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  • Unique chess for 3 players. Such chess will appeal to any person who chooses something new and appreciates original things. Manufacturer MADON-CHESS (Poland) Chessboard size: 46.5x54x2.5cm (unfolded) King height: 7.7cm King base diameter (cm): 3  Pawn height (cm): 3.6 Pawn base diameter (cm): 2.1 Presence of weighting agent: no Weight: 1311 g. Wood used for the chessboard: beech, birch Wood used for figures: hornbeam, beech  Intermediate chess for three is ideal entertainment for friends. The chess store presents to customers a unique set from a Polish manufacturer. If you are planning to buy a medium chess set for three in Moscow, pay attention to the set MADON-CHESS.   The main advantages of a chess set for three are reasonable cost and workmanship. The chess pieces are made of beech and oak of the highest quality. The chessboard is not inferior in quality: it is based on birch and beech.  The set consists of chess in three colors.  The chessboard has a compact size and is convenient to store on a shelf. Inside the board there are three separate compartments for storing pieces. For convenience and to keep products intact, the board is equipped with a soft lining.

    214.50 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is  the final link in a series of publications by the author, directed  to study the classical endgame using examples of modern games   grandmasters. This time the subject of the study – light piece endgames. Clarification of the methodology for working on this stage of the game, as well as the main features and methods of playing such endings. Examples  taken from the practice of modern grandmasters and dated back to 2020-2023. The author offers the reader the most recent and unique information. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get the maximum  benefit from studying the examples offered by the author  queen endings and its  other derivatives. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans

    18.33 $
  • Made in Holland. Chess computer "Centaur" easy to use. You can easily install any language. Using the touch panel  40x40 cm (cell size 48 x 48 mm) you can easily move the figures. The sensors will record strokes. The board has a capacious rechargeable internal battery. The uniqueness of the computer is that it quickly adapts to  your playing strength (from beginner to grandmaster) so that you have the right opponent. Centaur will help you analyze the game so as not to make the same mistakes and improve your chess skill. Please note, computer is not compatible to connect to your PC or online chess. The set includes USB cable and DGT electronic chess pieces . Height of the king is 86mm.  

    1553.60 $
  • Author:
    Kostrov

    Hundreds of thousands of novice chess players have held in their hands the solution books of “1000 chess problems” for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of study. These collections became winners of the “Chess Vseobuch of Russia” competition. We decided to combine our three books into one so that the future grandmaster would have more opportunities for improvement and choice of material. It will also be easier for students and coaches to regulate the speed of the material. In the first parts of our book, novice chess players will get acquainted with all possible types of checkmates. Then, future grandmasters will learn to deliver magnificent double blows with a queen and a knight, promote a pawn to a queen. Studying according to this solution book, you will also master the pin, learn to cover yourself from the enemy's pieces, block the enemy's forces, destroy the most reliable fortresses, distract and entice his royal majesty and much more. Work with the book as with a textbook, and do not forget to write down the solutions under each diagram! The correct solutions are at the end of the book. For the widest range of chess fans.

    15.75 $
  • 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:
    Vysotsky

    20.00 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    This new book by the many-times world champion Anatoly Karpov and the author of more than fifty books, grandmaster Nikolay Kalinichenko, is devoted to one of the most complicated and strategically deep openings & mdash; the Queen's Gambit Declined. Using games played by the strongest grandmasters, it describes the interesting ideas which have appeared in the main development systems of this opening. Along with games from recent years, the book presents the most important encounters from the chess heritage. And of course, it includes games by Anatoly Karpov himself & mdash; a great expert on the Queen's Gambit, who generously shares with the reading his unique understanding of the concepts involved. The book is aimed at strong players, but it will also be of interest to a wide range of chess enthusiasts.

    36.00 $
  • Author:
    Kapengut

    An outstanding theorist and successful coach shares his memories of communication and cooperation with Mikhail Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Elena Akhmylovskaya and other outstanding chess players. Separate large chapter – a story about many years of work with Boris Gelfand: over these years (1980-1993) the student went from a 12-year-old candidate for master to the holder of the 3rd rating in the world. Albert Kapengut – winner of 6 gold medals at the World Student Olympics, seven-time champion of Belarus, participant in the individual and team championships of the USSR among men, champion of the USSR as part of the Burevestnik team. The book includes 70 games commented in detail by the author, a careful study of which will help the reader not only better understand popular opening schemes, but also get a taste for serious analytical work. “My story is not so much about a career, although “you can’t erase words from a song,” but about memorable situations, often funny, sometimes absurd, and dotted about people I met along the way, sometimes with touches of biography, prompting readers to become interested in more complete information.” ;" (A. Kapengut). For a wide range of chess lovers.

    43.33 $
  • Author:
    Chernyshov

    The authors continue to study typical opening and middlegame positions. Royal Fortress No. 2 has pawns on squares f7, g6, h7 (or f2, g3, h2), and they are usually joined by another defender – bishop on g7 (g2). This formation is called fianchetto, it is found in many popular openings, such as the Catalan Opening, King's Indian Defense, Grunfeld Defense and a number of others.  The authors analyze in detail the techniques of attack, defense and counterattack. Most examples – from the creativity of modern chess players (for example, a separate chapter is dedicated to the strongest Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi); they are complemented by parts that have become a classical heritage. The book contains about 300 positions for independent solution, so it is not only a textbook, but also a solid problem book. Grandmaster Konstantin Chernyshov, head of the Interregional Grandmaster School in Kostroma, and his daughter International Master Natalya Kareva – experienced coaches, whose students include grandmasters and masters, champions of Russia and Europe among juniors.  The book is addressed to young chess players and their mentors. 

