Everyone who is familiar with chess and loves them, as well as those who are just going to join the `king of all games`. No matter how old you are & mdash; eight or eighty, & mdash; In this book you will find everything to fully enjoy chess. You will learn to play, learn how to play well, how to find suitable opponents. This book will teach you the basics of tactics and strategy & mdash; everything you need to be able to play chess at a high level. A detailed textbook of the US champion. Art - 30

A new large-scale project of a well-known journalist Sergei Voronkov is an attempt to understand what is hidden under the legendary brand "Soviet Chess School". In the USSR championships, beginning with the first All-Union Olympiad (1920) and ending with the last, 58th Allied Forum (1991), all the best chess players of the country, including eight world champions took part! That's why these tournaments, like the annual rings on the slices of trees, can trace the whole history of the development of Soviet chess. In his work, the author relies solely on documents: newspapers and magazines of past years, tournament bulletins, eyewitness accounts. That's why you are waiting for tales that are not full of mischief, but a lot of hitherto unknown facts, sensational finds and intriguing stories. Parties are also one more beautiful - only the best and most dramatic! Participants comment on them, in addition they were all subjected to computer testing "according to Kasparov." This volume is devoted to the first ten championships of the USSR (1920-1937). It included 107 selected "masterpieces and dramas" and 150 archive photographs and drawings. Hardcover, 464 pages, Moscow 2007

English grandmaster Nigel Short (born June 1, 1965) – one of the most successful chess players in the world in the 80-90s of the XX century. And even when he was already over 50, he was in the top 100. A three-time champion of England, a participant in 12 World Chess Olympiads as part of his country's national team, he reached the peak of his career in 1993 when he won the right to fight Garry Kasparov in a match for the world title. Nigel Short – Member of the Order of the British Empire, FIDE Vice President (since 2018). Each tournament victory is unique, especially when it is achieved against the strongest players of its time, and the winner's performance approaches or even exceeds the magic mark of 2800. In this unique book, Grandmaster Nigel Short talks about eight international competitions in which he won first place, leaving behind G. Kasparov, A. Karpov, V. Korchnoi, M. Tal, B. Gelfand, J. Timman, L. Polugaevsky, L. Portisch and many others. The comments on the games are deep and instructive, the author narrates about the vicissitudes of the struggle and various funny episodes with subtle English humor, thanks to which the book is read in one breath. "Victory March" – for those who want to win at chess!

For the first time in the history of world chess, a book devoted to a unique phenomenon - a lightning-fast game of chess, or blitz. The author, the international grandmaster, the ex-champion of Russia Alexey Bezgodov, comprehensively considers various aspects of the blitz. This publication will acquaint the reader with interesting information, in-depth analytics and help play blitz at a higher level. The book is written easily, fun and can be interesting for a player of any skill.

Game set & quot; Chess magnetic 4 in 1 & quot; is a plastic case & nbsp; with fields for games, game chips, figures and a set of playing cards. & nbsp; Case, chips and figures are made of durable, safe plastic. & Nbsp; Chess pieces and checkers are complemented by magnetic elements, & nbsp; therefore, you can not worry that during the game one of the figures will fall off & nbsp; and roll under the table. The inner surface of the case is a backgammon field, & nbsp; the outer surface is a field for playing checkers and chess. Included - & nbsp; chess pieces, checkers, three dice and a set of cards. & Nbsp; Material is plastic. Color - beige, black, white, red. & Nbsp; Board width - 24.5 cm, board height - 24 cm. King height is 4 cm, king diameter is 1.7 cm.

How to develop skills in the endings, fantasy, ingenuity and improve the technique of calculating options? There are numerous textbooks, but for the first time in one book, a world-famous trainer and a chess grandmaster, world champion in sketching are sharing their views on these problems. The authors selected and commented on about 200 brilliant, saturated with ideas and struggle sketches, as close as possible to the practical game. This allows readers to use most of them as exercises for making independent decisions and playing with a sparring partner or trainer.

