Dame Chinoise en bois

This book – the sequel to Studies for Practical Players released over a decade ago – is mostly aimed at practical players who wish to improve their chess skills by developing imaginative and preventive thinking, while perfecting calculation of variations and knowledge of basic endings. In addition, this work will certainly be appreciated by every lover of beauty, logic and paradoxicality of the game. 176 pages

This very distinguished set consists of a Stallion model set of pieces which is characterized by its very sculpted knight, its bishop and its deep cleft, its well-curved rook and its very slender king and queen. The colour and the different natural shades that the Padouk wood brings to this set will be appreciated and will make each piece unique. The board is also Padouk, a slightly pinkish brown for the dark squares and the edge, the white squares are more beige. 

Board dimensions: 48 cm and 5 cm square

Piece dimensions: King height 9 cm - King base: 3.8 cm - Pawn height 4.5 cm - Pawn base 2.8 cm

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Andrew Burnett is a Scottish FM who has represented his country on several occasions. He is the author of cult classic Streetfighting Chess and his love of the Dragon opening stretches back to his teenage years when he was looking to escape from 1.e4 e5! He is currently working on the second volume of DragonMasters.
DragonMasters volume 1 charts the history of the most exciting and dangerous opening known to chess: the Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defence.
Unlike almost all other books on the Dragon, the focus is not purely on theoretical developments. Instead, the author has combined the most historically important games, the famous players who chose to fight either side (sometimes both sides!) of the opening, and the most unexpected and interesting stories featuring the Dragon. World champions, contenders for the crown, codebreakers, revolutionaries in every sense of the word, all feature in this remarkable and entirely unique look into the history of an opening variation. As the ancient maps say: Here be Dragons! 404 pages Hardcover