Челябинск; творческие портреты Карпова, Свешникова, Тимошенко и др.

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.

В XIX веке выдвинулась целая плеяда выдающихся русских шахматистов, творчество которых способствовало зарождению отечественной шахматной школы, получившей всемирное признание. Главная роль здесь принадлежит Михаилу Ивановичу Чигорину. Творчество и сейчас радует и учит любителей шахматного искусства, живет его непроходящая слава. Партии русского мастера открыли новые пути в шахматной стратегии и тактике. Теоретические исследования Чигорина положили начало нашей передовой шахматной школе, завоевавшей общее признание , прочно удерживающей мировое первенство. Автор книги знакомит читателя с наиболее значительными событиями жизни и творчества этого выдающегося шахматиста, на примере его лучших партий и задач показывает вклад Чигорина в развитие теории шахмат. Для широкого круга любителей шахмат.

Biography and selected parties of a talented master.

Foreword by A. Karpov. In this book, the author considers the outstanding American grandmaster, world champion Robert Fisher from an unexpected angle: he is interested in how Fisher lost. It just so happened that chess masters, bringing their creativity to the court of readers, almost always tell only about victories. All of us are accustomed to see the instructive in the highest achievements, forgetting, perhaps, that defeats, by virtue of their sobering effects, teach more, although pride is much less fun. Mednis sees his task in highlighting the “moment of error” in each party and trying to explain it. Readers will see on the pages of the book not a mythical chess machine, but a Fischer man, who, like all mortals, is not alien to excitement and error, frivolity and negligence. The games of the great player Fisher, which may be especially lost to him, contain the richest chess experience and information for all of us. Recommended by highly qualified chess players, as well as in coaching. "A wonderful book, in my opinion." V. Ivanchuk (from an interview with E. Surov).

A book about the great Russian chess player with new, previously unknown, documents and facts.

Biographies and selected parties of world champions. Chess has existed for many centuries, but only a little over a hundred years ago - in 1886 - did the first official world champion appear. Since then, only 13 chess players have been awarded this high rank. Our book is about them.

In Polish. Tasks with a detailed solution.

In Polish. Tasks with a detailed solution.

In Polish. Tasks with a detailed solution.

Yugoslavian grandmaster S. Gligorich - a participant in many major competitions, in which he held high places, was the champion of Yugoslavia 11 times. Gligorich is known as a chess theorist and publicist. The reader, getting acquainted with the book Gligoric, may pay attention to the mean words about yourself. To emphasize his work with a well-deserved number of exclamation marks is hampered by innate modesty. Nevertheless, moves, ideas, plans, combinations - all that we call the highest skill, as well as his devotion to his beloved art speak for themselves. The main criterion in the selection of parties, the author highlighted the presence of interesting opening ideas, so that the parties were instructive from the very beginning. The next criterion was the relative brevity of the parties. The book “I play against figures” is a kind of collection of the best games of the Yugoslav grandmaster. Complements their small autobiographical essay. The book is designed for highly qualified chess players.

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.