The book of the FIDE President and a well-known journalist. The vast geography of the main chess competitions in which world champions and champions performed was shown. Large format; color.

The book of a chess veteran, a FIDE master, a participant in the world championship among veterans and a number of international and national competitions, a teacher, teacher and licensed trainer, Doctor of Technical Sciences Branz Efim Markovich in an entertaining and fascinating way promotes chess art. The book is educational and informative in nature, primarily on the art of combinations of the game with its wide range of ideas, methods and plans, implemented in chess pearls and masterpieces. This is a concentrated dedication to aesthetics, the beauty of chess creativity created by the Personality, with the display of its individual typological features. The book is attractive, has social and educational significance, it is intended for young children of various chess qualifications, as well as their parents, useful for children and youth coaches and organizers of chess work.

The fundamental book about CHESS, about people who love chess, and about the city of Kharkov, in which hundreds of years lived, live and work fans of chess. In fact, it is a regional chronicle, designed to preserve the pages of the 250-year history of Kharkov chess and the work of chess players, to capture their images and pictures of multifaceted life. The book contains documentary historical information and memories, about 900 works of chess creativity of Kharkov (ancient and modern parties and compositions), as well as fragments of works of fiction, photographs, paintings. In chronologically ordered annual reviews, full-time chess is side by side with correspondence chess and composition; there are sections & quot; chess reflection & quot; and & quot; chess folklore & quot ;. It is addressed to chess players of all ages and any qualifications. Of particular interest is for those interested in the history of chess in Ukraine.

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.

This book has many authors and a common theme is chess. But the reader does not even need to know how the figures go. He is invited to plunge into the world of eternal game - its history, psychology, philosophy ... He will feel the aroma of various eras, and such great boulders as Zweig, Kuprin, Leonov and Firdousi will help him in this. But not only they. The book also includes the wonderful essay by Chagodaeva, the last wife of the character of Capablanca’s chess, who wrote about him with love and sadness, and the mystery poem by an unknown author.

In addition to a wide circle of chess lovers, the book will be interesting and useful for those parents and teachers who want to discover the talents of their children with love and patience (section “The genius of the son grew up on the talent of parents”).

Imagine life without the Internet is becoming increasingly difficult, there are various ways to use it by chess players. The new century has defined a new form of absentee chess. The traditional game “through letters” was replaced by e-mail and online games. This type of chess eliminates the disadvantages of traditional correspondence and has many advantages. The book is addressed to all chess lovers, and its goal is to contribute to the spread of the game in Russia through the World Wide Web.