My Chess Books
In the last few years I have been working as an author as well. So far I have published two books on my own and three for major publishing house Everyman Chess. Here is some info about them:
- My first chess book, “The Very Unusual Book About Chess”, is about the middlegame and contains several interesting methods of playing this part of the game, complimented by many instructive examples by the world’s leading players (Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Shirov, Sutovsky etc.) on each method.
The chapter breakdown is as follows:
1.Gifted Moves (Gifted Ideas)
2. Special Chapters (“Easy But Nice”)
3. “Kasparov’s Rook”
4. g5-g6 followed by h5-h6 in positions with opposite-side castling
5. Kings Can Do Even The Impossible
6. f4-f5 in the Sicilian Defence
The book is available in English and Russian (see the covers below). It is 136 pages long and includes detailed verbal comments and the special “Dembo-rules”! The english version costs 22 euros, including postage & packaging. You can view some samples from the book in PDF format:
from the Preface (english) (russian)
from the first chapter “Gifted Moves” (english) (russian)
from the fifth chapter “f4-f5″ (english) (russian)
- My second book is titled “Conversation with a Professional Trainer – Methods of Positional Play”. You can download the table of contents here. The cost of this book is 22 euros, including postage & packaging.
These two books are not available commercially and it is not possible to order them through this website either. If you are interested, you should email me directly. Payments are possible through PayPal.
In late 2006 I started working for Everyman Chess, the most significant chess publishing house of our times. The products of our cooperation so far:
- Play The Gruenfeld was my first opening book, released in mid-2007! It provides a complete repertoire in the Gruenfeld Defence for the player with Black.
- Next came Fighting the Anti-King’s Indians: How to Handle White’s tricky ways of avoiding the main lines, which covers all of White’s possibilities after 1 d4 Nf6, with the exception of 2 c4, as well as advice and King’s Indian solutions to 1 Nf3 and 1 c4. The book was published in the second half of 2008.
- My latest effort is a contribution of a few chapters in Dangerous Weapons: The King’s Indian. Other contributing authors are GM Glenn Flear and IM Richard Palliser. This book is due out in early 2009.
I love playing chess, but don’t get much time to do it these days. I used to play quite a lot on Yahoo.
You have a few hobbies so I thought you might be interested to have a look on http://www.hobbything.com – hobby social network. It’s all about hobbies and sharing your interests with others. Plus you could drop a few articles to promote your chess books.
All the best
Dmitri
Wow! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my blog something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Timur I.
Hi there! I am impressed with your achievement, I am a normal chess player, I would like to meet you some time! Kind regards, Yiannis
I recommend your book, THE VERY UNUSUAL BOOK ABOUT CHESS to any player who is interested in improving. This is a wonderful; and delightful book; and what’s more, it is an introduction — for those who need it — to the greatest players to have ever moved a pawn. I love history; and chess history especially. The treasure house of the past masters is our equivalent of the finest art musuem in the world! So it’s great to work with a trainer who truly appreciates Fischer, Tal, Nezhmetdinov, and Kasparov.