The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

The Art of Attacking Chess

The Sicilian Defense is the most popular chess opening at every level of tournament play. This work is a guide to playing with White against the Sicilian. Here, a multinational line-up of leading experts gives recommendations against their own...

The Ruy Lopez

The greatest chess players in the world reveal their cutthroat insights, concepts, and strategies in this fascinating volume. For individuals looking to play killer chess, this is the definitive guide to ingenious moves, incredible combinations...

How Chess Games Are Won and Lost

An English version of Questions of Modern Chess Theory, a masterpiece of Soviet chess literature written by a double Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of...

Chess Tips for the Improving Player provides practical advice on how to improve at chess. It is aimed at an audience who are already familiar with basic tips such as develop your pieces and control the center. This book is for players above...

As a professional journalist and popular chess author, International Master Andrew Soltis is perhaps the best qualified to collect and edit this treasury of chess wisdom through the ages. With quotations running the gamut from timeless irony (The...

Winning Quickly at Chess

Contains the chess repertoire for Black against 1.e4. Based on the Spanish Opening, or the Ruy Lopez, this book provides the answers for Black after 4.Ba4. Here is a world-class chess repertoire for Black against 1.e4. As the title suggests...

The opening is reaching its end, and we must make a pivotal decision: what shall our middlegame strategy be? Do we seek an active plan to profit from our strengths and highlight the opponent's weaknesses? The authors present 90 'multi...