Alexander Alekhine. Complete Chess Game Collection in 4 volumes. 550 chess games with authors comments!Chess Book:  Title: Alexander Alekhine. Complete Chess Game Collection. 4 vols.Vol. I. 1905 – 1920 Published: Moscow, Russian Chess House. 2009 336 pages   Vol. II. 1921 – 1925 Published: Moscow, Russian Chess House. 2012 356 pages   Vol. III. 1926 – 1931 Published: Moscow, Russian Chess House. 2015 352 pages   Vol. IV. 1931 – 1946 Published: Moscow, Russian Chess House. 2017 472 pages Language: Russian World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or five greatest players in chess history. Edward Lasker rates him the game’s supreme inventive genius; Euwe considers him the all-time greatest attacking player. A master of all phases of chess, his games were richly conceived and immensely complex. As Bobby Fischer observes in his writings, “He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.” Between 1927 and 1936 his successes in tournaments were unsurpassed by any master at any time in the history of chess. At San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931, in competitions that featured many of the world’s greatest players, Alekhine so outdistanced the field that he was indisputably in a class by himself. In a career including some seventy tournaments, he won first prize forty-one times, tying for first on nine occasions. He won or shared second prize fourteen times. Chess was Alekhine’s life; he lived for it alone. And although the final chapter of his career and his life were tragic, his achievements at the chessboard rank him as one of the game’s true artists. Filled with Alekhine’s own penetrating commentary on strategy and tactics, and enhanced by a revealing memoir, My Best Games is grandmaster chess at its most sublime. This volume belongs in the library of every serious student of the game.

Alexander Roshal’s certificate «Master of Sport of the USSR»Dimensions: 13 * 9,5 cm (closed) Alexander Borisovich Roshal (1936 – 2007) was a Soviet chess master and journalist, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine «64» PK6

Amber Chess Set   Dimensions of the board and pieces: Board – 280 x 280 x 15 (mm), chess Board-250 x 250 (mm) (cell 27 x 27 (mm)). Figures height: King-57 mm, pawn-28 mm. Base diameter 22 mm. Velvet lining. Material: amber

Author: John Barron.Title: KGB Segodnya (KGB today)First Russian editionPublisher: «Time and We», New York, 1984.Language: Russian432 pagesVery good condition. In 1965 the famous American journalist of the monthly "Reader's Digest" John Barron was the head of the research collection of materials about the activities of the Soviet Committee of State Security. The As a result of this research came the book, which became a bestseller in the USA and Western Europe. Джон БаронКГБ сегодняНью-Йорк – Иерусалим – ПарижИздательство «Время и мы», 1984Отличное состояние В 1965 году известный американский журналист ежемесячника "Ридерс Дайджест" Джон Баррон возглавлял исследовательскую работу по сбору материалов о деятельности советского комитета государственной безопасности. Исследование завершилось изданием этой книги, которая стала бестселлером в Сша и Западной Европе.

American Chess Book:  Author: A. Raetsky, M. Chetverik Title: No passion for chess fashion Published: Boston, 2011 Language: English 234 pagesEK33

Collection tournament photo: young Kasparov Petrosyan, Geller, Vaganyan, Lutikov, Tseshkovsky, Kochiev. Vasiukov, Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze, Makarychev, Bielawski. USSR Spartakiade, 1979. Photo size 90 x 60 mm.

Fairytale Animals Chess Set. Beautifully made in a cold cast polyresin with and then painstakingly hand painted in the fairytale clothingKing's hight 8 cm base - 2.5x2.2 cmPawn's hight 6 cm base - 2.5x2.2 cmSize of the game board: approx.39.5x39.5x6 cmThis set is brand new, has never been used and comes in its own high style Fully Decorated Box

Eutsche Bucherei der Ungarischen schachwelt Author: V. J. Nenarokow Title: Die Spanische Partie Published: Magyar Sakkvilag, Kechkemet, Ungarn Language: German 47 pages Арт ек22

Antique Russian Photo of World War I:The russian soldiersDimensions: 16.5 * 10.5 cm  

Author: Thomas MannTitle: Joseph in Egypt. Volume IIPublished: Alfred A. Knopf publishing, New York, 1938672 pagesNote: economy shipping (without tracking)

Antique American Chess Book: Author: N. Marache Title: Marache’s manual of chess Published: New York, 1866 Language: English 156 pages   Арт ек17

The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress, containing the games of the International Chess Tournament held at New York in 1889: Author: William Steinitz (1836 – 1900)Title: Sixth American Chess Congress Published: Sixth American Chess Congress, New York, 1891. First edition Binding: Hardcover. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Language: English XXXVIII + 490 pages with table and diagrams Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 267 issued to T. Y. Homatow, Taschkent Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament, draws were counted as a half point. In the second half, they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds, 8 replay rounds, and 4 game playoff for first at the end, there were 50 rounds all told (!). Like the 4th Congress, this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time (though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891), giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz, who finished in 6th Place with a score of +22-9=7 The book comes with an article by the Soviet masters Aginsky, the former owner of this book. Condition:  Traces of water on the title page, blank page before title page and two blank pages at the end of the book (see photos).