The Advance Variation is the most ambitious way to meet the solid French Defence. Its popularity among club players is not difficult to understand: White not only gains space but also blocks in Black'
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,
It is not difficult to understand why The London System is such a popular chess opening with club players. Against virtually every Black defence after 1.d4 it offers White an easy-to-learn and reliabl
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? With this new edition of his award winning book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete an
The back catalogue of New In Chess magazine is a fabulous source of chess instruction. For more than three decades every issue has been full of detailed and highly enlightening annotations by the worl
Are you a dove or a hawk? Is your natural instinct at the chessboard for caution and strategy or do you crave adventure and confrontation? As a 10-year-old boy, Cyrus Lakdawala realized to his horror
Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) won the championship of his native country Hungary and achieved remarkable results against the leading players of his day. But first and foremost, Breyer was a revolutionary i
For many years Jan Timman was one of the best chess players in the world. The Dutch Grandmaster combined his brilliant successes on the board with a passion for writing and meticulously analysing his
Award-winning author Charles Hertan has written a lively and user-friendly chess primer for kids and other beginners. He teaches you about the ins and outs of the chess board, how the pieces move, the
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
