If you want to get the first category, if you do not want to stop at the achieved results, then this book will help you with this. It can also be considered a textbook on attacking the king, a textbook that, along with attack schemes, also contains many typical victims. Getting to know them will allow you to expand your tactical arsenal. By solving examples, you also train the calculation technique, and this will also have a beneficial effect on the quality of your games in the future. The book is intended for chess players of the 2nd and 3rd categories. The book contains 50 tests with 12 examples each. One and a half — two hours. For the correct solution of this or that example, you get a certain number of points (from one to three). The sum of points scored when solving the positions of one test will allow you to judge the level of your preparation.

How do I know my level and rating? How to identify your weaknesses and how to eliminate them? How to improve your own game? How to make a training plan? These and many other questions are answered in this book. Its author, international master Igor Khmelnitsky, is not only a strong practical player, but also an experienced coach. Before his move to the United States, he helped the leading Ukrainian chess players. Since 1991, working as a trainer in the state of Philadelphia. Among his students are players of all levels, from beginners to masters. His original test book was recognized in the United States as the "Book of the Year". Now it is also published in Russian. Learn your chess power with the help of test solutions! Sold at a discount - 30%.

The book was prepared by the trainers of the Chess Club & quot; INTELLIGENCE & quot; based on experience with beginner chess players in the 1st year of study. The course material consists of tasks on the most relevant and often encountered in practice tactical techniques: double strike, ligament, spear (through strike) and an open attack. A beginner can solve problems independently, under parental control and / or with the help of a trainer. The book will be useful to everyone who already knows the rules of the game and wants to learn how to strike combinational strikes. As a teaching aid can be used by chess trainers.

The pages have water stains at the spine, not interfering with reading.

This book is about two tactics – double strike and through attack. The book contains 480 tasks, mostly from games played in children's and youth competitions. When solving most positions, double strikes, which are often encountered in practice, are used, but many positions with non-standard solutions (double strike by castling, double strike by two pieces, using a weak promotion of a pawn, etc.).

The book of the leading Czechoslovak grandmasters was originally built. This is a kind of test book. The authors cite 230 positions taken from their own games, offer the reader to solve them and reward him for the right decision with a certain number of points. The amount of points gives the reader an idea of his chess strength. The 230 examples in this book are not at all dry chess material. They include critical, decisive moments of parties, minutes of the highest tension, which required the most intense mental effort. Witty text. Classic work.

About bright strategic and tactical ideas in the parties of the leading chess players of the world. Some aspects of chess creativity are outlined, the features of the strategic and tactical approach to the game are disclosed, examples (standards) from the history of chess, information about famous chess players are given.

In this book, the American grandmaster, the world champion, presents the reader with 60 of his parties. These are not always his best games (three of them are lost by Fischer), but they necessarily contain something memorable to the author. All 60 parties, commented in this book were played in the period 1957-1967 with strict observance of the tournament regulations. The parties were thoroughly and thoroughly commented on by Fischer. Each game is preceded by a small but accurate description written by Grandmaster Evans. This book gives the key to unraveling one of the main secrets of Fischer's success: his exceptional devotion to chess art, incessant creative burning. All the book as a whole allows not only to study the style of the game of the 11th world champion, but also make an impression of him as a man and a chess player. The book fully reveals this secret, and in that its intransient value.

Readers are invited to a brilliant book of the famous Romanian grandmaster Michael Marina, which was recognized in 2005 as the best chess book in the United States. In the second volume of the two-volume book, the work of world champions T. Petrosyan, R. Fisher, A. Karpov, and the unfading V. Korchnoi is considered.