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The Benoni and Benko by Richard Palliser 9781857445718
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Everyman Chess are proud to present a new title in their much-admired Dangerous Weapons series, which specializes in supplying the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting opening ideas. Many of the... -
Unusual Queen's Gambit Declined by Chris Ward 9781857442182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05In the unusual Queen's Gambit, grandmaster Chris Ward covers three offbeat but nevertheless important defences to this ancient opening. The Chigorin Defence (1 d4 d5 2 c4 Nc6) creates dynamic... -
Modern Benoni by Andrew Kinsman 9781857442229
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.23The dynamic Modern Benoni Defence has undergone something of a revival over the past five or six years. It offers Black a fighting game right from the opening and is ideal for counter-attacking... -
Gambiteer II: A Hard-hitting Chess Opening Repertoire for Black by Nigel Davies 9781857445367
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Are you fearless in your approach to chess openings? Do you like to attack your opponents from the very beginning? Are you happy to take calculated risks? Do you loathe trivial positional chess? Do... -
The Four Knights: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala 9781857446937
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.79This new series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages... -
The A6 Slav: the Tricky and Dynamic Lines with ...A6 by Glenn Flear 9781857443202
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The a...6 Slav is a relatively new phenomenon in a very popular opening, and over the last few years it has attracted the attention of some top class players: Alexei Shirov, Sergei Movsesian,... -
Chess Training by J.N. Walker 9781857441703
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNigel Povah is an International Master at over-the-board play and Grandmaster at correspondence chess who... -
Improve Your Opening Play by Chris Ward 9781857442366
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69Here, Grandmaster Chris Ward explains the important ideas behind every major opening, unravelling among others, the secrets of the Sicilian, the mysteries of the Modern and the fundamentals of the... -
Play the English!: An Active Opening Repertoire for White by Craig Pritchett 9781857445459
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The English is a sophisticated opening which is very popular at all levels of chess: from up-and-coming players to World Champions such as Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik. It has many... -
Offbeat Nimzo-Indian by Chris Ward 9781857443691
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The Nimzo-Indian Defence continues to be one of Black's most reliable ways of meeting the queen's pawn opening. It's popular at all levels of chess and a constant source of anxiety for White players... -
Interview with a Grandmaster by Aaron Summerscale 9781857442434
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05There are many talented chessplayers in the world, but very few make it to the exalted level of grandmaster. In this book Aaron Summerscale questions his grandmaster colleagues about what makes them... -
Sicilian Sveshnikov by John Cox 9781857444315
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74No opening in recent times has captured the imagination of the chess public more than the Sicilian Sveshnikov. Initially popularized in the 1970s, the Sveshnikov has exploded onto the chess scene at... -
Garry Kasparov's Chess Puzzle Book by Garry Kasparov 9781781943304
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Test your chess skills with the world champion! In this stimulating book Garry Kasparov selects the best chess combinations from recent grandmaster play and presents them in a test-yourself format... -
Chess Psychology: The Will to Win! by William Stewart 9781781940273
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74"That is part of what I like in chess: it is psychological warfare at the board." Magnus Carlsen during an interview with the BBC, March 2013 In chess, more than in any other game, battles... -
Play the Najdorf by John Emms 9781857443233
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43In this book Grandmaster and opening expert John Emms produces a comprehensive but workable black repertoire against all of White's possible options in the Najdorf.The Najdorf is one of the most... -
Mastering the Opening by Byron Jacobs 9781857442236
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The opening phase of the game throws up difficult questions for those keen to study and improve their chess. Should I open with 1 d4, 1 e4, or something else? What is the best strategy as Black -... -
Play the Queen's Indian by Andrew Greet 9781857445800
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43The Queen's Indian is a dynamic and flexible way to meet 1 d4, and it leads to complex and intricate positions rich in ideas both sides. Such is the high regard for the Queen's Indian that virtually... -
Starting Out: Modern Benoni by Endre Dr. Vegh 9781857443660
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEndre Vegh is an International Master from Hungary. He is an experienced writer, an openings expert, and... -
Paul Keres' Best Games: Closed Games: Volume 1 by Egon Varnusz 9781781943342
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.00The legendary Estonian player Paul Keres was one of the strongest players never to win the World Chess Championship. The 'Crown Prince of Chess' was universally admired for his clear-cut style of... -
Slay the Sicilian! by Timothy Taylor 9781857446845
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents an attacking repertoire for White against the most popular opening in chess - the Sicilian Defence. His repertoire is based first and foremost on the... -
Your Chess Battle Plan by Neil McDonald 9781781945285
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81One of the most challenging tasks in a chess game is to find the correct strategy. It is far easy to attack too randomly, to miss a vital opportunity, or even choose the wrong plan altogether. These... -
Attack!: The Subtle Art of Winning Brilliantly by Neil McDonald
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.79"To be passive... is fatal to the beginner or medium player - such players must be aggressive. He must attack, because only in that way can he develop his imagination, which is a very important thing... -
Tactical Training Cyrus Lakdawala 9781781945780
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.47It is hard to understate the importance of tactic ability to overall chess proficiency. Of course other elements such as a knowledge of opening play and an understanding of strategy are also... -
Mastering Chess Logic by Joshua Sheng 9781781946237
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80What exactly makes the greatest players of all time, such as Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov stand out from the rest? The basic aspects of chess (calculation, study of opening... -
Grandmaster Gambits: 1 e4 by Richard Palliser 9781781946084
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Are you bored with playing it safe in the opening? Had enough of developing your pieces sensibly, aiming to control the centre and getting your king castled? Do you yearn to tear the opposition apart... -
The Chigorin Defence: Move by Move by Jimmy Liew
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.51The Chigorin Defence (1 d4 d5 2 c4 Nc6) is a dynamic and provocative response to White's 1 d4. Rather than set out a defensive stall with systems based on moves such as ...e6 and ...c6, Black prefers... -
The Slav, The by Matthew Sadler 9781901259001
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A new title aimed at club and tournament chess players which explains how to apply the Slav Defence. Draws upon model games to highlight basic theoretical elements, practical strategies, and tactics... -
Caro-Kann Advance by Byron Jacobs 9781901259056
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorInternational master Byron Jacobs is a highly experienced chess author and journalistBook InformationISBN... -
Semi Slav by Matthew Sadler 9781901259087
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00The Semi-Slav defence has been one of Black's most reliable defences to the queen's pawn since the 1920's. Now, it is fashionable both at grandmaster level and with club and tournament players. Here,... -
Closed Sicilian by Daniel King
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDaniel King is a well-known chess television commentator and author of several books for Everyman - Choose... -
The Modernized Nimzovich Defense 1.e4 Nc6! by Christian Bauer 9789492510969
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.63There is no doubt that the Nimzovich Defense is one of Black's most inspiring openings after 1.e4. Black strives to unbalance the position by creating new problems for White from move two, giving...