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New In Chess Yearbook 71
£16.95/$31.95
246 pages, New In Chess
The chess players guide to opening news, this issue contains articles on:
- Morozevich infuses new life in the Albin Counter Gambit
- Carlsen on the roof: taking on the Caro-Kann
- The Mac is back! Glek and Cebalo are all for it
- Pawn snatching in the Trompowsky: a sound idea?
and dozens of other opening secrets and surprise weapons.

Improve Your Attacking Chess
Simon Williams
£13.99/$19.95
160 pages, GAMBIT
A mating attack typically involves a build-up of forces, followed by an opening of lines, often involving a sacrifice. Once the enemy king is exposed, it is either checkmated, or only saved at a great cost in material. The puzzles in this book are pertinent to all these phases, and involve questions of where to attack and what pieces to use. Topics include: Attacking the king caught in the centre; Central breakthrough; Standard sacrifices against the castled king; Chasing the king; Endgame mates; Combinative themes.

Sizilianisch fur Mussigganger
Bronznik
£13.99/$19.99
178 pages (Hardback), Kania Schacverlag
An excellent treatment of the Baman-Sale variation of the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxp Bc5) - all annotation are in German

Modern Practice 1...Nc6!?
GM Igor Berdichevsky
£13.99/$19.95
200 pages (Hardback), Convekta
Languageless treatment of the 1...Nc6 opening. Includes 331 complete games and many more subvariations.Extensive annotation using the informant chess code.

	Find the Winning Move Gary Lane £14.99/$21.95 176 pages, Batsford Find the Winning Move contains hundreds of chess positions in which the reader must find the right way to deliver a winner in one, two or more moves. Gary Lane uses his teaching skill and experience to present a fun but educational puzzle book that helps players develop recognition of tactical combinations. Over 400 puzzles are presented to allow players of club level upwards - to improve their game. Hours of enjoyment and entertainment are to be gained from trying to solve these puzzles and you'll end up a better chess player at the end of it.
	The Complete Chess Server Guide Roland Schmalz £13.99/$24.95 132 pages, Kania GM Roland Schmaltz, better known as Hawkeye on the ICC, is a 4 time winner of the World 1-minute Chess Championship. After a decade of online activity he has finally published his first book about internet chess. This is an interesting book that covers all aspects of the game online, providing may interesting hints and tips as well as lots of funny anecdotes.
	The Colle-Koltanowski System Valerij Bronznik £14.99/$22.95 224 pages (hardcover), Kania A system built around the moves - d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, c3, 0-0, Nbd2 - which has proved to be an excellent system for the club player. Recently translated into English due to overwhelming acclaim for the German language version, this is quite simply the best material on the Colle available.
	50 Golden Chess Games Tim Harding £16.99/$29.95 272 pages, Chess Mail 50 correspondence games, from the 19th to the 21st centuries, are analysed in depth, paying special attention to the opening in at least half of the games. Many more games are given in full or part in the notes to these 50 games. The book has 272 pages and is presented in the same format to the popular 'Red Letters'. The 15th CC World Champion Gert Jan Timmerman has annotated a game for the book. So have CC-GM Ruud Maliangkay, the runner-up in World Championship XVI, and Alik Zilberberg, the Ukrainian-born US grandmaster. There is also a game by the new CC World Champion, Tunc Hamarat.
	Basic Chess Endings Reuben Fine (revised by Pal Benko) £16.95/$24.95 586 pages, Random House BACK IN STOCK An invaluable reference on the endgame. GM Pal Benko has revised this classic with the latest innovations in the endgame and adapted the book to algebraic notation. The result is what chess aficionados have been eagerly waiting for--a thoroughly modern bible on basic chess endings. A handy guide for the practical player, Basic Chess Endings focuses on the aspects of the ending that occur most frequently in the course of play. With clear language, it reinforces knowledge of the standard position and tried-and-tested rules. Hundreds of diagrams make examples easy to follow.
	More Basic Chess Openings Gabor Kallai £12.99/$19.95 158 pages, Everyman Grand master Kallai provides a straightforward guide to surviving the maze of chess openings, covering all the popular modern openings starting with 1 d4, 1 c4, and 1 Nf3, as well as some of the lesser known alternatives to 1 e4. Rather than present a mass of bewildering variations, Kallai concentrates on developing solid understanding of the ideas behind each opening.
	The Chess Advantage in Black and White IM Larry Kaufman £13.99/$18.95 497 pages, Random House An opening repertoire book advocating a system for both white and black. At nearly 500 pages this is certainly a more substantial title than most books of this type, indeed the lines suggested are a lot better than the complete system books of the past. Instead of advocating a universal set up like the Colle or KIA Kaufman advocates 1.e4 for white and 1...e5 against e4 with a Semi-Slav against 1.d4 : More specifically, White: Spanish Exchange, Bb5 against the Sicilian, French Tarrasch and Caro Kann advance. For black, Berlin against the Spanish and a Semi Slav set up. If these sorts of positions appeal then this book is for you as the selection of material, quality of analysis and general lay-out are all excellent. Thoroughly recommended.
	Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking Neil McDonald £14.99/$21.95 256 pages, Batsford GM Neil McDonald explains every single move made by White and Black in 30 striking tactical or strategic games played over the last quarter century. These games have been carefully chosen for their consistent logical thread, providing the reader with prime instruction in the art of conceiving appropriate plans and attacks and carrying them out to their natural conclusion. Watching games unfold in this way is both an education and inspiration to readers - of all levels - who can then try to play in the same purposeful way in their own games, ensuring an increase in their playing strength.
	Dynamic Reti Nigel Davies £14.99/$26.99 144 pages, Everyman The Reti Opening has been a popular choice at all levels of chess for many years and is a favourite among hypermodern players who like to control the centre with pieces. Yet there remains a dearth of published material on this subject ... until now. In The Dynamic Reti, Grandmaster Nigel Davies redresses the balance and advocates a repertoire for White based on this refined opening. Davies outlines the typical ideas and tactics for both White and Black, and studies both the fashionable main lines and the tricky sidelines. If you already play the Reti or are looking for a sophisticated new opening weapon, then this is essential reading.
	Blunders and How to Avoid Them Angus Dunnington £14.99/$26.99 144 pages, Everyman No one likes to make mistakes, but all chess players, even those belonging to the worls elite, are prone to blundering. How can this problem be eradicated or, at the very least, kept to a minimum? Read this book and find out! Experienced chess player and writer Angus Dunnington takes a look at why the good, the bad and the indifferent all make errors, from small positional misjudgements to simply leaving a queen en prise. Dunnington explores the reasons for oversights and the habits one needs to develop in order to banish these problems. This book is crucial reading for those plagued by chess disasters!
	Ruy Lopez: Main line Glenn Flear £14.99/$26.99 144 pages, Everyman For the first time in many years, GM Glenn Flear investigates the main line of the Lopez, outlining the crucial ideas and tactics for both White and Black. Using illustrative games, Flear studies the fashionable and theoretical variations, plus the tricky sidelines. This book is perfect for those wishing to play the positions with either colour.

Informator 89
380 pages,
£20.95/$34.95
Informator 89 contains 491 annotated games and a further 481 partial games from chess events between October 1st 2003 and January 31st 2004. Events covered include Plovdiv, Skanderborg, Hoogeveen, Cap d'Agde (rapid), Bastia (rapid), Selfoss, Pamplona, Belfort, Hastings, Wijk aan Zee, Bermuda and many more. Informator 89 also has all its trademark features such as the voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 88, theoretical survey in the ECO format, selected combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best from Alexander Beliavsky's creative output.

Learn Chess Tactics
John Nunn
£12.99/$19.95
160 pages
This book teaches basic tactical ideas such as the fork, pin, and discovered attack, and introduces general ideas such as elimination, immobilization and compulsion. A basic knowledge of simple tactics will enable a novice to start winning games, by giving checkmate or capturing material. As the player progresses, his tactical arsenal will broaden, and he will start to play sacrifices and combinations, and develop a deeper understanding of the game. Players who fail to study tactics systematically tend to suffer from tactical blind-spots that plague them throughout their playing career, and thus they fail to realize their full potential.

Los Voraces 2019
£24.95/$39.95
Andrew Soltis, McFarland
260 pages
The rules of "The Greatest Tournament in Chess History" the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, held in Las Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no phone calls, no outside contact of any kind. The fourteeen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money, fame and eccentricity - and start turning up dead. Everyone is under suspicion.
This fabulous chess mystery novel is full of game scores and diagrams - some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It's all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect. With five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for 2700 - rated Grandmasters.

Modern Chess and Chess Masterpieces (HB)
£19.95/$37.50
H E Bird, Moravian
204 pages
Subtitled - 'Containing a collection of the finest examples of chess play on record during the past 60 years.' Over 200 games - of which nearly half are by Bird, most with annotations, which were selected "in choice of style and of character most calculated to amuse, interest and instruct." A must for all exponents of the Bird's opening 1.f4!? Contains games by Bird, Steinitz, Morphy, Zukertort, Blackburne and Staunton.

Opening for White According to Anand 1.e4
- Volume 2
Alexander Khalifman
15.99/$26.95
This is the 2nd book in the series, in which it deals with open games. This volume is devoted to the main lines of one of the most popular and interesting openings in the chess theory - the Ruy Lopez

New In Chess Yearbook 69
£16.95/$31.95
240 pages
The chess players guide to opening news, this issue contains articles on:
- The English Opening according to Morozevich
- Svidler triumphant with the French Advance Variation
- Does the King's Gambit still please the Gods?
- Baadur Jobava: perfect preparation against the Caro-Kann
- The guru speaks out: is 8...Nbd7 still playable in the Benoni?
- and dozens of other opening secrets and surprise weapons

Informator 88
£20.95/$34.95
384 pages
Volume 88 covers events held between June 1st, 2003 and September 30th, 2003 including Silivri, Enghien-les-Bains, Esbjerg, Yongchuan (zt), Biel, Dortmund, Terme Zrece, Buenos Aires, France (ch), Athens, Russia (ch), Rethymnon, etc. The selection of high calibre contributors continues, this time with annotations provided by Kasparov, Anand, Bareev, Shirov, M. Adams, Svidler, Lékó, Ju. Polg r, R. Ponomariov, Ivanchuk, Dreev, B. Gelfand, I. Sokolov, Azmaiparashvili, Ye Jiangchuan, Sasikiran, Khalifman, Nisipeanu, Bologan, Rublevsky, Smirin, Kasimdzhanov, A. Beliavsky, J. Lautier, Al. Onischuk, Sakaev, M. Gurevich, Kobalia, Ki. Georgiev, T. Radjabov, Sutovsky, Zhang Zhong, Macieja, P. Tregubov, Motylev, Rozentalis, Je. Piket, S. Volkov, Berkes, Ch. Lutz, Iordachescu, Dautov, B. Avrukh, Xu Jun, L. Domínguez, A. Galkin, Bu Xiangzhi and many others. All the trademark sections are included: voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 86, theoretical survey in the ECO format, selected combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best from Bent Larsen's creative output.

French Defence (3.Nc3 Bb4)
Lev Psakhis
£15.99/$26.95
Past and present, the French Defence has been and remains a popular choice against White’s king’s pawn opening. Top-class grandmasters such as Korchnoi, Morozevich, Bareev and Short continue to practise it with success. Since the publication of The Complete French in 1992 – a highly acclaimed standard work – the volume of theory has increased to such an extent that the author has now divided his material into three volumes.
French Defence 3 Nc3, featuring a wealth of fully annotated illustrative games as well as bang-up-to-date theory, covers the consequences of 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 to which Black can reply with the Winnawer variation 3...Bb4, leading to sharp play on both flanks; the Rubinstein/Burn lines based on ...dxe4, resulting in active play in the centre; or the Classical 3...Nf6 provoking the advance of White's e-pawn to e5 whereupon Black loses no time challenging White's centre pawns with ...f6 or ...c5, and obtaining lively counterplay.

Danish Dynamite
Karsten Muller & Martin Voigt
£15.95/$24.95
" 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3, is one of the most aggressive chess openings ever devised. Dynamite was invented by a Swede, Alfred Nobel. The book you are reading now, however, was not written by Nordic players. Instead, Grandmaster Karsten Müller and FIDE Master Martin Voigt bring a touch of German method to the analysis of the explosive group of classical open games where White goes for out-and-out attack based on an early e4, d4 and Bc4, often with c2-c3 to follow.
Müller and Voigt do not confine themselves to the Danish Gambit alone but they examine a whole family of related opening variations that share some common characteristics. Most importantly, White is ready to offer some material (a pawn or two, sometimes a piece or more). White goes for the jugular and if Black is not careful he will not even reach the middle game, let alone an endgame. ...A guiding principle for the authors of this book is that White will play attacking chess, fighting for the initiative at every move. If Black does not meet the challenge in an equally determined way, he will surely lose." – From the Foreword by Tim Harding

Play the French
John Watson
£16.99/$22.95
This is a fully revised edition of John watson's classic Play the French, providing Black with a complete repertoire in the French Defence, one of the most strategically and dynamically complex opening systems.

Looking for Trouble
Dan Heisman
£12.99/$17.95
This book is written to address an underemphasized area of chess training and study: the identification of and reaction to threats. For beginner and intermediate-level players, the study of tactics is paramount. Almost all tactics books take the approach of providing a position where there i a forced win, checkmate, or draw. However, this book takes a different tack The author helps you to recognize threats by providing over 200 problems in which you focus on identifying and meeting threats ranging from extremely easy to fiendishly difficult. But even the identification of difficult threats - and sometimes more importantly how to meet them - is discussed in a manner that should greatly benefit players of all levels.

The Queen's Gambit Accepted
Konstantin Sakaev & Semko Semkov
£14.99/$21.95
The Queen's Gambit Accepted is one of the most entertaining openings today. The arising positions are quite sharp and dynamic, with mutual chances and provide a much richer play than most of the lines of the Queen's Gambit Declined. With the combined efforts of Kasparov, Karpov, Anand & Ponomariov, the Queen's Gambit Accepted presently reached the status of a super reliable opening, suitable for all players up to the level of world champions.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
Mark Dvoretsky
£22.95/$29.95
Russian International Master Mark Dvoretsky is perhaps the most respected chess instructor in the world today. His latest work, Dvoretsky's Chess Manual, is sure to become a classic on one of the most difficult an subtle phases in chess. It covers all the most important positions required for endgame mastery, from elementary king-and-pawn endings to complex rook or queen endgames that have baffled even top grandmasters.

Semi-Open Games
Attila Schneider
£14.99/$21.95
This volume contains all the Semi-Open Games except the Sicilian. Ranging from the Scandinavian to the Nimzovich Defence, it covers the most important variations as well as the numerous subvariations of Alekhine's, French, Caro-Kann, and Pirc Defence, and even includes a detailed analysis of Czech Defence, an opening which you would seek in vain in older books.

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