Preface, all 136 parties (1. Botvinnik, 2. Meanings ...). Dust jacket

& nbsp; This compilation includes 868 tasks: 849 authors (12 of them are co-authored, plus 4 versions) and 19 tasks by different authors (3 of them are in notation) for the section “la” Articles, notes & hellip; & raquo; The tasks are commented on in detail, and for a clearer understanding of the chess composition, the collection includes a section on the “Glossary of Terms”. In the & laquo; Articles, Notes & hellip; & raquo; The author offers a number of interesting ideas for the small genre, some of them have already been adopted by other problemists and are recorded in judicial reports. The collection is designed for a wide range of chess and chess lovers. matte composition. Circulation: 100 copies.

The ninth volume consists of two chapters. This is the Chess Workshop-3, as well as the Workshop on Etudes-1. Both workshops consist of three cycles A, B and C. It is interesting that before giving answers, the author offers two clues, which undoubtedly increases the usefulness of the solution, contributing to the fact that even complex tasks become more accessible to middle-chess players. It is designed for chess players of high qualification, up to grandmasters.

The book offered to the reader is a selection and installation of all the most interesting materials about the famous AVRO tournament, published in our and foreign chess press. First of all, this is a collection of tournament bulletins, which has long become a bibliographic rarity.

Dimensions of the object (cm): length: 145 cm; width: 5 cm

Promotional price! The five-volume book of Garry Kasparov has no analogues in chess literature: the 13-world champion reflects on the fate and work of twelve previous champions and their rivals, on the one-and-a-half century-long struggle for world championship. Investigating the famous games under the microscope of powerful computer programs, the author changes many previous assessments and, in essence, sums up the development of chess in the 20th century. The third volume is dedicated to two world champions Petrosyan and Spassky, as well as contenders for this title Gligorich, Polugaevsky, Portisch and Stein.

A new textbook by the well-known coach, grandmaster Yakov Geller, is dedicated to mating threats and how to defend against them. The reader will learn how to create irresistible mating threats and implement them in various combinations, as well as master all known defensive techniques and develop the ability to defend in the best possible way. The book contains 1000 carefully checked problems, of which 924 – for an independent solution. The tutorial is divided into 28 chapters, most of which are devoted to protection against mating threats. The remaining chapters study in detail the attacking actions of – mating threats and combinations. All elements of the matte combination are analyzed both individually and in various combinations. A detailed explanation of the new material is accompanied by the necessary number of tasks designed to practice the acquired knowledge. It is a direct continuation of the book "Forced checkmate. A textbook of chess tactics». For a wide range of chess lovers.

This textbook is intended for young chess players from 8 to 14 years old, from the second category to candidate master of sports. It will also be useful for children's coaches when preparing for chess strategy classes. Having carefully studied the book, young chess players will seriously improve their understanding of strategy, learn to apply the methods invented by their great predecessors in certain positions, and acquire the necessary knowledge base to develop their own strategic techniques.

The popular textbook on playing checker endings — the book «Checkers Endgame» the great connoisseur of the game Z.I. Tsirik. There is a stamp on one of the pages.

The book contains 25 lessons on the theory of Russian drafts. The author places the main emphasis on the most difficult stage of the game - the middle game. A lot of information on the opening and endgame stages of the game. At the end of each lesson, positions are given for an independent solution, with answers.

All games of the I Moscow International tournament with comments. The tournament brought together a very strong composition, played Kapablanka, Lasker, Rubinstein, Bogolyubov, many famous grandmasters and all the leading Soviet chess players.

This book is a compact debut guide that can satisfy the demands of almost any chess player, from beginner to master candidate. Debut analyzes, meaningful games, modern interpretation of strategic and tactical ideas. Play open debuts!

The unique book of the seventh world champion Vasily Smyslov is a real textbook to win. Content: Smyslov's Phenomenon Endgame Realization of the Benefit Debut Duel Attack Tactics Counteraction

The book is a complete collection of miniatures of thirteen world champions - from Steinitz to Kasparov. When selecting parties, only tournaments and matches with classical time control are considered. Readers can use the material to get acquainted with the creativity of world champions, like a debut manual, a collection of traps or even a textbook. Most miniatures contain comments, marked the key points of the game. As a rule, the author gave a modern interpretation of the debut. Thanks to a large number of diagrams, parties can be watched without placing figures.

