B.T. Batsford Ltd, London, 2004. — 290 p. — ISBN: 0-7134-8890-5. An in-depth look at a very special chess player. Everyone in chess acknowledges the uniqueness of Judit Polgar, a woman who has competed on equal terms with the world’s best men, even defeating Garry Kasparov. Tibor Karyoli, the international chess master who has trained Polgar’s sisters and experienced their parents’ innovative methods first-hand, analyzes a large selection of Judit’s exciting games, taken from all stages of her career. Karyoli also examines Judit’s chess-driven family, showing how her father and sisters contributed to the development of her skills and helped create a grand master.
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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’...
LLC Elk and Ruby Publishing House, 2019. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-5-6041769-2-4. Russian International Master Maxim Chetverik has written a strategy textbook containing 75 deeply annotated positional games, that show players how to devise plans to handle a number of key strategic themes such as: * when to open up the game * how to activate the pawn chain, * how to carry out...
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...
New in Chess, 2019. — 665 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-818-7. It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The artificial intelligence system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in...
New in Chess, 2018. — 680 p. — ISBN: 978-90-5691-805-7. Why is this opening repertoire called simple? For the simple reason that the variations are straightforward and easy to remember, and require little or no maintenance. International Master Christof Sielecki has created a reliable set of opening lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to...
Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-020-4. In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening often stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fight their opponents. In this second volume of my "Chess Middlegame...