Chess Life Magazine • December 2011

Chess Life Magazine • December 2011
English | PDF | 76 pages | 6 MB

CHESS LIFE Contains instruction, games, puzzles, personality profiles, history, reviews, and news, both U.S. and international, for members of U.S. Chess Federation.

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The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess :

The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess : 

Improve Your Results Now!
160 pages | PDF | 7.6MB

In this book, John Emms talks about his experiences at competitive chess. The book is filled with advises, anecdotes and samples. The only drawback I see is that for advanced user and above there isn't nothing new, maybe only something to learn from the provided games.
 

John Emms reveals the secrets of how to maximize potential and improve results in competitive play. Drawing upon years of his own experience, Emms tackles the all-important practical aspects of chess playing: studying ones own strengths and weaknesses, and those of prospective opponents; concentration and manner at the chessboard; handling time trouble; tackling cheats; playing for a win or a draw; saving difficult positions; avoiding silly mistakes; building an opening repertoire; using chess computers and software; choosing the right tournaments and much more besides.

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Chess -Silman's Complete Endgame Course

 

Chess -Silman's Complete Endgame Course: 

From Beginner To Master
 PDF | 530 pages | 23,4 mb

For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels. Silman's Complete Endgame Course, by famed writer and player Jeremy Silman, is the one and only endgame book you'll need as you move up the ladder from beginner to strong tournament player and finally to master.


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Chess - Improve your opening play

Chess - Improve your opening play

PDF | 145 Pages | 5. 92 MB

Here, Grandmaster Chris Ward explains the important ideas behind every major opening, unraveling among others, the secrets of the Sicilian, the mysteries of the Modern and the fundamentals of the French. He emphasizes the need to understand the key elements of each opening rather than memorizing a series of complicated variations that can leave you stranded.

Grandmaster Chris Ward explains the important ideas behind every major opening, unraveling among others the secrets of the Sicilian, the mysteries of the Modern and the fundamentals of the French. He emphasizes the need to understand the key elements of each opening rather than simply memorize a series of complicated variations that leave you stranded if the opponent varies from the expected route. This book deals with every important opening, focuses on the application of simple principles and has a revolutionary layout to help readers absorb the key ideas.

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Danger in Chess - How to Avoid Making Blunders

Danger in Chess - How to Avoid Making Blunders

PDF | 63 Pages | 3.30 MB

You'll like this book even if it is one of the many chess books that tries to make its point negatively. That is, its examples say, "look, here he didn't see the danger, and lost, etc." May be, critics say, there is not corresponding (positive) instruction on how to avoid the danger. Another way of saying this. Say it was a book on war, called "Danger in War." It is full of examples showing, for instance, a soldier standing up instead of crouching in his foxhole. He thus gets wounded or killed. This book says, by using examples in this way, "see, that was dangerous." This is interesting. Why do you need this book? The examples are good, the writing is good, and the chapter titles (thought-related factors, position-related factors) are interesting and it has a good instructional content.

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Winning Chess tactics illustrated

Winning Chess tactics illustrated

english | pdf | 4.9 mb

This book offers an entertaining way to test your skills and train yourself with 300 positions taken from actual games. I loved this book because you don't need to have a chessboard at hand, you just try to solve the problems looking at the position diagram on the book. This alone is a good training for your brain, helping to develop the capacity to think ahead and visualize combinations in your head, after all when one is in an actual game you have to be able to analyze positions and visualize moves and combinations. I truly believe anyone can benefit from exercising his analytical and visualization abilities.

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