Chess

This book features both composed chess studies, and real-game positions.

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chesss status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period

Its major news when a legendary chess player such as Lajos Portisch reveals his opening secrets.

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .

The Rookie

In the Closed Sicilian an awareness of the strategies and plans is far more important than the simple memorising of variations. Whites play is logical and the basic ideas are simple to master.

First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations.

Chess in Singapore, 1945-1990

Chess in Singapore, 1945-1990

Library Binding. Num Pages: 288 pages, photographs, diagrams, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. .

The Catalan is a solid opening system in which White combines the Queens Gambit with a kingside fianchetto. In recent years it has become an increasingly popular choice at all levels of chess, and elite grandmasters such as Vladimir Kramnik have developed major new ideas for both White and Black.