 The Strongest Meeting in the City for Many Years

087 A Competition Leaving a Bitter Taste

114 A Match Not Played PART II. NOTES, SOURCES AND INDICES

197 Notes

238 Seiten, kartoniert, Caissa 90-Olomouc, 1. Auflage 2023

The 5th World Chess Champion (1935-37)

World Chess Champion Max Euwe, who held the title from 1935-1937, is one of the greatest chess players in history. Much has been written about him, and he authored dozens of books himself. But missing was an outstanding collection of games of this 'efficient, man-eating tiger' as the American grandmaster Reuben Fine once called Euwe.

Book I: Black Avoids 3...a6

Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th-grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world--in alphabetical order!

Opening Repertoire

In this book the highly experienced grandmaster Milos Pavlovic outlines a powerful repertoire for White based on 1 d4. The variations are very much based on strategic themes where an understanding of plans is far more important than memorisation of lines and move orders. The author focuses on important positional considerations such as:

- Which pieces need to be traded off.

A Modern Counterattack in an Ancient Opening

The Queen’s Gambit Accepted is one of the oldest known openings in chess. It was first mentioned in chess literature in the late 15th century. Over 500 years later, American Grandmaster Max Dlugy demonstrates in this groundbreaking work that the QGA is still a fighting, uncompromising opening that allows Black to play for a win from the very first move.

Der Berliner Friedrich Sämisch ist ein fast vergessener Meister, der erst nach schweren Kriegsverletzungen sein Schachtalent entdeckte. Schnell stieß er in die Weltklasse vor und konnte sich auch gegen die Weltmeister Lasker, Capablanca, Aljechin und Euwe behaupten. Seine Erfolge beim Blindsimultanspiel machten ihn in Europa zum Star mit Kultstatus. Michael Dombrowsky erzählt von seinem aufregenden und tragischen Leben auch abseits der Schachfelder.

384 Seiten, gebunden, 1. Auflage 2023

A Chess Biography

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century.

Collected Portraits + Tales of a Bygone Chess Era

Genna Sosonko is widely acclaimed as the most prominent chronicler of a unique era in chess history. In the Soviet Union chess was developed into an ideological weapon that was actively promoted by the country’s leadership during the Cold War. Starting with Mikhail Botvinnik, their best chess players grew into symbols of socialist excellence.

Opening Hacker Files Vol. 8

Is the Grob/Basman a con artist's bogus-operandi, or is the line actually sound? The truthful answer is that the opening is a bit of both! And we can call 1 g4 a "good opening," the same way a mob member calls a hitman colleague "a stand-up guy." The engine already prefers Black's chances after 1.g4, so nobody can honestly claim it is White's optimal first move from an empirical standpoint. But is it refuted? The answer is "no," and what we nearly always get is a disorienting mess by the early middlegame

Leichtfiguren - 2. Auflage

- New, completely revised and expanded edition - 2020 examples of greatest historical and educational value - Diligently checked with modern engines and endgame tools

592 Seiten, gebunden mit Leseband, Informator-Verlag, 2. Auflage 2023