    20.00 $
  • Author:
    Bezgodov

    The youngest first–grader in the USSR, the world champion among young men, a participant in the candidates tournament at the age of 19 - Boris Spassky's rise was rapid. And then fate gave the brilliant chess player a test of strength: he stumbled twice at the decisive moment and remained beyond the threshold of interzonal tournaments ... Only ten years after his first great success, Spassky managed to pass all the qualifying tests and earn the right to a match for the crown, but he failed to defeat the Iron Tigran Petrosian the first time. It took three more years of super–efforts: by Sisyphus he rose again to the foot of Olympus and did not miss a second chance - in 1969 he became the Tenth king of chess! An essay about the life of Boris Vasilyevich and his sporting path full of ups and downs was written by Dmitry Oleynikov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, curator of the Chess Museum of the Chess Federation of Russia. 70 beautiful and instructive games of Spassky were commented on by the champion of Russia in 1993, the famous author and theorist grandmaster Alexey Bezgodov, as well as grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin and FIDE master Steve Giddins. The preface was written by the 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik. For a wide range of chess fans.

    21.67 $
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Books 1991-2023

  • book

    22.76 $

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    The new book of the famous chess journalist, master, international arbiter and Russia is first of all the memories of a man who worked for many years in the Chess Department of the USSR Sports Committee and the USSR Chess Federation. Before his eyes passed the chess life of the country and he was a direct participant in this life.

  • book

    22.76 $

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    rossmeister Saveliy Grigorevich Tartakover (22.02.1887, Rostov-on-Don - February 4, 1956, Paris) is a remarkable chess player of the first half of the 20th century who stood at the origins (and the author of this term) of "hypermodernism", which determined a new direction in the development of chess . He not only rightfully wore the unofficial title of "champion among chess journalists", but also won in the largest tournaments: Paris-1929, Liège-1930, Hastings-1926-7, etc. The book includes 107 elected parties Savelia Tartakovera, commented on by him, the endings from his practice, which have today academic value, as well as the most interesting articles from the periodicals of that time. All the chess material was subjected to a "benevolent" computer check by the international master G. Bogdanovich.

  • book

    22.76 $

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    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;

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    22.76 $

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    How to develop a child’s original talent, how to help him become a strong chess player, what difficulties and even dangers lie in the way? The book & laquo; With Kasparov, move by move, year after year & raquo ;, written by a long-term trainer of the strongest chess player on the planet, will help to find answers to many questions. . Of particular interest should be the commentary stories to the games of G. Kasparov played in different periods, starting from the age of 9, as well as the applications placed at the end of the book. . Nikitin Alexander Sergeevich - Honored Coach of the USSR and the Azerbaijan SSR, worked with Garry Kasparov from 1976 to 1990, was his first second in the matches of 1983 - 1987.

  • book

    23.33 $

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    About the Grand Master of the ICChF. Parties with notes. Only 500 copies.

  • book

    23.33 $

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    Party, biography, photo, statistics. Garry Kasparov is the 13th world chess champion (1985-2000). Tops of success - a victory in unparalleled rivalry (1984-1990) with the 12th world champion A.Karpov, a demonstration of complete superiority over the young challengers - N.Short (1993) and V.Anand (1995), a fantastic series of victories in tournaments of the highest difficulty category, record rating (individual Elo coefficient) - 2850! The achievements of Kasparov are indisputable not only on the fields of chess battles. Author of a number of books that have become bestsellers. "A child of change," he keenly felt the global changes in the country and the world conducive to the progress of chess thought. It was he, who was named by journalists in his youth "computer with a soul", fell to the lot to take on the first wave of a computer offensive. And at the same time he became a rival, propagandist and businessman of the electronic miracle of the end of the 20th century.

  • book

    23.33 $

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    The book contains essays on the work of the honored master of sports, the international grandmaster of the ICCF Peter Vasilyevich Dubinin (1909-1983), as well as his predecessors and students: A. Vyakhirev, T. Lyubimov, V. Kuporosov, as well as 200 selected parties and compositions. The memoirs of contemporaries - L. Bychkov, A. Gilman, A. Kotov, A. Sutin, M. Yudovich, etc. - are given. For a wide circle of chess lovers.

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    23.59 $

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  • book

    23.75 $

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    Before you is the “book of life” of an outstanding grandmaster, a participant in the tournament of applicants for the world championship, the champion of the USSR. Collected in the first part of the 64 party with detailed author comments have considerable educational value. Averbach is not only a well-known debut theorist, but also an acknowledged master of the game in technical positions and the world's best expert in the endgame: he is the author of the classic work “Chess Endings”, translated into many languages. The second part of the book consists of memories, unique in their own way. In Soviet times, only the initiates knew the background of many of the most important decisions in chess. Perhaps the most informed of them was Yuri Averbakh, who for more than three decades was a member of the elite of the Soviet and international chess federations. In addition, over the years, he helped Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosyan, and Tahl. Revelations of such a person are truly priceless!

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    23.75 $

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    The book is one of the strongest chess players in the world, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi. In it, the author talks about his sports career and tough competition in the struggle for world championship with the 12th champion of the planet Anatoly Karpov in Baguio (1978) and Merano (1981). The uncompromising and frank nature of the narrative will remind the reader of the drama of those days.