Carsten Hansen

Omnibus edition of volumes 7-9 in the popular Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening series.Volume 7 covers a variety of Semi-Open Games such as the Pirc, Modern Defense, Kings Fianchetto, Alekhine Defense, Scandinavian Defense (Center Counter), Owens Defense & Nimzowitsch Defense.Volume 8 covers all openings starting with 1.e4 e5, including the Scotch Game, Italian Game, Evans Gambit, Two Knights, Ruy Lopez, Three & Four Knights, Kings Gambit, The Petroff, Philidor and various minor openings and minor gambitsVolume 9 covers all variations of the Caro-Kann & French Defenses such as Advance Variations, Tarrasch, Classical, Winawer, Panov Attack and many more.Here together in one volume for the first time.

WINNING FAST IS FUN!This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. The chess opening variations in this volume are all opening after 1.e4 e5, such as:1) Scotch Game2) Italian Game & Evans Gambit3) Two Knights4) Ruy Lopez5) Three & Four Knights6) Kings Gambit7) The Petroff8) Philidor & Minor Defenses9) Various Gambits

Are you ready to improve your tactical game?It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important. This is a massive collection of tactical puzzles. The puzzles vary in difficulty, some are relatively easy, some are little more difficult, but you will find that all of them are easier and more straight-forward than the puzzles found in the other series : "Daily Chess Training: Chess Tactics". That doesnt mean that you will be able to solve them without running into a sped bump or two, so take your time and make sure you get it right, even when you think the answer is obvious. Working through the puzzles and then carefully play through the thoroughly annotated solutions will help you to up your tactical radar as well as your calculation skills. So if you are up for the challenge, here is the opportunity to prepare for the next leap forward.

Tired of being recommended to study chess tactics but the tactics in the books do not look anything like what could arise in the openings you play? So am I! Well, here is the answer: opening specific tactical exercises split up by variation from actual games.In this book, you will face hundreds of tactical positions, not only combinations but positions with tactical elements for you to solve and familiarize yourself with. This will help you be extra tactically alert when you are playing your games in this opening.

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies, and tactical ability. The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian Defense, such as: 1) The Najdorf Variation 2) The Scheveningen Variation 3) The Dragon & Accelerated Dragon Variations 4) The Classical Variation including the Richter-Rauzer & Sozin Attack 5) The Taimanov, Kan & Paulsen Variations 6) The Sveshnikov & Kalashnikov Variations

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your: Opening play Opening repertoire Tactical visionTactical ability.The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Caro-Kann and French Defenses.

WIN FAST!This book is the second book in a series of nine covering ultra-miniatures, i.e. games of 15 moves or less, played by players rated 2350 or above. In this volume, you will see both former and future world champions lose games within those parameters. The openings cover all varieties of the Queens Gambit, starting with 1 d4 d5 2 c4 as well as all 1 d4 d5 specials, such as the Pseudo-Trompowsky (1 d4 d5 2 Bg5), The Barry Attack (1 d4 d5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bf4 g6 4 Nf3), the popular London System (1 d4 d5 2 Bf4 or 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Bf4) and many others.Of course, for a game to conclude to rapidly, one side has to have made a series of mistakes or one really big mistake either tactically or through flawed calculation.Because the players are that strong I have the mistakes to be instructive, something that the rest of us can learn from.In nearly all of the games, you, the reader will be met with diagrams with positions to solve, either with prompts such as "What is Whites best move?" or by having a selection of moves to choose between and then having to find the best move or the refutations of these moves.

WIN FAST!Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.The chess openings covered in this volume are:1) Minor Flank Openings2) Reti Opening (1 Nf3)3) English Opening (Dutch, Slav & Indian Lines)4) English Opening: 1.c4 e55) Symmetrical English: 1.c4 c5

Omnibus edition of volumes 4-6 in the popular Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening series.Volume 4 covers a variety of 1 d4 openings: Anti-Dutch, Dutch Mainline, Benonis, Benko Gambit, Trompowsky, Torre Attack, London System, Colle System, Fianchetto Anti-Indian, Old Indian, Budapest & Fajarowicz Gambits and more. Volume 5 covers all of the Anti-Sicilians, including Alapin, Grand Prix Attack, Closed Sicilians, Rossolimo Attack, Moscow Attack, 2...e6 Specialies, 2...d6 Specialties, OKelly, Ultra-Fianchetto & Nimzowitch and more. Volume 6 covers all of the Open Sicilian Variations, including the Najdorf, the Scheveningen, Sveshnikov & Kalashnikov, Dragon & Accelerated Dragon, Classical, Kan, Taimanov & Paulsen and more.Here together in one volume for the first time.

