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.

Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin, a graduate of the famous Lviv chess school, Viktor Karta, wrote a book about the “golden age” and “quot” chess, about his heroes and losers, about the influence of chess on other, sometimes the most unexpected, areas of life - culture, politics, music, science, religion and ... even toponomics!

The Italian expression dare il gambetto - & quot; substitute the leg & quot; - it became a common language of chess players at the end of the 16th century, when the Spaniard Ruy Lopez applied it in his famous guide. & quot; Substitute leg & quot; - It means playing sharply and unconventionally at the very beginning of the game, sacrificing a pawn or even a piece to seize the initiative, quickly develop your attack and threaten the enemy king. For the first time a whole encyclopedia is dedicated to gambits! Grandmaster Yuri Razuvayev and chess writer and master Anatoliy Matsukevich invite us to an exciting, bright world of the gambit game.

A new book by a master of sports in chess, a children's coach with many years of experience, Leonid Nikolayev, is designed to help chess players - practitioners to master the necessary skills for calculating options, evaluating positions and choosing the right course. Each of the 64 lessons ("steps") includes a commented training party, as well as assignments on strategy and on the calculation of options. It is intended for chess players dischargers.

Materials illustrating the method of preparing Botvinnik to the competition (many are published for the first time). A manual for chess players and coaches.

English grandmaster David Norwood's book is an unusual chess textbook. It is designed for those who make the first steps into the magical world of chess (first part), and for those who, knowing the basics, seek to improve their skills themselves by solving simple typical tasks (second part). 

If you like chess and want to improve your chess skills, then this book is for you. It is dedicated to the art of combinations and combines the functions of a textbook and a problem book, that is, it provides the foundations of not only theory, but also practice. The material in it is grouped according to traditional chess topics, which are illustrated with 1325 classical examples and are presented in the form of lessons with an explanation of a tactical device.  The book will be useful for both professional chess players and those who make the first steps in learning chess tactics.

Merry Buratino will open the door for you to an amazing country - a fairy tale. She will talk about the manners and habits of chess pieces, teach you to attack energetically and calmly defend yourself, to think carefully about your decisions, both in chess and in life. Chess develop perseverance, logical thinking and memory, learn to use time rationally. And the “prompting” will be the multiple world champion Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov and the coach of the highest category Anatoly Borisovich Shingiri. Good luck!

Merry Buratino will open the door for you to an amazing country - a fairy tale. She will talk about the manners and habits of chess pieces, teach you to attack energetically and calmly defend yourself, to think carefully about your decisions, both in chess and in life. Chess develop perseverance, logical thinking and memory, learn to use time rationally. And the “prompting” will be the multiple world champion Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov and the coach of the highest category Anatoly Borisovich Shingiri. Good luck!

Germany.

The first edition of this monumental work of an outstanding grandmaster, writer, poet and translator Savely Grigorievich Tartakower was published in 1924 in four separate editions and was immediately adopted by chess amateurs, who later became well-known masters, grandmasters, and future theorists of modern chess The “ultramodern chess game” reveals in great detail the essence and ideas of such players as Nimzowitsch, Reti, Alekhin and others, antagonists of Tarrasch's teachings. This, the 2nd edition for the first time comes out in a single package under a general binding. It undoubtedly is of historical value, showing the development of chess thought and at the same time will be useful for chess players of II-I classes and candidates for master.