By Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN-10: 0307787559

ISBN-13: 9780307787552

Nabokov's 3rd novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling tale of obsession and insanity.

As a tender boy, Luzhin was once unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen—an enigma to his mom and dad and an item of ridicule to his classmates.

He takes up chess as a safe haven from the anxiousness of his daily life. His expertise is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster—but at a cost:  in Luzhin' s obsessive brain, the sport of chess progressively supplants the realm of reality.  

His personal global falls aside in the course of a very important championship fit, whilst the tricky safeguard he has devised withers  under his opponent's unforeseen and unpredictable strains of attack.

By Sid Pickard

ISBN-10: 1880673924

ISBN-13: 9781880673928

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By Karsten Mueller

ISBN-10: 1888690593

ISBN-13: 9781888690590

ISBN-10: 1888690682

ISBN-13: 9781888690682

The last word Fischer assortment! The Chess Publishing occasion of the last decade! The years after the second one international conflict observed overseas chess ruled by means of the Soviets Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian after which Spassky held the realm crown, treating it as though it have been virtually an essential component in their nation s background. there have been occasional flashes of brilliance within the West Reshevsky, Najdorf, and later Larsen yet nobody quite fastened a significant problem to the Russian hegemony. Then, within the mid-1950s, a lone genius from Brooklyn emerged. captivated with chess, all his waking hours turned dedicated to discovering fact at the sixty four squares. It used to be an unrelenting, occasionally troublesome quest, yet he continued, ultimately rising as might be the best common chess expertise ever. It was once transparent from his early years as a proficient prodigy via his stormy ascent of the Chess Olympus, nobody had ever rocked the chess international really like Bobby Fischer. His uncooked genius for the royal video game, mixed with an indefatigable will to win, made him probably the most feared chessplayers of all time a real dwelling legend. Now, for the 1st time, each one in every of his event and fit video games is gifted with insightful factors and research. Best-selling chess writer, German foreign Grandmaster Karsten Müller, annotates each one video game of the participant many think to be the best of all time. nearly 1,000 annotated video games are supplemented by means of crosstables of each significant match and fit within which Fischer participated, dozens of archival pictures, besides short reviews and observations placing the play of the good champion into historic standpoint.

By Steffen Zeuthen

ISBN-10: 8787461005

ISBN-13: 9788787461009

By Victor Mikhalevski

ISBN-10: 1907982442

ISBN-13: 9781907982446

The Open Spanish is one among Black’s such a lot direct tools of struggling with opposed to the Ruy Lopez. rather than subjecting himself to the so-called “Spanish torture” of the Closed Ruy Lopez, Black boldly captures the e4-pawn and provokes an early confrontation.

Grandmaster Repertoire thirteen – The Open Spanish offers an entire repertoire for Black after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6, in response to the Open version which happens after 5.0–0 Nxe4. Black’s procedure is outfitted at the ideas of speedy and energetic improvement, and battling for the initiative at any time when the chance arises.

By Jon Edwards

ISBN-10: 1936490544

ISBN-13: 9781936490547

ChessBase step by step There’s a common reputation between chess avid gamers in any respect degrees that the ChessBase software program program is necessary for critical chess development, yet many chess gamers are intimidated by means of the software program. Now, for the 1st time, former U.S. correspondence champion Jon Edwards has created real-life eventualities that attention upon why the software program is so very important for chess avid gamers of each type, in addition to transparent reasons of ways to take advantage of ChessBase. the writer will exhibit you the way, with ChessBase: (1) establishing practise is fast, entire, fully-up-to-date, and powerful; (2) you could speedy find and assessment very important video games in each establishing, middlegame style, and endgame; (3) you could immediately see what around the world engines take into consideration such a lot commencing and plenty of middlegame positions; (4) you could immediately see the place you and your rivals erred; (5) you could reliably arrange chess books for book in print or on the net… and masses, even more! there's in reality no element of utilizing ChessBase which Edwards doesn't disguise. it's all the following, and multi functional quantity! be aware of easily that ChessBase is instrumental to each point of chess. This e-book explains how the software program can help to enhance your play, your studying, your instructing, your writing, or just your love of and exuberance for the sport. Jon Edwards explains all that you'll want to understand with concrete examples and easy directions. After that, how robust a chess participant, how reliable a chess instructor, how reliable a chess writer you develop into is really as much as you.

By Alex Raetsky, Maxim Chetverik

ISBN-10: 1857443799

ISBN-13: 9781857443790

During this uncomplicated booklet, starting theoreticians Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik return to fundamentals, learning the elemental rules of the Benoni structures and its many adaptations. during the e-book there are an abundance of notes, counsel, and warnings to aid enhancing gamers, whereas key ideas, principles, and strategies for either side are basically illustrated.

By Edward Dearing

ISBN-10: 9197524344

ISBN-13: 9789197524346

This can be a thorough consultant to a really complicated starting approach for knowledgeable avid gamers. Organised within the conventional 'complete' sort, this can be greater than only a repertoire for White by contrast topical procedure. skilled avid gamers are drawn to the strategic complexity of 1.d4 openings, yet have no idea easy methods to care for the dynamic Grunfeld Defence. right here, a global grasp means that the answer's the fashionable trade edition, as favoured via Kramnik, Gelfand, Anand and different best grandmasters on quite a few events. With in-depth insurance, the e-book contains 50 major video games readers can play via with conclusions on the finish of each video game and bankruptcy. this is often crucial analyzing for either defenders of this establishing procedure, in addition to those that are looking to "Challenge the Grunfeld".

By Igor Sukhin

Chess Camp is a brand new education procedure for starting chessplayers, and for the oldsters and coaches who educate them. beginning with easy difficulties to demonstrate key thoughts, after which progressing to extra advanced positions, the coed will examine by way of doing, methodically integrating new details with prior wisdom whereas construction powerful considering conduct on the board. The 7th quantity during this sequence, establishing strategies, units difficulties in additional reasonable stipulations, as they come up from typical openings and the successful tactical concept isn't really given away. hence, the scholar will: 1) increase his or her skill to imagine independently in genuine positions 2) begin to take up usual issues from the chess openings and three) study the necessity to take the opponent’s threats into consideration.

By Angus Dunnington

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Tired of taking part in the standard openings? apprehensive approximately having to profit an excessive amount of idea? Then this publication is what you're trying to find! overseas grasp Angus Dunnington provides you with a brand new attacking starting repertoire in accordance with the movement 1 d4. instead of getting slowed down with conception, Dunnington concentrates on developing easy-to-learn structures opposed to all of Black's attainable defenses. He chooses traces that are enjoyable to play, effortless to profit and may pose your unsuspecting opponent many difficulties. (6 x nine, one hundred sixty pages, b&w diagrams)