My Best Games Volume 2
- Games with Black
Victor Korchnoi
$30/£19.99
For almost half a century grandmaster Victor Korchnoi has been one of the world's leading chess players, and even today he remains a formidable competitor. This new collection covers his entire career.
Korchnoi's annotations are honest, detailed and instructive. This volume gives his best games as Black, with which he has always excelled as a determinded defender, ready, when the oppurtunity presents itself, to switch to counterattack. The author pays particular attention to the psychological role of the defender, which helps to explain why, throughout his career, he has won as many games with Black as he has with White.

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C.J.S Purdy's Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts - Vol. 2
Purdy
$24.99/£16.99
In 1953 Cecil J.S Purdy became the world's first correspondence chess champion. Concurrently he had published a small, but powerful, chess magazine called Chess World. He became known as a great chess writer and teacher - even Bobby Fisher admitted that. Now a whole new generation is discovering his talent for explaining chess so that everyone can understand and improve.

This book presents 120 annotated games along with 13 articles from Purdy's various publications.

The Sozin set-up can be employed against the classical Sicilian, the Najdorf and even the Scheveningen. Mikhail Golubev is a young grandmaster who has employed the Sozin with devastating effect throughout the whole of his adult chess career. Here he explains how White carries out the attack in its various forms (including some reletively positional lines), and presents in detail the theory of all its variations, including the razor-sharp Velimirovic Attack.

Owen Hindle and Bob Jones piece together contemporary records of his life and games, to make this first ever biography of one of the 19th century's least known masters.

This book aims to make ordinary players, who may have little time for studying chess, to make the most of their abilities. Unlike most previous literature on chess psychology, this is no heavyweight theoretical treatise, but rather a practical guide in how to lure opponents into error - and thus create what is often called 'luck'.

The lessons are not based on quick fixes, but instead provide a well rounded course in all the aspects of chess that will equip the reader well for his or her chessboard battles, and provide a firm yet flexible basis for further improvement.

The most prominent players in the world annotate themselves the games they played. Contributors include Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Morozevich, Adams, Leko, Bareev, Shirov, Kashimdzhanov, Gelfand, Smirin, Georgiev, Van Wely, Karpov, Dreev, Judit Polgar, Ponomariov, Lautier, and Grishchuk.

Kasparov annotates 9 games from Linares and Astana.
Kramnik annotates 10 games from Astana, Monaco and Zurich.
Anand annotates 3 games from Merida.

CD ROM format of the new Informator, comes with a free supplement, ECO Vol A 3rd edition. Uses Chess Informant Reader 1.9 (included on the CD itself)

Informator 81 Book and CD ROM package
£29.95 $43

'an elegant collection of odes to the greater and lesser personalities that evolve around the 64 squares.' - Algemeen Dagblad, reviewing the original Dutch edition.

In this comprehensive workbook, International Chess Master, Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, tactical and positional middlegames, and endgames.The book takes the player through the processes of problem solving and analysis and provides advice and instruction that ultimately helps him discover the major flaws imbedded in his play.

• Reviews of the hottest chess sites
  
• Advice on where to play on the web
  
• How to use the web to improve your practical play

Whether it's playing against humans, playing against computers, learning from Grandmasters or simply finding out the latest chess results and gossip, chess on the internet has become a massive business over the past few years. In this revolutionary book, distinguishes chess webmaster Mark Crowther explains to the reader how to get the maximum out of the web. Crowther casts his expert eye over the ever-increasing number of chess sites available to the surfer.

Mark Crowther shot to fame in the chess world with his groundbreaking online chess magazine The Week In Chess (TWIC), which began as early as 1993 and is still one of the most popular chess news sites on the web. The experience and expertise he has gained from being editor of TWIC makes him an ideal choice as the author of this book, his first for Everyman.

Kingpin - No 33
Winter 2000 $6/£4.00
"...unquestionably the funniest chess magazine in the world..."
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The Kalashnikov is one of the most modern variations of the Sicilian Defence. As early as move four, Black stakes a claim in the centre and sets the tone for the rest of the game. Play can often become sharp and, as is normal with many Sicilian lines, the best prepared player is usually the successful one. In this handy battle manual Jacob Aagaard and Jan Pinski take a deep look at all the critical