Tomorrow the first round in Linares will be played. Last year Rick Goetzee spoke with the godfather of the tournament, Luis Rentero. "I owned 32 supermarkets and 4 hotels. I sold the supermarkets to a Belgian company but still have my hotels. Hote...
Gambit has just published: A Course in Chess Tactics.The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! This book presents a structured approach to tactics, and belongs in the library of ...
The 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga and three matches from round 7 will take place from the 5th to the 7th of February 2010. We provide you with the pairings at the playing venues Munich, Mülheim, Berlin and Remagen. Some famous Wijk aan...
By winning the London Chess Classic Magnus Carlsen has become the youngest world's number one ever! You can read the exclusive on-the-spot report in By winning the London Chess Classic Magnus Carlsen has become the youngest world's number one ever...
Contrary to what we reported earlier, the Masters section of the Gibtelecom Festival runs 10 rounds, not 9. With two rounds to go, GM Jan 'Gusty' Gustafsson from Germany is in sole lead with 6.5/8. John Saunders reports.Photo © John SaundersThe 20...
Daniel Stellwagen has been voted the winner of the 2009 Yearbook Novelty of the Year by readers of the New In Chess website. The Dutch grandmaster earned 350 Euros for his novelty 24...Qf3 in the King's Indian against Loek van Wely at the NH Chess...
We have just received from Quality Chess: Attacking Manual 2.Two years after his first Attacking Manual, Jacob Aagaard is back on the attack with this second volume. It covers the rules of attack, explained through understandable examples, and dee...
Russell Enterprises has just published: Back to Basics: Openings.In this latest volume of the Back to Basics Series, the well known Danish chess writer and ChessCafe columnist, IM Carsten Hansen presents an introduction to understanding and playin...
We are delighted to announce that The Black Lion has been selected as "One of the Best Chess Books of 2009" by CHESS Magazine (UK)This is what some reviewers said about The Black Lion, the chess predator's choice against both 1.e4 and d4. The open...
We have just received: Improve your Chess at any Age. Back in 2008 a player by the name of Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for an unrated player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an...
We have just received from Everyman: Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch.In this latest volume of the Dangerous Weapons series, Richard Palliser, James Vigus and Simon Williams take a refreshing look at the Dutch Defence, one of Black's most ambitious an...
"If you want to excel at chess, you have to delve deeper, and appreciate not only visually pleasing combinations, but much more subtle ideas as well", writes Daniel Naroditsky, the youngest chess author in history. His book Mastering Positional Ch...
Russian Chess House has just published: King's Gambit.The King's Gambit is the favourite opening of every attacking player. It has been popular for centuries and was played by grandmasters such as Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Boris Spassky and Bo...
In October we celebrated our 25th Anniversary. Yes, we know, time flies, etc. I hope you liked our anniversary issue.Now we have published: New In Chess: The First 25 Years. It's all there: Botvinnik on Kasparov's talent, Tony Miles on winning T...
Everyman Chess has published: The Rules of Winning Chess.In this new book Nigel Davies gives form to his many beliefs, built up through 40 years of playing and studying chess, about how a chess game should be conducted and he states them in a clea...
We have just received from Zürich: Open Files.The first edition of this book, published in East Germany in 1981, was a huge best seller. Despite its excellent qualities, which were acclaimed in chess circles, it was never reprinted and it became a...
Chess Stars has just published : The Scotch Game for WhiteIn this brand new work IM Vladimir Barsky, coaching second of Alexander Morozevich and co-author of The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich, explains the ideas behind the Scotch Game.I...
As an experienced player, when I came across “The Immortal Game: A History of Chess”, by David Shenk, I didn’t feel much inclined to pick it up. I mean, after having read such classics as The Development of Chess Style by Max Euwe, and Chess Histo...
We have just received from Moscow: CT-ART 4.0.This new and improved version of the legendary tactics course CT-ART 3.0, the best chess training program according to many chess experts, has a new interface and adds 25% (1,000) new training exercise...
We have just received from Moscow: Play 2...Nf6! in the SicilianThe Nimzowitsch-Rubinstein variation of the Sicilian Defense can be seen as a blank spot in the map of modern chess theory. Everyone has heard of it but no one really knows anything a...
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock," said Harry Lime in Orson Welles' The Third Man. In FIDE, for twenty years they lacked democracy and love for...
We have just received from Hamburg a new and instructive training DVD: The Magic of Chess Tactics.Originally published as book by Russell Enterprises back in 2002, Claus Dieter Meyer and Karsten Müller have considerably improved and expanded The M...
Playing the Alekhine is not without risk.But those who really know this opening find that it has a real practical sting as well as quick-strike potential. Play the Alekhine by Valentin Bogdanov is a brand new title from Gambit Publishers, and de...
I am delighted to tell you that one of our books has won the Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year Award. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein and Tom Fürstenberg has won the prestigious prize of this English daily newspaper. The judges...
