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Frankly, I began to read this book with skepticism. And in vain! The further, the more you fall under the charm of the author’s ironic personality. Soft, not humorous humor, ease of thought and style, juicy chess examples with unexpected endings. All this could already be appreciated by the readers of & quot; 64 & quot ;, where several stories that have been included in this collection have been tested.   Most of it is given to the marvelous "landscape gardening" park. chess, filled with the clash of blitz, bikes and brandy. But flashes and leading figures of varying degrees of adulthood. & quot; It was enough for me to cross the street, go to the next school and, catching the little Boria Spassky on the break, strictly ask: "Well, how does Zack teach you there?" & quot; & quot; Here is a meeting with Vitya Korchnoi in besieged Leningrad, and a cruel defeat by the modest pioneer Vova Kramnik, and a surreal simultaneous game session in Spanish Plinares, in which the author beautifully blew Barry Klimovich Bazarov himself ... Truth and fiction, reality and mystification are to separate one from another sometimes as difficult as the vodka from tomato juice in a famous cocktail. But is it worth separating? Drink in small sips at night, and no bad dreams you will not dream!

The history of billiards in Russia has more than 300 years. It is gratifying that billiards became a full-fledged sport at the turn of the century. Not surprisingly, the ranks of billiard lovers are increasing year by year. Billiards is an amazing game, intellectual like chess. Balls on billiards are the same chess pieces, with the only difference being that they will `walk` the way you want. And for this you need some knowledge. This book is far from a textbook, but it can teach elementary rules and the basics of billiard technique.

No sport in our country has such a long - three hundred years! - stories like billiards, but there is no sport, which would have been as dramatic as a billiard's. The ball game "knew the years of prosperity and persecution, captivating grandees and merchants, intellectuals and party leaders, but also destroying the lives of outstanding players." Only in the last decade has billiards become what it should have been for a long time: a knightly sport. Billiards are an amazing intellectual game, like chess, Billiards balls are the same chess pieces, with the only difference being that they will "walk" the way you want .This requires certain knowledge. will help to learn the elementary rules and the basics of billiard technology.

In Ukrainian, about Bogolyubov, Bogatyrchuk ...

"Luzhin's Defense" is the third Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which made the author a loud literary name and put him in the first row of writers of Russian foreign countries. Behind the vicissitudes of the life history of the genius of the book, the gifted and crazy Russian émigré chess player Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, the reader is gradually exposed to the constant and most important theme of Nabokov’s creativity - the development and repetition of secret themes in human destiny. The chess defense developed by Luzhin is gradually becoming an allegory of defense against life itself, in which its sinful consciousness wreaks through some sinister actions like chess moves. In the eventual repetitions of his biography, Luzhin sees the consequence of the fateful actions of his invisible opponent - fate, and, having failed to unravel its hidden patterns, he chooses the only possible solution - exit the game ...

The author, who was an eyewitness and an active participant in the most acute conflicts that sometimes shook the entire chess world, frankly tells us that for decades it was hidden with seven seals. The book is intended for all chess lovers, and not only for them.

Where does our road lead us? Can we determine it ourselves? Can! This is the answer of this book. Although the author does not seem to say a word about this, every word he says is about it. The important elements of how to do this are established. This book is a study in which chess becomes a model that allows you to search and find relationships and patterns, and make generalizations that go far beyond the boundaries of the chess game.

Although this book is chess, it is devoted to ... love. The main story "The Wives of Chess Kings" tells about the personal life of world champions, their relationship with the beautiful sex. The book also contains cheerful, and sometimes frivolous chess-love stories, stories and anecdotes. The reader will get acquainted with the unique collection of photos of heroes and heroines of the book.

Vadim Teplitsky - an engineer-economist, journalist, chess historian. Author of more than 20 books, including monographs on the history of chess, as well as over 400 articles, essays, reports, poems, humoresque, parodies, epigrams published in Ukrainian, Israeli, Russian and American media, as well as on the Internet. Candidate master in chess. Co-author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary & laquo; Chess & raquo;

The album, containing 245 color and black and white photographs, describes the evolution of chess pieces from the Middle Ages to the present day. Excellent polygraphy, coated paper, gift edition. 3 variants in different languages: a) In German, 750 rubles. b) In English, 1300 r. c) In Russian - 1800 rubles.   Capri slimming vulkan