The book was prepared by international masters V. Ivanov and I. Odessky on the basis of the famous textbook of the honored trainer of the RSFSR Viktor Golenishchev "Training young chess players of the second category". The material is supplemented with numerous examples from the games of the leading chess players of recent years and is planned as lessons of a chess game.

Like other titles in the Training Program for Chess Players series, this volume is both an excellent textbook for independent study and a powerful teaching aid for chess coaches. In the view of many experts, no better work of this kind has ever been written.

The series was designed as a self-contained training program by Victor Golenishchev, a distinguished Soviet chesscoach and Master of Sport. Golenishchev’s programs are still considered critically important and are successfully employed in chess schools. His teaching methods remain popular in Russia and around the world.

Supervised by Editor-in-Chief and former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, this new edition of Golenishchev’s classic work is updated to include important games from recent high-level chess competitions, reflecting modern approaches to the game.

Like other titles in the Training Program
for Chess Players series, this
volume is both an excellent textbook
for independent study and a powerful
training aid for chess coaches. In the
view of many experts, no better work
of this kind has ever been written.
coach and Master of Sport. Golenishchev's programs are still considered.
critically important and are successfully
employed in chess schools. His
teaching methods remain popular in
Russia and around the world.
Supervised by Editor-in-Chief and former
Karpov, this new edition of Golenishchev's
classic work is updated to include
important games from the recent
high-level chess competitions, reflecting
modern approaches to the game.

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Like other titles in the Training Program
for Chess Players series, this
volume is both an excellent textbook
for independent study and a powerful
training aid for chess coaches. In the
view of many experts, no better work
of this kind has ever been written.
coach and Master of Sport. Golenishchev's programs are still considered.
critically important and are successfully
employed in chess schools. His
teaching methods remain popular in
Russia and around the world.
Supervised by Editor-in-Chief and former
Karpov, this new edition of Golenishchev's
classic work is updated to include
important games from the recent
high-level chess competitions, reflecting
modern approaches to the game.

This book is both an excellent manual for independent study, and
a valuable instructional aid for chess trainers and teachers. Many
experts even consider that nothing better of its kind has been written.
As a program for training chess players, it was developed by Victor
Golenishchev, a USSR master and honoured trainer. Golenishchev’s
programs (the present book, and also the programs for 2nd category,
1st category and candidate master) still retain great methodological
value and are successfully employed in chess teaching. It is noteworthy
that the present work is extremely popular not only with our
trainers, but also with foreign experts. The present edition of this
classic book has been updated with numerous examples from the
games of the best players of recent years, and reflects modern views
on chess. The editor-in-chief is the multiple world champion Anatoly
Karpov.


This program is intended for the teaching of chess in schools and junior
clubs, and is aimed at trainers, teachers and club organisers, working with
young chess players.
The program assumes that the pupils know the moves of the pieces and
understand the aim of the game, although the more complicated rules will
be unfamiliar to them.
The teaching plan is aimed at 75 lessons (twice a week, each of two hours)
– a total of 150 hours.
The scheme of a lesson is roughly as follows: checking of home
assignment, explanation of theoretical material, recording by the pupils of
the home assignment and a practical part. The length of the theoretical part
of the lesson should not exceed 20-30 minutes, since most of the pupils will
be in junior school classes. Chess attracts them above all as a game, and in an
effort to cover too much the teacher may kill the keen interest of the young
listeners.

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