Essay, 136 parties.

The proposed book is dedicated to the life of the ingenious 19th century chess player Paul Morphy, who became the uncrowned world champion in a year and a half. Morphy’s tragic fate is in many ways similar to the fate of another great American, Robert Fisher, who also passed away undefeated. The book, like an exciting detective story, is read in one breath. Table of Contents Chapter 1

This book is dedicated to the life of the genius chess player of the 19th century Paul Morphy, who became the uncrowned world champion in a year and a half. Morphy's tragic fate is in many ways similar to the fate of another great American & ndash; Robert Fischer, who also left undefeated. The book, like an exciting detective story, is read in one breath.

This book is a diary of a psychologist who was persistently beside Nana Ioseliani during her match for the world championship with Maya Chiburdanidze in 1988. Successfully avoiding both entertaining "reporting from the scene", and "scientific" juggling with special terms, the author dedicates the reader to the deep feelings of people who are ready to give everything for the sake of victory, people worthy of this victory. Great merit of the author that he, many years working in sports, frankly speaks about his moral values ​​- true and imaginary.

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

An enthusiastic verve - "brio" some could say - marked both Ignaz Kolisch's personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of the mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presented by far the largest collection of ever-complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. Several widespread and long - standing errors are corrected. A work deeply researched among sources in many languages, the book serves as well as a record of European chess in the late 1850s through the 1880s.

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.

Chess heritage of A. Matokhin (about a 5-time champion of the Volgograd region).

The book is dedicated to one of the greatest chess players in history, participant of the first official world championship match Johann Zuckertort. The highest point of his brilliant career was the triumph at the largest international tournament in London in 1883, where he took first place, ahead of three (!) Points took second place Wilhelm Steinitz. In the subsequent match for the world championship, Zuckertort was leading with a score of 4: 1, and, according to many experts, only health problems prevented him from becoming the world's first official world champion. The book, in fact, is divided into two parts. The first consists of the best articles and fragments, the authors of which are mostly people who knew Zuckertort well, and gives a full picture of his personality. In the second and the main part of the book, the most complete collection of parties (more than 300), commented mainly on himself, as well as his famous rivals, is presented to the present day & ndash; Steinitz, Chigorin, etc. The continuing value of Zukertort's creativity is evidenced by the fact that many of his parties were commented on subsequently by the fifth world champion Max Euwe. I. Tsukertort, a disciple of the uncrowned world champion A. Andersen, was an adherent of romantic, combinational chess. His party will undoubtedly help you to improve your skills and get pleasure from genuine masterpieces of chess art.