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  • 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 $
  • 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:
    Franco

    In his new book, grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyzes the 69 instructive victories of the 11th world champion Robert Fischer. The book is not overloaded with options, the emphasis – with detailed explanations in a move-by-move style, creating an ideal platform for learning chess. In the "reference" At points in each game, the reader is offered test questions, which helps both the practical study of key techniques of the chess game and the reliable assimilation of acquired knowledge. Questions and answers engage the reader in the learning process and help him track his growth in chess strength. The appendix provides a critical analysis of the unsatisfactory translation of Robert Fisher's famous book “My 60 Memorable Games.”

    23.33 $
  • 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 $
  • Author:
    Getmanchuk

    16.67 $
  • Author:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Bogdanovich

    50.00 $
  • Author:
    Vysotsky

    20.00 $
  • Author:
    Franco

    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.

    19.00 $
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    10.37 $

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    Подробное исследование творчества классика шахматной композиции Льва Лошинского. В нее включены практически все произведения прославленного гроссмейстера с подробными решениями и комментариями, а также очерк о его жизненном и творческом пути. Книга открывается статьей, посвященной жизни и творческим взглядам Лошинского, признанного лидера советской композиции. Произведения гроссмейстера разделены на пять частей по жанрам: двухходовые задачи, трехходовые задачи, многоходовые задачи, этюды, неортодоксальные задачи. В каждом разделе композиции приводятся, как правило, в хронологическом порядке их опубликования. Дальше даются подробные решения композиций и комментарии к ним. В конце книги помещен указатель, облегчающий пользование ее материалами. Книга представляет интерес как для высококвалифицированных специалистов, так и для широкого круга шахматистов.

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    1.Rink. 2.L. Kubbel. 3. Trinity. 4.Loyd. 5.Platovy. 6.Reti and Fritz.

  • book

    4.49 $

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    The founder of a modern thematic chess task. Regardless of the genre, Loyd's tasks are characterized by a difficult introduction, a witty and original combination, and, as a rule, an easy construction.

  • book

    4.49 $

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    100 masterpieces of the world chess composition of the classics of modern chess etude. The progress in the sketching composition was attributed by the Platov brothers to the priority development of the combination-positional direction.

  • book

    3.80 $

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    Systematic studies by Rinkom of the possibilities of fighting only curly material became an invaluable contribution to the theory of endgame and now they have found a competitor only in the image of a computer.

  • book

    5.00 $

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    one of the books in a series of pocket-sized books. Each contains 100 masterpieces that differ in beautiful, bright, but not very complex solutions. Therefore, they, among other things, serve as excellent training examples for a solution without a board. Elegantly, tastefully decorated.

  • book

    3.80 $

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    This book is about the work of the classic of domestic chess composition - Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel, whom the honored art worker A. Troitsky called & quot; sketchy Alekhine & quot ;.

  • book

    5.53 $

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    Книга посвящена творчеству международного гроссмейстера, заслуженного тренера СССР Э.Е. Гуфельда. Яркий самобытный стиль игры, талант журналиста и комментатора, тренерская деятельность снискали ему большую популярность в шахматном мире. В книге представлены лучшие партии Гуфельда, его воспоминания и аналитические статьи. Очерк о спортивном пути гроссмейстера написан журналистом В. Теплицким, а в предисловии к книге своими впечатлениями о творчестве Гуфельда делятся Г. Каспаров, М. Таль и М. Тайманов.

  • book

    10.37 $

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    The reader is waiting for this book a lot of interesting pages. The authors attempted to recreate on the basis of historical evidence a picture of the chess creativity of one of the most original grandmasters of their time, DM Yanovsky (1868-1927). Bright combination talent, fearlessness, artistry in the game earned Yanovsky great popularity. Part of the games is commented by Yanovsky himself, as well as by Em. Lasker, Tarrash, Chigorin, Marco, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tartakover and others. Designed for highly qualified chess players.

  • book

    31.20 $

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    The history of the struggle of the American single genius with the Soviet hegemony in chess. The book contains 148 commented games, played by the eleventh world champion Robert Fisher against Soviet chess players. But the uniqueness of the book is different: in it for the first time almost all secret documents on the "Fisher problem" were collected, many of which have never appeared in print. These are materials from the archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Sports Committee, as well as "official" letters with an analysis of Fisher's personality and creativity, written at the request of the leadership of the country's leading grandmasters. The book is illustrated with rare photographs and drawings.

  • book

    7.60 $

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    The book is dedicated to the work of one of the most important chess players of the postwar period - the international grandmaster V.Simagin. The book contains memories of people who knew this chess player. The chess creative work of the grandmaster is widely represented. Among the authors of memories and comments to the parties are M. Botvinnik, Yu. Averbakh, E. Houfeld, A. Soutin, I. Kan, J. Estrin and other famous masters.