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  • The size of the board when folded is 46x23x5 cm. The size of the board when unfolded is 35x35 cm. Cage size is 4.6x4.6 cm  The height of the king is 10 cm. The diameter of the base is 3 cm. Pawn height 5.5 cm. Base diameter 2.8 cm. Weight 1380 g. ART 123 Manufacturer Poland

    183.15 $
  • Magnetic road chess: folding board-case made of artificial leather, tablet-figures with a convex image. Wallet size 19x22 cm. The playing field is 15.5 x 15.5 cm. Cell 2x2 cm.

    51.72 $
  • Unique chess for 3 players. Such chess will appeal to any person who chooses something new and appreciates original things. Manufacturer MADON-CHESS (Poland) Chessboard size: 46.5x54x2.5cm (unfolded) King height: 7.7cm King base diameter (cm): 3  Pawn height (cm): 3.6 Pawn base diameter (cm): 2.1 Presence of weighting agent: no Weight: 1311 g. Wood used for the chessboard: beech, birch Wood used for figures: hornbeam, beech  Intermediate chess for three is ideal entertainment for friends. The chess store presents to customers a unique set from a Polish manufacturer. If you are planning to buy a medium chess set for three in Moscow, pay attention to the set MADON-CHESS.   The main advantages of a chess set for three are reasonable cost and workmanship. The chess pieces are made of beech and oak of the highest quality. The chessboard is not inferior in quality: it is based on birch and beech.  The set consists of chess in three colors.  The chessboard has a compact size and is convenient to store on a shelf. Inside the board there are three separate compartments for storing pieces. For convenience and to keep products intact, the board is equipped with a soft lining.

    214.50 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises. In each opening, attention is drawn to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the opening theme. Written in clear and easy language, the book is furnished with a large number of diagrams. Colored explanatory arrows on the diagrams and the selection of individual pages with a colored background make the book easier to understand. Regular work solve two problems: deepen the student's knowledge and develop his tactical vision, thus improving his skill and results.

    28.80 $
  • 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:
    Chernyshov

    The authors continue to study typical opening and middlegame positions. Royal Fortress No. 2 has pawns on squares f7, g6, h7 (or f2, g3, h2), and they are usually joined by another defender – bishop on g7 (g2). This formation is called fianchetto, it is found in many popular openings, such as the Catalan Opening, King's Indian Defense, Grunfeld Defense and a number of others.  The authors analyze in detail the techniques of attack, defense and counterattack. Most examples – from the creativity of modern chess players (for example, a separate chapter is dedicated to the strongest Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi); they are complemented by parts that have become a classical heritage. The book contains about 300 positions for independent solution, so it is not only a textbook, but also a solid problem book. Grandmaster Konstantin Chernyshov, head of the Interregional Grandmaster School in Kostroma, and his daughter International Master Natalya Kareva – experienced coaches, whose students include grandmasters and masters, champions of Russia and Europe among juniors.  The book is addressed to young chess players and their mentors. 

    20.00 $
  • Author:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Ezhov

    Grandmaster Carlos Torre – like a chess comet; his genius flashed dazzlingly and quickly went out in the chess firmament! He – the author of the most famous “mill” in the history of chess, the 2nd world champion Emanuel Lasker fell into its merciless millstones. The authors spoke about the life and work of the Mexican genius (the book contains 25 commentated games by K. Torre). Torre’s book “How a Chess Player is Formed” is presented, an essay by international master Yaroslav Prizant about Torre’s attack in modern practice. In the section "Play like Torre" – 36 instructive examples from his practice to solve. Finally, there is an interview with Carlos Torre, conducted by Gabriel Velasco in 1977. Working with the book will give readers not only aesthetic pleasure, but will also help improve their skills.

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is  the final link in a series of publications by the author, directed  to study the classical endgame using examples of modern games   grandmasters. This time the subject of the study – light piece endgames. Clarification of the methodology for working on this stage of the game, as well as the main features and methods of playing such endings. Examples  taken from the practice of modern grandmasters and dated back to 2020-2023. The author offers the reader the most recent and unique information. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get the maximum  benefit from studying the examples offered by the author  queen endings and its  other derivatives. 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:
    Fine

    In the vast ocean of chess literature there are relatively few books about the endgame, and only a few of them can be considered true chess classics. And the most outstanding among the classics — Reuben Fine's book "Basic Chess Endings". Reuben Fine (1914−1993) was for a long time one of the best chess players in the world. As an author, Fine showed himself to be an excellent analyst who understood the full depth and peculiarities of the endgame. Having studied various types of standard positions, Fine established useful rules for practical play and proved himself to be an experienced teacher who, using skillfully chosen examples, was able to teach the reader all the necessary lessons and introduce him to the basic ideas of the endgame. Many generations of chess players in different countries of the world keep copies of “Basic Chess Endings”. For example, Mikhail Botvinnik considered Fine's work the most worthy of all that had ever been written on endgame theory.

    35.00 $
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    6.91 $

    About chess and outstanding chess players.  The author visited the most significant chess competitions of the post-war years, including the world championships in Baguio, Merano, Moscow, Leningrad and Seville. Talking about the outstanding masters of our time, the writer reflects on the educational power of the ancient game, the art of opposition, the origins of sports victories. The book is intended for the general reader.
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    37.24 $

    The album is dedicated to the three-time world champion in chess. He talks about the multifaceted activities of the Soviet Grandmaster. The book has many black and white photographs.

