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  • Author:
    Zhuravlev

    This tutorial is addressed to those who want to learn to play chess on their own and improve further. The lesson-based method of presentation, as well as numerous exercises, contribute to the consistent assimilation of the rules and laws that form the basis of the chess game. The book contains extensive educational material, which is presented to the reader in accordance with modern pedagogical principles. The purpose of this manual is to train chess players of the III category (rating up to 1800). The textbook can also be used for classes in groups - it covers the material of existing programs of the first year of study in children's and youth chess schools.

    23.33 $
  • Chess was invented in the 5th century AD in India and spread throughout the world. The uniqueness of this game is that it still covers the minds of everyone - from young to old! Chess combines elements of science and sports. They develop logic, perseverance, attentiveness, analytical thinking and memory.  Checkers is a fun, dynamic and relatively simple game. Every country in the world has it. It is comparatively easier to find a partner here than in chess. Backgammon – one of the oldest known board games. It is known that it came to us from the East. First, you need to master the basic techniques, so that later you can boldly apply various tricks during the game.  Cage length: 4.5 cm. King height: 8.8cm King base diameter: 2.8 cm The length and width of the field when unfolded: 44 X 44 cm. Material: wood Country of origin: China.

    84.48 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    16.67 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    The 2nd edition, revised and supplemented, of the popular monograph, which is dedicated to one of the most combat modern debuts – the Old Indian defense. The author meticulously builds the entire defensive line of black (including on the territory of "adjacent" openings, such as the English beginning or the London system), explains standard plans and tactical techniques, offers a number of novelties in current schemes. Carefully selected positions for the solution will help the reader to consolidate the acquired knowledge. The book is addressed to chess players of any level, since the laws of Old Indian are the same for both amateurs and super grandmasters.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises. In each opening, attention is drawn to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the opening theme. Written in clear and easy language, the book is furnished with a large number of diagrams. Colored explanatory arrows on the diagrams and the selection of individual pages with a colored background make the book easier to understand. Regular work solve two problems: deepen the student's knowledge and develop his tactical vision, thus improving his skill and results.

    28.80 $
  • Author:
    Fine

    In the vast ocean of chess literature there are relatively few books about the endgame, and only a few of them can be considered true chess classics. And the most outstanding among the classics — Reuben Fine's book "Basic Chess Endings". Reuben Fine (1914−1993) was for a long time one of the best chess players in the world. As an author, Fine showed himself to be an excellent analyst who understood the full depth and peculiarities of the endgame. Having studied various types of standard positions, Fine established useful rules for practical play and proved himself to be an experienced teacher who, using skillfully chosen examples, was able to teach the reader all the necessary lessons and introduce him to the basic ideas of the endgame. Many generations of chess players in different countries of the world keep copies of “Basic Chess Endings”. For example, Mikhail Botvinnik considered Fine's work the most worthy of all that had ever been written on endgame theory.

    35.00 $
  • The height of the king is 95 mm, the diameter of the base of the king is 42 mm. Currently used in tournaments of the Central House of Chess Players. The kit is sold without a board.

    47.50 $
  • Author:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    The Caro-Kann defense is one of the most popular modern openings, which is firmly included in the repertoire of most elite chess players. The author of the book, a well-known grandmaster and theorist, offers a full repertoire for black in response to 1.e4, explains in detail the main strategic ideas of each option and gives the exact order of moves, offers a number of novelties in current schemes. In each chapter, alternative plans for black are considered, so that the reader can make a choice according to his taste, and it was more difficult for the opponent to prepare. Much attention in the monograph is paid to correspondence games in which players use all the achievements of modern technology. All analyses during the work on the manuscript are checked on powerful computers. Carefully selected positions for the solution will help the reader to consolidate the acquired knowledge. The 2nd edition supplements the section with the 10 most interesting current parties. The book is addressed to chess players of any level – from amateurs to professionals.  

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Gezalyan

    International Master Tibor Karolyi and FIDE Master Tigran Gozalyan have prepared a major work (in two volumes) about the life and work of the 9th world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan (he held the title from 1963 to 1969).  Volume II (1963-1984) tells about Petrosyan's victory in the 1963 world title match over Mikhail Botvinnik, about the grandiose two-match confrontation with Boris Spassky in 1966 and 1969, about all his candidates' matches after losing the title – against Bobby Fischer, Viktor Korchnoi and other world-class opponents. All tournaments and matches of the second half of Petrosian's chess career are presented, up to his last performances in 1983. The authors subjected 175 complete games and fragments to an in-depth analysis (using modern computers). Not all of them have been deeply studied and commented on before, but even then the book provides a significantly improved analysis. Among Petrosyan’s opponents – world champions and contenders Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Spassky, Tal, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Bronstein, as well as Timman, Larsen, Reshevsky, Belyavsky, Polugaevsky, Portisch, Romanishin and many others. Special attention is paid to his coaches – Alexey Suetin and Igor Zaitsev. 

    50.00 $
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    Dmitry Kryakvin has been researching the career and life path of Alexey Vyzhmanavin for 8 years. He talked for a long time with Vyzhmanavin's ex-wife Lyudmila (the memoirs she wrote occupy a significant place in this work), as well as with friends and colleagues of Alexey. In this book, you are waiting for 75 games of Vyzhmanavin with tasks that are designed to improve your positional class and the quality of calculating options. At the same time , the legacy of the first Russian Oli

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    The new book of the Dutch grandmaster Genna Sosonko is a kind of continuation of his collection & quot; My testimony & quot; (& quot; Ripol classic & quot;), which has become the most striking event in Russian chess literature in recent years. In the role of Nostradamus is the Dutchman Hein Donner, who was not only a strong grandmaster, but also a brilliant journalist and writer who loved to dress up as a soothsayer. Sosonko, having translated two dozen of his stories into Russian, enters into an in-depth discussion with him. In the preface, he writes: & quot; The book is built on this principle: Donner’s narrative follows first, then my own - on the same topic. I would not be a chess player if I did not consider Donner's story every day as a starting point for the competition, hoping that in any case the & quot; reader would benefit.

