sábado, 21 de julio de 2012

Break the Rules!: A Modern Look at Chess Strategy by Neil McDonald

El GM  Neil McDonald, uno de los "alma mater" de la editorial everymanchess vuelve a la carga con un título que me gusta llamar "todo terreno", pues está pensado para una mejora general en ajedrez. Bajo el título "Rompe las reglas!" una moderna mirada a la estrategia ajedrecística, McDonald reflexiona sobre como la ruptura de las reglas es la habilidad que marca la diferencia en el tablero. Para ello muestra ejemplos de partidas modernas de GMs donde examina como evitar el pensamiento estereotipo, como explotar los comportamiento típicos y como confundir y ganar a tus oponentes con ideas sorprendentes.

Información oficial:

As we progress as chess players we quickly learn a set of guidelines which help us to formulate plans, develop typical strategies and recognize key tactics. However, chess is not an easy game, with fixed ‘rules’ that can be applied to every single position. In fact, blindly following such rules proves to be counterproductive and prevents a player from moving on to the next level, whereas knowing when to ‘break’ these rules is precisely the skill which separates the best from the rest.
In this instructive book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald studies in depth the key components of successful rule-breaking in chess. Drawing upon his own experience and using illuminating examples from modern grandmaster chess, McDonald examines how to avoid stereotypical thinking, how to exploit typical thinking patterns, and how to confuse and beat opponents with surprising ideas.

  • Improve your chess strategy and creativity
  • Recognize and exploit typical thinking processes
  • Check your progress with rule-breaking exercises


Julio 2012, 160pg, precio de venta oficial: 19,95€ + gastos de envío.

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Play the French, 4th edition by John Watson

Hace días os avanzaba un título que hoy ve la luz como es el Repertorio estratégico para blancas del propio Watson. Ahora nuevamente os avanza uno de los títulos más esperados como es la actualización del éxitoso libro de la francesa tras nueve años, con la cuarta edición de Juega la francesa. Un libro de 432 páginas! con la calidad de edicción de la editorial everymanchess, cubriendo variadas alternativas de juego...

Información oficial:

The wait is over. Finally it’s here... the much anticipated 4th edition of John Watson’s Play the French – the must-have book for all French Defence players for over 20 years!
Watson’s highly acclaimed work presents a repertoire for Black in the French Defence against all of White’s recognized options. Just as in previous editions, Watson often arms the reader with not just one, but a choice of two or sometimes even three choices against the main lines. He also provides a thorough grounding on the positional and tactical aspects of the opening, and outlines the typical plans for both White and Black. Watson is renowned for his creativity and expertise in the opening, and once again this edition features an abundance of innovative ideas for Black. Watson also provides an update of many other lines he considered in previous editions.
  • A French Defence repertoire for Black
  • State-of-the-art coverage of the key lines
  • Packed with new ideas and critical analysis
Contenido:

Bibliography 5
Introduction 7
1 Advance Variation: Introduction and Traditional Lines 9
2 Advance Variation: 6 a3 42
3 Advance Variation with 5...Ch6 62
4 Tarrasch Variation: Introduction to 3...Cf6 with 5 Ad3 82
5 Tarrasch Variation: Main Lines with 5 Ad3 113
6 Tarrasch Variation with 5 f4 141
7 Winawer Variation: Fourth Moves 167
8 Winawer Variation: Fifth Moves 205
9 Winawer Variation: Poisoned Pawn Variation 229
10 Winawer Variation: Positional Main Lines 261
11 Winawer Variation: Portisch-Hook Variation 287
12 Exchange Variation 311
13 Classical Variation with 4 e5 337
14 MacCutcheon: Introduction 364
15 MacCutcheon: Main Lines with 6 Ad2 379
16 King’s Indian Attack 395
17 Uncommon Early Moves 413
Index of Variations 429



Junio 2012, 432pg, precio de venta oficial apx: 24,95€ + gastos de envío.

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Chess Developments: The Pirc by James Vigus

No hay muchos libros dedicados a la defensa pirc, por eso es de agradecer que la editorial everymanchess nos ofrezca un título actual dedicado a esta defensa de la mano del experto escrito sobre ella James Vigus. Si te gusta esta defensa o piensa incorporarla a tu repertorio te recomiendo también el libro  por esencia de esta defensa, Pirc alert! escrito por el GM Alexander Chernin gran jugador de pirc que ha realizado un libro fabuloso con la ayuda del GM Alburt para conocer las diferentes estructuras (Ruy Lopez Pirc, Philidor Pirc,classical...) donde la asimilación de las ideas resulta muy buena.

