Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume...

Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 - French Defence and Sicilian Sidelines (PDF)Developing an effective repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of...

Sample Download: Nikolaos Ntirlis: Playing 1.d4 d5 (PDF)Nikolaos Ntirlis provides a top-class repertoire for Black after 1.d4 d5 with the Queen’s Gambit Declined. This is truly the Rolls Royce of...

Sample Download: Mihail Marin: The Pirc Defence (PDF)The Pirc is more of a counterattack than a defence: Black allows his opponent to occupy the centre and provokes a confrontation, trusting...

Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 (PDF)Developing a punchy repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of creativity. In this three-volume work, GM...

Sample Download: Alexey Kovalchuk: Playing the Grunfeld (PDF)The Grünfeld Defence is well known to be one of Black’s best and most challenging responses to 1.d4, and has long been a...

Sample Download: Lars Schandorff: Playing the Caro-Kann (PDF)The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier defence to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff’s Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. As...

Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a 2-time Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian...

Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume...

Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 - French Defence and Sicilian Sidelines (PDF)Developing an effective repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of...

Sample Download: Nikolaos Ntirlis: Playing 1.d4 d5 (PDF)Nikolaos Ntirlis provides a top-class repertoire for Black after 1.d4 d5 with the Queen’s Gambit Declined. This is truly the Rolls Royce of...

Sample Download: Mihail Marin: The Pirc Defence (PDF)The Pirc is more of a counterattack than a defence: Black allows his opponent to occupy the centre and provokes a confrontation, trusting...

Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 (PDF)Developing a punchy repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of creativity. In this three-volume work, GM...

Sample Download: Alexey Kovalchuk: Playing the Grunfeld (PDF)The Grünfeld Defence is well known to be one of Black’s best and most challenging responses to 1.d4, and has long been a...

Sample Download: Lars Schandorff: Playing the Caro-Kann (PDF)The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier defence to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff’s Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. As...

Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a 2-time Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian...