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This book presents the 100 most essential chess endgames — the basic endings every club player is likely to encounter in real games.

Learning how to handle these positions will help you win more games, and also save more games. Once you reach the stage where your results are no longer decided by simple tactical mistakes, the real challenge begins: converting your advantages with confidence.

With clear explanations and a structured, step-by-step approach, these 100 lessons form a complete endgame survival kit. You will learn:

• how to stay confident when the game transfers into an endgame

• how to exploit advantages you have gained in the middlegame

• how to avoid the frustration of failing to win clearly better positions

• how to approach simplification without uncertainty

Master these basic endings and they will serve you for the rest of your chess life. Study them carefully, and your technique — and your confidence — will improve forever.

The upgraded 2024 edition of a modern classic

We've managed to keep the upgraded paperback edition at the pre-inflation price. On top of that, this modern classic is now available in hardcover as well.

The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating moreopponents when you improve your tactical skills.

Improve Your Chess Tactics presents more than 700 decisive combinations from tournament practice and is a self-tutor and a sparring-partner in one. Experienced Russian chess master Yakov Neishtadt has selected those examples that have the biggest instructional value for club players.

In the first part of the book Neishtadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes. The second part consists of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include clear,witty and instructive prose.

Reprinted with an improved design. Now six puzzles per page instead of twelve – answering to feedback from readers in Amazon comments.

If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has created a complete tactics book for ambitious club and tournament players. He teaches how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich has also included a new and important element: tests that will improve your defensive skills.

Every chapter starts with easy examples, but no worries: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.

Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson was a positional genius with a crystal-clear style. In his prime, in the 1970s and 80s, he rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings because he almost never lost a game and kept scoring wins from quiet positions.

But every now and then, he found himself in a position on the board that demanded an attack. And then he would strike! He was fierce and decisive, showcasing his phenomenal talent and his incredible ability to sense any imbalance on the board.

Ulf - The Attacker is an amazing collection of thrilling games! Ulf is widely regarded as one of the most likable figures in the chess world. He is consistently humble, generous with his time, and known for his exceptional sportsmanship. But at the board, he was merciless in his games against Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Bent Larsen, and Lajos Portisch, to name a few of the chess stars that got crushed in an attack.

This book is both entertaining and instructive. Ulf Andersson's fluid attacking game will undoubtedly influence your own thinking about chess.

This workbook offers over five hundred carefully selected exercises to accompany the book 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know.

Experienced chess trainer Frank Erwich has not only identified the 100 most important tactical patterns, he has also collected hundreds of exercises for you to train these patterns. Solving these puzzles will drive home the key ideas, refresh your knowledge and improve your technique. It is probably best to study the manual and workbook together, but you can also use the workbook as a stand-alone training tool as each pattern is summarised.

Updated edition with 6 diagrams per page.

For any advanced club player one thing remains true: if you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. In this follow-up to his acclaimed 1001 Chess Exercise for Club Players, Frank Erwich focuses on exercises in which the key move isn’t obvious. He also introduces new, more sophisticated tactical weapons. They are geared towards the reality of the advanced club player: they should expect the unexpected. One of the celebrated elements of Erwich’s previous book is back, neglected in other chess tactics book, defense: readers will also learn how to defend against tactics. This is not just a collection of freewheeling puzzles, but a complete and structured course.