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.

This book contains a large layer of theoretical and practical information related to the final stage of the chess game & ndash; endgame. The author researched and presents for the reader's judgment more than 100 episodes of chess struggle from games played by 137 grandmasters from more than 40 countries of the world exclusively in 2019. The purpose of this book is to develop the skills of correctly assessing positions encountered in chess games, finding ways to refute a wrong move made by a grandmaster or master, and, accordingly, determining the strongest move in the examples provided. The book is intended for the work of chess trainers and independent study by qualified chess players.

The second and final book in the series `` Underestimating the opponent's counterplay '' is offered to the readers' attention. This time it is dedicated to the middlegame. The authors selected 111 training examples from the games of modern grandmasters played exclusively in 2019. According to statistics, most games end in the middlegame. Therefore, it is extremely important to be able to play well this particular stage of the chess game. The authors tried to systematize the material in this way, breaking it down into appropriate chapters so that the work on the book would give the most productive result, new knowledge would appear and professional skills were developed to correctly play the middlegame. The book is intended for coaches, ranked chess players and a wide range of chess amateurs.

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

The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is dedicated to the strongest piece on the chessboard – to the queen. Using the example of episodes from games of modern grandmasters (the vast majority of games date back to 2020-2023) and his own grandmaster practice, the author tries to generalize, and in some places even clarify the methodology for understanding and playing queen endings, as well as other types of endgames with the presence of queens ) On the desk. The book presents various ratios of material – “queen against queen”, “queen and minor piece against queen and minor piece”, “queen and rook against queen and rook”, “queen against two rooks”, “queen against rook and pawns”, “ queen against a rook and a minor piece”, “two queens against two queens” – practically the entire spectrum of encountered endgames of this type. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get maximum benefit from studying the examples of queen endings and its other derivatives offered by the author. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans.

Английский оригинал. В книге представлены 365 заданий, разбитых по пяти уровням сложности. У всех примеров есть подсказки, которые помогут вам при необходимости почти самостоятельно решить любую позицию. Книга построена на увлекательных и поучительных примерах, выхваченных из потока современной практики.

The book presents 365 tasks, broken down into five levels of complexity. All examples have clues that will help you to solve almost any position if necessary. The book is built on fascinating and instructive examples, snatched from the stream of modern practice.

The five-time world champion, the first female grandmaster in chess history about herself, her predecessors and rivals, teachers and coaches.

The legendary characters of Conandoil, Zoshchenko, Al. Tolstoy, Lagin, Ilf and Petrov, Bulgakov, Babel, O. Henry ... Funny stories with illustrations in the form of chess tasks, jokes.

The reader is offered a description of the history and rules of pillar chess and checkers games. Some of them, for example, Tamerlan’s checkers, are reconstruction of games that actually existed in antiquity. Others - dialectic chess - are invented by the authors of the book and can be used as a means of modeling in the field of basic sciences. Stolbovye chess games are designed to develop logical and creative abilities of a wide range of readers.

The "Book of the Year" according to the English Chess Federation gives readers a rare opportunity to see chess with the eyes of an extra-class grandmaster. Explaining his method of thinking, the 2009 World Cup winner and the 2012 vice-champion of the world focuses on such important issues as clamping, space advantage, pawn structure transformation and benefit transformation. "The youthful need to prove to others that I understand chess is left in the past, instead I am ready to explain how to understand chess. We will focus on what I think about chess, in the hope that it will help improve young ambitious players, and will also bring pleasure to chess lovers who just want to enjoy the game. It is clear that I always tried to learn from all the great masters, but Akiba Rubinstein had the greatest impact, along with the parties and notes of Yefim Geller and Lev Polugaevsky "(B. Gelfand).