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    16.55 $

    This book is dedicated to the work of one of the strongest chess players in the world from 1930-1940. Ex-world champions M. Botvinnik and V. Smyslov, outstanding grandmasters D. Bronstein and S. Flor share their memories of him and his work. The essay on Lilienthal is written by the writer V. Vasiliev. A. Lilienthal selected and commented on his best games for this book.

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    37.24 $

    Russian Checkers М Physical Education and Sports 1987г. 384 pp .: ill. Soft cover, enlarged format. The book is a kind of encyclopedic edition: it shows 2750 combinations, classified by the final blows and methods of their conduct. Using this book, the shashist will always find the model position he needs with the necessary mechanism for carrying out the combination. At the end of each section, decisions are made. This method of distribution of the material helps free orientation in certain situations that develop in a practical game.
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    16.55 $

    This book is a diary of a psychologist who was persistently beside Nana Ioseliani during her match for the world championship with Maya Chiburdanidze in 1988. Successfully avoiding both entertaining "reporting from the scene", and "scientific" juggling with special terms, the author dedicates the reader to the deep feelings of people who are ready to give everything for the sake of victory, people worthy of this victory. Great merit of the author that he, many years working in sports, frankly speaks about his moral values ​​- true and imaginary.

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    6.91 $

    The author of this book is & ndash; master B. Shashin, famous chess theorist and journalist. In his new work, he in a popular form talks about such an interesting strategic problem as playing on the queenside. Numerous examples from the classical heritage and modern practice show the features of the struggle on this section of the board. Designed for a wide range of chess lovers.

  • book

    9.67 $

    This book is a game, a competition book. Its purpose is not only to entice the young reader into the world of an interesting, smart board game, into the world of amazing combinations on a checkerboard, but also to give him the opportunity to test his strength and fulfill (so far conditionally) the norm of sports category. The book is intended for children of primary and secondary school age.
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    103.64 $

    Practical manual for self-study, second edition.

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    36.67 $

    Iser Iosifovich Kuperman (April 21, 1922 - Habno March 6, 2006, Boston) Soviet and American shashist (Russian and international drafts), international grandmaster (1958), draft theorist. One of the largest shashists of the XX century. Multiple champion of the USSR in Russian and international drafts, seven-time world champion in international drafts. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960), stripped of his title in 1978 when he emigrated to Israel. Vladimir Mikhailovich Kaplan is a grandmaster. Game theorist. Indefatigable collector of checker positions, parties. Trainer. Journalist. An extraordinary sportsman. He is the author of many drafts manuals, theoretical articles written here in America, and the former USSR. `Beginning and the middle of the game in checkers` - has become a reference book of the three generations of the men of the shashi.

    The book is in poor condition. There is a copy in the best condition - the price is 700 rubles.

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    A collection of all 24 games of the match with detailed comments. Autograph of the author.
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    10.37 $

    A collection of all 24 games of the match with detailed comments.
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    15.20 $

    The book is devoted to the life, creativity and sporting way of the brilliant Cuban chess player, world champion 1921 - 1927, X.- R. Capablanca. The book gives a detailed biography of Capablanca, which uses the memories of contemporaries and rivals of the Cuban grandmaster and opinions about his work of the greatest connoisseurs, first of all - Alexander Alekhine. Then follow the 64 elected parties of Capablanca. In the comments to them, analyzes were used of both Capablanca himself and his partners and critics. The author of the book tried to preserve the spirit and color of the chess world of the first quarter of the century, in which the passionate rivalry of the three world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine unfolded, which ended with the victory of the creative and sports facilities of the Russian chess school, which were brilliantly developed in the achievements of Soviet chess players.
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    Book from T.Ya. Zatulovskaya with an autograph and an inscription of the author, BD Persica, International Master of the ICCF, for T.Ya. Zatulovskaya. Tatyana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya - international grandmaster, champion of the USSR. Winner and winner of many international competitions, the USSR Championships (1960, 1962, 1963), the contender for the title of world champion (1961, 1964, 1967).

    Boris Davidovich Persits (September 12, 1916, Nizhny Novgorod & 1992;) & mdash; Soviet chess player, Honored Coach of the USSR (1965), international master ICCF (1984). Chess writer. Mathematics teacher.

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    16.97 $

    The book of Grandmaster V. B. Gorodetsky introduces drafts. Examples, parties, combinations, compositions are selected so as to develop logical thinking, help master the secrets of the skill of this exciting game.

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    33.33 $

    The popular textbook on playing checker endings — the book «Checkers Endgame» the great connoisseur of the game Z.I. Tsirik.

    There is a stamp on one of the pages.

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    33.11 $

    Moser I. Check endings. Translated from the Dutch and edited by Yu.P.Barsky. The preface of world champion I.I. Kuperman. The book of the Dutch theoretician I.Mozer is an anthology, where all the best that has been accumulated in the area of the 100-cell endgame from 1723 to 1941 is collected. The Russian translation, made by the master of sports Y. Barsky, contains numerous explanatory notes, corrections and additions.