The book presents the entire history of women's chess, starting with ancient times, the first tournaments and ending today. The life and work of all world champions - Vera Menchik, Lyudmila Rudenko, Olga Rubtsova, Elizaveta Bykova, Nona Gaprindashvili, Mayi Chiburdanidze, Xie Jun, Zhuzhy Polgar, Zhu Chen, Antoinette Stefanova, Xu Yuhua, as well as their main rivals in the struggle for world chess crown. The authors and the outstanding chess player, an uncrowned champion, who fought well with the male grandmasters, Judit Polgar, did not ignore the attention. It will be interesting to get acquainted with ambitious young chess players who are ready to fight for the title.

Mythic work: more than 300 games of the ex-world champion with detailed notes, autobiographical essay, all sketches, a full list of performances.

A chess player of Ukrainian descent from the USA, an international master and professor, about himself and the chess community. Parties (with Fisher, Spassky ...) are commented by A.Mikhalchishin. Great published!

All 14 champions of the world from Wilhelm Steinitz to Vladimir Kramnik. About their life and creativity, competitions with their participation, about their contribution to chess art and rivals. The best games, combinations, endings. Archival materials and numerous photographs. Personal impressions of the authors about the matches for the world championship and meetings with the champions. The authors are well-known chess historians and writers.

A fascinating story about one of the most remarkable chess players of the past century. To some extent, the book reflects the 20th century. Here is the end of tsarism, the October Revolution and the formation of the Soviet state, and universal education, and ... the popularity of chess! There is a gallery of figures of art, literature, science, rulers of the state, sports leaders. And most importantly - portraits of ordinary people, who are the very essence of Russian land. One can understand how science, culture (including chess), and the life of the people themselves are adapting to the changing structures of public life, changing ideology; Adapts to, as far as possible, develop successfully. Yes, the conditions in which people operate are changing. They dissolve in history over time, but genuine achievements remain. Chess passed through his whole life; they forced to think, strive for truth - otherwise you won’t win at the chess table - and tempered character. These "chess" qualities were subsequently used both in engineering and in cybernetics. This is a story about how an ordinary boy, who was born back in tsarist Russia, was educated (already in Soviet times), became an engineer, and then a scientist.

An autobiographical book written by an international arbiter, the permanent head of the Saratov city chess club Anatoly Zakharov has been published.

The circulation is only 200 copies !!! The author is an international master.

English; interesting post-war parties.

This book is about two popular schemes in the Slavic defense: the Moscow version and the Anti-Moscow gambit. Among those who regularly use them are Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Alexnadr Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Teimour Radzhabov, Konstantin Sakaev, Peter Svidler, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Khalifman ... Alexei Dreev has been playing these variants with black for many years at the highest level; and often quite successfully. The results of his analyzes (conducted in preparation for parties and after parties), as well as reflections during the parties themselves, formed the basis of this book.

One of the strongest Russian chess players - international grandmaster Alexei Dreev, selected and analyzed in detail 100 of his most memorable parties. In addition to purely chess comments, fascinatingly talks about meetings with interesting people who influenced his life, about how his sports career was developing.

Gennady Nesis is a man of many talents. The enumeration of his titles and degrees would not fit on a single business card, but in return for it - this amazing book full of humor and deep revelations of memories.

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.