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  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is  the final link in a series of publications by the author, directed  to study the classical endgame using examples of modern games   grandmasters. This time the subject of the study – light piece endgames. Clarification of the methodology for working on this stage of the game, as well as the main features and methods of playing such endings. Examples  taken from the practice of modern grandmasters and dated back to 2020-2023. The author offers the reader the most recent and unique information. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get the maximum  benefit from studying the examples offered by the author  queen endings and its  other derivatives. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises. In each opening, attention is drawn to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the opening theme. Written in clear and easy language, the book is furnished with a large number of diagrams. Colored explanatory arrows on the diagrams and the selection of individual pages with a colored background make the book easier to understand. Regular work solve two problems: deepen the student's knowledge and develop his tactical vision, thus improving his skill and results.

    28.80 $
  • Magnetic road chess: folding board-case made of artificial leather, tablet-figures with a convex image. Wallet size 19x22 cm. The playing field is 15.5 x 15.5 cm. Cell 2x2 cm.

    51.72 $
  • Made in Holland. Chess computer "Centaur" easy to use. You can easily install any language. Using the touch panel  40x40 cm (cell size 48 x 48 mm) you can easily move the figures. The sensors will record strokes. The board has a capacious rechargeable internal battery. The uniqueness of the computer is that it quickly adapts to  your playing strength (from beginner to grandmaster) so that you have the right opponent. Centaur will help you analyze the game so as not to make the same mistakes and improve your chess skill. Please note, computer is not compatible to connect to your PC or online chess. The set includes USB cable and DGT electronic chess pieces . Height of the king is 86mm.  

    1553.60 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    «The idea of continuing the autobiographical book “Steps” has been in the air almost since the moment it was written. Despite the bullet point at the end of the book in the form of a victory over Magnus Carlsen, my chess career continued for another full 14 years, and the subsequent stormy socio-political career is only gaining momentum.” (V. Bologan).  The book contains 75 games commented in detail and a number of fragments. A frank story about the life and professional path, about cooperation with the leading grandmasters and coaches of the world (among them - A. Karpov, G. Kasparov, Yu. Polgar, Zhu Chen, R. Ponomarev, A. Shirov, A. Morozevich, A. Onischuk, A. Ryazantsev, E. Inarkiev, M. Al-Mudakhka, M. Dvoretsky, M. Podgaets, V. Chebanenko, Z. Lanka and others), about political activities in the Parliament of Moldova and about work in FIDE are complemented by numerous photographs.   For a wide range of chess lovers.

    36.67 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    The Caro-Kann defense is one of the most popular modern openings, which is firmly included in the repertoire of most elite chess players. The author of the book, a well-known grandmaster and theorist, offers a full repertoire for black in response to 1.e4, explains in detail the main strategic ideas of each option and gives the exact order of moves, offers a number of novelties in current schemes. In each chapter, alternative plans for black are considered, so that the reader can make a choice according to his taste, and it was more difficult for the opponent to prepare. Much attention in the monograph is paid to correspondence games in which players use all the achievements of modern technology. All analyses during the work on the manuscript are checked on powerful computers. Carefully selected positions for the solution will help the reader to consolidate the acquired knowledge. The 2nd edition supplements the section with the 10 most interesting current parties. The book is addressed to chess players of any level – from amateurs to professionals.  

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
  • Author:
    Kapengut

    An outstanding theorist and successful coach shares his memories of communication and cooperation with Mikhail Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Elena Akhmylovskaya and other outstanding chess players. Separate large chapter – a story about many years of work with Boris Gelfand: over these years (1980-1993) the student went from a 12-year-old candidate for master to the holder of the 3rd rating in the world. Albert Kapengut – winner of 6 gold medals at the World Student Olympics, seven-time champion of Belarus, participant in the individual and team championships of the USSR among men, champion of the USSR as part of the Burevestnik team. The book includes 70 games commented in detail by the author, a careful study of which will help the reader not only better understand popular opening schemes, but also get a taste for serious analytical work. “My story is not so much about a career, although “you can’t erase words from a song,” but about memorable situations, often funny, sometimes absurd, and dotted about people I met along the way, sometimes with touches of biography, prompting readers to become interested in more complete information.” ;" (A. Kapengut). For a wide range of chess lovers.

