This collection contains the best tasks and etudes-miniatures of composers of the Sverdlovsk region, a total of 298 works. Comments on these tasks and studies were made by their authors. We hope that this collection will be useful not only to composers working in the miniature genre, but also to novice authors. Compilers will be happy to receive any feedback and criticisms of the material posted in the proposed collection.

100 masterpieces of the world chess composition of the classics of modern chess etude. The progress in the sketching composition was attributed by the Platov brothers to the priority development of the combination-positional direction.

Promotional price! The new book of the theorist and writer, the author of over 40 books, grandmaster Nikolai Kalinichenko is dedicated to the work of the outstanding chess player Vasily Ivanchuk. Bright original game, huge talent and fanatical devotion to the art of chess have long earned one of the strongest chess players of our time a large army of fans around the world. & nbsp;

His technique is flawless, the bastions are impregnable, the attacks are crushing. 701 commented party of the current world champion Vishy Anand is invited to your attention!

Life and work of the first grandmaster of Belarus The name of Victor Davydovich Kupreichik (1949-2017) is on a par with such virtuosos of attacking chess as Adolf Andersen, Frank Marshall, Rudolf Shpilman, Rashid Nezhmetdinov and Mikhail Tal. Unlimited fantasy, pressure, thirst for struggle & laquo; to the last bullet & raquo; in all parties without exception & ndash; here are the hallmarks of the style of the first grandmaster of Belarus. Largely thanks to his achievements, the popularity of chess in the republic significantly increased, and Viktor Davydovich generously shared his knowledge and experience with the younger generation. & Nbsp; & nbsp; About the life and work of Grandmaster Viktor Kupreichik in this book are told by his relatives, friends and colleagues. Among them & ndash; world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, grandmasters Yuri Balashov, Gennady Sosonko, Boris Gelfand, Ilya Smirin, Vladimir Tukmakov, Evgeny Sveshnikov. & nbsp; For a wide range of chess lovers.

English grandmaster Nigel Short (born June 1, 1965) – one of the most successful chess players in the world in the 80-90s of the XX century. And even when he was already over 50, he was in the top 100. A three-time champion of England, a participant in 12 World Chess Olympiads as part of his country's national team, he reached the peak of his career in 1993 when he won the right to fight Garry Kasparov in a match for the world title. Nigel Short – Member of the Order of the British Empire, FIDE Vice President (since 2018). Each tournament victory is unique, especially when it is achieved against the strongest players of its time, and the winner's performance approaches or even exceeds the magic mark of 2800. In this unique book, Grandmaster Nigel Short talks about eight international competitions in which he won first place, leaving behind G. Kasparov, A. Karpov, V. Korchnoi, M. Tal, B. Gelfand, J. Timman, L. Polugaevsky, L. Portisch and many others. The comments on the games are deep and instructive, the author narrates about the vicissitudes of the struggle and various funny episodes with subtle English humor, thanks to which the book is read in one breath. "Victory March" – for those who want to win at chess!

The work of Vladimir Kramnik is a separate big chapter. in the annals of world chess. Universality of talent allowed him for a long career to create a lot of masterpieces, revealing the different facets of the struggle behind the chessboard. International grand master and experienced coach Sarhan Gu- ly subjected the party of the 14th world champion to a comprehensive ana- Liza, taking into account both the earlier comments of Kramnik himself and other researchers, and the achievements of modern com- the computer method. Being a creative portrait of one of the the most outstanding chess players of our day, the book also co- keeps information and recommendations of educational nature. For a wide range of chess fans.

Would Garry Kasparov have beaten Bobby Fischer? Was Capablanca stronger than Morphy? Many chess authors have speculated about such questions, but this book, based on a sophisticated computer analysis taken at the University of British Columbia, provides the definitive answer

In the proposed book the author appears as a man "wise with the experience of life, an intelligent companion, a narrator with a sense of humor and lyricism ... A series of short stories of the author forms a bright palette of events in which the main thing is the recent still living for us past, unlike the present ... "