Franco Masetti & Roberto Messa
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners is a great first tactics book. It helps you in identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, in recognizing patterns of combinations, and in visualizing tricks.
Each chapter introduces and explain a new tactical idea (pin, skewer,fork, discovered attack etc.) with a few examples and then presents the reader with a series of test positions for solving.
By solving the numerous examples the reader becomes familiar with the basic tactics used in winning chess games.
Chess masters Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have produced an excellent first book on chess tactics. It can be used as a course text book as well as for personal improvement.
Published 2012, softback, 144 pages.
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Lev Alburt & Al Lawrence
Studies tout the many benefits of chess for all ages. Want to learn chess or teach it to your child but are busy with lots of other activities as well? This innovative book is designed for you. You choose the level you want to achieve. Want to go from absolute beginner to neighborhood champ?
Complete Level I in an afternoon, play some practice games and you'll quickly be saying "checkmate"! When you're ready to become a tough tournament competitor, Level II cuts through the mysteries of strategy and tactics to show you just what you need to know. And if you decide that you won't settle for anything less than being an expert, near the top levels of tournament chess, Level III delivers all the essential knowledge!
Lev Alburt is a Russian Grandmaster (now living in the USA) and 3 times U.S. Champion.
Published 2012, softback, 304 pages.

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Andrew Soltis
* Always dreamed of becoming a chess master, but don't know how to go that extra step? This book shows you how.
* Packed with tips, tricks and practical exercises aimed at players of all skill levels who aspire to greatness.
In this book Andrew Soltis takes you inside the chess master's mind and explains some of the thinking habits that chess masters share. He reveals the ways they think about positions, the things they look for, the things they "know". He shows how they assess compensation for material sacrifice, judge which positions are winnable and find the right moves seemingly effortlessly.
This useful book, aimed at all chess players who aspire to become chess masters, shows you what the masters know and you don't. Written by one of our biggest-selling and best-loved chess authors, in his trademark chatty, accessible but always informative style, this book is filled with practical exercises and test games that will reveal the secrets of how to join chess's elite ranks.
International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is chess correspondent for the New York Post and a very popular chess writer.
Published 2012, softback, 208 pages.
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John Shaw & Jacob Aagaard (Editors)
Learn to think and win like a Grandmaster
A multinational array of top Grandmasters annotate some of their own games against amateurs and explain the differences in thinking between professional and amateur chess players, and how the amateur can bridge the gap. Each author concludes with some tips on improvement for the amateur player.
It usually takes at least a decade of sustained effort for even the most talented player to reach the Grandmaster level and though this book cannot guarantee to make the reader a Grandmaster, it is certainly a healthy nudge in the right direction.
The authors are:
GM Pavel Eljanov
GM Boris Avrukh
GM Mihail Marin
GM Peter Heine Nielsen
GM Tiger Hillarp Persson
GM Jacob Aagaard
GM John Shaw
Published 2011, softback, 196 pages.
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Charles Hertan
A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1.5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so. You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just consider a few important ones.
Charles Hertan introduces the four main characters who will help you to learn these basic skills: Zort (a teenaged computer from the planet Zugszwang), the Dinosaurs, Power Chess Kids and the Chess Professor. The most complete and fun kids book ever on learning how to win games!
Charles Hertan is a FIDE Master from Massachusetts, USA with decades of experience as a chess coach.
Published 2011, softback, 159 pages.
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Brian Byfield (Illustrations by Gray Joliffe)
Most people think chess is a difficult game to learn. But that really isn't the case. By the time you've read this helpful little book, you'll have absorbed all the information you need to know to go off and play your first game. In clear, simple, humorous text, backed up with useful chessboard diagrams and illustrations, the author shows you round the board, introduces the pieces and how they move, and lets you into the secrets of special moves such as castling. It finishes off with some invaluable advice on how to marshal your troops and win the game: why you need to avoid the sides of the boards, and how to see every threat as an opportunity, and every opportunity as a a potential minefield. Armed with the information in this book, you'll become a real chess player - in super-quick time!
Brian Byfield has held a passion for chess and bridge throughout his career in advertising, film and TV. He lives in London. Gray Jolliffe is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose best-known work is the Wicked Willie series, first published in the 1980s. He lives in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Published 2011, hardback, 64 pages.
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Artur Yusupov
Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals concludes Artur Yusupov's "Fundamentals" series with 24 lessons on attacking play with different ocmbinations of pieces. Each lesson is followed by a series of test positions and the book concludes with a final test on all aspects covered.
This volume follows on from "Build Up Your Chess: Fundamentals" and "Boost Your Chess: Fundamentals"
Grandmaster Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world of chess from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship and is now a chess trainer. He has worked with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
Published 2011, softback, 262 pages.
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Emmanuel Neiman & Yochanan Afek
Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind?
Even strong grandmasters suffer from blind spots that obscure some of the best ideas during a game. What is more: often both players fail to see the opportunity that is right in front of their eyes.
Neiman and Afek have researched this problem and discovered that there are actually identifiable reasons why your brain discards certain ideas.
In this book they demonstrate different categories of hard-to-see chess moves and clearly explain the psychological, positional and geometric factors which cloud the chess player's brain.
Invisible Chess Moves, with its many unique examples, instructive explanations and illuminative tests, will teach you how to discover your blind spots and see the moves which remain invisible for others.
Your results at the board will improve dramatically because your brain will stop blocking winning ideas.
Emmanuel Neiman is a FIDE master. He teaches chess in his home country France and he has written books on chess tactics and chess training. Yochanan Afek is an Israeli International Master who lives in Holland. He is an organizer, a journalist and a trainer, but probably best known as an endgame study composer. This is his third book on chess.
Publshed 2011, softback, 240 pages.
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