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  • Author:
    Yanvarev

    Igor Yanvarev "Tactical Mastery of a Chess Player. Volume 2. Basics of Calculation Techniques". Andrey Elkov Publishing House, Moscow, 2025 - 392 p. Before you is the second book from the three-volume work by International Master I.K. Yanvarev, a famous trainer, author of the fundamental work "The Old Indian Played by Tigran Petrosian" (2010), which received recognition from readers and was republished abroad. The three-volume work is united by a common idea - tactics and combinations in chess. In fact, this is a turnkey textbook, it explains everything from scratch to an advanced level. The second volume is devoted to the basics of calculation techniques, such topics as the tactical "spectrum" of a position, concentration of attention, inclusion of imagination are considered, the "tree of variations" is interpreted in a new way, the practical component is emphasized - the economy of calculation. A separate chapter allows the reader to assess their ability to calculate variations and outline ways to eliminate weaknesses. Each chapter ends with a large number of carefully selected examples for independent solution. Unlike other similar publications, the author examines chess tactics as a single whole, in combination with strategy and elements of psychology. It is based on the original author's methodology, which has proven itself well when working with chess players of various qualifications. Excellently selected examples, a clear logical structure and consistency in the presentation simplify the understanding of the material. For a wide range of chess fans.

    19.00 $
  • 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 $
  • 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:
    Franco

    The book by grandmaster and experienced chess coach Zenon Franco includes 36 instructive attacking games and is divided into four chapters - the king in the center, one-sided castling, opposite-sided castling, and attack-defense-counterattack. Before each game, the opponents are introduced, and a brief description of the events that took place in it is given. Based on the results of the struggle in the game, lessons that are useful to learn from what has been read are listed in a concise form. The book is not overloaded with variations, the emphasis is on detailed explanations in the "move by move" format, which creates an ideal platform for studying chess. At the "support" points of each game, the reader is offered test questions, which helps both the practical study of key chess techniques and the reliable assimilation of the acquired knowledge. Questions and answers involve the reader in the learning process and help him track the growth of his chess strength. For a wide range of chess fans.

    19.00 $
  • Magnetic road chess: folding board-case made of artificial leather, tablet-figures with a convex image. Wallet size 19x22 cm. The playing field is 15.5 x 15.5 cm. Cell 2x2 cm.

    51.72 $
  • Author:
    Karoii

    50.00 $
  • 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:
    Bogdanovich

    50.00 $
  • Author:
    Vysotsky

    20.00 $
  • The size of the board when folded is 46x23x5 cm. The size of the board when unfolded is 35x35 cm. Cage size is 4.6x4.6 cm  The height of the king is 10 cm. The diameter of the base is 3 cm. Pawn height 5.5 cm. Base diameter 2.8 cm. Weight 1380 g. ART 123 Manufacturer Poland

    183.15 $
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    English and Georgian; 206 best games with commentary.

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    Foreword by Gennady Sosonko. Efim Petrovich Geller - one of the key figures of the chess scene second half of the twentieth century. For several decades he was one of the leading grandmasters of the world, six times competitions contenders for the world crown, seven times became the Olympic champion, twice - the champion of the USSR. The unchallenged authority of Geller-researcher was recognized by all World champions, starting with Euwe. Many of his ideas have not lost Nowadays, modern players use them in their own practice. In front of you is the most complete meeting of parties of outstanding chess player with his author's comments. Many duels (and all their 135!) have never been published in Russian literature before. Italic notes are given by the special editor, international master Maxim Notkin, with refinements of estimates and options found at help modern computer programs. There is no doubt that studying the work of an outstanding grandmaster help a wide range of readers to significantly increase the level of games and get real pleasure from brilliant parties.

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    Grandmaster Efim Geller can be considered the best chess player in history among those who fought with world champions. His brilliant victories (as well as those that have been lost) reveal many secrets of chess to us and teach us not only to win over champions. Most of the fights with the world champions had a very important sporting importance: the titles of the champion of the USSR, the winner of the match of applicants for the world crown, and the first place in a major international tournament were determined. They are in the first chapter. In the second - the lost victory. These are also lots of rich chess content, but those seemingly incomprehensible twists of fate, which in one instant turn success into failure, triumph into defeat. The book is designed for chess lovers.