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    This book is unusual. It is addressed to both children and their parents. The process of learning chess promotes concentration and develops logical thinking, strengthens memory, develops ingenuity. Children with enthusiasm listen to fairy tales about exciting adventures in the chess country of well-known and favorite literary characters.

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    “In my book I do not embellish anything and do not smooth sharp corners, I tell everything as it was and is. I remember both good deeds and dubious deeds of those with whom fate brought me together. ” The biographical book of the Honored Trainer of the USSR, Russia and Georgia consists of two parts. The first is a memoir, but this is not a biography in its purest form. The author comprehended and used the conclusions arising from various life conflicts in classes with students, the most famous and successful of which were Arthur Yusupov, Sergey Dolmatov, Nana Alexandria, Alexey Dreev, Vadim Zvyagintsev, Alexander Ryazantsev, Viorel Bologan, Ernesto Inarkiev. The story is illustrated with chess examples, most of which can be used as educational material. The book also includes many funny stories from the life of the author and other famous chess players. The second volume consists of articles and interviews that reflect the author’s views on coaching, contain tips on choosing chess literature and mastering its contents, some personal characteristics, etc. For a wide range of chess lovers. Table of Contents Excerpt

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    A young international grandmaster from a small Donbass city of Kramatorsk Ruslan Ponomarev literally burst into the cohort of the world chess elite (born in 1983). Kasparov, who was skeptical at first about chess power and the game of Ruslan, after Linares, said with praise: they say, Ponomarev deservedly won in Moscow.

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    In the book "Savior of Alekhine", Merited Master of Sports of Ukraine, historian and archivist Sergei Tkachenko tells about the short but vivid life path of the first champion of Ukraine in chess, the first USSR champion in chess composition and the first Odessa master Yakov Semyonovich Vilner (1899-1931). The monograph presents 55 selected parties of Vilner, most of which are commented on by the participants themselves. In these comments, if necessary, interspersed with computer specifications. Will complement the creative portrait of Wilner 40 of his best compositions and standings. And illustrate the narrative of the author of 60 rare and archival photographs. The book is designed for a wide range of chess players: from beginners to grandmasters, as well as lovers of a historical story.

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    With this work, the publication of the "semicircle" of Mikhail Tal's creativity is being completed. It included 2664 "serious" and 363 "light" parties (including 280 with its notes), as well as selected interviews, reports, comments, stories about chess and chessplayers.

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    There are no books with the title "80 memorable parties" from Mikhail Tal. And so not less than all of it - from beginning to end - written by him! It contains party of the eighth world champion with his own comments, who passed computer testing "by Kasparov." Tal's appearance on the chess horizon was akin to the ascent a new star, when the "Riga magician", with his rebellious sparkling style of play, the meteor burst into the world of "right" chess, nurtured on fundamental positional values. For his leaders, Tal's game, based on an unbridled fantasy and risk, was a real revelation. Credo of the legendary champion - an attack on the king, accompanied by cascades of victims, when "beauty logic retreats before the effect of the paradox. " Chess creativity of a brilliant Rigaer, his magnificent comments immerse us in the magical world of genuine art, and its parties are an excellent educational material for wishing to improve their skills. For a wide range of chess fans.

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    Genna Sosonko (Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) - international grandmaster, two-time champion of the Netherlands. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. In his new book the author tells about outstanding people whose fates were inseparably connected with chess, many of them (Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal ...) he knew personally, played and constantly communicated with them. "Genna Sosonko seems to me today unquestionably a writing chess player number one," says multiple world champion Garry Kasparov. For a wide range of chess fans. In the book a block of beautiful photos on coated paper. Table of Contents Introduction Trailer

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    Genna Sosonko (Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) - international grandmaster, two-time champion of the Netherlands. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. In his new book the author tells about outstanding people whose fates were inseparably connected with chess, many of them (Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal ...) he knew personally, played and constantly communicated with them. "Genna Sosonko seems to me today unquestionably a writing chess player number one," says multiple world champion Garry Kasparov. For a wide range of chess fans. In the book a block of beautiful photos on coated paper.

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    This already legendary, brilliant book with Russian chess fans waited impatiently for everything world. Alexei Shirov, repeated challenger for the title of champion world and one of the brightest and most distinct grandmasters modernity, in detail and captivatingly comments on its The best parties, saturated with tactical fireworks and extraordinary moves. The author also talks about the practice of using the system Botvinnik, and the selected endings, allotted to a separate chapter, are educational in nature. "This boy already thinks better than me," he said. his young student Michael Tal. "Thanks to his combative fury, Shirov can to be one of Tal's direct heirs ... ", writes in the preface to the book the famous English grand master J.Spilman. For a wide range of chess fans.

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    Before you - the continuation of the legendary book, which was eagerly awaited by Russian-speaking chess fans around the world. Alexei Shirov, the repeated contender for the title of world champion and one of the brightest and most distinct grandmasters of our time, in detail and captivatingly comments on his best games, saturated with tactical fireworks and extraordinary moves. & laquo; This boy already thinks better than me & raquo ;, & mdash; said about his young student Michael Tal. "Thanks to his combative fury, Shirov can be considered one of Tal's direct heirs ... & raquo ;, writes the famous grand master J.Spilman. In comparison with the English edition, the book is supplemented by the parties of recent years. For a wide range of chess fans.