Quality Chess, 2008. — 232 p. — ISBN13: 978-1906552039 - Series Chess Classics. Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a double Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it is one of the most influential chess books of the 20th century, yet it was never published in English. It has been edited to make it useful for the 21st century and is now accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience.
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Quality Chess, 2013. — 464 p. — ISBN13: 978-1907982361. The French Defense is one of the most solid and strategically rich responses to 1.e4. Many chess opening lines have been analyzed to death by computer, but the French is relatively resistant to this growing trend, as the characteristic blocked pawn centre leads to situations where a player with superior understanding can...
Quality Chess U.K., 2018. — 951 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78483-075-5. Solving studies is well established as an effective method of chess improvement. In Practical Chess Beauty one of the world’s greatest study composers, Yochanan Afek, shares his finest creations. Fire your imagination, gain a greater appreciation of chess geometry, and develop a finer feeling for the pieces’...
Quality Chess, 2011. - 576 p. Anatoly Karpov is one of the chess world’s greatest World Champions, with his prime strength being his subtle maneuvering and positional play. Many of his opponents have been baffled by the profundity of his strategies, but here Karolyi explains Karpov’s genius. This volume features Karpov’s most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from...
Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. After his outstanding book from 2008, 'Winning Chess Middlegames', Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov takes us a step further into his dungeon of middlegame skills. In his well known style, Sokolov focuses on the different aspects of the complex middlegame. As usual Ivan breaks new ground and provides us with a variety of...
New in Chess, 2014. — 608 p. This is the new and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic. Upon its publication in 2006, Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics won the two most prestigious book awards in the chess world, as it was elected both the English Chess Federation Book of the Year and the ChessCafe Book of the Year. By chance, in 2013 publisher New In Chess...
Gambit Publications, 1999. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-1901983074. It is now seventy years since Nimzowitsch wrote his monumental work My System. While it remains a fundamental work on chess strategy, the way chess positions are handled has changed greatly since Nimzowitsch's time - both refinements to existing ideas, and completely new concepts. John Watson's book fulfils the need...