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    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. 

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    & nbsp; The new book of the famous chess master and writer (author of more than 150 books) Evgeny Gik presents 265 best games of all chess kings - from Steinitz, Lasker, Alekhine and Capablanca to Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Karlsen. Among them are laureate parties, winning miniatures, combinations with the queen's sacrifice, decisive matches from fights for the crown and others. The reader will also find here more than 100 amazing stories about world champions and about 150 rare photographs. Photo by Boris Dolmatovsky, Eugene Geek, Dagobert Colmeyer from the author’s archive. 2nd edition.

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    The new book of the famous chess master and writer (author of more than 150 books) Evgeny Gik presents the 250 best games of all chess kings - from Steinitz, Lasker and Capablanca to Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand. Among them are laureate parties, winning miniatures, combinations with the queen sacrifice, decisive matches from fights for the crown and others. The reader will also find here more than 100 amazing stories about world champions (from the author’s collection). & Nbsp; The new book of the famous chess master and writer (author of more than 150 books) Evgeny Gik presents 250 of the best games of all chess kings - from Steinitz, Lasker and Capablanca to Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand. Among them are laureate parties, winning miniatures, combinations with the queen sacrifice, decisive matches from fights for the crown and others. The reader will also find here more than 100 amazing stories about world champions (from the author’s collection) and about 150 rare photographs. & Nbsp; Photo by Boris Dolmatovsky, Eugene Geek, Dagobert Colmeyer and from the author’s archive. Many color photos on coated paper. This is an e-book, a link to which will be available in your account after payment.

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    Состояние хорошее (НЕ отличное). Наиболее полное собрание творчества Шлехтера. Carl Schlechter's career spanned a quarter-century (1893-1918) of tournament/match play. A large number of these international events are among the evergreens of chess lore. Historians consider them to be among the finest of their kind; a judgment based on the many prominent names gracing the scoretables and the fighting spirit characterizing their games. Schlechter's successes in many of these landmark events established him as a privotal figure in furthering the cause of turn-of-the-century chess.

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    Who among us did not admire the pawn sketch of Reti, where the white king, yearned to be in the corner, suddenly develops a truly sprinting speed on the road to salvation? Who does not know the famous Rethy-Capablanca party from the 1924 New York tournament in which the illustrious Cuban suffered the first in eight years, moreover, a crushing defeat? And what was the beginning? That's right, Rethi's debut! This book is the first serious study of the work of Richard Reti in Russian. Famous English grandmaster and literary writer Golombek followed the whole course of his hero's life, carefully selected and commented on the 70 brightest parties of Reti. The book also includes selected sketches of the famous Czechoslovak grandmaster.

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    Robert James Fisher (born 1943) - international grandmaster since 1958, world chess champion since 1972. The proposed volume covers the period of creativity from 1968 to 1972 (the fifth to the eighth chapter), which additionally includes three games played Fischer with a computer in 1977. Before the games of each chapter follows the material selected by the compilers from the interview of Fisher, leading grandmasters and masters, special correspondents of chess publications, and the texts of notes and applications of the Chess Federation of the USSR were selected for the parties of the seventh chapter. The parts of the collection are classified into debuts and are provided with explanatory diagrams, tables of tournaments with Fischer's participation, an index of partners and relevant parties, Fischer's photos, as well as a personal account of Bobby with the participants of the "Match of the Century" and other statistics. Two-volume "744 of Bobby Fischer's Party" is a jubilee edition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Fischer's victory in the match for the title of FIDE World Champion.

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    Turn to the work of the outstanding grandmaster Boris Vasilievich Spassky State Enterprise & quot; Central Collector of Scientific Libraries & quot; It was prompted by the fact that in chess literature, numbering more than one thousand volumes, there are still no studies on the life and creative path of the tenth world champion. This gap is not only an act of incomprehensible and unfair indifference to the remarkable period in the history of modern chess, but also many masterpieces, the creator of which was and remains Spassky. A set of two volumes.

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    A collection of games from the international tournament of correspondence with comments by participants.