The book tells about competitions in various intellectual games - chess, drafts, cards, held at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Cosmos casino: about a blitz match from 24 games of Kasparov-Kramnik, Memorial Petrosyan, international poker tournaments, etc. Particular attention is paid to the traditional super tournaments of the Moscow Komsomolets on chess giveaways, which take place in Cosmos on April Fool's Day. Many famous people participate in these fun shows - writers and poets, composers and artists, directors and artists, scientists and astronauts, singers and athletes. The reader is invited to a large collection of color photographs in which the heroes of the book are imprinted behind a chessboard. For a wide range of readers. Many color photographs.

Gift Edition. Foreword by M. Taimanov. Stories about prominent chess players are the result of many years of creative activity by a famous sports journalist. Photos on coated paper.

Product Description This book investigates how chess-players find good ideas. Amatzia Avni, a psychologist by profession, pursues this goal by interviewing top players and analysts. The discussion focuses on their most interesting and instructive games and compositions. Avni has been careful to allow his interviewees to convey their own thoughts, rather than direct their answers to comply with any pre-existing theories. We experience the events on the board through the vivid recollections of the player. This gives us a realistic view of each struggle and how the critical decisions were really made. Avni also presents the players with some unfamiliar positions, and records their reactions upon encountering these new situations. Once we have heard from the grandmasters, Avni discusses the essence of what was said, and provides some insights and recommendations. The interviewees include famous grandmasters such as Boris Gelfand, Ilia Smirin and Lev Psakhis. About the Author Amatzia Avni is an Israeli psychologist. He is a FIDE Master in both game and composition, an international judge of studies, a former editor of the Israeli magazine Schahmat, and a regular contributor to Chess Monthly and Kingpin.

The book of the chess master, a famous writer and columnist of the popular metropolitan newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Evgeny Gik contains about 500 funny chess stories, jokes and tales. Among their heroes are both outstanding grandmasters, candidates for the chess crown and world champions - from Steinitz and Lasker to Karpov and Kasparov, and people far from the world of chess, for example, Alla Pugacheva and other pop stars, as well as writers and poets, artists, artists, musicians, scientists and politicians are big chess fans.

The book reveals a wide panorama of the chess life of the post-war era. The author sees his heroes as outstanding grandmasters and masters as peculiar actors playing their unique roles in tournaments and matches. Having included works of various genres — essays, essays, documentary novels — in the book, the author summarizes his almost 40 years of work as a chess writer and reporter.

The book is devoted to the creation of programs playing chess. The basic principle of such programs - enumeration of positions - is a special case of the general enumeration method, which is widely used in solving discrete mathematics problems. The authors of the book are specialists in the field of programming, the creators of the Kaissa program, the first world champion among machines.`

The book contains a description of the creative path of the famous master and theorist, as well as essays, tables, selected games with comments from 16 tournaments of his memory. Among the participants are Kasparov, Gelfand, Kamsky ...

Interested in & shy; tel & shy; tnye stories about himself, his rivals, the main events of a chess biography (B-ka "Spark").

Novel of a Czech writer. The main character of the book is a chess player, a participant in international chess tournaments and a sports journalist. A story is not just a confession of a person who is dissatisfied with himself. This is an intensive search for the meaning of life by a person who has not killed anyone in life, has not betrayed, but feels that the way he lives is no longer possible to live on, something needs to be changed.

The book of V. Chernyak - a poet, journalist, candidate master - will be read with pleasure by anyone who is interested in a chess game. There are no games or diagrams in it, but nevertheless, the author was able in the essay genre to reveal many aspects concerning the very essence of chess. A special place in the book is occupied by a kind of questionnaire, where the statements of all world champions are selected as answers.

About chess and outstanding chess players.  The author visited the most significant chess competitions of the post-war years, including the world championships in Baguio, Merano, Moscow, Leningrad and Seville. Talking about the outstanding masters of our time, the writer reflects on the educational power of the ancient game, the art of opposition, the origins of sports victories. The book is intended for the general reader.

Quality fiction, photography ...