Bughouse Chess Book

(Tandem-Chess / Team-Chess / Exchange-Chess / Siamese-Chess / Hungarian-Chess )

"the book has no competitor, and I cannot see one becoming likely."
Review in "Variant Chess", April 2007, page 156.

"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to people who are aspiring to be serious bughouse players or just seeking exposure to a new game that is full of rich, fascinating ideas."
Review in "Chess Life", August 2007, page 15. - Read more


250 pages, including 20 illustrations and 186 diagrams, soft cover, professionally printed and bound, in English.

ISBN 10: 3-8334-6811-4 ISBN 13: 978-3-8334-6811-7

Ordering options

  1. You can buy the book in bookstores or via Libri.de or at niggemann.com (with English language version of the website) where it costs € 20 plus shipping.
  2. You can get the books directly from me (address at bottom of page). Please understand that for small orders this option is not cheaper than the above to compensate for the time it takes me. Bookstore inquiries are always welcome.

Content

Imagine Anand, Leko, Kramnik and many of the other top chess players collaborating on one book! Well, that basically is what we did for bughouse chess - with many of the top internet (and European and US-gatherings) players contributing to create the first true bughouse book.

  1. Brief Introduction - Georg v. Zimmermann
  2. Bughouse rules made easy - Klaus Beckmann , Neph Diaz
  3. Strategy tips for the beginner (including games and some basic opening theory) - Klaus Beckmann, Neph Diaz , Georg v. Zimmermann
  4. Essays on advanced strategy
    1. Climbing the bughouse ladder Yscorpion et. al.
    2. A attacker's perspective Jimmy J Lee
    3. A defender's perspective Jorge Sipaila ("Kingwalker" on Fics)
    4. Top Ten Ways to Tell You Have a Bad Bughouse Partner - Chris Ferrante
    5. Finding the right attack - Georg v. Zimmermann
    6. Initiative vs. material Sergiy Vasylkevych ("Fermy" on Fics)
    7. Choosing between different defensive strategies Maarten Aronsson ("Firefly" on Fics)
    8. Mating techniques Maarten Aronsson
  5. Advanced Essays on Openings
    1. 1. e4 e5 structures - Linus Olsson ("Linus0" on Fics)
    2. 1... e6 main structures - Jeremy Keller ("JKiller" on Fics)
    3. 1... Nf6 - Igor Bjelobrk ("Bugzilla" on Fics)
    4. My openings Yscorpion
  6. Annotated games Maarten Aronsson, Mark Polak, Jeremy Keller, et. al.
  7. Bughouse puzzles - Dusan Skaloud, Fabrice Liardet ("Nabla" on Fics), et. al.
  8. Stories of bughouse history and the Gatherings
    1. Geneva - Fabrice Liardet
    2. Berlin - Daniel Denes
    3. A US Bughouse road trip David Olson
  9. Bughouse on the Internet Klaus Beckmann, Georg v. Zimmermann
  10. Bughouse terminology explained (in multiple languages)

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Contact

Georg v. Zimmermann
Göttingen / Germany
phone +49 179 54 22 191
georg@von-zimmermann.info