Though they appear to be normal moves, opening traps are deft manoeuvres that almost inevitably lead to a rapid win for the trapper. This handy vol...

Traps lurk in every stage of a chess game, but they occur especially often in the opening. In this instructional volume, the two internationally re...

Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died in a car crash in 1960. He was 46. He left a substantial but unfinished oeuvre of excep...

The present volume marks the bimillennium of the death of the princeps with a selection of essays that offer new approaches to the Emperor Augustus...

The present volume marks the bimillennium of the death of the princeps with a selection of essays that offer new approaches to the Emperor Augustus...

Victor Korchnoi is one of the greatest figures in chess history, which he has helped to shape for nearly 50 years now. Now, at the beginning of the...

This is the first modern English translation of Dioscorides’ monumental De materia medica, written in the first century of our era. It is based on ...

DUB, The Sound of Surprise is a detailed chronicle and fascinating guide to the captivating history of Jamaican dub music, the first of its kind. T...

Gustave Eiffel was the man behind the landmark that became the symbol par excellence of Paris and so the dominant image of France around the world....

This is the very first book to focus exclusively on Hikaru Nakamura, the greatest American chess player since the legendary Robert James Fischer. T...

The strategies of the Norwegian chess grandmaster the Washington Post calls "the Mozart of chess", currently the top ranked player in the world. No...

The well-known grandmaster and theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov has used the Closed Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5) more than 150 times in tournamen...

Volume 2 (Master Course) contains the following main chapters: 61 theoretically important games for independent analysis; Encyclopaedia of variatio...

Discover some of the major 20th century artists in intimate settings. Paris Match magazine has followed, photographed and interviewed them exclusiv...

John Mayall is an icon in the world of blues music and the Godfather of British blues. A pioneering musician, blues promoter and talent scout for o...

To achieve success in chess, a little talent is required, but it is even more important to have a thorough grounding in the different aspects of th...

The Leningrad System is one of the sharpest and most interesting replies to 1 d4, and since this typical set-up is also playable against the flank ...

"For a long time I used to go to bed early": possibly the most famous opening line in the French language and the first words of a masterly work wh...

Text in English, German & Spanish. Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexico‘s most prolific artists. Octavio was born on 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Gua...

The Greek-English lexicon of Liddell-Scott-Jones professes to include all secular writers to the end of the sixth century AD, but its coverage of t...

Over a quarter of a century ago, the first edition of this book (published in East Germany in 1981) was a huge best seller. Yet unfortunately it wa...

Mark Dvoretsky is regarded as the leading chess coach in the world, and in this series of books he reveals the training methods that have transform...

The initial part of this book deals with combinations and tactical techniques, and suggests methods for developing a player's calculating ability. ...

This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky's course is devoted to questions of strategy, and is aimed at improving the reader's positional understanding. ...