All the average club player needs is a small and manageable chess opening repertoire. They don’t have time and energy to study hundreds of pages of chess opening theory. And why would they? Amateur ga
Yuri Razuvaev (1945-2012) was an outstanding Russian chess player. For many years he was one of the leading Grandmasters in the Soviet Union. He also was a first-rate chess author and opening theoreti
Viktor Moskalenko’s previous and highly popular chess opening books were mainly written for the Black pieces. Now he presents an extremely powerful set of lines for White. The guiding principle
Every chess player knows that smooth wins are the exception, that play is often chaotic and positions are frequently irrational. The road to victory is generally full of bumps and misadventures. Chess
Pawn endings do not arise out of nowhere. Before emerging they ‘pre-existed’ in positions that still contained any number of pieces. Liquidation, the purposeful transition into a pawn ending, is a vit
