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Chess is 99% tactics. A tactical pattern is all about immediate threats that produce immediate results. Learning the 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know will dramatically improve your performance. This book is the long-awaited middlegame companion to 100 Endgames You Must Know, the all-time bestseller of all chess books published by New In Chess. In three hundred pages, experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich teaches you all the tactical patterns that - occur most frequently - are easy to learn - Explain ideas that are useful in practical games You will get a huge amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess tactics instruction, ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wants to win more games.
Viktor Moskalenko’s bestselling books The Flexible French (2008) and The Even More Flexible French (2015) were hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, and inspirational. Time has not stood still, and the popular French Defence has seen a lot of new developments, not in the last place thanks to Moskalenko’s books. The Ukrainian grandmaster himself has kept playing and researching his beloved chess opening and decided to write a new book with countless improvements, alternatives, new ideas and fresh weapons that will delight and surprise the reader. As always, Moskalenko’s analysis is high-level, yet his touch is light and fresh. In his own inimitable style, he whets the reader’s appetite and shares his love for the French with gusto. The wealth of original and dynamic options in every main line proves that the French continues to be a highly intriguing defence that is very much alive. The Fully-Fledged French is a typical Moskalenko book: practical, accessible, original, entertaining and inspiring.
Russia boasts a long and rich tradition in chess education, and Russian chess teachers and trainers are simply the best in the world. The Complete Manual of Positional Chess, probably the most thorough grounding in the history of teaching chess, was recently created for chess teachers at the DYSS, the special sports school for young talents in Moscow. Konstantin Sakaev and Konstantin Landa present a complete set of instructions and tips for trainers and self-improvers. You will learn not only how to enhance your fundamental knowledge and technical skills, but also how to work on your physical and psychological conditioning. In VOLUME 2 you are again handed basic and advanced tools to improve in a wide array of areas: assessing and handling pawn structures, employing positional and tactical means to improve your position, identifying weak spots, mastering attacking dynamics and more. If you complete Sakaev and Landa’s course you will be able to assess virtually any chess position you are confronted with. With its all-encompassing approach this ground-breaking book allows everyone to reap the fruits of the long tradition of instructive excellence in Russia.
The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Federation Internationale des Echecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles. This book lists more than 18,000 players who received titles from 1950 through 2016. Entries include (where available) the player's full name, federation, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, title and year of award and peak rating (month and year), with references provided.
Seven years after his acclaimed and bestselling The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White, Grandmaster Larry Kaufman is back with his new repertoire book, covering the entire scope of chess openings in one volume. Two important developments made this new book necessary. Larry Kaufman, who routinely himself plays the lines he advocates to others, discovered that after 1.d4 (the recommendation in his previous book) it became nearly impossible to show a consistent advantage for White, especially against the Gruenfeld and the Nimzo/Ragozin defenses. The other factor was that chess engines have become so much stronger in recent years. Komodo, the top chess engine that computer expert Kaufman hel...
Kévin Bordi et Fabien Libiszewski sont de retour avec un titre inédit pour progresser aux échecs et s’entraîner avec les champions du monde. Dans ce livre, découvrez les parcours biographiques de dix-sept d’entre eux et l’histoire qui se cache derrière leurs techniques de jeu. Comprendre, évoluer et gagner : 25 parties de champions décryptées et racontées à la manière de grandes batailles échiquéennes. Kévin Bordi et Fabien Libiszewski ont sélectionné et créé pour vous plus de 250 exercices, inspirés des plus grands matchs. Progressez en apprenant des grands champions du passé et revivez les plus grands moments de l’histoire des échecs.
Comment devenir bon rapidement aux échecs ? Contrôler le centre, roquer, développer et activer ses pièces... On ne peut découvrir les échecs, ni passer un cap, sans en étudier les principes. Si les livres théoriques peuvent parfois décourager les débutants, cette bande dessinée inédite saura vous embarquer dans une initiation ludique et didactique, pour progresser facilement. Kevin Bordi, dit " Blitzstream ", et le grand maitre Fabien Libiszewski, entraîneur de l'équipe de France d'échecs, vous feront voyager à travers l'histoire et les méthodes du jeu le plus fascinant du monde. Un guide complet et jouissif, destiné aux profanes comme aux joueurs réguliers, qui conviendra à toutes celles et tous ceux qui souhaitent apprendre et s'améliorer aux échecs.
Se faire tracter dans la boue par des boeufs ? Pratiquer les échecs et la boxe en même temps ? Se battre avec ses doigts de pied ? Courir après un fromage ? Lancer des menhirs ? L’homme a une imagination débordante lorsqu’il s’agit d’inventer des sports. Voici 100 sports parmi les plus déjantés au monde ! Qu’ils soient pour les rusés, les costauds, les agiles ou les fous, chacun de ces sports (oui, ce sont bien des sports et on vous explique pourquoi) a une histoire qui allie savoir, créativité, ingéniosité (et, bien souvent, alcoolisme). Journaliste, Étienne Carbonnier est chroniqueur dans l'émission Quotidien. Il y anime notamment la chronique "Transpi" sur le sport.