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Excelling at Chess Volume 1: Technical and Positional Chess by Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $31.61Brought together in one volume are two of Jacob Aagaard's great books- Excelling at Technical Chess and Excelling at Positional Chess.Book InformationISBN 9781781944462Author Grandmaster Jacob... -
Coach Yourself by Neil McDonald
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.86Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It's rarely a lack of talent or practice or opening knowledge that holds them back. Usually they get left... -
Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge IU. Averbakh 9781857440225
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorYuri Averbakh was one of the leading Soviet grandmasters for two decades, competing in the USSR... -
Queen's Gambit Accepted by Alexander Raetsky
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.92The Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA) is Black's simplest way of dealing with one of White's most fashionable openings, the Queen's Gambit. Black grabs the gambit pawn and thus refuses to succumb to the... -
The Hedgehog by Sergey Kasparov
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.79An understanding of Hedgehog structures is an essential component in any chessplayer's knowledge. These structures arise when the black c-pawn is exchanged early on for the white d-pawn (as in the... -
Keres: Move by Move Zenon Franco 9781781943717
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.79Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres is one of the greatest players in chess history. Along with Viktor Korchnoi he is one of the best never to have gained the ultimate title of world champion. He was... -
Carlsen v Caruana: FIDE World Chess Championship London 2018 by Ray Keene
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.51This match between the number one and number two ranked players in the world is one of the most eagerly-awaited World Championship clashes of recent years. Defending champion Magnus Carlsen first... -
A Guide to Chess Improvement: The Best of Novice Nook by Dan Heisman
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.79A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. This book... -
The Queen's Indian: Move by Move: Move by Move by Lorin D'Costa
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.72This 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... -
Fire on Board: Shirov's Best Games Alexei Shirov 9781857441505
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.70Alexei Shirov has dazzled and inspired a generation of chess fans with his unique brand of attacking chess. The Grandmaster, originally from Riga, Latvia, is widely regarded as one of the most... -
The Complete Chess Workout: Train Your Brain with 1200 Puzzles! by Richard Palliser
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.10All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises. Even... -
Great Games by Chess Legends by Neil McDonald
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.19Two books from the Chess Secrets series brought together in one volume. Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess: strategy, attack,... -
Tactical Training in the Endgame by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.21Goethe once wrote, "Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated than we can conceive." He could well have had chess endgames in mind. Endgames have fewer pieces on... -
Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.84Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear explanations of the games, fundamental and instructive examples, question-and-answer sections,... -
1...D6: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06This is a new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, Move by Move greatly encourages... -
Play the Barry Attack Andrew Martin 9781781946947
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.21The Barry Attack is a highly aggressive system that arises after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 Bf4. Although the concept of the Barry Attack has been known for a century or so, the modern... -
Smerdon's Scandinavian: A complete attacking repertoire for Black after 1e4 d5 by David Smerdon
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $37.48Grandmaster David Smerdon plays the Scandinavian, but not in the typically solid style of this popular opening. He gives the Scandinavian a welcome twist by using it as an all-out attacking weapon!... -
Opening Repertoire: ...C6: Playing the Caro-Kann and Slav as Black by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06This book provides a rock solid opening repertoire for Black, using systems based on the move ...c6. The backbone of this repertoire is the Caro-Kann versus 1 e4 and the Semi-Slav (via a Slav move... -
Great Games by Chess Legends, Volume 2 by Neil McDonald
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $31.61Two books from the Chess Secrets series brought together in one volume.Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess: strategy, attack,... -
Starting out: the Queen's Gambit John Shaw 9781857443042
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.50The Queen's Gambit is one of the most popular and fundamental chess openings of all time and it has been the battleground for countless world-class encounters throughout the history of chess... -
Winning Chess Brilliancies Yasser Seirawan 9781857443479
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.37This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. With an... -
The Triangle System: Noteboom, Marshall Gambit and Other Semi-Slav Triangle Lines by Ruslan Scherbakov
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06Grandmaster Ruslan Scherbakov presents an opening system for Black based on the Semi-Slav Triangle - an ambitious way to fight the ever-popular Queen's Gambit. Black's weapons include the Noteboom... -
The Caro-Kann: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.01This 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... -
Rubinstein: Move by Move by Zenon Franco
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06Akiba Rubinstein is a famous figure in the in the history of chess. At his peak, he was arguably the strongest player in the World, and only the outbreak of World War I deprived him of the... -
Fire on Board: Pt. 2 Alexei Shirov 9781857443820
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.51Alexei Shirov has dazzled and inspired a generation of chess fans with his unique brand of attacking chess. The Grandmaster, originally from Riga, Latvia, is widely regarded as one of the most... -
How to Play Against 1 e4 by Neil McDonald
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.50It's not easy finding a good opening to play against 1 e4, especially if you don't have endless time available to study the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable openings, it's... -
Opening Repertoire: Richter-Veresov Attack by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.28The Richter-Veresov Attack is characterized by the moves 1 d4, 2 Nc3 and 3 Bg5. It is a great system for players who want to take their opponents away from well-known theory, force them into... -
Rewire Your Chess Brain: Endgame studies and mating problems to enhance your tactical ability by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $39.33Rewire Your Chess Brain is not your average chess book. It does not deal with opening theory or middlegame strategy. It focuses purely on problems and studies, all of which are the results of... -
Rapid Chess Improvement: A Study Plan for Adult Players by Michael de La Maza
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32Rapid Chess Improvement is the ideal book for serious adult players who want to improve. It describes a study plan which came about thanks to a re-evaluation of standard chess teaching and includes... -
Winning Chess Combinations by Yasser Seirawan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.73Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn... -
Starting Out : The Accelerated Dragon: Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian by Andrew Greet
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.72Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon is a further addition to Everyman's best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. International... -
The Colle: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06This 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... -
Botvinnik: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.79Mikhail Botvinnik was a three-time World Chess Champion and is widely regarded as one of the World's greatest ever chess players. Botvinnik possessed a universal, all-round style with an iron grasp... -
Fischer: Move by Move Cyrus Lakdawala 9781781942727
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.06Bobby Fischer is a legendary chess figure, and many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer was a child prodigy who later developed into a phenomenal force. During his peak... -
First Steps: The Queen's Gambit by Andrew Martin
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.51The Queen's Gambit is one of the great classical openings. All the world champions and elite players have played this opening - most of them for both sides. In this book the highly experienced coach... -
Improve Your Chess x 3: Opening Play, Middlegame Play, Endgame Play Andrew Kinsman 9781781943922
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.48These three titles, brought together for the first time in one volume, explain the important ideas behind every major opening, provide an understanding of the middlegame to the aspiring player and... -
First Steps: Caro-Kann Defence by Andrew Martin
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.51The Caro-Kann Defence arises after the moves 1 e4 c6. With this first move Black (as is also the case with the French Defence - 1 e4 e6) plans 2 ... d5, establishing a well-protected central pawn... -
Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.19One of the finest chess books ever written Vukovic expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add new power and brilliance... -
A Complete Guide to Queen's Gambit Play by Alexander Raetsky 9781781944622
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.79Three classic titles from the Everyman Chess Starting Out Series in one volume. Starting Out: Queen's Gambit Accepted by Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik Starting Out: Queen's Gambit... -
Nizmo-Larsen Attack Tim Wall 9781857442861
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41In this, the first book on the Nimzo-Larsen Attack for more than ten years, Byron Jacobs and Jonathan Tait explain how you can use this dynamic opening to attack your opponent from move one. The...