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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...

This special hardcover edition of 100 Endgames You Must Know celebrates the sale of more than 25,000 copies of this modern chess classic. The book's success since its first publication in English in...

Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance. This...

The best place to start your tactics training is in the endgame! Since most of the pieces have left the board, endgame tactics have the clarity that enables you to focus on what is important. In 1001...

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.The Spanish grandmaster and...

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow. Chess Opening Essentials has exactly the right balance and is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a...

Simen Agdestein became a chess grandmaster at the age of eighteen and set his sights on becoming the best in the world. He also excelled at football and was selected for the Norwegian national team...

In Black and White is probably the most honest autobiography ever published by a chess grandmaster. The Dutchman, born in 1956, covers his rise to the chess elite, his insecurities, and the...

Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten in a streak of more than a hundred chess games as a professional player. Who better to teach you Rock Solid Chess than Tiviakov. In this second volume of his trilogy on...

Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten for a consecutive 110 professional chess games as a grandmaster, a record that has only been broken by World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Who better to teach you rock-solid...

Paul Morphy is perhaps the most brilliant and enigmatic chess champion of all time. He burst onto the scene in 1858 as a 19-year-old and dominated the chess world for two short years, but at the age...

Paul Morphy might well be the most brilliant and enigmatic chess champion of all time. He burst onto the scene in 1858 as a 20-year-old and dominated the chess world for two short years, convincingly...

Have you ever wondered why it takes grandmasters just seconds to see what's happening in a chess position? It's all about pawn structures, as Ivan Sokolov explained in his groundbreaking book Winning...