Ability to quickly and far to count options is an integral quality of a strong chess player. The best way to master this art is systematic directed training. Many years of experience with young chess players and observation of the successful work of trainers show that the main training exercises for improvement in the calculation of options - the solution of specially selected positions.

In addition to research on the title in the title, the book contains detailed practical recommendations for participating in competitions.

The book is devoted to the issues of combating short castling with the arrangement of pawns in the f7, g7, h7 fields. The authors consider the most typical schemes for seeing a frontal figure-shaped attack on the king with a given pawn structure. 

Annotation for the book "Attack on the King: The Art of Attack" The new book by the popular author of the grandmaster NM Kalinichenko is devoted to the art of chess attack on the king and combines the functions of a textbook and a kind of encyclopaedia richly illustrated both by classical and original examples.

The rezhebnik is designed for a wide range of chess players-dischargers, coaches and connoisseurs of chess beauty. Tasks of the first stage of complexity correspond to a level from 3 to 1 digits.

The books of the Paraguayan grandmaster and coach Z.Franko are deservedly successful. They are distinguished by an excellent selection of material and a highly conscientious approach to commenting. In this paper, issues of active defense of difficult chess positions are considered. The author shows how a single-minded game can not only to repulse the offensive, but (and this is especially important!) to reveal the shortcomings plan opponent, using someone else's attack for his own victory.

The book of the popular author of the grand master N.M. Kalinichenko is dedicated to the art of chess attack on the king in all stages of the party: debut, middlegame and endgame. This work is a textbook, richly illustrated both by classical and modern examples. The book is intended for all chess lovers - from beginners to experienced players.

Three-volume grandmaster, Jakob Ogard - a fundamental textbook on the most vivid and interesting phase of the chess game - the attack. Most books about the attack teach only what to do when it has already begun. They mainly talk about the victims. This book, too, does not bypass the victim, but apart from this, it explores in detail a more mysterious, little-open topic: it examines in detail the question of how an attack occurs. The first volume is devoted to the dynamic laws of position, the origins of all attacks. Each chapter is preceded by tasks for independent decision, some of them are also recommended to be played against a computer program. The book uses a lot of recent games, and parties are not known to the Russian-speaking reader. Jacob Ogard is not only a grandmaster and teacher, but also a born writer, a lush language and an exciting presentation of the material is an important part of his books. For a wide range of chess fans.

The book of the world chess champion Max Euwe is an excellent textbook for those lovers who are already familiar with the rules of the game. The structure of the book is simple, and the presentation of the material is dosed and thoroughly thought out - the author by profession is a teacher. Training is built on the basis of fascinating games, detailed and commented on the increase in complexity. The book considers all the basic positional principles of the game. We recommend chess lovers as a textbook, and teachers for a selection of examples for classes.

The book is a kind of textbook in which the author, a well-known grandmaster, in a test form offers to answer questions related to assessing the position and calculating options. The results are summed up after each game. And it does not matter if you earned a few points - ahead is the next task, at the end of which it may turn out that you are the second Shirov or Korchnoi!

Authors & mdash; the famous Spanish grand master Alfonso Romero and the experienced master and trainer Amador Gonzalez de la Nava offer the reader a fascinating workshop on chess strategy. In each of the 90 tests, there are several possible game plans for the forthcoming middlegame. Prochtudirovan examples, you greatly enhance the strength of your game, learning to find the right plans in typical positions. All examples are taken from closed sources and mainly from the parties of virtuosos of the strategic game. Foreword of former world champion Veselin Topalov.

We hope that the reader appreciated the first volume of the chess strategy workshop of Spanish authors & ndash; Gros- smeister Alfonso Romero and master and coach Amador Gonzales de la Nava, dedicated to closed debuts. Now before you is the second volume, covering open and half-open debuts. In each of the 64 tests, there are several possible game plans for the forthcoming middlegame. Prochtudivavav examples, you greatly enhance the strength of your game, learning to find the right plans in typical positions. All the examples are taken mainly from the games of great masters of the strategic game.