`Strategy and Tactics` and` Chess Lectures Course` of the fifth world chess champion M. Euwe - two textbooks of positional and combination games, long recognized as classic. Here you will find answers to the most important questions for a chess player: how to outline a specific plan of action and by what methods to achieve its implementation? The book is distinguished by perfectly matched examples, a clear logical sequence of presentation of the material. For chess players who want to improve their skills.

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.

Brest, 300 copies, study guide

The book of the famous coach, international grandmaster I.A. Zaytsev is devoted to the nature of chess combinations. "Both philosophical arguments of the author and numerous examples, mainly from his practice and analyzes, can provide invaluable assistance to a wide circle of readers. It is useful for each chess player to determine one day in his attitude to the objective processes that occur on the chessboard and reflect on the nature of chess, checking its own representations with representations from other researchers. "

How to develop skills in the endings, fantasy, ingenuity and improve the technique of calculating options? There are numerous textbooks, but for the first time in one book, a world-famous trainer and a chess grandmaster, world champion in sketching are sharing their views on these problems. The authors selected and commented on about 200 brilliant, saturated with ideas and struggle sketches, as close as possible to the practical game. This allows readers to use most of them as exercises for making independent decisions and playing with a sparring partner or trainer.

Circulation 500 copies. This is not some kind of new debut, as it seemed to someone. This is a book about chess tactics, and more specifically about its research. The whole point of the book is to teach you to find different combinations in a regular practical game. The book presents many positions, having studied which, the reader will be better guided behind the board. & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; The relevance of this work is very great. The book was written in 2012, and, secondly, the issues raised in it are still very acute. It is not clear how to make the chess player able to find combination motifs without having much experience or combination sense. This question is practically solved by Evgeny Chuzhakin. The author has no doubt that his work will easily help raise the rating by at least 150 points.

The first part of the book is intended for chess players of the first category, the second – for masters and candidates for master of sports. The book contains 20 tests with 12 examples each. To complete the test for the 1st category, 1.5-2 hours are allotted, for kms - 2.5-3 hours. For the correct solution of this or that example, you get a certain number of points. The sum of points scored when solving the positions of one test will allow you to judge the level of your preparation. International grandmaster Igor Zaitsev about this book: “Tactical vigilance and accuracy of calculation are almost the most necessary components of sports success. And it is precisely the improvement of these most important qualities that this workshop, compiled by experienced trainers-methodologists, is intended to contribute to. In terms of the complexity of finding the right paths, the second part noticeably exceeds the first, but analytically detailed solutions in these cases allow us to get comprehensive answers to all the questions that arise.

The collection contains 700 positions from the games played - it is necessary to find the decisive combination. There are answers at the end of the book. About the book N.P. Shumilin is spoken of as one of the best collections of exercises on Soviet tactics. New edition added and corrected.

Igor Yanvarev "Tactical Mastery of a Chess Player. Volume 2. Basics of Calculation Techniques". Andrey Elkov Publishing House, Moscow, 2025 - 392 p. Before you is the second book from the three-volume work by International Master I.K. Yanvarev, a famous trainer, author of the fundamental work "The Old Indian Played by Tigran Petrosian" (2010), which received recognition from readers and was republished abroad. The three-volume work is united by a common idea - tactics and combinations in chess. In fact, this is a turnkey textbook, it explains everything from scratch to an advanced level. The second volume is devoted to the basics of calculation techniques, such topics as the tactical "spectrum" of a position, concentration of attention, inclusion of imagination are considered, the "tree of variations" is interpreted in a new way, the practical component is emphasized - the economy of calculation. A separate chapter allows the reader to assess their ability to calculate variations and outline ways to eliminate weaknesses. Each chapter ends with a large number of carefully selected examples for independent solution. Unlike other similar publications, the author examines chess tactics as a single whole, in combination with strategy and elements of psychology. It is based on the original author's methodology, which has proven itself well when working with chess players of various qualifications. Excellently selected examples, a clear logical structure and consistency in the presentation simplify the understanding of the material. For a wide range of chess fans.

Second edition, supplemented.