Chess Tactics in Slav Defence DVD

Identiek aan de vorige, enkel zijn de zwarte stukken in palissander gesneden.

It is amazing how much play you can create in a seemingly equal chess position - if you persevere. In this book, the greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win these kinds of chess games.

Carlsen and Howell show how you can keep a game alive, how you can keep posing problems to your opponent, how you can recognize the first small mistakes, and how you can grind your opponent down until he cracks.

New In Chess has converted this book from a popular Chessable video and MoveTrainer ® course with the help of Carlsen and Howell. The lively conversations of the two friends translate very well into a highly instructive chess manual. It is top-level chess, using grandmaster games as examples, but the insights are accessible to players of all levels.

Magnus Carlsen won the World Chess Championship in 2013 and gave up his title in 2023. He is regarded as the greatest player of all time and holds the #1 spot in the world ranking. He has read dozens of books published by New In Chess, but this is the first book with Carlsen as an author. Carlsen (1990) lives in Oslo, Norway.

David Howell is an elite chess Grandmaster with a 2700+ peak rating and an individual gold medal winner at the Olympiad. He is a well-known and popular commentator on live chess streams. Howell (1990) is two weeks older than Carlsen, was born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, and lives in Oslo, Norway.

205 PAGES

Deux des plus forts joueurs de notre temps (je veux dire Kasparov et Fritz, puisque l'ex-champion du monde ne fait pas mystère d'utiliser abondamment l'aide de l'informatique) se penchent sur les accomplissements des champions du passé. Ce premier volume passe en revue un bon siècle de l'histoire du jeu, du premier championnat du monde officieux (McDonnell-La Bourdonnais 1834) à la mort d'Alekhine (1946), sautant bizarrement la parenthèse Euwe (1935-37) gardée pour le deuxième tome. Comme son titre et sa couverture l'indiquent, l'ouvrage se focalise sur les quatre champions du monde officiels, mais les auteurs prennent le temps de nous parler un peu de leurs principaux adversaires, avec tout de même quelques négligences regrettables (Maroczy représenté simplement par une fin de partie perdue...). Par la force des choses, les parties présentées (117, plus une trentaine d'extraits) sont en général archiconnues, mais elles ont bénéficié d'un travail d'annotation fouillé, utilisant tant l'oeuvre des commentateurs passés que les ressources de la technique moderne, esquissant ainsi une sorte de mise en perspective de l'histoire des échecs. Osons tout de même deux petites critiques (ce qui fera donc trois au total) à l'encontre de ce bel ouvrage : la mise en page un peu négligente, qui rend la lecture de certaines parties un peu laborieuse, et la présence d'une introduction superflue où Kasparov se répand en considérations politico-historiques passablement filandreuses - tout homme, quelle que soit son intelligence, devrait se cantonner à sa spécialité... Un dernier détail : comme le livre s'achève inévitablement par un rappel (honnête mais un peu édulcoré) des agissements d'Alekhine durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, signalons que l'historien Ken Whyld vient de rééditer une plaquette contenant les articles antisémites écrits pour le Pariser Zeitung, accompagnés d'une introduction faisant le point sur l'affaire (Alekhine Nazi Articles).

Système requis:
Pentium 300 Mhz, 64 Mo RAM, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, lecteur DVD-ROM, souris, carte son.

Are you a parent of a junior chess player who feels that because you don’t know how to play chess, you can’t help your child? Or are you an adult or junior chess player who has taken private chess lessons for years, but feels you haven’t been progressing?

In both cases, there can be a lot of reliance on a chess coach who has been given free rein with lesson content and direction. They probably have some sort of plan but it is likely to be a plan used for all their students. This is not ideal. More important is a well-thought out, individualized plan, that focuses on a specific player’s unique strengths and weaknesses. Formulating such a plan is crucial for making improvements.

Victoria Doknjas and her son John Doknjas are an ideal writing partnership to tackle this topic. John is a FIDE Master who has already established himself as an excellent and highly-respected author who understands the improvement process very well. Victoria has over a decade of experience navigating the competitive chess arena with her three master-level sons, including also running her own chess academy. Together they offer a unique and informative insight to those wanting to get more out of their chess studies, as well as presenting practical advice in areas including:

- Identifying important goals and how to work towards them.
- Understanding how to objectively analyse your games.
- Maximising the efficiency of software and engines for learning.

Reading this book can broaden your horizons in the essential areas of chess study, and ideally let you better evaluate what your chess coach is teaching you. And if you don’t have a chess coach, this book will provide you with an excellent foundation for serious chess study.

384 pages

Ophangbare schaakbord om vertikaal te spelen (veldgroote: 70mm). Oprolbaar en met bijpassende plastieken stukken.

Prachtig magnetisch schaakkoffer uit ingelegd palissander. Opvouwbaar met gespen. Een ingenieuze opslagsysteem zorgt ervoor dat u mag controleren of er geen stuk ergens is gaan rennen..

Tournament chess board with description finished in walnut and sycamore marquetry measuring 54x54cm. This chess board has 55 x 55mm fields and is ideal for our large 3.75" or Staunton No 6 Staunton No 6 pieces

During his long journey as a chess player and coach, GM Axel Smith came to the realization that understanding colour-complex strategies is one of the key differences between strong and weak players. After many years of delivering lectures and training material to his students, Smith produced a Chessable course on the topic, which has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess to produce this book.

In these pages, the award-winning author breaks down colour complexes into various sub-topics such as blockades, opposite-coloured bishops and exchange sacrifices, with carefully chosen exercises to test and reinforce the reader’s newfound understanding. Use Black & White Magic to improve your chess strength!

GM Axel Smith is the award-winning author of The Woodpecker Method, Pump Up Your Rating, e3 Poison and Street Smart Chess, which were all enthusiastically received by readers and reviewers. Using the Woodpecker as part of his training, as an adult he improved from a rating of 2100 to becoming a Grandmaster. 264 pages