This comprehensive, up-to-date, all-purpose guide to chess is guaranteed to improve the game of the novice and to enable players of even limited experience to advance to good club level or better. Not only does this invaluable volume illuminate the elegance... [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 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... [More...]

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.

101 surprising and novel ideas for chess openings, all explained in a user-friendly style. An innovative format enables the book to be read without a chess set, with each idea rated in terms of soundness and ability to surprise.

An award-winning author provides user-friendly coverage of an opening in which he has a wealth of experience against players of all levels. The Torre Attack is a very attractive system for White as it allows him to set an agenda from the outset, preventing... [More...]