Twenty-five chess games chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs learn how to avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. Selected, with comme

A multinational array of top grandmasters explain the difference in thinking between professional and amateur chess players, and how the amateur can bridge the

Chess players often reach a certain level and subsequently seem unable to become any stronger. They attain solid and even promising positions without having any

An edition of a work first published in the 1950s, updated and converted to modern chess notation, in which Max Euwe, World Champion 1935-37, provides instructi

Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.