Graham Burgess Knihy

Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. This convenient book provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions.There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances - there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack.Later chapters help readers develop a vital the ability to make tough chessboard decisions. Attack, sacrifice, grab material, defend or simplify - it's for you to decide! Principles and guidelines are emphasized, together with common sources of error. The final section of puzzles will prove a stern challenge even for the best players, with the reader exposed to the full complexity of modern chess - with a few helpful hints along the way.

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories.

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Anand versus Kramnik 2008

For rookie chess players or advanced players who simply want to hone their skills, this new edition of the chess classic has been fully revised and updated. With this guide, which includes courses in tactics and attacking strategy, a selection of the greatest games ever played, helpful advice on club and tournament chess, and a useful glossary of chess terms, victory will be yours. Checkmate

This book offers a comprehensive chess opening repertoire for both White and Black, designed for quick learning within a week. It emphasizes a strategic approach that minimizes the need for memorizing lengthy variations, making it accessible for players of all levels. The repertoire aims to provide effective strategies that can challenge opponents, regardless of their skill level, ensuring that players can enjoy the game without overwhelming complexity.

This work focuses on the King's Indian variations that have undergone the most dramatic change in the last decade. A concise round-up of early deviations by both sides and a discussion of typical plans complete the coverage.

Delving into hidden secrets, this book offers insights and methods for uncovering long-buried truths. It invites readers to explore the depths of concealed knowledge and provides tools for discovery, making it an intriguing journey into the unknown.

This is a book, yes. However, it is designed to expose Rebus's secrets that are not hidden but on full view. The first part is an introduction to my hosts, all of whom are dead but they have left us with many secrets. So you are initially introduced to them and their secrets, or some of them are revealed. Then there is The Appendix and in that, various topics which help you understand and also empower you to discover more. One tool is the meaning of the letters in the English Alphabet in upper case. Our most-used letter is the letter E. It means 'capable of taking in, holding and giving out energy and information'. A book is like a letter E. If you thumb from where you are now towards the front cover and stop, you stop at a page. Page read backwards is EGAP. Read on.

Chess becomes fun when we learn how to survive the opening and stop falling into our opponents’ cheap tactical tricks.And that’s what this book is about! By understanding opening play and how to exploit tactical ideas, we turn the tables on our opponents. Now they will be the ones getting outmanoeuvred, tricked, trapped and pushed off the board!Chess Opening Traps for Kids is a serious course on how to play the opening, illustrated with memorable and entertaining examples. By focusing on 100 key themes, Graham Burgess explains how to use opening tricks to our advantage. Every opening features hidden dangers for both players, so we need to avoid pitfalls while making full use of tactics to achieve the opening goals of purposeful development and central control.Most of the 100 sections feature a basic example followed by a more complex one. Some of the traps have claimed grandmaster victims, while others are more likely to arise in junior chess. Either way, the aim is to learn the theme so well that you can use it when similar opportunities arise in your own games. A series of exercises at the end of the book allows you to check that you have grasped the main points. Throughout the book there are tips on how to spot tactics in advance and advice on opening strategy.