The Elshad System. Click to learn more.

The Elshad System

Author: Igor Nemtsev

Price: $10.95

Length: 310 pages

Release Date: August, 2017

Book Description:You have limited time to devote to chess study, and most of that goes to reviewing your openings to move 25, with all their sidelines. Sound familiar? Here's a solution:

The Complete Hedgehog, Volume 2. Click to learn more.

The Complete Hedgehog, Volume 2

Author: Sergey Shipov

Price: $17.99 Forward Chess, $29.95 Paperback

Length: 584 pages

Release Date: May 16, 2011

Book Description: The Hedgehog lives! GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental investigation of this counterattacking system for Black with in-depth coverage of formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4.


The Complete Hedgehog, Volume 1. Click to learn more.

The Complete Hedgehog, Volume 1

Author: Sergey Shipov

Price: $17.99 Forward Chess, $19.99 Kindle, $29.95 Paperback

Length: 532 pages

Release Date: November 16, 2009

Book Description: The Hedgehog is a thoroughly modern defense where flexibility and understanding trump rote memorization. Using deeply annotated critical games from international practice, GM Sergey Shipov traces the Hedgehog's development into a respected weapon in Black's armory.


The Czech Benoni in Action. Click to learn more.

The Czech Benoni in Action

Author: FM Asa Hoffman & Greg Keener

Price: $14.00 Forward Chess, $10.49 Kindle, $24.95 Paperback

Length: 240 pages

Release Date: December 7, 2014

Book Description: Two practitioners of this little-known but sound counterattacking system join forces to show how you can pose novel problems for opponents of all strengths, leaving them to fend for themselves as early as move 3.


Openings for Amateurs. Click to learn more.

Openings for Amateurs

Author: Pete Tamburro

Price: $10.49 Kindle, $24.95 Paperback

Length: 360 pages

Release Date: June 7, 2014

Book Description: Are you looking for guidance on how to handle the opening so that you can get a playable middlegame? Openings for Amateurs is written with two kinds of chessplayers in mind: average "club" players who can't afford to learn variations 30 moves deep; and scholastic players looking to take the next step in their chess development.


Wojo's Weapons Volume 3. Click to learn more.

Wojo's Weapons: Winning with White, Volume 3

Author: Jonathan Hilton & Dean Ippolito

Price: $19.99 Forward Chess, $11.99 Kindle, $29.95 Paperback

Length: 404 pages

Release Date: February 26, 2013

Book Description: In this third and final volume of the acclaimed Wojo's Weapons series, IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton claim to have found a sure route to an advantage against this opening. Building on the repertoire of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, the authors reveal the fruits of a combined 35 years of Grunfeld analysis in the first 200 pages.


Wojo's Weapons Volume 2. Click to learn more.

Wojo's Weapons: Winning with White, Volume 2

Author: Jonathan Hilton & Dean Ippolito

Price: $17.99 Forward Chess, $29.95 Paperback

Length: 320 pages

Release Date: May 16, 2011

Book Description: IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton team up again to continue their coverage of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz's winning repertoire with the White pieces, designed to grind down weaker players while challenging his peers. In this second volume, Ippolito and Hilton examine Wojo's handling of the popular King's Indian Defense, focusing on the positional Fianchetto Variation.


Wojo's Weapons Volume 1. Click to learn more.

Wojo's Weapons: Winning with White, Volume 1

Author: Jonathan Hilton & Dean Ippolito

Price: $17.99 Forward Chess, $11.99 Kindle, $29.95 Paperback

Length: 408 pages

Release Date: March 16, 2010

Book Description: Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton have joined forces to produce the definitive how-to manual for learning Wojo's repertoire with White after 1.Nf3 d5. Over the course of 75 fully annotated games, the authors make Wojtkiewicz's approach easily accessible to the chess public for the first time.


Winning Pawn Play. Click to learn more.

Winning Pawn Play in the Indian Defenses

Author: Henrique Marinho

Price: $24.95 Paperback

Length: 316 pages

Release Date: May 16, 2012

Book Description: In Winning Pawn Play in the Indian Defenses, Henrique Marinho provides the guideposts that you need to make your way through the forest of strategies and variations in these popular modern openings.


Quick Kills: Tarrasch French. Click to learn more.

Quick Kills: Tarrasch French

Author: Bill Harvey

Price: $0.99 Kindle

Length: 741 pages

Release Date: April 12, 2012

Book Description: If you play chess for blood, it makes sense to learn the violent tactics that feature in the openings that you play. Combining opening study with tactics practice, Quick Kills is an e-book series devoted to the tactical ideas that crop up when theory runs out. Each title contains hundreds of puzzles by high-rated players, set in a specific opening.


Quick Kills: Alapin Sicilian. Click to learn more.

Quick Kills: Alapin Sicilian

Author: Bill Harvey

Price: $0.99 Kindle

Length: 755 pages

Release Date: February 1, 2012

Book Description: If you play chess for blood, it makes sense to learn the violent tactics that feature in the openings that you play. Combining opening study with tactics practice, Quick Kills is an e-book series devoted to the tactical ideas that crop up when theory runs out. Each title contains hundreds of puzzles by high-rated players, set in a specific opening.


Quick Kills: Grünfeld Defense. Click to learn more.

Quick Kills: Grünfeld Defense

Author: Bill Harvey

Price: $0.99 Kindle

Length: 761 pages

Release Date: April 12, 2012

Book Description: If you play chess for blood, it makes sense to learn the violent tactics that feature in the openings that you play. Combining opening study with tactics practice, Quick Kills is an e-book series devoted to the tactical ideas that crop up when theory runs out. Each title contains hundreds of puzzles by high-rated players, set in a specific opening.


Chess Camp Volume 7: Opening Tactics. Click to learn more.

Chess Camp Volume 7: Opening Tactics

Author: Igor Sukhin

Price: $11.95 Hardcover

Length: 116 pages

Release Date: May 16, 2012

Book Description: The seventh volume in this series, Opening Tactics, sets problems in more lifelike conditions, as they arise from standard openings and the winning tactical idea is not given away. Thus, the student will: 1) enhance his or her ability to think independently in real positions; 2) start to absorb typical themes from the chess openings; and 3) learn the need to take the opponent's threats into account.


No Passion for Chess Fashion. Click to learn more.

No Passion for Chess Fashion: Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire

Author: Alexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverlk

Price: $10.49 Kindle, $24.95 Paperback

Length: 234 pages

Release Date: September 16, 2011

Book Description: GM Raetsky and IM Chetverik have turned their backs on current fashion and have delved deep into the wardrobe of chess openings. These two opening specialists have selected eleven unusual variations to help readers refresh their repertoires.


The Zukertort System: A Guide for White and Black. Click to learn more.

The Zukertort System: A Guide for White and Black

Author: Henrique Marinho

Price: $10.49 Kindle, $24.95 Paperback

Length: 340 pages

Release Date: December 16, 2010

Book Description: In this monograph by Zukertort practitioner IM Grigory Bogdanovich, players of the white pieces will discover how to build on the assets of their position, while players of Black will learn how to defend their territory.


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