Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness.
In Volume 1,...
Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 - French Defence and Sicilian Sidelines (PDF)Developing an effective repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of...
Sample Download: Nikolaos Ntirlis: Playing 1.d4 d5 (PDF)Nikolaos Ntirlis provides a top-class repertoire for Black after 1.d4 d5 with the Queen’s Gambit Declined. This is truly the Rolls Royce of...
Sample Download: Mihail Marin: The Pirc Defence (PDF)The Pirc is more of a counterattack than a defence: Black allows his opponent to occupy the centre and provokes a confrontation, trusting...
Sample Download: John Shaw: Playing 1.e4 (PDF)Developing a punchy repertoire with 1.e4 requires extensive research, mixed with fine judgement and a good deal of creativity. In this three-volume work, GM...
Sample Download: Alexey Kovalchuk: Playing the Grunfeld (PDF)The Grünfeld Defence is well known to be one of Black’s best and most challenging responses to 1.d4, and has long been a...
Sample Download: Lars Schandorff: Playing the Caro-Kann (PDF)The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier defence to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff’s Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. As...
Sample Download: Martyn Kravtsiv: The Italian Renaissance - II: The Main Lines (PDF)In this, the second book in his two-volume work, GM Martyn Kravtsiv shines the spotlight on the Italian...
Sample Download: Richard Pert: Playing the Trompowsky (PDF)If like most chess players you have a limited amount of time that you can spend studying, but you still want to push...
Sample Download: Lars Schandorff: The Semi-Slav (PDF)Lars Schandorff’s two volumes on 1.d4 were celebrated by reviewers and grandmasters. GM Simen Agdestein said: “I have recently been reading Lars Schandorff’s Playing...
Sample Download: Gawain Jones: The Dragon Volume One (PDF)The Dragon is one of the most thrilling chess openings and a favourite of attacking players. But can this sharp and provocative system...
Sample Download: Gawain Jones: The Dragon Volume Two (PDF)The Dragon is one of the most thrilling chess openings and a favourite of attacking players. But can this sharp and provocative system...
Sample Download: Vassilios Kotronias: Beating the Anti-Sicilians (PDF)The Sicilian Defence is the most combative way to meet 1.e4, but Black’s hopes of reaching his favourite Dragon, Najdorf or Sveshnikov are...
Sample Download: Parimarjan Negi: 1.e4 vs The Sicilian II (PDF)The third volume of the Grandmaster Repertoire – 1.e4 series tackles many challenging Sicilian lines – the Dragons, Rauzer, Sveshnikov and Kalashnikov. Building...
Sample Download: Nikolaos Ntirlis: Playing 1.e4 e5 (PDF)Every chess player needs a high-quality answer to 1.e4, and there is nothing more reliable than 1...e5. Black stakes a claim in the...
Sample Download: Axel Smith: e3 Poison (PDF)When Axel Smith was chasing his final Grandmaster norm, he decided he needed a change in his White opening repertoire. Instead of his usual...
