What is the real difference between a chess tactics book and a chess puzzle book?
And could you recommend some of each for someone trying to get to 1200.  (All my books that call themselves puzzl...

I have finally got around to doing some really hard work on improving my calculation skills, as recommended in many a book -  namely spending significant type trying to work out all the variations in ...

In the foreword to the English translation of Lipnitsky's "Questions of modern chess strategy, Karpov states that
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Today I read a description of a book from GM Robert Hübner:
Robert Hübner probably is the world's most modest chess grandmaster.
- Great advertisment!
What world record holders among the...

After mixed reviews, I never bothered to buy the first edition. But there is a new and presumably improved second edition out now. I am thinking of getting primarily  for the  the coverage of the Bogo...

According to http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/mtel-masters-software-r1 on the troubled live broad cast of the first round of the Mtel Masters 2009,
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I have read fairly extensively on the pros and cons of the bishop pair and equally on doubled-pawn structures, but I don't recall any discussion of the relationship between the two.  In a recent corre...

I have read chess stars book black according to Karpov.  i am trying to have my repertoire like his (if i had half of his playing ability that is a bonus).   
my try is:
ruy lopez vs e5
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I know that having an understanding of opening transpositions is going to be important in my current task of building an opening repertoire. But, I'm not quite sure how far to go with it. I get the fa...

Hey everyone. I've had a lot of fun playing in this tournament last year and am also playing in it this year. For all the others who might be interested, this is the last day without fees increasing. [url]http:/