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Boris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Chess Champion, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. This book focuses on Spassky's brilliant career and life story. Spassky barely escaped with his life from the Siege of Leningrad. This book shows how that boy became the strongest chess player in the world in the late 1960s.

Key Elements of Chess Tactics is one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian. The author breaks down chess tactics into its elements, enabling players of all levels to study chess systematically.

1000 Chess Problems - the title tells the story, but the vital point is the expertise put into selecting just the right examples. Yakov Vladimirov is a Grandmaster of Chess Composition, so superbly qualified for this task, and has selected positions that will instruct and entertain chessplayers.

Key Elements of Chess Strategy is one of the most legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school, and no doubt one of the books that motivated the young Bobby Fischer to learn Russian. The author breaks down chess strategy into its elements, enabling players of all levels to study chess systematically.

Rook endgames are the most important to study, because they are the type of chess endgame you will face most. Working on rook endgames gives the biggest bang for your buck. World-class grandmaster Sam Shankland explains technical rook endgames in a way that is clearer, better organized, more concise, and easier to understand than any previous work.

Swedish chess Grandmaster Axel Smith returns with a sequel to his colossal bestseller, The Woodpecker Method, which was on the tactics of the World Champions. For The Woodpecker Method 2, he has found 1002 foundational positional exercises and prepared them for 'woodpecking' - solve the puzzles repeatedly, and boost your positional intuition.

Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and one of the most exciting areas of chess. Conceptual Rook Endgames focuses on two dozen major concepts - building foundations with simple examples, which can be seen in the most complicated examples as well. Rook endgames will remain rich and surprising, as they are for the greats, but armed with this book, your comprehension of them will skyrocket.

Have you ever wondered how chess grandmasters know which pieces they should exchange? Understanding Chess Exchanges shares expert insights into using exchanges as strategic weapons. With a particular focus on Magnus Carlsen - the master of exchanges - this book reveals the principles behind a vital part of chess strategy.

Turbo-Charge Your Tactics 1 contains hundreds of chess puzzles from real games, chosen by Grandmaster Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and world-renowned trainer Vladimir Grabinsky for their beauty as well as for their instructive value. Most chess games are decided by tactics, so solving tactical puzzles is the smart path to improvement.

Turbo-Charge your Tactics 2 concludes a multi-year effort by chess Grandmaster Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and world-renowned trainer Vladimir Grabinsky to create the perfect chess puzzle books. This second volume uses games from the World Chess Champions and their challengers, plus expert guidance on how to use chess engines.

Endgame Labyrinths presents 1002 challenging chess studies - clear, solvable endgame puzzles to improve your chess, selected and truncated to be as useful as possible for the reader. Years of extensive selection and repeated analysis have refined the book, making it the most useful chess study book ever.

The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer - Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this match, with in-depth analysis of the legendary Reykjavik match and the controversial Fischer - Spassky 1992 rematch.

The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more - losing a winning position. This book studies how and why we misplay winning endgames, explaining the technical and practical areas of chess endgames plainly, simply and deeply.

The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier chess defense to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff's Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. A decade later, Schandorff is back with a completely new repertoire which improves on his previous work in every way. With cutting-edge analysis, thorough explanations of positional motifs and instructively annotated illustrative games, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Caro-Kann.

Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training is structured in three levels. The Fundamentals level is easiest, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players. The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings - are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area. This book is the third volume at the Beyond the Basics level.

When Boris Avrukh released his 1.d4 repertoire in 2008, it revolutionized chess opening books. Now Avrukh is back with an expanded, updated and revamped 1.d4 repertoire. Having covered the Catalan in the first instalment, Volume 1B supplies a top-class repertoire for White with the Queen's Gambit, covering defences such as the Slav, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Chigorin, Tarrasch and various others. The repertoire will be completed in Volumes 2A and 2B.

Sicilian Warfare is a practical guide to the most dynamic defense against 1.e4, starting where opening theory ends and the middlegame begins. Ilya Smirin breaks down the strategic battle into easily understood elements and then looks at them in a dynamic setting. With illuminating annotations of Smirin's best Sicilian games with both colors, Sicilian Warfare offers a feast of attacking chess and a world-class guide to the most ambitious reply to 1.e4.

Robert James Fischer is one of the greatest and most celebrated players in chess history. Exactly fifty years since the American won the right to challenge Boris Spassky for the World Championship crown, Tibor Karolyi documents Fischer's unique journey from precocious youngster to the chess icon who obliterated Taimanov and Larsen before convincingly beating Petrosian on The Road to Reykjavik.

The King's Indian is the ideal response to 1.d4 to combine dynamic counterattacking play with complete theoretical soundness. A past favorite of both Fischer and Kasparov, it continues to perform well at the highest levels of modern chess. King's Indian 1 is the first of two books presenting a complete repertoire for Black. This book version of GM Gawain Jones's Chessable course has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess.