Andy Soltis

Studying chess made easy

Kenneth Ray Smith

Black Defensive System for the Rest of Your Chess Career

Bird-Larsen Attack

"A king's treasury of chess stories and unusual games and problems for budding masters, sideline kibitzers, and rain-Sunday-afternoon beginners." --Cover.

Chess to Enjoy

The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest--of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts--the book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser's delight.

The Book of Chess Lists

Roy DeVault

A White Opening You Can Use for the Rest of Your Career

Colle System Zukertort Variation, 5 B3

This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics; the originality; the level of opposition; the soundness, accuracy, and difficulty of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth. Includes 335 diagrams, an index of players and an index of openings by ECO codes.

The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked

Ėduard Efimovich Gufelʹd

Oleg Stetsko

Your 1st Or 2nd White Opening

Colle System Koltanowski Variation, 5 C3

Raymond Keene

Edmar Mednis

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in depth the thinking behind a defence that has been a favourite of champions such as Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov. Even Kasparov has been known to use the Caro Kann on occasion, for example in one case to defeat Mikhail Tal.

Understanding the Caro-Kann Defense

The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories

And Other Reports on the World's Oldest Game

Karl Marx Plays Chess

The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest—of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts—this second edition of Soltis’s classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser’s delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded—or both.

Chess Lists, 2d ed.

Andy Soltis

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