NEW GAMBIT CHESS BOOKS
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Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British
chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and
his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer
and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate,
entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels.
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A Gambit re-issue of this instructive endgame
guide.
For all chess-players - from beginners to grandmasters, and
whatever their style of play - one thing is certain: rook endings will arise in
a great many of their games. Yet it is precisely in this area of the game that
many players give away hard-earned points, either through lack of knowledge or
inadequate understanding. Most previous books on the subject have been
extremely technical and theoretical, but this one is different. John Emms
provides the essential specific knowledge and explains the key concepts that
will enable readers to find the right plan in most common types of rook
endings.
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The French Defence is one of the most important chess
openings. Its qualities are such that it appeals to a wide range of chess
temperaments: it is solid yet uncompromising, and with a variety of chaotic
variations to appeal to the most bloodthirsty of players, but also offering
more tranquil lines to those seeking a quieter existence. While it is hard for
White to avoid at least some imbalance in the position, he also has a wide
choice. In some of the most critical lines, he accepts major structural
weaknesses in return for piece-play and dynamic chances, while he can also seek
to establish a modest space advantage without such heavy positional
commitments.
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The Nimzo-Indian is one of the most important of all
chess openings, and popular at all levels of play. Together with the
Queen's Indian (also covered in this series), the
Nimzo has provided the backbone of the opening repertoire of a large portion of
the world's top players over the last 80 years. It is considered a fully
reliable defence, and provides winning chances for both sides as it leads to
structures of great strategic variety and complexity. Key battlegrounds in the
Nimzo include the blockade, IQP positions, the handling of unbalanced
pawn-structures, and the struggle between bishop and knight. All these topics
are covered in depth in this book, and an understanding of them will prove
valuable in a much broader context than just the Nimzo-Indian.
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The opening is reaching its end, and we must make a pivotal
decision: what shall our middlegame strategy be? Do we seek an active plan to
profit from our strengths and highlight the opponent's weaknesses? Or do we
adopt prophylaxis, attending to our own position's shortcomings and hindering
the opponent's plans? Alternatively, are there any ready-made plans that we
know from other games that can be tailored to fit our position?
The authors present 90 'multi-choice' tests where the reader
faces this task. In detailed solutions, they explain the best solution, and why
other possibilities are less convincing. We develop a feel for how the decision
is made, while painlessly building our 'repertoire' of plans in typical
positions.
All the examples in this book arise from Queen's Pawn or
Flank Openings, and are arranged by opening and level of difficulty. Many are
drawn from games by virtuoso strategists such as Karpov and Petrosian. In all
cases, the game is annotated in full, so we see the consequences of the
critical decision, while also appreciating the finer points of some of the most
instructive games in chess history.
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A Gambit re-issue of the definitive modern work on pawn
endings, written by the same authors as the award-winning Fundamental Chess Endings.
This book provides a thorough course in endings with just
kings and pawns, from the simple to the highly complex. Armed with this
knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgame with
greater confidence and certainty.
Many interesting and beautiful positions are included, and
there are test positions for the reader to solve. The authors follow the
rigorously logical conventions introduced by John Nunn in his famous series of
endgame manuals. This has necessitated a phenomenal amount of new analysis of
theoretical positions to assess precisely the merits of each and every
move.
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