Navara: Lessons on Uncompromising Play – Mastering Strategies for Winning Concepts Geschenkidee Together with the Candidates by

Together with the Candidates by Alexey Kuzmin traces seven decades of chess's most prestigious qualifying events

what immense importance it brought to Hastings in the world of chess

“Magnus Carlsen's Middlegame Evolution is another fine effort from Ivan Sokolov on his patented middlegame territory

while Black plays to sap White's divine right to this initiative

Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5

Navara: Lessons on Uncompromising Play – Mastering Strategies for Winning Concepts Geschenkidee Together with the Candidates byIf you want to win a game, you should be ready to progress in small steps. In most games, you first need to gain the initiative, then transform it into a positional advantage or into an attack and eventually win the game. Reality is usually more complex and even grandmaster games mostly contain mistakes on both sides and often even unexpected twists and turns. (True, there are many grandmaster games in which the balance has never been disrupted, but