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  • Author:
    Eive

    The corpus of this textbook includes two significant works by the world chess champion, scientist and prominent teacher Max Euwe — "Self‑help chess game", created in collaboration with G. Den-Hertog, and "Chess Lessons". The first work is designed for beginners, the second for more experienced chess players. The book is a real chess tutorial in the true sense of the word. This is expressed not only in the appropriate distribution of the material and the method of presentation, designed to awaken the initiative of the student, but also in numerous practical exercises offered to the reader after explaining each new concept or technique.The textbook primarily attracts the methodology of presentation of the material, the principles of which will be useful for coaches and teachers of chess sections and circles. For a wide range of chess fans.

    25.00 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    16.67 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises. In each opening, attention is drawn to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the opening theme. Written in clear and easy language, the book is furnished with a large number of diagrams. Colored explanatory arrows on the diagrams and the selection of individual pages with a colored background make the book easier to understand. Regular work solve two problems: deepen the student's knowledge and develop his tactical vision, thus improving his skill and results.

    28.80 $
  • The size of the board when folded is 35x17.5 cm. The size of the board when unfolded is 35x35 cm. Cage size is 3x3 cm  King height 6.6 cm. Base diameter 2.2 cm. Pawn height 3.1 cm. Base diameter 2 cm. Backgammon - checker 2.1 cm. Weight 830 g. Includes backgammon chips and dice Chess board and backgammon chips can be used to play checkers Manufacturer Poland

    148.00 $
  • Author:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • 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 $
  • 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 $
  • The height of the king is 95 mm, the diameter of the base of the king is 42 mm. Currently used in tournaments of the Central House of Chess Players. The kit is sold without a board.

    47.50 $
  • 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 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is dedicated to the strongest piece on the chessboard – to the queen. Using the example of episodes from games of modern grandmasters (the vast majority of games date back to 2020-2023) and his own grandmaster practice, the author tries to generalize, and in some places even clarify the methodology for understanding and playing queen endings, as well as other types of endgames with the presence of queens ) On the desk. The book presents various ratios of material – “queen against queen”, “queen and minor piece against queen and minor piece”, “queen and rook against queen and rook”, “queen against two rooks”, “queen against rook and pawns”, “ queen against a rook and a minor piece”, “two queens against two queens” – practically the entire spectrum of encountered endgames of this type. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get maximum benefit from studying the examples of queen endings and its other derivatives offered by the author. 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 $
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Books 1991-2023

  • book

    27.64 $

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    The index takes into account and systematized books, magazines, newspapers, special bulletins on chess and the game of chess and published in our country from 1775 to 1997. Reflected literature in Russian and other languages of the peoples of Russia and foreign countries. The material is annotated, book reviews are indicated. The publication is addressed to a wide range of qualified chess players - practitioners, historians, theoreticians, methodologists, workers of chess clubs and universal libraries, collectors of chess literature.

  • book

    26.95 $

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    Color photos and cartoons, gift edition

  • book

    26.67 $

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    The unit is in excellent condition, the cover is shabby. The book in an entertaining way tells about the extraordinary travels of the "inventor of chess" by the Marquis de la Tante. Storms, shipwrecks, attacks by pirates, a Hindu fakir, a prison, a talking dog, an uninhabited island, a miraculous rescue, the king’s cunning ... What is it that is not here! The original little pockets are made by a young artist Julia Krasnova. The book will be of interest not only to young readers, but also to all chess lovers. The authors dedicate a book to the memory of a friend of chess composer Leopold Mitrofanov. Color illustrations.

  • book

    26.67 $

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    Evidence of an eyewitness. Memoirs of a chess player.

  • book

    25.00 $

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    For the first time in the history of Russian literature, a chess encyclopedia created by two well-known Russian chess historians and writers Isaac and Vladimir Linder is offered to the attention of readers. Combining the reference and encyclopedic principle with liveliness of presentation, the authors sought to present this ancient game as a cultural field that has become one of the phenomena of modern civilization. The book contains many illustrations from the personal archives of the authors and is intended for a wide range of readers.

  • book

    25.00 $

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    The chess chronicle of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad and again Petersburg includes several parties from 1889 to the present day. 1. The struggle for the world chess crown from M. I. Chigorin to Khalifman. 2. International chess tournaments from 1895-96 to the modern Memorials of M.I. Chigorin and others. 3. On the contribution of Leningrad-Petersburg chess players to the development of chess theory and practice. A book with a color cover and hardcover is replete with photographs, standings, commented games. Designed for all chess fans, without exception.

  • book

    25.00 $

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    500 games and endings with comments. & quot; Plump & quot; gold-embossed binding.

  • book

    24.83 $

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    Gift edition. On coated paper. Full color printing. In this book, the famous chess writer Yevgeny Gik gathered together thirty of his chess essays published in recent years. Serious, entertaining and humorous essays are written in free form - with lyrical digressions, history excursions, chess bikes, etc. A variety of genres are presented: interviews, humorous sketches, irony or sarcasm, episodes from biographies of famous people, historical and sports stories. The heroes of the book were the chess kings Karpov and Kasparov, Botvinnik and Tal, the contenders for the Korchnoi and Taimanov crowns, Grandmasters Flor and Gulko, as well as the poet and artist Vysotsky, the writers Aksenov, Vainer, Zorin, Arkanov, composer Dashkevich, the scenographer Krasnov, the television commentator Maslachenko and others. Funny stories about how the chess program won TEFI, as the author was in the Interrekord, and his wife was a double Mireille Mathieu, etc. The book can be considered as a chess album - it contains more than 200 unique photographs.

  • book

    24.83 $

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    A very short time passed and one more "business card", on which our young state is recognized, was the phrase "Kramatorsk chess school". It was in Kramatorsk that the youngest FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomarev was brought up and a whole galaxy of young grandmasters, talented chess players - current and future champions. About how Kramatorsk became the forge of chess geniuses, is told in this book. The book is supplied with color photographs.

  • book

    24.83 $

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    An entertaining story about interesting pursuits, created by a chess master, mathematician and journalist. Word games, games on paper, games with boards, stones, bones and figures. The book formulated winning strategies (where they exist), many original finds of the author.

  • book

    24.67 $

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    "The book of the beginning chess player" belongs to the pen of the two-time champion of the USSR, international grandmaster Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish, one of the world's largest experts in the theory of debut and endgame. It was on this book that many masters and grandmasters studied, it was she who became an excellent tool for coaches who teach chess in clubs, clubs and Palaces of Pioneers.