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  • Author:
    Tal

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Kostrov

    Hundreds of thousands of novice chess players have held in their hands the solution books of “1000 chess problems” for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of study. These collections became winners of the “Chess Vseobuch of Russia” competition. We decided to combine our three books into one so that the future grandmaster would have more opportunities for improvement and choice of material. It will also be easier for students and coaches to regulate the speed of the material. In the first parts of our book, novice chess players will get acquainted with all possible types of checkmates. Then, future grandmasters will learn to deliver magnificent double blows with a queen and a knight, promote a pawn to a queen. Studying according to this solution book, you will also master the pin, learn to cover yourself from the enemy's pieces, block the enemy's forces, destroy the most reliable fortresses, distract and entice his royal majesty and much more. Work with the book as with a textbook, and do not forget to write down the solutions under each diagram! The correct solutions are at the end of the book. For the widest range of chess fans.

    15.75 $
  • 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 $
  • Author:
    Bezgodov

    The youngest first–grader in the USSR, the world champion among young men, a participant in the candidates tournament at the age of 19 - Boris Spassky's rise was rapid. And then fate gave the brilliant chess player a test of strength: he stumbled twice at the decisive moment and remained beyond the threshold of interzonal tournaments ... Only ten years after his first great success, Spassky managed to pass all the qualifying tests and earn the right to a match for the crown, but he failed to defeat the Iron Tigran Petrosian the first time. It took three more years of super–efforts: by Sisyphus he rose again to the foot of Olympus and did not miss a second chance - in 1969 he became the Tenth king of chess! An essay about the life of Boris Vasilyevich and his sporting path full of ups and downs was written by Dmitry Oleynikov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, curator of the Chess Museum of the Chess Federation of Russia. 70 beautiful and instructive games of Spassky were commented on by the champion of Russia in 1993, the famous author and theorist grandmaster Alexey Bezgodov, as well as grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin and FIDE master Steve Giddins. The preface was written by the 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik. For a wide range of chess fans.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    This new book by the many-times world champion Anatoly Karpov and the author of more than fifty books, grandmaster Nikolay Kalinichenko, is devoted to one of the most complicated and strategically deep openings & mdash; the Queen's Gambit Declined. Using games played by the strongest grandmasters, it describes the interesting ideas which have appeared in the main development systems of this opening. Along with games from recent years, the book presents the most important encounters from the chess heritage. And of course, it includes games by Anatoly Karpov himself & mdash; a great expert on the Queen's Gambit, who generously shares with the reading his unique understanding of the concepts involved. The book is aimed at strong players, but it will also be of interest to a wide range of chess enthusiasts.

    36.00 $
  • 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:
    Vysotsky

    20.00 $
  • Author:
    Getmanchuk

    16.67 $
  • 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:
    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 $
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    Antique Soviet Chess Book: Author: V. Nenarokov Spanish Game. Published: Moscow- Leningrad, 1932 Binding: Soft Language: Russian 48 pagesЕК 24

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    Author: A.A. Smirnov Title:  Beauty in The Chess Game Language: Russian Publisher: publishing house Academy. Leningrad,1925. Pages: 112 Abstract. An Article and collection of thirty beautiful parties and all parties played in the last 5 years, with detailed comments and 52 diagrams.   Арт ЕК2

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    Antique Chess Book: Author: A. Nimtsovich Selected games of the International tournament in Karlsbad in 1929 Published: Leningrad, 1930 Binding: Hard, Soft Language: Russian 126 pages Condition: Library notes of a non-existent library and minor damage of the title pageЕК 25

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    Chess Book: Author: Sarhan Guliev Title: Veselin Topalov. Selected games on the Ex-World Chess Champion Publisher: Moscow, Russian Chess House, 2017 Binding: Hardcover Language: English 468 pagesThis book is devoted to the games of a great chess player who has done much to set the agenda for the development of modern chess - Bulgarian Grandmaster, FIDE 2005 World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. After becoming Under 14 Would Chess Champion in 1989 Topalov become one of the leading chess players in the world in the mid 1990s. The wider Russian public first heard of the Bulgarian Grandmaster in 1994, when Topalov beat the Great and Fearsome Garry Kasparov at the Olympiad.

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    The inscription says: To the respected A. Y. Karpov with a wish of further big successPublished: Geidelberg, 1977 Author: Friedstein G. Binding: softcover Language: german Condition: very good 204 pages Size: 15 x 21 cm   Contents autograph from the author to dear Anatoly Karpov with wishes of further great success.   This system of development, developed and introduced into practice by the Yugoslav grandmaster V. Pirtz and the Soviet master A. Ufimtsev.

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    Published: Moscow, 2022 Author: Oleinikov   Edited by: Notkin Binding: softcover Language: russian Condition: excellent 87 pages Size: 14,3 x 10,2 cm   Coated paper, color print, with illustrations and photographs.

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    Publishing house: FSHR LibraryAuthor (s): OleynikovLanguage: RussianFormat: Encyclopedic formatPages: 88Binding: SoftDate: 2021A luxurious photo album on coated paper!To mark the centenary of Vasily Smyslov, the Russian Chess Federation has released a photo album-a chronicle of the life of the seventh world champion. This is not only a photobiography of the great chess player, but also a panorama of the chess life of our country for seventy years, from the 1930s to the early 2000s. From about one and a half hundred stopped moments of V. V. Smyslov's life, an amazing line of continuity is formed. It goes from the chess of the Russian Empire, through the stages of development of the Soviet chess school and to the chess of post-Soviet Russia: here is the father of the champion, Vasily Osipovich, a chess enthusiast-a student of the Technological Institute in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, later the champion of the Soviet Goznak ,and here are the Soviet chess players against the background of the defeated Reichstag; here is a short stop at the ramp of the silver TU-104 on the way to the next tournament, and here is the celebration of the absolute world champion Vladimir Kramnik…In many photos, next to Vasily Vasilyevich, his wife, Nadezhda Andreyevna, with whom they lived for more than 60 years: they are together on vacation in the mountains, and in the first minutes of the triumph of the spring of 1957, and at the 85th anniversary of Smyslov, and until the last days…The album includes photos from the photo archives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, from the family archive of the Smyslovs (provided by his nephew Yu. V. Fominykh), as well as rare and completely unknown documents, including a letter to the president of FIDE, F. To Olafsson with a request for admission to the same contender cycle, where Smyslov set a special record: at the age of 63, he reached the final match of the contenders!

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    Chess Set: pennant and pin of  23 Chess Olympiad in Elista 1998   The pin diameter is 5, 5 cm. The height of the pennant is 21 cm, the width of the pennant is 13 cmЕК 26

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    Complete set of issues of the chess bulletin: “Russia”- Chess Festival. Sochi 1980 Published by All-Russian Chess Club, Sochi, 1980 4 issues   Арт ек21

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    Author: T. Morozova, A.Prad’ko Title: Fairy tale Chess Stories & Adventures Published: Odessa, 2003 Binding: Hardcover Format: Normal Language: Russian Pages: 204Арт ЕК 7

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    Russian Chess:  Title: 16 Wall Portraits: World Chess Champions Painter: N.Kochergina Language: English, Russian Publisher: Moscow, Russian Chess House, 2017 16 pages

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    Size: 24x18 cm and 22x15 cmArt PK5