WIN FAST!Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.The chess openings covered in this volume are:1) Dutch Defense (1 d4 f5)2) Benonis - Modern Benoni, Schmid Benoni, Old Benoni & Benko Gambit3) Trompowsky (1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5)4) The d-pawn Specials: Anti-Indians - Torre, London, Colle & Other 3rd move options 5) Old Indian6) Budapest & Fajarowicz Gambits7) Minor d-pawn Specials

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. The chess opening variations covered in this volume are all minor Semi-Open Games, such as: 1) The Pirc & Modern Defenses 2) The Kings Fianchetto 3) The Alekhine Defense 4) The Scandinavian Defense 6) Owens Defense, Nimzowitsch Defense

An essential part of improving at chess is tactics. Tactics occur at every level of chess but once the players become stronger the elements involved in spotting the puzzles tend to become more complex and deeper, whereas, among weaker players, elementary skewers, forks, and deadly pins are more frequent visitors.

Winning Fast is Fun!Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability.The chess openings covered in this volume are:1) The Kings Indian Defense2) The Grunfeld Indian Defense3) The Queens Indian Defense4) The Nimzo-Indian Defense5) The Catalan Opening 6) The Blumenfeld Gambit 7) The Bogo-Indian DefenseAfter sorting games with the worst mistakes & blunders away, there remains a collection of games showing a catalog of typical mistakes, misunderstandings, misevaluations and how to exploit these: either through simple execution or brilliant chess tactics.

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling volume 1.Are you ready to seriously improve your game?It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important. But if you are like most players, you only discover the tactics after you come home and run through your game with a chess engine. So what to do? In the present book, you will be challenged 404 times but unlike most tactics puzzle books you dont know what your objective is: do I need to find a mate, find an opportunity skewer or pin a piece, use a tactical turn to gain a positional advantage and how far do I need to calculate?These questions are you are faced with when you play your own games and therefore this book tries to replicate this position. Your one advantage over the players in the respective positions is that you know that there is supposed to be something in there for you to find.The puzzles vary a lot in difficulty, some are relatively easy, some are incredibly difficult, but most are somewhere in between. However, most of the puzzles are layered so that even when you think the answer is obvious, it is worth looking further because your idea may be the decoy left there for you to get distracted from the actual solution.Working through the puzzles and then carefully play through the thoroughly annotated solutions will help you to up your tactical radar as well as your calculation skills. So if you are up for the challenge, here is the opportunity to take the leap forward. Good luck!

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a representation of the previous nine volumes, picking something of the best from each of chapter in the preceding volumes, to give you an opportunity to look through the window and see if those other books are something for you. This is the book where you will see how: Kramnik as Black beat Jobava in only 15 moves. Shirov lost in 13 moves to English Grandmaster Wells World famous coach & grandmaster Aagaard lost in 13 moves as White. Seirawan had to resign after 15 moves, just before getting mated by a Swedish International Master. Timman trapped Polugaevskys queen after 15 moves in a Najdorf Svidler lost as White in just 13 moves to Shirov. GM Nielsen, later coach to world champions Anand & Carlsen, lost in 13 moves against the Kings Gambit. Bareev lost his queen to Nakamura after 12 moves. And many other fascinating games. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, openingrepertoire, strategies and tactical ability. This volume features some of the best games and tactics from the previous nine volumes, one game for each chapter in the previous books. Therefore, this book will provide you with a firework of great games and excellent puzzles to be solved.

Omnibus edition of volumes 1-3 in the popular Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening series.Volume 1 covers all of the Indian Defenses: Nimzo-Indian, Queens Indian, Kings Indian, Gruenfeld Indian, and the Bogo-Indian as well as the Catalan Opening and Blumenfeld Gambit.Volume 2 covers all openings starting with 1.d4 d5, including the Queens Gambit and Slav Defense as well as many popular specialty lines. Volume 3 covers all Flank Openings, including the English Opening, Larsen Attack, Reti Opening, Bird Opening and much more.Here together in one volume for the first time.

In this book, the authors aim to assist the reader in becoming better at finding combinations, constructing plans, and calculating long, forcing variations. For the purpose of instruction, the material is based on the output of former World Champion Vassily Smyslov (1921-2010), using his endgame compositions from various works and publications as well as several of his practical endgames from games from tournaments and matches throughout his career against players such as Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen, Efim Geller, Tigran Petrosian and several other world class players

A fun & tricky ambush weapon for Black against 1.e4?In this book, the authors cover the exciting 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Nf6!? which players like Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, and other strong players have used with powerful effect to drag White players out of their comfort zones into Blacks domain.The authors are pulling games from many resources, including their own experiments with the opening to illustrate how it is possible to beat titled players right out of the opening by shocking Whites system and beliefs.

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian Defense, such as: 1) Alapin Variation 2 c3 2) The Grand Prix Attack 3) The Closed Sicilians4) The Rossolimo (2...Nc6 3 Bb5) with 3...g65) The Rossolimo Attack with other 3rd Moves6) Moscow Attack (2...d6 3 Bb5+) 5) 2.Nf3 d6 Specialties6) 2.Nf3 e6 Specialties9) OKelly (2...a6), Ultra-Fianchetto (2...g6) and Nimzowitch (2...Nf6) 10) Other Specialties

In this book, the authors aim to assist the reader in becoming better at finding combinations, constructing plans, and calculating long, forcing variations. For the purpose of instruction, the material is based on the output of the brilliant endgame composer and player Herman Mattison (1894-1932), using his endgame compositions from various works and publications as well as several of his practical endgames from games entirely too short career.