Fighting the London System

196 pages.

I cannot believe how much is being published on this opening!

TWIC 1186

King’s Indian Games

Sivuk-Kovalev g3 10.c5(E69)

After 27..Qa5(Diagram)

White has compensation for the exchange based on the weak kingside dark squares. How to continue?

After 27..Qa5

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e3 Poison-Axel Smith

Another something big from Quality Chess

392 pages.

TP Chess Puzzle Book 2016

13 Chapters, around 300 puzzles.

310 pages

“This book is aimed at ambitious players and we assume that the reader has an advanced chess education, knowing all the basic tactical motives. Also we assume that he is able to calculate longer variations and is trained to do so for more than 10 minutes if necessary.

Wait, do I really need 10 minutes for every puzzle? No, relax. All chapters start with easy puzzles but the level of difficulty increases and depending on your skills you will need sometimes more than 20 minutes, sometimes you probably won´t even find the solution. We included some brain crushers from whom we think that even grandmasters will have problems solving. But that should not pose a problem.

In our opinion the journey is the reward. Sometimes looking at a position for a long time and then finding something new you couldn’t spot in the beginning, might be even more beneficial. The harder you try, the more you will benefit. We experienced from working with the book at home, it takes a lot of discipline, but we are certain that with a regular practice your calculation skills will improve a lot.

Another good method is to train with a partner of similar strength or in a group. We used examples from the book in our own training sessions and think it will be very useful for chess coaches who are in need of new material for their pupils.(more)”

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An embarrassingly LOW turnout so far. Maybe everyone is taking a nice relaxing vacation 🙂