für Trainer und Spieler, Band 2

Mit dem zweiten Band von “Statische und Dynamische Stellungsbewertung” möchte ich meinen Lesern konkrete Methoden der Stellungsbewertung im Schach vermitteln und somit weitere Türen auf dem Weg des fachlichen Aufstiegs öffnen.

Complete and Easy Guide for Beginners+Improvers

In My First Chess Opening Repertoire you will learn how to play the opening. This book gives you a compact and easy-to-learn repertoire for White, starting with the move 1.e4. And it gives you a similar repertoire for Black, with answers to all of White's approaches.

Pocket dairy for chessplayers

International edition of Schachkalender, that has been published annually in German since 1983. A mix of historical and current articles unlike anything that you find in magazines or on websites, with puzzles, birthdays and history dates. Reading stuff for your chess journeys in a booklet that fits in your jacket or pants. Original christmas or birthday present among chess friends.

256 Seiten, kartoniert, Edition Marco, 1. Auflage 2024

Chess Artistry to Enjoy and Learn From

Perhaps the greatest beauty in chess can be found in endgame studies. Delightful twists and turns on the board are combined into true works of art. In studies, chess is distilled into its purest form, with all pieces making only the most essential moves. Endgame studies are also useful exercises for practical chess players, as they show patterns, improve calculation, and inspire out-of-the-box thinking.

A Chess Memoir

This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of the game, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction. It describes how chess and journalism fought for his time for more than 50 years and how he managed to score coups and make blunders in each field.

Third World Chess Champion (Chess History)

An exhaustive biography of J. R. Capablanca covering all his chess activities in 1910. The book is divided into 10 chapters, covering his starts in the NYSCA championship tournaments in February 1910, the Capablanca v. Jaffe match, the analytical Capablanca v. Marshall match, and more than 50 pages are devoted to the Capablanca´s Third Chess tour of the USA (autumn and winter 1910).

Valuable Lessons for Every Chess Player

It is not the quality of your best moves that wins you games; it is the quality of your worst moves. The quickest way to improve your chess skills is to raise the bar.

A Guide to Composing & Solving Chess Problems

In his day, Philip H. Williams was widely considered a genius in the world of chess problems. Like many of his age, he died too young and suddenly, yet he made a name for himself with several books on chess problems and a broad production of excellent chess problems.

A Chess Memoir

This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of the game, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction. It describes how chess and journalism fought for his time for more than 50 years and how he managed to score coups and make blunders in each field. Among his distinctions: He is the only person who has both interviewed Donald Trump and played chess with (and nearly beat!) Bobby Fischer.

The lawyer organized modern chess during cold war

Chess is the ultimate game of war, and this book presents the first story of the game as part of cultural warfare winning the hearts and minds during the Cold War, built on reliable sources never used before. The person in the centre of the story is Folke Rogard, the president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) between 1949 and 1970.

His Life and Chess Games

Paul Morphy might well be the most brilliant and enigmatic chess champion of all time. He burst onto the scene in 1857 as a 20-year-old and dominated the chess world for two short years, convincingly defeating all the strongest players. After conquering the European chess scene, Morphy was universally recognised as the greatest player of all time. But at the age of 22 he suddenly and permanently retired from serious competition.

Practical Exercises: Tactics, Strategy, Endgames

Think Like Ivanchuk is a celebration of a true chess genius. This book is a collection of Vasyl Ivanchuk's best games, a chess biography and a highly entertaining training manual all in one.

The Musketeer Years 1908–1939

Gideon Ståhlberg (1908-1967) reigned among the world’s best chess players for over three decades, leaving an indelible mark on the Swedish chess scene. This captivating biography chronicles his extraordinary journey from humble beginnings in a village outside Gothenburg to global acclaim, marked by triumphant matches against formidable adversaries like Rudolf Spielmann and Aron Nimzowitsch.

Updated and edited by Carsten Hansen

While Josef Kling is mostly known for his partnership with Bernhard Horwitz in their classic work 'Chess Studies and Endgames', the present book of chess problems and endgame studies precedes that work by a few years. In this new edition, all of the compositions and accompanying analysis have been thoroughly reanalyzed by FIDE Master Carsten Hansen.

Updated and edited by Carsten Hansen

Translated, updated and edited by Carsten Hansen

The present book was originally published in German in 1922, containing 87 of his studies. This volume presents the material in English for the first time. It further contains additional versions and corrections of Sehwers' studies along with all his other studies. In this new edition, the compositions and analysis have been thoroughly reanalyzed by FIDE Master Carsten Hansen.

130 Seiten, kartoniert, Reprint, CarstenChess, 1. Auflage 2024, original erschienen 1922