Dutch IM and well know chess trainer Merijn van Delft interviews Raf Mesotten. Raf has created The Checkmate Patterns Manual on Chessable which has been published as a book by New In Chess.
In 2020, Belgian chess player Raf Mesotten launched the Chessable course The Checkmate Patterns Manual, which got third place for Course of the Year 2020. This very successful course is now also available in print.
In this 12-minute interview with IM Merijn van Delft, Mesotten shares the reasons for making this manual, and why it is such a big hit. You will get some insights into what skills you need to be a successful author. And of course, Raf will show some examples from the book.
The interview was hosted on Chessable (https://www.chessable.com), and the video was produced by Michaël van Liempt.
Mastering Pawn Structures
Most of our books are written by experienced authors and established names - for example, the recently published new books by Willy Hendriks and Herman Grooten are their third publication for New In Chess. Their experience shows. The Ink War and Chess Endgames for Club Players are highly accessible, entertaining and instructive.
We rarely decide to publish a debutant - when the author has convinced us that he has a story to tell and something new to add to the ever-expanding library of chess books. The Dutch coach and International Master Nick Maatman did convince us, not only with his charm but also with the content of his book proposal.Â
Nick has beaten grandmasters in tournament games, and he is a sparring partner of super-GM Jorden van Foreest. So he knows all about the level of understanding of titled players. But as a coach of regular club players, he also got to know what amateur players lack in knowledge.Â
Nick was looking for ways to bridge175
The Ink War - Romanticism versus Modernity in Chess
With his third book, Willy Hendriks will cement his reputation as one of the best chess history writers. Eight years after his award-winning Move First, Think Later, and two years after his thought-provoking On the Origin of Good Moves, Willy Hendriks is back with another captivating and well-researched gem.In The Ink War - Romanticism versus Modernity in Chess, IM Hendriks once again offers his unique perspective of the 19th-century chess world and the birth of modern chess. He tells the story of the rivalry between William Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort, the world's strongest chess players in the late nineteenth century. They fought on the chessboard and in various chess magazines and columns, and their verbal war culminated in the first match for the World Championship in 1886. Their battle became so fierce that it was eventually named The Ink War.This story is about who was the strongest player and about 175
This new book brings tribute to the oldest still-running chess tournament in the world. No other chess event has such a long and rich history as the annual gathering 'in between the years' at the English seaside resort of Hastings. Countless chess players, professionals, and amateurs alike have celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year in Hastings while battling it out on the chessboard. The German author of this book, Jürgen Brustkern, visited for the first time at the 1977/8 Congress when he was sixteen. That year former World Champion Tigran Petrosian was playing, but it was Roman Dzindzichashvili who won. 'Jürgen was spellbound', writes GM Stuart Conquest, who lived in Hastings in those years as a youngster, in his foreword to the book. 'So it was that for one young German this out-of-season seaside Sussex town became a home from home, a winter pilgrimage to be made annually. Since that time Jürgen has attended the Hastings Chess Congress on over forty separate occasions175
Part 4 of the first New In Chess Masterclass is now available as a free video on YouTube. Grandmaster Matthew Sadler has a look at a game of one of his teammates on the English team. Nigel Short survives a horrible position versus the strong Chinese grandmaster Li Chao and eventually catches the full point with a magnificent counterattack. The game was played in 2016 at the Olympiad in Baku.
This game is one of 45 games in the book The Most Exciting Chess Games ever. Part 4 is the final part of the Masterclass. All four are now available. The first video is 45 minutes, and the other parts are around 30 minutes each.
1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners
A good chess puzzle book needs both quantity and quality. With 1001 Exercises, the quantity is assured. But the strength of our '1001 Exercises' series is the quality of the puzzles.It takes an experienced coach, strong chess player, and structured thinker to create the perfect puzzle rush. Only a coach with the stature of IM Thomas Willemze is able to collect hundreds and hundreds of puzzles that are both instructive and entertaining.In this fourth book of the 1001-series the focus is on the Endgame. Since most of the pieces have left the board, endgame tactics have the clarity that enables you to grasp all basic concepts quickly and comprehensively. In the endgame, you can focus on what is important without any distractions by a couple of random pawns and pieces. Thomas Willemze is your perfect guide. He is an International Master and was a youth coach for the Dutch national chess federation. As an author, he wrote two highly praised books175
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