In five volumes. In this capital work, various kinds of queen endings are explored. Depending on the number and location of the pawns participating in the struggle, the material of the book includes both the simplest educational positions and complex endings, studies. The book can be used as a training tool for playing endings, as well as a reference when analyzing pending games and playing games by correspondence. The book offered to the reader is the third in the series “Chess Ends”. In general, this study covers the following types of endings: pawn, knight, elephant, bishop versus knight, rook versus easy piece, rook, queens, queen versus rook, queen versus easy piece. The book is intended for qualified chess players from the second category and higher. Reduced specimens are available - slightly soaked with water. Price - 150 r.

The writer, theoretician and chess historian Yakov Neishtadt wrote many remarkable books. Among them, "Chess before Steinitz," "First World Champion," "Following the traces of debut catastrophes," which have already become classics. Before you is a version of his classic books "Chess Workshop" and "Chess Workshop-2", supplemented by modern examples. This work on combination is a fundamental textbook addressed to a wide range of chess lovers, and a collection of tasks for self-improvement. The reader is given the opportunity to test his tactical vision and ability to calculate.

If you like chess and want to improve your chess skills, then this book is for you. It is dedicated to the art of combinations and combines the functions of a textbook and a problem book, that is, it provides the foundations of not only theory, but also practice. The material in it is grouped according to traditional chess topics, which are illustrated with 1325 classical examples and are presented in the form of lessons with an explanation of a tactical device.  The book will be useful for both professional chess players and those who make the first steps in learning chess tactics.

This book presents rare and interesting opening options (for black), which are designed to quickly prepare you for a game or competition. You can also get acquainted with traps, theoretical novelties and original analyzes of the current grandmaster. Here you will find positions for solutions that will help improve your tactical training. Designed for a wide range of readers who are keen on chess.

The textbook by the famous coach Mark Dvoretsky (1947-2016) is a collection of instructive games with detailed comments. Their careful study will be of great benefit to anyone who is serious about self-improvement and wants to understand what problems grandmasters and masters face at the board, how they solve them, what lies behind the mistakes they sometimes make and how to avoid them. The book consists of seven parts: Lessons from One Game, Positional Games, Opening Discussions, The King in Danger, Under Fire, Games with Questions, Playing Out. You can concentrate on purely practical training by solving exercises, or first study those sections that interest the reader most. The last two parts of the book are devoted to specific forms of training that the author regularly used in his classes: analyzing games in the form of solving a series of successive problems and playing out specially selected positions. For a wide range of chess fans.

The book will be useful and beginners, and already having some practice chess players. It contains typical combinations of “performed by” various chess pieces and examples of positional play. The reader will learn how to play the beginning of the game, and get acquainted with the work of old and modern masters and grandmasters.

The training program for young chess players of the 1st category was compiled by the honored trainer of the RSFSR master of sports V. Golenishchev. The material of the program is planned in the form of chess lessons, therefore it can be used for independent classes by chess players of any age.

This book, received recognition in Europe, finally comes to the Russian-speaking reader. Turning to chess players of mass categories, the author teaches not only to strike spectacular strokes in the matured positions, but also to recognize motives in advance and create the prerequisites for conducting combinations. The examples are chosen with excellent taste and in overwhelming majority do not belong to those who wander from the textbook to the textbook. A large number of diagrams and the shortness of the analyzed fragments make it easy to read a book without a board, which also contributes to the development of combination vision. For a wide range of chess fans. Increased format (170x235 mm). Table of contents Fragment

Igor Yanvarev "Tactical Mastery of a Chess Player. Volume 2. Basics of Calculation Techniques". Andrey Elkov Publishing House, Moscow, 2025 - 392 p. Before you is the second book from the three-volume work by International Master I.K. Yanvarev, a famous trainer, author of the fundamental work "The Old Indian Played by Tigran Petrosian" (2010), which received recognition from readers and was republished abroad. The three-volume work is united by a common idea - tactics and combinations in chess. In fact, this is a turnkey textbook, it explains everything from scratch to an advanced level. The second volume is devoted to the basics of calculation techniques, such topics as the tactical "spectrum" of a position, concentration of attention, inclusion of imagination are considered, the "tree of variations" is interpreted in a new way, the practical component is emphasized - the economy of calculation. A separate chapter allows the reader to assess their ability to calculate variations and outline ways to eliminate weaknesses. Each chapter ends with a large number of carefully selected examples for independent solution. Unlike other similar publications, the author examines chess tactics as a single whole, in combination with strategy and elements of psychology. It is based on the original author's methodology, which has proven itself well when working with chess players of various qualifications. Excellently selected examples, a clear logical structure and consistency in the presentation simplify the understanding of the material. For a wide range of chess fans.

The book by grandmaster and experienced chess coach Zenon Franco includes 36 instructive attacking games and is divided into four chapters - the king in the center, one-sided castling, opposite-sided castling, and attack-defense-counterattack. Before each game, the opponents are introduced, and a brief description of the events that took place in it is given. Based on the results of the struggle in the game, lessons that are useful to learn from what has been read are listed in a concise form. The book is not overloaded with variations, the emphasis is on detailed explanations in the "move by move" format, which creates an ideal platform for studying chess. At the "support" points of each game, the reader is offered test questions, which helps both the practical study of key chess techniques and the reliable assimilation of the acquired knowledge. Questions and answers involve the reader in the learning process and help him track the growth of his chess strength. For a wide range of chess fans.

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Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin, a graduate of the famous Lviv chess school, Viktor Karta, wrote a book about the “golden age” and “quot” chess, about his heroes and losers, about the influence of chess on other, sometimes the most unexpected, areas of life - culture, politics, music, science, religion and ... even toponomics!