    43.33 $
  • Author:
    Eive

    The corpus of this textbook includes two significant works by the world chess champion, scientist and prominent teacher Max Euwe — "Self‑help chess game", created in collaboration with G. Den-Hertog, and "Chess Lessons". The first work is designed for beginners, the second for more experienced chess players. The book is a real chess tutorial in the true sense of the word. This is expressed not only in the appropriate distribution of the material and the method of presentation, designed to awaken the initiative of the student, but also in numerous practical exercises offered to the reader after explaining each new concept or technique.The textbook primarily attracts the methodology of presentation of the material, the principles of which will be useful for coaches and teachers of chess sections and circles. For a wide range of chess fans.

    25.00 $
  • The height of the king is 95 mm, the diameter of the base of the king is 42 mm. Currently used in tournaments of the Central House of Chess Players. The kit is sold without a board.

    47.50 $
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    37.24 $

    RUB

    This book tells about the long chess path of the international master of Samuel Markovich Zhukhovitsky (1916 - 2016). He met at the board with the world champions: Capablanca, Smys- lovym, Tal, Petrosyan , Spassky, Karpov, Kramnik. In his asset victory over outstanding grand masters and masters. The book is designed for a wide range of admirers of chess games.

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    Time is moving inexorably forward, according to its own laws. And we divide it into segments by our deeds and actions. Sometimes the minutes last for a long time and can take shape in painful hours, days, years. And when it’s quiet around & mdash; in decades. These are not identical in perception, they flew for our family members, the descendants of Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov, who was born in Riga in the distant 1908. And now it's 2013, the 105th anniversary of his birth. 5 years have passed since the publication of the book & laquo; Star, extinguished before the deadline & raquo; & mdash; memories of Vladimir Petrov my grandmother. We, the grandchildren, decided to decipher her notes on scraps of newspapers, napkins and even cigarette packs only after her death.

  • book

    20.00 $

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    Dmitry Kryakvin has been researching the career and life path of Alexey Vyzhmanavin for 8 years. He talked for a long time with Vyzhmanavin's ex-wife Lyudmila (the memoirs she wrote occupy a significant place in this work), as well as with friends and colleagues of Alexey. In this book, you are waiting for 75 games of Vyzhmanavin with tasks that are designed to improve your positional class and the quality of calculating options. At the same time , the legacy of the first Russian Oli

  • book

    18.75 $

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    Alexandra Goryachkina is the leader of the Russian national team and one of the strongest female chess players in the world in the last decade. Having won the 2019 Candidates Tournament, Alexandra fought equally with the champion Ju Wenjun in the match for the crown and lost only in the tie-break. Goryachkina is the winner of the 2023 Women's World Cup, a three-time champion of Russia, and a winner and medalist of many major international competitions. As part of the Russian national team, Goryachkina won the FIDE Online Olympiads and World Team Championships twice, and the European Team Championships four times. "On the Way to Chess Olympus" is a continuation of the famous book "Small Steps to Big Chess". The book tells the story of how young Alexandra Goryachkina managed to break into the world chess elite and won all the most prestigious awards, playing for the Russian national team. In the book you will find 69 games commented in detail, including those by A. Goryachkina herself, as well as a selection of positions for independent solution "Play like Alexandra". The photo gallery tells about the victorious tournament path of the leader of the national team.

  • book

    17.50 $

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    A historical sketch and review of the current state of Siberian chess with creative portraits of grandmasters (Tymoshenko, Weisser, etc.) and the strongest masters. Many rare chess examples. Richly illustrated. The reader & quot; will visit & quot; at the first All-Russian and Siberian congresses and championships, he learns a lot of interesting things about the chess pioneers of Barnaul, Biysk, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuzbass, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, as well as about N., who stood at the helm of the country in the 20-30s. Krylenko and A. Ilyin-Geneva. The book has many rare photographs. For a wide range of readers.

  • book

    Garrik Kasparows Aufstieg vom Jugendmeister der UdSSR bis zum Teilnehmer an den Kandidatenkдmpfen um die Weltmeisterschaft innerhalb von nur sechs Jahren vollzieht sich vor unseren Augen wie ein Mдrchen aus Tausendundeiner Nacht. Es ist dies die steile Karriere eines nunmehr 20jдhrigen Mannes, dessen Talent durch die Fцrderung des sowjetischen Schachimperiums soweit gereift ist, daЯ er befдhigt ist, nach dem Weltmeisterthron zu greifen, um im gleichen Augenblick von der eigenen Fцderation zurьckgehalten zu werden.

  • book

    10.37 $

    RUB

    Это книга воспоминаний о личных отношениях великого шахматиста-романтика, чемпиона мира Михаила Таля и его первой жены, человека, близкого ему в течение всей жизни, Салли Ландау, отношениях, как ею сказано, "нежных и противоречивых, светлых и грустных..." Актриса и певица Салли Ландау дебютировала на сцене в 17 лет. Выступала в Вильнюсском русском драматическом театре, Рижском театре юного зрителя, в Литовском эстрадном оркестре, в оркестре Эдди Рознера и эстрадном оркестре под руководством Раймонда Паулса.

  • book

    28.79 $

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    This is a book of memoirs about the personal relations of the great romantic chess player, world champion Mikhail Tal and his first wife and a person close to him, the author of the book Sally Landau, relations, as she said, "tender and contradictory, bright and sad ...". Despite all the emphasis on these emotional relations of two original personalities, Sally Landau put the image of Misha Tal, undoubtedly a wonderful chess creator and, possibly, one of the most outstanding and most original personalities of the last century, in the center of reader's attention.

  • book

    14.48 $

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    This book is about personal and very emotional relationships between two extraordinary personalities - the great chess player, world champion Mikhail Tal and his first wife and a person close to him, the author of the book Sally Landau, & quot; about relationships that are first intimate, then closely related, tender and contradictory, bright and sad ... And always colored with a rainbow by the rich, very different, open and mysterious personality of Mikhail Tal & quot ;.

  • book

    7.93 $

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    This is a book of memories about the personal relationships of the great romantic chess player, world champion Mikhail Tal and his first wife, a man close to him throughout his life, Sally Landau, relations, as she said, "tender and controversial, bright and sad ..." Actress and singer Sally Landau made her debut on stage at 17 years old. She has performed in the Vilnius Russian Drama Theater, the Riga Young Spectator's Theater, in the Lithuanian Variety Orchestra, in the Eddie Rosner Orchestra and the Variety Orchestra under the direction of Raimond Pauls.

  • book

    17.27 $

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    In this book, Bent Larsen, an outstanding Danish grandmaster (in the USSR-rest of the world match of 1970 played for the rest of the world team on the first board!), tells fascinatingly about himself, and his views on chess, in his speeches, 50 carefully selected parties are accompanied by interesting and popular comments. Grandmaster Polugaevsky sent his preface to the book, and the author’s afterword complements the author’s story

  • book

    24.83 $

    RUB

    Before you one of the best books in the history of chess. In a rich career the author has victories over all (!) world champions from Botvinnik to Karpov. Bent Larsen is one of the most successful tournament players of the 20th century. Uncompromising style and non-standard thinking made a great Dane is extremely popular among chess players around the world. Him successes were such that Robert Fisher agreed to give him the first board in the legendary match of the USSR, spoiling the World team. Bent Larsen was also a successful chess writer and journalist. It is not surprising that the first book on which chess today world champion Magnus Carlsen, was written by the strongest Scandinavian player before Magnus. In this book one of the brightest representatives of the chess West details his 122 best games. Larsen's comments are always are instructive, on business, often with humor. Also included are never published in Russian, the memoirs of the "Big Bent" about his meetings with the 11th world champion Robert Fisher. "One of the brightest players of the 20th century," - wrote about Larsen Harry Kasparov. "Of the many chess masters I've met, Bent is the most original ", - noted Anatoly Karpov. For a wide range of chess fans.