Chess

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

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

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.

Grandmaster Alexei Shirovs best selling books, Fire on Board and Fire on Board Volume 2 are now brought together in a single volume.

Paperback. This 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 order) versus 1 d4. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .

These 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 tips to all players wishing to improve their endgame play.

In this two volume book, published together for the first time, opening expert Nigel Davies produces a complete repertoire which is certainly not for the fainted-hearted: uncompromising and wild attacking ideas for both colours.