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Quenehen - Progresser pas-à-pas avec Carlsen 2000-2023
Marc Quenehen, nous propose un voyage dans le temps en compagnie de Magnus Carlsen, qui démarre en 2000 lorsque Magnus à 9 ans et joue ses premiers tournois et se termine en 2023 et sa victoire en coupe du monde. En 24 chapitres (un par an), L'auteur à succès nous propose les meilleurs parties du champion mais aussi de nombreux exercices. Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et un guide d'entraînement avec comme fil conducteur l'extraordinaire parcours de ce joueur d'exception. 181 pages
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Renette/Karolyi - Korchnoi Year by Year Volume II (1969 -1980)
The second volume of Elk and Ruby’s treatise on Viktor Korchnoi, penned by FM Hans Renette and IM Tibor Karolyi, covers the period 1969-1980. This encompasses Korchnoi’s famous world championship fight with Karpov at Baguio City in 1978, his candidates final matches against Karpov in 1974 and Hubner in 1980, as well as the related candidates cycles and major tournament performances. Much biographical colour is supplied on his life and character, with this period including his defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1976. Like in Volume I, original material is provided from interviews with key protagonists and their relatives, while sources in Russian, German, Dutch and Hungarian as well as English are used to paint the most comprehensive portrait of Korchnoi available.
140 games and fragments are analysed in detail in this work. As well as Karpov and Hubner, opponents include Fischer, Spassky, Petrosian, Smyslov, Portisch, Geller, Najdorf, Timman, Larsen, Mecking, Sosonko, Andersson, Ljubojevic, Polugaevsky, Nunn, and Miles among others. Many new discoveries are made in the analysis. In particular, the authors identify that Korchnoi worked hard to improve his endgame ability significantly during the time that he was boycotted in tournaments by the Soviets, which is most surprising given that he was in his mid-forties by then, and was the best player of his time at endgame tactics. Further, the authors found that his reputation as a pawn grabber was highly exaggerated, and that he carried out a huge number of king attacks on the h-file. They also discovered that Korchnoi more than matched Karpov for openings in the 1978 title bout despite the unprecedented preparation of the Soviet chess machine, and that the key reason he lost that match was time trouble.
The book is supplemented with a generous supply of photos, many taken from the Korchnoi family archive and never before published. 518 pages
McDonald - Pressure Play
Pressure Play by Neil McDonald. Have you ever been tortured at the chessboard? If so, then you have probably been a victim of pressure play.
Elite players are brilliant exponents of pressure play. In situations where they have either a tiny advantage or no advantage at all they are highly adept at constantly setting problems for their unfortunate opponents. The position on the board may appear lifeless but they can probe and find plans and regroupings that will constantly ask their opponents difficult questions. These can be countered only by continual alert and accurate defence and we all know how difficult and wearing that can be.
The arch exponent of pressure play is world champion Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen is superb in this area of the game and consistently defeats world class opposition from simplified positions where he has no advantage whatsoever. How does he do it?
In this book, the highly experienced author and coach Neil McDonald analyses the finest examples of pressure play. In doing so he teases out the fundamental concepts that enable players like Carlsen to torture their opponents mercilessly.
- Paralyse the enemy pieces.
- Target the weakest squares on the board.
- Increase and exploit a space advantage.
Master pressure play and it will be your opponent on the rack, not you. 352 pages
Hanabi
Hanabi : alliez vos forces pour tirer les plus beaux feux d'artifice !
Hanabi est un petit jeu de cartes coopératif dans lequel les joueurs doivent collaborer afin de monter un spectacle de feux d'artifice digne de ce nom !
Le principe est innovant car vous devez tenir vos cartes à l'envers sans savoir ce qu'elles représentent : seuls vos coéquipiers seront à même de vous informer sur votre propre jeu.
Chaque joueur peut à son tour soit donner une information sur une couleur ou sur une valeur de cartes appartenant à un partenaire, soit défausser une carte, soit jouer une carte.
Il vous faut donc compter sur l'entraide au sein de votre équipe afin de constituer des suites de cartes de couleurs et de valeurs différentes représentant un feu d'artifice réussi.
Hanabi est un petit jeu au thème et au mécanisme pleins d'originalité qui fait appel à la mémoire et crée des interactions intéressantes entre les joueurs. En plus il est présenté dans une petite boîte en métal, jolie et pratique à la fois !
A savoir : ce jeu est signé Antoine Bauza, star montante dans l'univers du jeu de société, auteur du célèbre 7 Wonders et d'autres jeux de coopération comme Ghost Stories et Donjon de Naheulbeuk (également disponibles sur ce site).
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Mallette alu 500 jetons Dice (11,5 g)
Cette mallette (dimension fermée 58x20cm) contient 500 jetons Dice (11,5 g) et 2 jeux de 54 cartes.
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A few years of extensive selection, analysis, reselection, reanalysis and refining have gone into putting together the study book for the practical player with the most value ever.
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