Партии, биография, фото, статистика. Василий Васильевич Смыслов (р. 1921) стал в 36 лет седьмым в истории шахмат чемпионом мира (1957-58). Шесть предыдущих шахматных королей брали заветный рубеж с первой попытки. А те, кто не смог осилить действующего чемпиона, в дальнейшем, как правило, не проявляли своих амбиций, оставаясь в роли "великих неудачников". Вопреки сложившейся традиции, Смыслов первым вошел в одну реку дважды и сумел повторить звездный путь. Когда он, наконец, завоевал титул сильнейшего шахматиста планеты, создалось впечатление, что это тот самый "корабль", у которого нет уязвимых мест, напротив, все говорило о его "комфортабельности и благоустроенности". Увы, на каждый шахматный "титаник" находится рано или поздно свой шахматный "айсберг". Им стал для Смыслова тот, которого он еще недавно так блестяще победил, - Ботвинник. Уже через 12 месяцев Василий Смыслов стал экс-чемпионом мира. Но "калиф на год" оставался грозным шахматным бойцом еще долгие и долгие годы. Еще одним способом его самовыражения стала музыка. Красивый баритон, как и шахматный талант, унаследовал он от отца. Не случайно он повторял: "Чемпионами не становятся, а рождаются!". Внешне он не производит впечатление опасного бойца - типичный скромный интеллигент, с неторопливой походкой и загадочной улыбкой. Это для непосвященных, а вот для шахматного фантазера Д. Бронштейна образ Смыслова порой ассоциировался с поступью медведя, напролом бредущего по шахматным дебрям, и горе тому, кто нечаянно попадется на его дороге!

Party, biography, photos, statistics. Mikhail Botvinnik (1911 - 1995) - man-era! He was born under the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, and died under the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. He received instructions from the second world champion Emanuel Lasker and gave lessons to the fourteenth champion Vladimir Kramnik himself. While studying at school, he did not know the slide rule, and at a respectable age he played chess with a computer. Botvinnik was not yet 25 years old when he became one of the living symbols of a great power and remained it for the next 60 years. His remarkably solid nature was mixed up with a mixture of communist education, the Spartan regime and an innate sense of intelligence. He was one in two persons - the Champion and the Scientist. Doctor of chess and grandmaster of electrical engineering. The main advantages of Botvinnik - iron will, a scientific approach, a clear vision of the goal. Botvinnik accumulated the best features of the Soviet chess school. And at the same time, this school embodied many of the priorities it proclaimed. Botvinnik devoted thirty years of his life to the creation of an “artificial intelligence” - a chess program, not only a “master playing by virtue”, but also “thinking like him.” "Pioneer" was his pride, and his pain, and his "blue bird". Botvinnik's multivolume legacy is a classic of world chess, his life is an example of disinterested service to chess art.

Parties, biography, photo, statistics ... Robert James Fisher (born 1943) - 1st world chess champion (1972-75). His life is a challenge to society, traditions, conventions. Professional to the marrow of bones, he always wanted the cause of his life - a chess game - the society appreciated. Making high demands on himself, he believed that he had the right to present them to the conditions of chess creativity. In the era of "total" football he demonstrated real total chess - hard pressing all over the board, not a second of respite, constant threats, buildup of pressure, power in every plan, every maneuver, every holo! His aggressiveness and pressure crushed and demoralized the will of those not accustomed to similar competition of competitors.

Parties, biography. photo, statistics. Series: Encyclopedia of Chess Olympus The name of Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900), the first world chess champion, creator of the positional game doctrine, was deduced in gold letters on the tables of the world chess history. For 64 years of irrepressible, eternally bubbling life Steinitz symbolically filled all 64 cells of the chess planet. He showed himself to be a great and uncompromising fighter, a true chess artist, a philosopher and a converter. For two decades (1866-1886) Steinitz was considered the king of chess in Europe, and then he was worthy of an official world title for eight years (1886-1894).

This original tutorial is intended for qualified chess lovers. It consists of 24 lectures devoted to various problems of chess art: actual opening ideas, strategies and tactics of the middle of the game, typical endgame techniques. Among the authors of the book are ex-world champion M.Tal, applicants for world championship P.Ceres, D.Bronstein, A.Kotov, M.Taimanov, Y.Averbakh, experienced trainers and teachers P.Romanovsky, A.Konstantinopolsky, M. Yudovich and others. The proposed lectures are an excellent material for self-education and improvement, especially since they are accompanied by specially selected exercises. Having studied the book, you will not only improve your skills, but also significantly develop a general understanding of chess.