Our printers just delivered: Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes by Yuri Averbakh.A publisher's dream has come true: Yuri Averbakh, the quintessential insider of Soviet chess for over half a century, has written his personal memoir.After winning...
We've rolled back the price of: New In Chess 2010 complete year volume. .You pay only €49.95 for 8 volumes with over 800 pages of the very best in chess. The 2010 complete volume includes: Anand beats Topalov for world title, Magnus Carlse...
We do have stuff designed for chess travellers!Stuff to make sure that you can analyse your game, sharpen your wits, match your play, be thoroughly entertained without bothering your travel companions ... For chess players who...
Just in stock: Declining the Queen's Gambit .Author John Cox provides a repertoire for Black based on the sophisticated Tartakower and the easy-to-learn Lasker Variation. With answers to all White's options, explanations of plans and tactics, ta...
In ChessVibes Training #10 Anish Giri looks at his game against Alexei Shirov in Malmö and IM Merijn van Delft shows his first win against an IM in his game quiz. IM Thomas Willemze started a series of three articles op open files while IM Robert ...
After 13 rounds and victory in the last round against Turkish Hava Yollari Sport Club 7.5-2.5, Isek Aquamatch Sport Club became the sole winner of the Turkish League. The team with Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu finished ahead of Y...
For more than a decade Grünfeld aficionados have been suffering from a scarcity of complete books on this major and exciting opening. But at last, GM Alexander Delchev and GM Evgenij Agrest wrote an elaborate, comprehensive, and pleasant-to-r...
Tonight is the UK premiere of the new documentary Bobby Fischer Against The World. You might remember that GM Gawain Jones went to the official press screening on April 14th in Soho, London for us (and bumped into Magnus Carlsen there). Here's...
New in our shop: How to beat the Sicilian Defence .In this book, GM Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He has constructed a comprehensive Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White, which is based on lines that are suc...
This morning we sent issue #9 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download more sample pages: IM Thomas Willemze's middlegame column of issu...
New volumes in the Grandmaster Repertoire Series .His two previous books in this series were an instant hit, now Boris Avrukh picks up where he left off with: Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - The Grünfeld Defence Vol. 1 covers lines such as the Fianche...
New: Invisible Chess Moves - discover your blind spots and stop overlooking simple wins.Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind?In this ...
Ilya Levitov, President of the Russian Chess Federation Board, broke two pieces of news Monday. The crucial one was that despite the dark musings of many, and above all the FIDE President himself, we now have at least one bid for the Anand-Gelfand...
From his answer to the very first question on why people play chess, it was clear that Levon Aronian’s Q&A at Crestbook was going to be an entertaining read: “For pleasure, peace of mind and the moral torture of their neighbour”.&nbs...
One of the most annoying lines these days against the Sveshnikov is 11.c4, where White gains a firm grip on the centre without giving Black a real chance to employ the dynamic play he's looking for. However, one of the biggest experts in this fiel...
We have just received: Bobby FischerFor the first time ever, 100 rare and exclusive photos of Bobby Fischer, taken by star photographer Harry Benson during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972, are collected in this delux...
This week we'll be sending issue #7 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download another sample page: Anish Giri's column of issue #4. Go ah...
Bobby Fischer as seen by Harry Benson - A revealing interview with the legendary star photographer on one of his greatest stories ever in: New In Chess 2011/4.Other highlights from its more than 100 pages: Candidates Matches: Anand’s dream come ...
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced he held a two-hour meeting on Sunday in Tripoli with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Libya is currently in a state of civil war, with NATO and allies engaged in bombing raids, and Gaddafi himself acc...
New: Attacking Chess: The King’s Indian Vol. 2.In this second volume on the King’s Indian, IM and author David Vigorito presents an aggressive repertoire for Black based on the main lines of the Four Pawns Attack, the Fianchetto Variation, the Av...
If it hadn't been clear before, it's very clear now. The Advance Variation may be the most critical way of playing against the Caro-Kann, but only if White chooses a healthy positional approach with 4.Nf3 or related lines, and not when he goes all...
We have just received: Rybka Aquarium 2011.This exciting package includes the new and updated Rybka 4.1 engine offering advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing options, a database with 4.7 million ga...
Many chess fans and experts seem to believe that an alternative design of the Candidates Matches would better achieve the goal of selecting the “best” challenger for a match against the current World Champion. David H. Krantz, Professor of Psychol...
Now that's a spectacular story from the German Championship, which is currently taking place in Bonn. In the 6th round, on Tuesday, IM Niclas Huschenbeth tried the Evans Gambit against well-known theoretician GM Jan Gustafsson, who even wrote a DV...
