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FIDE PRESIDENT FOLKE ROGARD: The lawyer who organized modern chess in the shadow of the cold war by Henrik Malm Lindberg 9789083429038
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.08Chess is the ultimate game of war, and this book presents the first story of the game as part of cultural warfare - winning the hearts and minds - during the Cold War, built on reliable sources never... -
Cheparinov's 1.d4! Volume 2: The Slav and Semi-Slav by Ivan Cheparinov 9789464201451
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.21Welcome to Volume 2 of Cheparinov's 1.d4!. In the second part of the series, I am sharing my knowledge about the Slav Defense. I am confident that the book contains many new and... -
Reloaded Weapons in the Benoni: A Fearless, Dangerous Chess Opening for Black Milos Pavlovic 9789083429076
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75A Fearless, Dangerous Chess Opening for Black! Step into the world of high-level, aggressive chess with the much-anticipated "Second Revised and Extended Edition of the Benoni" by Milos Pavlovic. ... -
The Modernized French Defense Volume 1 Winawer: Winawer by David Miedema Miedema
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.98The Winawer variation of the French is reached after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4. This is one of the most exciting openings in the game. It's an alternative universe with alternative rules. In return... -
Chess Calculation Training Volume 2: Endgames by Romain Edouard 9789492510150
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The author focused in his first volume on middlegames, now his attention was drawn to endgames. Romain has carefully selected more than 496 positions, which arose in real games in the recent past. He... -
Bishop Endings: An Innovative Course Efstratios Grivas 9789492510174
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Proper handling of Bishops in the Endgame is an important feature in today's chess and a must for every chess player who wants to climb the world's chess hierarchy. This book deals with all important... -
The Scheveningen Sicilian Revisited: A Complete Repertoire for the Sicilian Player Daniel Gormally 9789083429052
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The Sicilian Scheveningen Defense is a highly respected and flexible variation of the Sicilian Defense, characterized by the pawn structure Black adopts with pawns on e6 and d6. It arises after the... -
The Bishop Pair - Power of the Sun by 9789464201499
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.40Endgame theory teaches us two fundamental issues: First, how to extract the maximum from a basic theoretical position with little material, where the experts (from practice comprising thousands of... -
The Caro-Kann Revisited - A Complete Repertoire for Black: A Complete Repertoire for Black by Rambaldi Francesco 9789492510761
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.90This book presents a comprehensive, ready-to-use, and high-quality repertoire for Black against 1.e4. With meticulous analysis and in-depth explanations, the author demonstrates how the Caro-Kann... -
Kings of the Chessboard Paul van der Sterren 9789492510532
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44In his well-known entertaining style, the author takes us through the fascinating history of the World Champions of Chess. A striking and beautiful book full of anecdotes, stories and thrilling games... -
The Exchange Sacrifice Unleashed: Power of Middlegame Knowledge by Georg Mohr 9789464201697
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.21The book you have just started reading is about a very interesting and difficult concept: the exchange sacrifice. This is the moment in chess when basic mathematics breaks down, the moment when 3 ... -
The Taimanov Bible Extended and Revised Edition: A Complete Repertoire for Black by Ivan Ivanisevic
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464201703Author Ivan IvanisevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Thinkers PublishingPublisher... -
The Modernized Grivas Sicilian by Efstratios Grivas
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.21The Sicilian Defense is an opening that commences with the moves 1.e4 c5. The Sicilian Defense is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. For example, 1.d4, is a... -
Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 by Daniel Fernandez
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.82Before you is the tournament book of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. The event that has been won in sensational fashion by the young Dutch grandmaster Jorden van Foreest. In a tiebreak in the... -
Gata Kamsky - Chess Gamer, Volume 2: Return 2004-2013: Volume 2: Return 2004-2013 by Gata Kamsky
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.21These three volumes contain the most memorable games of five-time US Champion Gata Kamsky. Volume 1 covers the period before his early retirement. Volume 2 and 3 cover the period after his return to... -
My Most Memorable Interviews: 35 Conversations with Chess Stars by Gert Devreese
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The interviews in this book span over twenty years, over two decades. For years I went with my recording device to tournaments like Wijk aan Zee, Frankfurt Chess Classic, Hoogeveen... often to... -
Say No to Chess Principles! by Evgeny Bareev Bareev 9789492510518
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The famous Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Bareev took a real challenge in writing this book: "Say No to Chess Principles!". The author presents his material in a typically humorous style, but not... -
The Modernized Dutch Defense by Adrien Demuth 9789492510556
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.25The Modernized Dutch Defense leads to unbalanced structures and dynamic play. White must be well prepared to understand this most aggressive defense which we might even call an 'attack'. Adrien... -
The Najdorf Bg5 Revisited - Volume 1 by Lukasz Jarmula
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.56Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the early start of the game? If so, you should just continue reading, for in the Bg5 Najdorf, it's every man for himself, and... -
The Nimzo-Indian Bible for White - Volume 1: A Complete Repertoire for White by Milos Pavlovic 9789464201819
