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Comprehensive and easy to follow, this invaluable guide to the age-old game of chess will enable even players with very little experience to progress to a good club level--or better.... More

This book contains a comprehensive collection of the shortest decisive games in chess history. It is an indispensable guide to the pitfalls and traps that lurk in every opening system. An ability to punish errors in the opening is an essential aspect of modern opening play. All too often players fai... More

The Slav has been played by 11 of the first 13 World Champions, and is favored by many of the stars of modern chess, including Anand, Kramnik, and Shirov. This is the first English-language book to provide comprehensive coverage of the Slav, a vastly popular opening due to its extreme solidity and a... More

The Taimanov Variation is one of Black's most flexible approaches to the Sicilian. While avoiding the dense theoretical jungles of lines such as the Najdorf or Dragon, Black maintains the famous Sicilian counter-punch, and can tailor his plan of development according to how White arranges his pieces... More

This volume, the first by Lasha Janjgava, provides chess-players with a reliable defense against one of the most popular chess openings, the Queen's Pawn Opening. Rather than the risky option of going all-out for counterplay, the grandmaster recommends that Black adopt a more solid, classical approa... More

Review'.the dream team for this topic. If I could have my choice for any 4 authors worldwide on this topic, I'd go with these.' Ross Collard, Attglobal.net'there is no-one better placed to ensure that the book is perfectly aligned with the ISTQB' Stuart Reid, founding chair of the ISTQB"This is a ve... More

This new and expanded edition contains the 112 greatest chess games of all time--selected, analyzed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with more than 900 diagrams.This new and expanded edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games contains the 112 grea... More

Here are the 112 greatest chess games of all time - selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with more than 900 diagrams. Join the authors in studying the successes of two centuries of international chess, and improve your own play in the process, w... More