This book consists of twenty conversations, covering various chess topics. The first twelve conversations, as it should be in the textbook, are devoted to the three stages of a chess game. The first of five debut conversations tells about popular combinations and traps at the start of the battle. And in the second conversation, super-fast victories are collected, and all games here belong to world champions! The following three conversations are more solid. The examples of games played at the highest grandmaster level show how to play open, half-open and closed openings, respectively. Further there are four conversations about the middle game. The first two are tactics, the other two are more about the strategy of the game. Here are numerous combinations - from typical, educational to famous, classic. In one of the conversations there was a collection of combinations with the queen sacrifice, made in the games of chess kings! Finally, three more conversations are dedicated to the endgame. The most common endings that are most often encountered in practice are pawns and rooks.

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 2nd edition, revised and supplemented, of the popular monograph, which is dedicated to one of the most combat modern debuts – the Old Indian defense. The author meticulously builds the entire defensive line of black (including on the territory of "adjacent" openings, such as the English beginning or the London system), explains standard plans and tactical techniques, offers a number of novelties in current schemes. Carefully selected positions for the solution will help the reader to consolidate the acquired knowledge. The book is addressed to chess players of any level, since the laws of Old Indian are the same for both amateurs and super grandmasters.

Can you imagine that such luminaries of chess as Steinitz, Lasker, Alekhine, Capablanca, Botvinnik, Fischer, Petrosyan, Karpov lost games in 15-20 moves? Meanwhile, there were such curious cases in their creative biographies. In fact, the future world champions lost in... their debut. The famous chess master, writer and theorist J. Neustadt talks about these and other mistakes, which occur quite often in the initial stage of a chess game, in his book. The publication is intended for chess players of all levels - from amateurs to professionals.

Stories about meetings with famous figures, famous chess players, about the events of national and world chess life.

The second edition is amended and supplemented.

The quick victories of world champions, of course, make an impression, but are perceived by regularity. However, as they say, not the gods burn pots. Nothing human is alien. To be mistaken and they even know how.

Renowned chess theorist master Jacob Neishtadt wrote a guide to strategy and tactics. The course he offers is based on the creative legacy of Paul Keres, one of the outstanding chess players of our century. This is a tutorial covering position assessment and planning, attack and defense techniques, classification of combinations and calculation of options, while at the same time - & mdash; gallery of works by the Estonian grandmaster, grouped by theme. The educational material is preceded by an essay on Keres's sports path, his style of play and the place he occupied in the history of chess. The book is intended for chess-ranked players. & Nbsp; The new edition has been computer tested.

The name of the outstanding American chess player Paul Morphy is covered with legendary fame. Just three years (1857-1859), Morphy acted on the official chess scene, proving his clear superiority over the best masters of the New and Old World and becoming, in fact, uncrowned & raquo; world champion. 30 parties of one of the greatest chess geniuses of all time, offered to the attention of the reader, are the brightest products of Morphy and, undoubtedly, will bring great aesthetic pleasure to chess lovers. For educational purposes, the parties are divided into thematic sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction. According to most experts, classical chess education is inconceivable without studying the creativity of Morphy, since it was the chess world that learned the correct understanding of the game. His games will be extremely useful and interesting to study chess of any skill, from beginner to master.

In this book, there are 64 lessons on a pawn endgame from a beginner to the level of a first-ranking player and a master candidate. When writing the book, the author used more than 30 years of experience as a trainer from groups of beginning young chess players in kindergartens and elementary classes to a group of higher sportsmanship.

Traces of water. Tutorials on how to bypass the traps