A guide for chess lovers of all ages. Its pocket format will allow the reader to improve his skills both on a long journey and during leisure hours. This book presents: chess rules, popular debuts, examples in the middle game and endgame, illustrated with beautiful diagrams, a dictionary of chess terms.

Practical play is often called the prose of chess, and the composition is called poetry. This book will introduce you into the wonderful and pre-corn world of chess poetry, will acquaint you with the art of chess composition - a truly inexhaustible area of ​​ancient and wise play. From the many thousands of treasures of tasks and sketches, the author tried to choose samples of masterpieces, as well as works of half-forgotten composers of the past, whose names and creativity must be revived.

Of all the questions of interest to the chess world, perhaps the most important is the question of the title of world champion,,, Х wrote to H.R. Capablanca in 1937. Today, when humankind entered the third millennium, the justice of these words has become
even more obvious. Chess & mdash; one of the phenomena of civilization, and the title of world champion is surrounded by a halo of reverence for the great
possibilities of the human mind. This is confirmed by the example of 14 geniuses who ascended the chess throne. Publisher & laquo; Astrel & raquo; continues to release a new series of & mdash; & nbsp;
“The Encyclopedia of Chess Olympus”, dedicated to the life and work of all world chess champions: from Steinitz
before Kramnik. Authors & mdash; famous Russian writers and historians of chess Isaac and Vladimir Lindera. Emanuel Lasker (1868 & 1941) & mdash; great chess wrestler, & nbsp;
thinker, researcher. He possessed gigantic practical strength, 27 years (!) Holding the title of the first chess player of the planet. And then he retained his potential for a long time, winning or becoming the winner of the largest international tournaments at the age of 54 (Moravská Ostrava, 1923), 55 (New York, 1924), 56 (Moscow, 1925), and even 66 years (Moscow, 1935)! For the philosopher and mathematics doctor Lasker, chess and life & nbsp;
were inseparable. In the chess struggle, he saw a model of human life.

We offer you a universal guide for studying the most complex and diverse stage of a chess game - the endgame. There are about 3000 examples of different endings from the best chess players in the world. The book also presents all the etudes of the world champions.

Large encyclopedic format The book of the famous chess writer Anatoly Matsukevich is an unusual textbook on playing debuts. For the first time in the world chess practice, 4,000 parties, no more than 12-13 moves in length, are systematized on debuts and are accompanied by useful, understandable explanations in any language. For a mass reader with minimal chess preparation.

The classical system in the French defense is a reliable weapon in the repertoire of such famous grandmasters as Victor Korchnoi, Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Chernin, Sergey Dolmatov, Alexander Morozevich & hellip; Theoretical research will help you better understand and study this complex and interesting version of the French defense. The second part of the monograph is devoted to the attack of Shatar-Alekhin, which is used as a means of fighting the classical system.

The debut repertoire of a chess player is his business card. For example, already at the beginning of the game you can judge the commitment of a chess player to the attacking or positional style. To choose the correct debut repertoire for yourself means to lay the foundation for future sporting and creative success.

Karpov, Kasparov, Ponomarev - personalities known today to the whole world. Already in their youth, these chess players won victories over the venerable grandmasters, won various tournaments. Who gives high hopes today, who tomorrow will dictate fashion in the chess world? About this, about the first victories, about innovations in chess and about many other things the book tells ...

An entertaining book for boys. It contains 488 chess charts. You play white and in each of these positions you declare mate to the enemy king. Well, black king, flutter! For children of preschool and primary school age.

This book presents: the best and most instructive games of John Nunn; excellent instruction on strategy and tactics; advice on how to think at the board; facts from the world of professional chess.

In recent years, Russians have made great strides in various Japanese logic games, including Japanese shogi chess. Moskvich Alexander Nosovsky, a master of sports in Renju, is one of the active popularizers of this game. The book of Muscovite Alexander Nosovsky, a renju master of sports, introduces the reader to the history and rules of the shogi game, as well as to the best games of leading Japanese masters.

On page 3 is the owner’s tag.

This book is a compact debut guide that can satisfy the demands of almost any chess player, from beginner to master candidate. Debut analyzes, meaningful games, modern interpretation of strategic and tactical ideas. Play open debuts!

Party, biography, photo, statistics. Among chess professionals, he was known as an amateur for many years, and among chess amateurs he was always considered a true professional. Gentle and kind by nature, helped by the teaching in the female lyceum, and the girlish kingdom in his own home (three daughters!), He became decisive and uncompromising in the chess struggle. Chess, math, computer - & quot; life triathlon & quot; Max Euwe, who managed to succeed in each of these areas thanks to a special internal self-control, the ability to isolate the most important thing at the moment and a stunning ability to concentrate all efforts to achieve the goal. From time to time he would postpone the blunt & quot; chess lance & quot; and was taken for a brilliantly honed & quot; literary spear & quot ;. His works on the theory and practice of chess became bestsellers. And today they are considered classics.

Party, biography, photos, statistics. Mikhail Botvinnik (1911 - 1995) - man-era! He was born under the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, and died under the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. He received instructions from the second world champion Emanuel Lasker and gave lessons to the fourteenth champion Vladimir Kramnik himself. While studying at school, he did not know the slide rule, and at a respectable age he played chess with a computer. Botvinnik was not yet 25 years old when he became one of the living symbols of a great power and remained it for the next 60 years. His remarkably solid nature was mixed up with a mixture of communist education, the Spartan regime and an innate sense of intelligence. He was one in two persons - the Champion and the Scientist. Doctor of chess and grandmaster of electrical engineering. The main advantages of Botvinnik - iron will, a scientific approach, a clear vision of the goal. Botvinnik accumulated the best features of the Soviet chess school. And at the same time, this school embodied many of the priorities it proclaimed. Botvinnik devoted thirty years of his life to the creation of an “artificial intelligence” - a chess program, not only a “master playing by virtue”, but also “thinking like him.” "Pioneer" was his pride, and his pain, and his "blue bird". Botvinnik's multivolume legacy is a classic of world chess, his life is an example of disinterested service to chess art.

Party, biography, photos, statistics. Mikhail Tal, the eighth world chess champion. A short, fragile youth with big black eyes, a phenomenal memory and unique intuition proved to the chess world that 2x2 = 5 (!). A genius of attacks and combinations, he always acted in accordance with S. Tartakower's postulate - “sacrifice in order not to become a victim!”. For Tal, chess matter in battles is nothing, beauty is everything! He melted the "chess Antarctica", took millions of fans into voluntary chess captivity. In the life of Tal, there was no everyday life, the game of chess for him has always been a holiday. Truly the gigantic strength of the spirit again and again prevailed over the hardships of the flesh. He did not think about the future, giving joy to his contemporaries, and his descendants left his creativity - an imperishable bible of chess combinations.