The Mammoth Book of Chess

The Mammoth Book of Chess is a broad, practical chess guide by FIDE Master Graham Burgess, designed to help players progress from the basics toward solid club level and beyond. It covers the main opening systems, tactics, attacking play, combinations, strategy, endgames, historic games, tournament play, online chess, and computer use. The fully revised and updated fourth edition includes hundreds of test positions and new training exercises for a range of ability levels. It also adds material on endgame studies and problems from 2020–2021, as well as analysis of chess games featured in The Queen’s Gambit. The 2022 Robinson edition is an English paperback of 592 pages, published on 5 July 2022. Its ISBN is 9781472146205.