The Italian expression dare il gambetto - "substitute the leg" - came into the everyday language of chess players as early as the end of the XVI century, when it was applied by the Spaniard Rui Lopez in his famous leadership. "Substituting a leg" means playing sharply and out of the ordinary at the very beginning of the game, sacrificing a pawn or even a figure in order to seize the initiative, quickly develop its attack and threaten the enemy king. Famous chess writer and master Anatoly Matsukevich invites you to the fascinating, bright world of gambit game. For a wide range of chess fans.

The author offers to your attention a course covering all major gambits and gambit systems. “Before you try to play positionally, you need to learn how to combine. Do not start with closed beginnings or French defense, play open beginnings and gambits! Perhaps you will suffer a few defeats at first, but in this way you will learn how to play, ”these ideas of the outstanding chess thinker Richard Reti form the basis of this book. The publication is designed for a wide range of chess lovers.

The author offers you a course covering all the main gambits and gambit systems. Do not start with the queen's gambit or the French defense, play open beginnings and gambits! Perhaps you will suffer a few defeats at first, but learn to play this way. These ideas of the outstanding chess thinker Richard Reti are the basis of this book. The book is designed for a wide range of chess lovers.

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The purpose of the book is to help a 5-7 year old kid learn the basics of chess openings. With the help of fun lessons in a forest school, your kid, along with fairy-tale characters, will take the first steps to the glory of the great grandmasters.

The book presents all open beginnings, and each debut is revealed by analyzing the most significant and characteristic parties for this beginning. Thanks to this, a reader studying a particular debut will better master the basic ideas and typical positions of this beginning. The book offered to your attention will render essential assistance in the work on the study of chess theory and will help to solve many problems of your improvement.

(ed.A. Kharitonov). The debut of 4 horses (Rubinstein's version) and the defense of 2 horses (Traxler's counterattack).

When chess pieces are withdrawn and interact, it becomes necessary to calculate specific variants of the chess game in a limited time. Here, the assessment of the position based on the basic chess patterns comes to the aid. In this book, the author offers general laws of chess strategy, as well as strategies for debut, middlegame and endgame. The book will be useful both for beginners, and candidates for the master, and for all who are interested in chess.

The new book of the well-known chess theoretician and teacher, author of popular books, grandmaster Nikolai Kalinichenko is a collection of combinations for independent decision, all positions in which are grouped by their opening character. In this work, more than 1000 combinations are collected. In this form and in such a volume, this debut classification is presented in chess literature for the first time. Typical opening combinations very expressively and clearly reflect the ideas characteristic of a particular opening. The knowledge of these ideas is absolutely necessary for every chess player who wants to quickly increase the level of his game and improve its results. The combinations in the textbook are test ones, that is, points are awarded for their decisions. This will allow you to determine what power you are playing. The book will be useful to a chess player of any qualification.

In this book of the famous Danish master you will find a wide range tips and ideas that will help you reach a new level in understanding, which, in turn, will improve your tactical vision. Since during the game you constantly have to evaluate the position and choose a specific solution that is not always naked calculation of options, it is useful to use a relatively simple formula, guided by which, you can take the right solutions - both short-term and long-term. It includes a number of elements that constitute the subject of this book. Tastefully selected examples, as well as tasks for self- solutions will surely bring you pleasure and help "To consolidate the material that has been passed." For a wide range of chess fans.

The book of the multiple world chess champion A. Karpov and the master A. Matsukevich is dedicated to one of the most profound and completely unexplored topics & mdash; searching for an algorithm for assessing the position of and, as a consequence, choosing the right plan. It is calculated for qualified chess players.