The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book descr...

Ray Keene was the first British player ever to gain a World Chess Federation Grandmaster result (...

Inspired by both Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) and 'The King', an antholog...

In 1608, Roderigo de Vivero, soldier and administrator, set out from Acapulco to take up his post...

Not since Murray in 1913 has there been a seriously researched history of chess which is also rea...

Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victor...

This moving autobiography of a Berber woman from the village of Tizi-Hibel in the Kabilie Mountai...

Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of ...

In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the ...

London 1922 was the greatest tournament held in the capital of the British Empire since Emanuel L...

The Sunday Times Book of Chess

Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament.Why for example was th...

Howard Staunton, the organiser of London 1851 and writer of the book, was the epitome of mid-Vict...

This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted b...

The St. Petersburg Grand International Masters' Tournament of 1914 was undoubtedly the most impor...

Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandm...

All too often chess openings books consist of reams of variations and sub-variations and brackete...

A first hand account of the strengths and weaknesses, of the genius and foibles, of the world's e...

Tarrasch was the dominant force in European chess in the early 1890s and his ability to win top l...

With FIDE (the World Chess Federation) claiming that itsTournament in Libya - in fact, little mor...

A lifetime's playing experience has gone into the writing of this textbook, which covers the thre...

Why are football and chess 'beautiful games'?Do top football coaches read the pitch as a chess pl...

A companion volume to Two Opening Repertoires for White: Volume 1, this book details some more ag...

The Nimzo-Indian Defence is one of Black's most dynamic ways of countering 1 d4. From the outset ...

The essential sequel to Peter Clarke's companion book on Tal, Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess. ...

Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, ...

Mikhail Botvinnik was the ultimate boy scout of chess- always prepared! Indeed, his advance prepa...

The 1978 world chess championship in the Philippines was the most riotous of modern times. Pittin...

When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographe...

From 1948 until 1963 Mikhail Botvinnik, the iron man of soviet chess and chess board devotee of J...

Frank Marshall's watchwords were brilliancy and attack! For decades he was the leading USA grandm...

No book has exerted a greater impact on chess thought over the past 80 years. Variations may come...

Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second...

Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer... the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars wh...

Based on the private papers of the Harley family of Brampton Bryan and in particular on the lette...

Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victor...

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in ...

Ray Keene selects and annotateshis most interesting games against such giants as Anatoly Karpov, ...

This book recounts the fourth and penultimate chapter in the half-decade long rivalry which erupt...

Reshevsky shot to fame as a child prodigy able to take on and defeat hordes of adult players at o...

The history of the World Chess Championship continues in this volume with the epic struggles betw...

At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the...

Miss Tully's Letters form a clear and eminently readable narrative of her years in Tripoli and th...

This book combines the account and eye witness analysis by Golombek of the second and third of th...

In these pages we see how Alekhine's preparation, both psychological and technical, bore brillian...

'From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I decided to take a little trip acr...

David Janowski was one of the grandest ofgrandmasters at the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries....

Often chess literature for amateur enthusiasts is written by experts who are remote from the conc...