Información oficial

Chess Developments is a brand new series providing state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the current trends – concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening theory whilst also expanding and improving their repertoires.
The Pirc is an ambitious counter-attacking weapon against 1 e4. Black allows White to build an imposing centre before striking back and attacking it with pieces and pawns. If Black’s strategy is successful White's centre can be blown away, but if Black fails he runs the risk of being overrun.
In this book, James Vigus examines the most theoretically important and instructive Pirc games since the publication of his highly acclaimed The Pirc in Black and White, highlighting the main developments and novelties for both sides. Studying this book will provide you with vital information on a popular opening.

Contenido:

Bibliography 5
Introduction 7
1 The Austrian Attack with 5...c5 11
2 The Austrian Attack with 5...0-0 51
3 The Classical Variation 114
4 White Plays 4 Be3 138
5 The Byrne Variation 202
6 The Fianchetto Variation 230
Index of Variations 241
Index of Complete Games 247


 Julio 2012, 248pg, precio de venta oficial: 19,90€ + gastos de envío.

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viernes, 20 de julio de 2012

Deep Fritz 13 (english, german, spanish)

El clásico programa fritz en su última versión para ordenadores multiprocesador (dual core) que promete un 60% más de rapidez que el actual fritz 13. Los idiomas incluidos de serie son inglés, alemán y español. Algunas ventajas de este producto es que trae incluido un año de suscripción premium a playchess, acceso a chessbase engine cloud, un libro especial de Alex Kure con 4 millones de posiciones! y muchas más novedades...




Información oficial:

Chess programs have been high-performance utilities for a long time now. The higher your system performance, the greater the value they will be to you. But multi-processor systems only work if you have a “deep” version, because it is only then that the program can make use of multiple processor cores in parallel.


Things are no different with the new Deep Fritz 13: on a dual-core computer the engine is already approx. 60% faster than the regular Fritz 13.
World premiere: the ChessBase Engine Cloud
Deep Fritz 13 introduces the innovative “ChessBase Engine Cloud” and revolutionises the way we work with system resources. This new function makes it possible, for the very first time, to run deep position analysis, blunder searches, engine matches, etc. using engines located on remote computers, instead of overloading your own system. To you it looks like you are working on your own computer – it does not matter whether the engines are running on a separate machine next to you in your study, on the office computer or in a computer centre in Australia.
High-end for everybody!
If you own a number of computers you can run all your engines on all of them and harness the full processing power on a single PC. Or you can rent your machines to other users via the “Cloud”. This is an especially exciting development for owners of high-performance computers or clusters. But the key point is: you can rent processing power from third parties and turn your little notebook or your “old faithful” into a tactical giant and strategic monster at the click of a button! 
"Let’s Check”
Join the community! “Let’s Check” is a revolutionary new feature of ChessBase that will change the chess world. With it Fritz users can join a world-wide community that is putting together a giant knowledge base for chess. Using Let’s Check while watching top games live on the Playchess server becomes an experience in itself. Not only do you have the very latest openings and statistics at your disposal, you can also see the results of the most powerful computers and engines that are logged into the server – total information on any computer, at the blink of an eye.


DEEP FRITZ 13 INCLUDING:
  •  Premium membership of playchess.com for 12 months
  • ChessBase Engine Cloud
  • ChessBase Let’s Check function*
  • Improved version of the Fritz13 engine for computers with multiple processor cores
  • Special book by Alex Kure (over 4 million positions)
  • Database with over 1.5 million games
  • Improved and enhanced database management • Improved user interface in Windows
*Access to “Let’s Check” database till 31.12.2015


Junio 2012, precio de venta oficial: 99,90€

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Chess Evolution 2: Beyond the Basics by GM Artur Yusupov

Nuevo libro a la vista de la editorial qualitychess de la mano del super GM Yusupov.  Estas series de libro son sin duda de lo mejor que se publica para mi gusto, donde el buen trabajo del autor se nota con muy buenas y diversas temáticas, buena selección de posiciones y un montón de ejercicios de gran calidad para asimilar correctamente los contenidos. Te recomiendo que visites el enlace de la editorial para que aprecies la calidad de la obra...

Información oficial:

Chess Evolution 2 continues Yusupov's award-winning instructional series. The Fundamentals series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the Beyond the Basics series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Grandmaster Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. In recent years he has mainly worked as a trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Vishy Anand and many other top grandmasters, to talented juniors and local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.


25 mayo de 2012, 304pg, precio de venta oficial: 23,99€ + gastos de envío.

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sábado, 14 de julio de 2012

A Fresh Look at Chess 40 Instructive games, played and annotated by players like you by GM Lev Alburt

Otro título ya disponible interesante para este verano a muy precio. Como en el caso del GM griego Grivas, el GM americano Lev Alburt es un experto escritor de éxito que en esta ocasión nos acerca otro libro de los llamados "todo terreno" recopilando 40 de sus mejores artículos de partidas de jugadores amateur clasificados por temas con nuevo material facil de asimilar y muy instructivo.

Información oficial:
 
For the last ten years Grandmaster Lev Alburt has been writing a very special monthly column for the U.S. Chess Federation's magazine, Chess Life. Nontitled readers are asked to contribute their most instructive games, with generous annotations.

From dozens of entries, Lev chooses for his column one he considers to be of greatest value for CL's readers, adding his own comments and advice.

For this book, Lev has selected forty of his best columns, arranged by theme, and has added some new material, all to make A Fresh Look at Chess both truly instructional and  fun to read.

Most chess books have been written by grandmasters and use only the hard-to-understand games of grandmasters to help amateurs. This book uses a new, complementary - and very effective - approach: amateur games reveal the mistakes your opponents will make, and show you how to capitalise on them.
International Grandmaster Lev Alburt, a three-time U.S. Champion and former European Champion, is one of hte most sought-after chess teachers in the world. He co-authored and published the Comprehensive Chess Course (From Beginners to Master and Beyond) series, to which A Fresh Look at Chess is the latest addition.

Abril 2012, 224pg, precio de venta oficial: 17,95€ + gastos de envío.
 
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viernes, 13 de julio de 2012

Chess Analytics Training with a Grandmaster by GM Efstratios Grivas

Un buen título todo terreno de la editorial Russell Enterprises estará disponible en breve de la mano del experto entrenador y escritor, el GM Griego  Efstratios Grivas. 
Grivas presenta 240 partidas comentadas ilustrando todos los temas clásicos del ajedrez que suceden en todas las fases de la partida, sin dejar ningún tema de medio juego al azahar y muy centrado en los tipos de finales más típicos pero también menos comentados en la literatura ajedrecística. En fin un título de mejora global, con un escritor de calidad y con un gran precio actual antes de su lanzamiento...


Información oficial:

Analytics
The Method of Logical Analysis
You are invited to take an instructive journey with one of the most successful chess coaches of our era, Greek grandmaster Efstratios Grivas. Over 40 critical aspects of the royal game are examined by this experienced, well-respected trainer. Grivas presents almost 240 games, most with complete scores to assist comprehension, illustrating his themes with practical, insightful examples and explanations. And the convenient structure of the book is such that the reader may pick and choose the topics in any order.

There is a broad range of the subjects which are covered. You will find well-known subjects like back-rank mate combinations, chapters about isolated pawns, strong squares, etc., as well as less commonly presented patterns, such as the chapters "False Guards" or "The King’s Golden Cage." Topics include: Pinning, Shattered Pawns, the Weak d5-square, Doubled f-pawns, the Double Exchange Sacrifice, the f4 Break, Planning, Opening Diagonals, Small Advantages, Sacrifices for the Initiative, Rook vs. Bishop Pair, Pawns on the Seventh Rank and many more!

The guiding principle of these themes is their practical value. This is particularly true in the endgame section where the author deals with structures which occur relatively often but are rarely presented in chess literature.

The structure of each chapter is clear and methodical. The concept is explained in a few lines and illustrated in carefully selected, annotated master games. A conclusion with practical hints rounds off each section.

320pg, 1 agosto 2012, precio de venta oficial: 24,95$ + gastos de envío.

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