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!

This book can be considered as three in one: firstly, it is a collection of various, but often typical, traps found both in the opening and in the middle of the game, and in the endgame. Secondly, this book – a primer on tactics, as traps almost always rely on clever tactical strikes. Finally, thirdly, – this book can also be a solution book; for this you need to look for tactical strikes possible in positions on the diagrams yourself, without looking at the text. Traps in chess – The topic is incredibly fascinating. The pleasure from the fact that an opponent has fallen into the net laid out for him is always enormous, but you also experience joy when you manage to see through someone else’s plan and avoid falling into the trap yourself. This book will help you do both. Working with the book will improve the results of a chess player of any qualification.

This book is a new edition of the fundamental textbook “Chess for Beginners,” which has received recognition from readers in many countries around the world, including Russia. "Chess for Beginners" is a clear and detailed guide that contains theory, exercises of varying degrees of difficulty, and examples of winning games. The originality of the presentation of the material is ensured by special mini-inserts that make it easier to assimilate important information. Here you will find all the terms starting from middlegame and endgame, and after reading, conquer new winning tactics and best strategies. The book is intended for both beginners and those who have already taken their first steps in chess and now want to deepen and expand their knowledge.

Gift edition, thick binding. This chess textbook is the essence of the experience of world chess champion Robert Fischer. The genius chess player Robert Fischer had a direct and consistent style of play based on crystal clear, energetic plans. This allowed him to win many “training and demonstration” competitions. games reminiscent of lectures on individual chess topics. These "lectures" have had a great influence on several generations of elite chess players, today they must be used in teaching absolutely everything for which this textbook is intended. The book is distinguished by the completeness of its selection of examples (170 games and fragments) and the breadth of topics covered (there is even a chapter devoted to strengthening the game of blitz). Working with the book will improve the results of a chess player of any qualification.

The reader is offered a handbook for chess players of any skill. It collected more than 4000 different combinations from the parties of the leading chess players in the world. All of them are sisatized according to the sections and the end of each of them are given solutions.

We offer you a universal guide for studying the most complex and diverse stage of a chess game - the endgame. There are about 3000 examples of different endings from the best chess players in the world. The book also presents all the etudes of the world champions.

Based on I.Rabinovich's classic work "Endgame". An active chess player-practice does not have enough time for deep study of the endgame, but every qualified chess player must know a certain set of positions. This task is the responsibility of this book. It can be divided into two parts. In the first - theoretical - simple endings are considered, in which the final estimate, the methods for achieving a win or draw are already known. In the second part of the book the reader learns the methods of realizing the advantages in the endgame, the main techniques.

At the very beginning of our acquaintance with chess, we realize how much depends on the first moves. Already in the early stages of the game, both players have a huge number of opportunities - the head is spinning! How not to go astray to an inexperienced chess player, how not to get stranded when leaving the native harbor, on which lighthouses to stay on? All these and many other questions are answered by the book that you hold in your hands. Your companions - the multiple world champion Anatoly Karpov and the grand master, the author of more than 40 books, Nikolay Kalinichenko - will always point the right way. For children of middle and senior school age.

The vast majority of debut guides are written with an adult reader in mind. This book is also devoted to the theory of openings, but it will also be understandable to children. The structure of the book is simple and beautiful: openings are examined using real games as examples, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form a debut topic, and each topic ends with exercises.. In each opening, attention is paid to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas, and the selection of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the theme of the opening. Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, the book includes many diagrams. Explanatory arrows on diagrams and background highlighting of individual pages make the book easier to understand. Regular work with the book (subject to completion of assignments) solves two problems at once: it deepens the student’s knowledge and develops his tactical vision, and therefore improves skill and results. For a wide range of chess lovers.

Condition: Very good Small scratches on the binding This book is the most complete collection of Emanuel Lasker's chess works in the world today. In addition to the frequently published CHESS TEXTBOOK and the rarer but well-known work COMMON SENSE IN CHESS, it includes rudiments of chess knowledge and lessons for beginners - works that are completely inaccessible today. Lasker's influence on the chess world was enormous, his athletic superiority over his opponents was so incredible that his contemporaries could not find a reasonable explanation for it. Some attributed his success to luck, others even suspected hypnosis! Only today have many of the methods that Lasker used in his chess practice become clear, although he, as a true scientist, directly set out his views in printed works. Lasker's books are essential for anyone who wants to understand chess and achieve success in it. Special hard "puffy" binding.

Book of two authors & ndash; Teacher and his grandmaster student & ndash; includes 100 small-volume lectures that make up the necessary minimum (carefully selected and certified by years of practice) knowledge for any beginning chess player. It was based on lessons taught to the young pupils of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers (the story about the addendum is dedicated to the Supplement) by their first coach & ndash; Alexander Nikolayevich Kostiev. Book & ndash; a reliable and sufficient basis for independent study of chess for those who are already familiar with the rules of the game; it will also help the children's trainers in preparing the classes. The book is indispensable for parents who want to participate in the chess education of their children.

The book of the deserved trainer of Russia, grandmaster Alek- Sandra Kalinina is devoted to the questions of perfection. Tracing the formation of a chess player from beginner to level of the master, the author, based on personal experience, different training methods, warns about possible mistakes in this way. The overwhelming majority The book materials have not been published anywhere before and will be seen light start. In our time, the oversaturated computer- training sessions, the appearance of a book telling on the methods of improvement from the "human" point of view, undoubtedly, will be of interest for coaches and amateurs chess at all levels. Among the author's pupils is the triple Olympic pionka, two-time champion of Europe and Russia, champion- World and European blitz of Valentin Gunin; Olympic champion Olga Girya and many others.