Chess Stories

Ladies' Gambit, King's Hunt, and Knight's Tour - the current non-fiction book about chess with a foreword by Garry Kasparov.

Chess fascinates, and no one better than Frederic Friedel, the gray eminence of the international chess world, can bring us the royal game to life so vividly. In tandem with the renowned chess expert Christian Hesse, he shares his encounters with Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and other grandmasters and world champions like Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, and Veselin Topalov. Friedel and Hesse take us back to the 1970s when the chess matches between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky made history. They recount the competition against Deep Blue, in which Friedel participated as part of Garry Kasparov's team. They describe fascinating choreographies from contested games and entertain with unsolved chess problems, puzzles, and mathematical conundrums surrounding the king, queen, and more. Never has chess been written about with such knowledge and inspiration - Friedel and Hesse know why the Queen's Gambit has so many followers! Their "Chess Stories" are the perfect gift for all lovers of the royal game aged 9 to 99.

Frederic Friedel is a pioneer of chess computers and co-founded Chessbase in 1987. The company is now one of the world's leading providers of chess software. Christian Hesse is a professor of mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and a passionate chess player. He is known as the author of popular non-fiction books on mathematics and chess.