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.

In the book of international master and experienced coach Boris Zlotnik "Middlegame Guide" the classic educational material on the middlegame is presented on the basis of modern tournament practice. A notable feature of the book is the comparison of deep computer analysis with human thinking, – priority is given to the latter if the scores are similar. Anyone who wants to improve their middlegame play needs to develop a positional sense. The computer is useful, but not sufficient. The important strategic techniques offered in the book will help you find the right direction in the transitional stage from the opening to the middle of the game and will save time when choosing the optimal solution in middlegame positions. "Middlegame Guide" intended for a wide range of chess players and coaches. High-quality material was collected by the author in the course of all his many years of fruitful coaching and teaching activities. Carefully selected exercises will allow the reader to check the degree of assimilation of the material, which increases the didactic value of the book.

The new edition of the best-selling book by the honored coach of Russia, international grandmaster Alexander Panchenko, written on the basis of lectures delivered at sessions of the All-Russian Chess Grandmasters School, which was directed by the author. The book is a textbook on the endgame and is intended for chess players of secondary and higher grades who want to independently learn chess endings, as well as for trainers-teachers. In addition to the theoretical material, it gives numerous examples from the practice of classics and modern chess players, as well as tasks for independent decision-making and play-out.

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.  

The textbook by an experienced coach of the international master Anastasia Geller will help beginner chess players quickly master the moves of the pieces and introduce them to their value. It will teach you how to take care of each of them, not expose them to battle and protect them from attack, as well as determine which pawn or piece is without protection, who is more profitable to eat or exchange. The reader will learn to count options several moves ahead, anticipating the opponent's thoughts and possible actions. The book contains 1500 tasks, divided into 5 parts: "eating", "attack", "safe attack", "protection from attack" and "complex eating." Particular attention is paid to the development of acquired knowledge: a detailed explanation of the new material is accompanied by a large number of tasks for independent solution. Each of the 53 chapters begins with positions with a small number of pieces, which is extremely important for those who are just learning the basics of chess. Gradually, the number of figures in the tasks increases. For beginner chess players, their parents and coaches.

The 2012 World Vice-Champion continues his story, begun in the best-selling books Positional Decision Making in Chess. ("Book of the Year" according to the English Chess Federation), "Dynamic Decision Making in Chess" and "Technical Decision Making in Chess." The new book discusses ways to make decisions in positions without minor pieces. The reader will get acquainted with rook and queen endings, as well as with what Romanovsky called the "fourth stage", that is, the late middlegame / early endgame, where only heavy pieces remain on the board. «Gelfand is very good– and very honest – explains what decisions he was able to calculate and what he had to make on the basis of general reasoning, and how he did it. This resulted in a book of the type that I love. A chess player of any strength can find a lot of useful things here. (Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, reviewer of novelties in chess literature in the magazine "New in Chess"). For a wide range of chess lovers.

Good news: any chess player can improve their game by regularly solving tactical problems! Even the great combinations of the great masters are based on a small number of simple tactics that anyone can learn and apply. Unlike memorizing a bunch of opening variations, solving tactical exercises will surely seem very enjoyable and inspiring to you.  This book is intended for rated chess players who want to improve their tactical vision, as well as combinational and counting skills. The author, an international master in practical play and a grandmaster in composition, an experienced coach and a popular writer, carefully selected spectacular combinations with sacrifices from the work of world champions, as well as brilliant studies that demonstrate tactical ideas in their purest form.  The book deals with 15 basic tactics and motives. 342 combinations and etudes are intended for independent solution. For a wide range of chess lovers. 

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. Fragment 1 Fragment 2

The new book of the famous coach Mark Dvoretsky & ndash; this is a collection of detailed commentaries on instructive parties. Their careful study will benefit everyone who is serious about self-improvement and wants to understand what problems arise behind the board in front of grandmasters and masters, how they solve them, what is behind the mistakes they make at times and how to avoid them. The book consists of seven parts: Lessons of one party, Positional parties, Debut discussions, King in danger, Under fire, Parties with questions, Playing. The reader has the right to choose those sections that interest him most. And you can concentrate on a purely practical training, solving the exercises. The last two parts of the book are devoted to the specific forms of training that the author regularly uses in his classes: analyzing games in the form of solving a series of sequential tasks and playing out specially selected positions.