Evans Larry. Modern Chess Brilliancies

Gambit Publications, 2017. — 245 p. — ISBN: (13 digits): 978-1-911465-12-6. Tactical ability requires knowledge and skills: knowledge of patterns and tactical methods, and the skill to recognize them, combine them, and calculate accurately. This book features both composed studies and real-game positions. Composed positions distil tactics into their purest form: nothing...

Russell Enterprises, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1941270349. In the late 1990s, American publisher Pickard & Son released five books, each dedicated to a unique tactical theme, and each with approximately 100 pages. Written by the late Russian correspondence master Victor Charushin, the books were Alekhine’s Block, Combination Cross, Lasker’s Combination, Mitrofanov’s...

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-030-3. This book is a mixture of all kinds of exercises, but with one thing in common – all the games were played before the year 2000, except for a few by two big names, Kasparov and Karpov. There are several objectives to this book, besides the obvious calculation training. The age of the games brings in a cultural...

Glasgow: Quality Chess UK Ltd., 2015. — 461 p. — Paperback ISBN 978-1-78483-000-7. — Hardcover ISBN 978-1-78483-001-4. Mauricio Flores Rios provides an in-depth study of the 28 most common structures in chess practice. In Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide you will find: Carefully selected model games showing each structure’s main plans and ideas; Strategic patterns to...

New In Chess, 2016. — 192 p. If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern...

Quality Chess, 2016. — 504 p. — (Grandmaster Repertoire 6A). — ISBN13: 978-1907982637. The Sicilian Defence is the most combative way to meet 1.e4, but Black's hopes of reaching his favourite Dragon, Najdorf or Sveshnikov are often quashed at an early stage. In Grandmaster Repertoire 6A – Beating the Anti-Sicilians, grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias provides full coverage against...