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.21This book is about the Nimzo-Indian Classical line 4.Qc2 (also known as the Capablanca Variation) and the 4.Bd2-line, for which basically I could not find an established name. The 4.Bd2 line ... -
The Modernized Barry Attack by Vladimir Okhotnik 9789464201789
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.40The Barry Attack is somewhat defensive-looking from the start. It tempts Black forward, provocatively. The Barry Attack is, after all, a little rebellious, flouting, as it does, all those common... -
The Modernized Flank Attack Christian Bauer 9789464787511
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.82You can hardly find a more unconventional idea than pushing your g-pawn 2 squares down the board. Some may say it belongs to a backroom chess game in a cafe, some may say it belongs to olden times -... -
Unbeatable!: The Art of Defense by Jan Werle
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.25Choosing the subject wasn't easy at all, since the topic of defense requires a comprehensive analysis from different angles in order to give the chess player under pressure useful guidelines ... -
Coaching the Chess Stars by Vladimir Tukmakov
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.70In this book Grandmaster Vladimir Tukmakov describes his experiences as captain of national and club teams. He coached also individuals players such as Karpov, Korchnoi, Eljanov, Giri and So, to name... -
Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player Volume 2 by Robert Ris
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.90In his second volume Robert Ris continues to explore the essential elements of practical play for any club player. Again the result is that Ris offers a course to help chess students master all... -
My Magic Years with Topalov by Romain Edouard 9789492510471
Booksplease Price: £35.23In this new book, Romain examines the latest aspect of his chess career being the second of a world-class player. He worked with Veselin Topalov from 2010 until 2014, notably helping him win the... -
The Modernized Berlin Wall Defense by Priyadharshan Kannappan
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79The Berlin Defense is one of the most popular openings for Black against 1.e4 for the last two decades in the higher echelons of the chess world. In this book, the critical ideas are explained in a... -
The Nimzo-Indian Bible for White - Volume 2: A Complete Opening Repertoire by Milos Pavlovic 9789464201857
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.60This book is about the Nimzo-Indian Classical line 4.Qc2 (also known as the Capablanca Variation) and the 4.Bd2-line, for which basically I could not find an established name. As far as I... -
The Life and Games of Carlos Torre by Taylor Kingston 9789464201727
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £23.51This is what's new in this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has been examined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available... -
My Magic Years with Topalov by Romain Edouard 9789492510440
Booksplease Price: £28.39In this new book, Romain examines the latest aspect of his chess career - being the second of a world-class player. He worked with Veselin Topalov from 2010 until 2014, notably helping him win the... -
The Modernized Trojan Knight 1.Nc3: A Complete Opening Repertoire for White by Bruno Dieu 9789493435148
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The author has presented a complete opening repertoire for White.After 1. Nc3, the game can take various trans-positional paths. The opening move 1. Nc3 aims to control the center indirectly, and it... -
The Chess Bible: Most instructive Tips, Axioms, One-Liners & Mantras by Vishnu Warrier
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.98This book is an expansion of Pandolfini's commandments - The author came up with 200 axioms, one-liners and mantras. This list of 200 is an amalgamation from various sources including previous... -
The Anti-Sicilian Bible by Efstratios Grivas 9789464201611
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.47The Sicilian is Black's most dynamic, asymmetrical reply to 1. e4. It produces the psychological and tension factors which denote the best in modern play and gives notice of a fierce fight on the... -
The Scandinavian Defense Revisited: A Cold Blooded Counter to 1. e4! Thomas Engqvist 9789493435070
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £26.92The fundamental purpose of Black's aggressive and provocative move with the d-pawn is to create immediate central tension and to exploit the latent power of the queen on her starting square... -
Improve Your Practical Play in the Middlegame by Alexey Dreev
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.10The middle game of chess is arguably the most complicated aspect of the game. Through carefully selected examples from real games, Alexey wants to make you more familiar with various aspects of the... -
Double Fianchetto - The Ultimate Workbook by Daniel Hausrath
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.91The main part of the book is divided into exercises and solutions, with 110 positions taken from double fianchetto games. I have divided the exercises into chapters, with each chapter featuring... -
Modern Chess: From Steinitz to the 21st Century by Craig Pritchett
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.82The revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) considered himself to be in the vanguard of an emerging, late-19th century 'Modern' school, which embraced a new, essentially scientific vitality in... -
Your Jungle Guide to Rook Endings by Efstratios Grivas 9789492510747
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.90To learn and to play endgames well the chess player must love endgames' - Lev Psakhis. Different kinds of endgames have specific characteristics and rules. Every serious player must know many typical... -
The Practical Endgame Bible: Guidelines for the Fundamentals of the Endgame by Boroljub Zlatanovic
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.01All the fundamental endgames are coveredFull of practical tips and opinionsWritten by an prominent endgame masterUnique structure with an educational purposeAbout the AuthorBorn in Cuprija, Serbia,... -
The Modernized Nimzo-Queen's Gambit Declined Systems by Milos Pavlovic
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.90The Nimzo-Indian and Queen's Gambit Declined are amongst black's soundest and most universal answers to 1.d4. In his trademark style, Milos investigates the most positional ways to proceed after 1...