The author of this book is an experienced chess master and teacher, a specialist in logic and psychology. His `Young chess player's book` was recognized as the best one at the All-Union competition, published in 1966 and reissued in 1994 in Moscow. In the same year his popular book `Gift to a Young Chess Player` was published. The new book was conceived as an exposition based on the work of the strongest chess players of the past and present, the modern understanding of the middlegame (the middle of the game), the most important stage of the chess game, but went far beyond this topic. It deals with the chess game as a whole, and therefore with its other stages; the psychological nuances of the chess struggle, the role of the human factor in it; advice is given on how to study theory and how to apply this knowledge to the game.

The book is a book by grandmasters Yu. Averbakh ("School of the middle game", "School of the endgame") and A.Swetin ("Debut school"), previously united in a common building and popular among chess fans. For a wide range of chess fans.

In the book of Grandmaster ICChF Nikolai Kalinichenko, the main achievements of modern chess theory are united under one cover: a section for beginners, the fundamentals of strategy, tactics, endgames, a collection of debuts, parties that bring pleasure. The book will be of interest to both beginners and experienced chess players, and a large number of tasks for independent solutions will help to sharpen the knowledge gained in practice. Quality white paper.

In English.

In this series, three books: "Open Debuts", "Half-closed Debuts" and "Closed Debuts." This is the third book. In it you will get acquainted with closed debuts. The book is written primarily for children and their assistants, coaches and therefore carries the training material - "Study debuts."

The purpose of our book is to help a 5-7 year old kid learn the basics of the endgame in a chess game. The author of this textbook for more than 20 years teaches children the basics and wisdom of the chess game. With the help of cheerful lessons in a fairy-tale forest school, your baby, along with Belochka-Umelochka, Lisichka, Soroka-Beloboka and other characters will make the First steps to the glory of the great grandmasters.

The book contains 64 basic lessons, 16 unusual lessons and 4 tests, over 1000 training tasks and output data for these assignments, 2000 chess diagrams and 32 cognitive illustrations. It is addressed to young and adult readers who want to learn how to play chess and achieve the level of mastery of a chess player of the first level. The book will benefit the parents of young chess players and chess coaches. Of special interest is for all those who are inclined to the scientific approach to cognition of chess, and also are interested in chess as a phenomenon of world culture.

In English.

The trainer of the highest qualification, the father of one of the strongest young chess players of the world, I.Slavina, acts as the author of a systematic course of chess containing the richest educational material. Each volume in hardcover, high-quality and inexpensive! The author-trainer of the highest category offers 900 educational positions for material gain and 300 miniature tasks. The necessary methodological recommendations for the effective use of this didactic material are given. The book is intended for fans of chess, coaches, young chess players and their parents.

USA, in English, a test-tutorial for practitioners, an enlarged format. What wins chess games? More than anything else, organized and efficient thinking. But chess thinking is specialized. Even Albert Einstein was a confessed chess duffer. It's not so much how smart you are. The effects of memorizing moves, one of the most widespread attempts to improve, pale beside the results of learning. How to Think in Chess is the rare book that explains in the clear terms the techniques.

The proposed manual is the first part of the superbook about chess tactics. The author of the work is the international grandmaster of the ICChF AS. Volchok introduces readers to the combinational elements, teaches to speed up the game and conduct spectacular tactical blows and combinations. The location of the material in the form of lessons, ending with examples for self-decision, makes the book not only very useful, but also original, that is, having no analogues in the world chess literature. For a wide range of readers. This manual is the second part of the superbook about chess tactics. The author of the work is the international grandmaster of the ICChF AS. Volchok complements the content of the initial course, but produces it on the basis of more difficult examples from practice, the complexity, unpredictability and beauty of which, as a rule, consists in spectacular combinations of several simple tactical ideas. The duration of training fragments increases in comparison with the first part, and in some cases reaches 17-20 moves, which allows using the textbook on chess tactics as a training.

Readers are offered 175 positions, in each of which one must choose continuation, basing not only on the calculation of options, but on the assessment of the situation ... "For a wide range of chess players.