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:: Added 01.05.2008

The April issue of our free ChessZone Magazine is out!

Read in # 4, 2008:

Morelia-Linares, Amber Blindfold & Rapid, Serbian Chess Championship, Ataturk International Women Masters and 65th Polish Championship highlights, other chess news and the best games with annotations by our experts (IMs Rustam Khustnudinov and Anatoly Polivanov).

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:: Added 01.04.2008

Players chess databases updated.

All games played by classic world chess champion (2000-2007) Vladimir Kramnik added. There is also Kramnik's chess dossier available in zipped CBV database. Enjoy!

View the section Players Databases

:: Added 23.03.2008

Chess Library updated.

The popularity of books on combinations among chess players has a deeper reason than mere love of the brilliant, the sensational, the unexpected. No doubt this love is an integral part of their attraction, but deeper down there is the realization that the combination is an essential part of the game...

:: Added 10.03.2008

The March issue of our free ChessZone Magazine is out!

Read in # 3, 2008:

Aeroflot Open, Moscow Open and Cappelle-la-Grand highlights, other chess news and the best games with annotations by our experts (IMs Dmitry Kryakvin, Rustam Khustnudinov and Anatoly Polivanov).

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:: Added 01.03.2008

The February issue of our free ChessZone Magazine is out!
For the first time in English!

We are proud to announce that we did this!!! The ChessZone Magazine #2, 2008 is out and awaiting for your downloads! Believe you or not, but it completely FREE.

Read in # 2, 2008:

RIP Robert Fischer, Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008, Armenian championship, It Maalot-Tarshiha, other chess news and the best games with annotations by our experts (IMs Dmitry Kryakvin, Rustam Khustnudinov and Anatoly Polivanov).

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View the section Beginners Chess Books

:: Added 01.02.2008

Chess Library updated.

There is no doubt that any chess player who will take the trouble to study Chess Strategy will spend many a pleasurable hour. Incidentally new vistas will be opened to him, and his playing strength increased to a surprising degree.

The large majority of chess players who would like to improve their game, have not the necessary opportunity of pitting themselves against players of master-strength, or at least of obtaining the desired instruction from personal intercourse with them. It is for such players that the present work is intended.

:: Added 06.01.2008

E. Znosko-Borovsky How not to play chess

Chess Library updated.

How Not to Play Chess has long been regarded as a classic of a chess literature. It illustrates Eugene Znosko-Borovsky's gift for explaining a difficult subject briefly and yet unhurriedly.

Addressed to beginners and average chess players, it impacts valuable knowledge and gives them a glimpse into the delightfully complex problems of master chess.

View the section Beginners Chess Books

:: Added 30.12.2007

Chess Library updated.

In bringing before the chess playing public this account of the matches contested for the highest crown of chess ability, the title of Champion of the World, William Winter (British Open Chess Champion 1935, 1936) actuated by the desire to give present-day players some idea of the colourful personalities who strove for it, their general concepts of play and the conditions under which they fought.

View the section Chess as Fight

:: Added 09.12.2007

Troitzky 360 Brilliant and Instructive Endgames

Chess Library updated.

In chess, as in advertising, there are brand names. Few names are honored in chess as that of Troizky, who for more than forty years maintained a magnificent record of unbroken creative activity.

During that time he composed hundreds of these delightful chess endgame studies which are unsurpassable for elegance and subtlety. Troizky is the great artist of the endgame domain, immitable in his skillful manipulation of the chess pieces.

The present collection contains the chess studies that Troizky considered his best. It would be difficult to think of a more enjoyable experience than savoring and enjoying these gems.

:: Added 02.12.2007

Chess Library updated.

Before the Seville Match the players had met each other over the chess board one hundred times exactly, the total score being +13 -12 =75 in favor of Kasparov.

David Bronstein, an outstanding International Grandmaster, once a Challenger himself, illuminates the underlying philosophy of each chess game of this exciting contest.

:: Added 18.11.2007

Chess Library updated.

Enjoy the classic chess ebook "The Art of the Middle Game" by Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov.

Many chess-players know a large variety of openings and understand well the pattern of the endgames - but what happens in the middle? The difficulty of understanding the principles of middlegame play is perhaps best illustrated by the dearth of good chess books on the middle game. They can be counted on the fingers of one hand...

:: Added 01.11.2007

Chess Library updated.

The fifth World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov (New York - Lyon, 1990) was one of the most complicated in the chess history. The opponents presented the highest level of chess mastership and notable grandmasters hardly discovered the plans and ideas of the world champion and his challenger for title in the press center.

You can find all of 24 annotated games in this ebook.

:: Added 14.10.2007

Chess Library updated.

One should remember that the creative element in chess takes shape in hard-fought battles, in which, apart from talent and knowledge, a player must have the energy and will to win.

There is ample evidence of this in the present book, dealing with the chess career and creative development of the 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and his contribution to modern chess. The book is interesting because it shows how the chess talent of this brilliant chess player has evolved; how, by strenuous work in chess, he succeeded in overcoming the shortcomings of his play, in improving chess style and in deepening his understanding of the chess strategy and chess tactics.

:: Added 08.10.2007

Chess Library updated.

The international tournament in San Remo, Italy, in 1930 brought together the leading chess masters of Europe. The competition itself was an outstanding triumph for Alexander Alekhine. The games annotations written by Alekhine, Nimzovitch, Spielman, Botvinnik, Ragozin and other great chessplayers. Enjoy!

:: Added 20.09.2007

Chess Library updated.

Another one great chess book "Judgment And Planning In Chess" by former Chess World Champion Max Euwe added.

During the Plymouth Congress in August 1948 I met Mr. J du Mont, then editor of the British Chess Magazine, who suggested that I should write a book on the lines of the present volume.

His idea was to give practical player some guidance as to how to proceed in a game from the point where the books on opening theory leave off. The result is the present volume...

Max Euwe

:: Added 05.09.2007

Fine The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings

Chess Library updated.

The classic chess book "The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings" by Reuben Fine added.

It has been said that ideas are weapons. That is certainly as true in chess as in any fields. A mastery of a little theory which conveys real understanding of the game is infinitely more valuable than a carefully memorized compilation of endless moves.

Reuben Fine

:: Added 05.08.2007

Chess Library updated.

You can feel another whisper of chess history with the rare contribution of "St. Petersburg Tournament, 1895-1896". This ebook is an exact copy of the original published in 1896. It contains all the games with annotations by James Mason.

:: Added 19.07.2007

Chess Library updated.

Dear reader, we are pleased to share with you an old ebook by an outstanding Czech grandmaster Richard Reti (1889 - 1929) titled "Modern Ideas In Chess". Enjoy the chess classic!