Thanks to the QR codes above the diagrams, you can download the posi- tion directly to your smartphone and watch or analyze the game, so that the laborious and error-prone input by hand is no longer necessary. This book is the last...

Aagaard: Endgame Play Jacob Aagaard presents the reader with a few key concepts in the endgame and invites him to test his skills with a lot of examples from recent tournament practice. Where many endgame books are theoretical and...

Giving mate is the ultimate goal of every chess player. Finding that all-decisive combination is immensely satisfying. But how are you supposed to spot a checkmate when you are sitting at the board with the clock ticking? In this guide...

Once you know how to move the chess pieces and you can recognise a checkmate, but what do you do now? This book will take you the next step: to the exciting world of chess tactics. Tactics involve thinking ahead, finding ways to win your...

The Royal Chess Couple is a combined attempt to introduce the various traits of the most significant piece with the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Following a short historic review of the development and metamorphoses of each...

The author’s aim in this volume is to improve the tournament chess player and professional alike in their ability to evaluate and execute crucial and hard-fought practical endgames – either in converting a winning position or holding a...

In 2017, Romain Edouard launched a brand new series of exercise books, Chess Calculation Training . The series became one of the most popular tactics books amongst advanced players. This new series, Chess Calculation Training for Kids...

Roman Edouard launches a brand new series of exercise books. his second book focuses on endgames. There are a lot of things to learn ?by heart? about them ? but they are often difficult to apply at the board, unless you get exactly the...

Three classic titles from the Everyman Chess Starting Out Series in one volume. Starting Out: Pawn Endgames by Glenn Flear Starting Out: Minor Piece Endgames by John Emms Starting Out: Rook Endgames by Chris Ward Endgames involving only...

Flear: Starting out: Pawn Endgames Endgames involving only kings and pawns are the most fundamental of all chess positions, and a firm understanding of them is required in order to become confident of tackling more complex endings that...

Flear: Test Your Endgame Thinking How should a chess player think in an endgame? How is the game affected once there are just a few pieces left on the board? Grandmaster Glenn Flear provides the answers in a book which will guide the...

Gallagher: 365 Ways to Checkmate Tactics based on checkmate ideas against the enemy king decide a large proportion of chess games, so it is vital to be alert to these possibilities when they occur. Joe Gallagher provides 365 checkmate...