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£20.00
‘How to Win at Chess’ teaches you everything you need to know about the game, including all the important moves and strategies to start off strong and keep you thinking several steps ahead. The first half of this unique guide introduces rising players (0-800 Elo rating) to the four key areas to consider when playing chess-openings, endings, tactics, and strategy – and the second half builds upon these core skills for more experienced players (800-1300 Elo rating). Brimming with practical and easy-to-follow tips for improving your game, the book includes over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations to help you better visualise the board, as well as chapter-specific QR codes for exclusive bonus content on Chessly, Rozman’s teaching platform.
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£12.99
365 chess-themed puzzles – one to solve every day of the year
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£10.99
For fans of ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous players of all time. Jennifer Shahade, a two-time US Women’s Chess Champion, spent her teens and twenties travelling the world playing chess. Tournaments have taken her from Istanbul to Moscow, and introduced her to players from Zambia to China. In this ultra male-dominated sport, Jennifer found shocking sexism, but she also found friendships, feminism and hope. Through her own story as well as interviews with international players, Jennifer invites us into the extremely competitive world of chess. She shows us the rivalry and the camaraderie; the ecstatic highs and the excruciating losses; the glamour and the hard work.
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£15.99
This book, first published in Russian in the 1970s amd regarded there as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate.
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£23.00
With 32 pegged chess pieces and a gamebook that a) teaches you how to play and b) makes you look smart, this chess set by Brass Monkey is perfect for newbies and experts alike. Bonus: everything stores away into the box (that is also the game board), so it’s perfect for traveling. ? Features unique ‘peggable’ style chess pieces that fit (and stay put) in the holes of the included chessboard. ? Perfect for traveling (or playing during deep-sea fishing expeditions). ? Includes a gamebook that teaches beginners how to play…and gives experts something to make fun of. ? Everything (including the chessboard) packs away into the display-worthy box. ? Box measures 7.8″ square (by 2.8″ deep if you’re curious).
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£4.99
A new edition of this classic Zweig story – an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
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£7.99
Do you know your bishops from your knights? Or when castling is the best move? How about the best way to counter the Queen’s Gambit? In ‘Chess For Beginners’ international master and renowned chess tutor Michael Basman shows you everything you need to know to improve your tactics and win more games.
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£16.99
A chess book for beginners, taking you from the very basics to an advanced level of play, with a design-led approach.
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£12.99
A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport. The first week of November 2016, as a crowd of people swarmed outside of Manhattan’s Trump Tower to rail against the election of Donald Trump, hundreds more descended on the city’s South Street Seaport. But they weren’t there to protest. They were there to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin – what by the time it was over would be front-page news and thought by many the greatest finish in chess history.
