Jesus de la Villa’s worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and endgame books are necessarily tedious. Reviewers praised its clari
Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 – 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your co
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
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
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
The Hippopotamus Defence is just what a club player needs. It’s a straightforward chess opening that avoids the ever growing body of mainline theory. Black can use the Hippo against virtually all of W
New in Chess has 8 issues a year with more than 800 pages of the very best in chess: on-the-spot tournament reports, columns, both serious and hilarious, in-depth interviews, chess opening surprises,
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains all major new chess opening developments in 35 chapters. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess
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
New in Chess has 8 issues a year with more than 800 pages of the very best in chess: on-the-spot tournament reports, columns, both serious and hilarious, in-depth interviews, chess opening surprises,
AlphaZero, the self-learning artificial intelligence system created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine. The games t
On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov started the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. In the next six years they would play five matches for the highest titl
