This book is both an excellent manual for independent study, and
a valuable instructional aid for chess trainers and teachers. Many
experts even consider that nothing better of its kind has been written.
As a program for training chess players, it was developed by Victor
Golenishchev, a USSR master and honoured trainer. Golenishchev’s
programs (the present book, and also the programs for 2nd category,
1st category and candidate master) still retain great methodological
value and are successfully employed in chess teaching. It is noteworthy
that the present work is extremely popular not only with our
trainers, but also with foreign experts. The present edition of this
classic book has been updated with numerous examples from the
games of the best players of recent years, and reflects modern views
on chess. The editor-in-chief is the multiple world champion Anatoly
Karpov.


This program is intended for the teaching of chess in schools and junior
clubs, and is aimed at trainers, teachers and club organisers, working with
young chess players.
The program assumes that the pupils know the moves of the pieces and
understand the aim of the game, although the more complicated rules will
be unfamiliar to them.
The teaching plan is aimed at 75 lessons (twice a week, each of two hours)
– a total of 150 hours.
The scheme of a lesson is roughly as follows: checking of home
assignment, explanation of theoretical material, recording by the pupils of
the home assignment and a practical part. The length of the theoretical part
of the lesson should not exceed 20-30 minutes, since most of the pupils will
be in junior school classes. Chess attracts them above all as a game, and in an
effort to cover too much the teacher may kill the keen interest of the young
listeners.

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For Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, the main & quot; villain & quot; modern chess, game and life are inseparable from each other. Behind the board and beyond, the illustrious chess player, a long-time candidate for the crown, does not recognize compromises and always remains sincere in his assessments of chess options and people (although sometimes, perhaps, is too harsh). For more than half a century career of victorious parties only, the author has accumulated more than two thousand. And this book includes the most vivid and interesting.

From Botvinnik to Fisher. In 1946, world champion Alexander Alyokhin passed away undefeated. A difficult question arose: how to determine the new, the sixth chess king? In the end, in 1948, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) hosted a match-tournament of five Grandmasters, in which I also participated. Then Botvinnik won, and within the next quarter of a century only Soviet chess players competed directly for the title of champion. Their hegemony was violated only by Fischer, but not for long ...

Karpov, Kasparov. The third volume of the collection contains games of several matches, in which I happened to participate. I can say that every such match is not an easy test, requiring maximum intensity of spiritual and physical strength. To win the champion, the champion does not always have a purely chess ability, knowledge, memory - the same opponent has the same qualities that won the competition in the series of qualifying competitions. And yet the champion is often the champion ... That's why in the history of chess until recently there were not so many of them - only thirteen. Now the chess world is present at the birth of a new system of competitions for the world championship. It seems that the element of the case will play a significant role in it. This is explained by the increased pace of life, the need to make chess more spectacular for those who do not understand the deep meaning of chess moves. It's a pity if the champions of the future do not become genuine idols for connoisseurs of our wonderful game, to which this informative book is addressed.

From Steinitz to Euwe. In the proposed three-volume book collected and commented on the parties of all matches for the world chess championship, held from 1886 to 1998. In the vast majority of these matches were the battles of real chess titans. Since 1947 the International Chess Federation (FIDE) has started organizing world championships, including qualifying competitions. This strengthened both the prestige of the title and the prestige of FIDE, which managed to authoritatively hold the world championships during half a century. Among the parties represented in this three-volume book, many genuine masterpieces, the study of which will truly delight the connoisseurs of chess art. One can confidently say that this edition gives the most vivid idea of ​​the state of chess art and chess knowledge at different stages of the history of our game during the last century. Such material can not be obsolete, can not be forgotten.

This is a collection of chess poems and poems by famous modern poets from the living classic Andrei Voznesensky to the Nobel Prize nominee for literature Konstantin Kedrov. Here d'Artagnan competes in chess with the cardinal, Leonardo makes unexpected moves with his horse, cavaliers and ladies play color chess. Artists from Sydney to Paris are actively involved in the game with their own drawings.