Coffret Monet Summer 2 x 55 cartes à jouer

Top-of-the-range 55 cm chessboard with 55 mm squares.

Handcrafted in Italy from maple.

The high-gloss finish enhances the design and natural colours of the wood.

Perfect with our Supreme Staunton model in ebony.

Wooden puzzle in the form of a padlock. The aim is to open it. The problem is, there's no lock or key. The only way to open it is by using your wits and rationality. This puzzle was created by Jean-Claude Constantin, one of the world's leading CT designers for decades.

Imagination, patience, creativity and patience will help you solve it!

afmetingen 19 x 12.5 x 3 cm

Difficulty 4/5

All through his career Jan Timman has been captivated by the mystery and splendour of endgame studies. Even during his most successful and busy years as a world class player, Timman continued to compose studies and admire those of others.

For him there has never been any doubt that the journeys in this magical world helped him to grow as a player.

In this fascinating book, Timman has collected a wide range of the finest endgame studies by other composers and explains in his lucid style how they inspired him to create dozens of brand-new studies himself.

As Timman writes in the preface: ‘Never before have I been so productive as an endgame study composer as in the seven months that I wrote this book. It was a sensational experience.’

The Art of the Endgame is a treasure-trove for the lovers of beauty in chess. But it is also of great value for competitive players. Solving endgame studies is a vital part of improving one’s endgame technique: it develops general understanding, calculation skills and resourcefulness.

Georgy Lisitsin (1909-72) was a respected Soviet master, theoretician and writer. In 1958 he published a revised edition of his most ambitious work, entitled Strategy and Tactics of Chess, which became 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.

Lisitsin broke down Strategy and Tactics into their constituent elements, enabling players of all levels to study chess systematically, learning from carefully selected game fragments and studies. Key Elements of Chess Strategy and its companion volume Key Elements of Chess Tactics are the first ever complete English translations of Lisitsin's classic.

In Key Elements of Chess Strategy, Lisitsin breaks down the Foundations of Strategy into categories such as piece placement, exchanges, weaknesses and prophylaxis, followed by a section on Devising a Strategic Plan, including concepts such as blockading, undermining, the initiative, pawn chains, and planning in the opening.  Hardcover 206 pages

Le célèbre jeu de Bruno Cathala et Ludovic Maublanc sur Jack l'éventreur continue de faire des adeptes. Un petit rappel sur ce palpitant jeu à deux joueurs ? Mr Jack propose à l'un des joueurs de se glisser dans la peau des enquêteurs.

Par déductions successives et en plaçant les personnages dans l'ombre ou dans la lumière, le joueur doit trouver sous quelle identité se dissimule l'infâme Jack et tenter de la capturer. Son adversaire, Jack fait tout son possible pour retarder l'enquête. Il essaie même de profiter de l'obscurité pour quitter définitivement les lieux.