School of chess

"School of Chess" is a collection of works by a coach of the highest category, who trained a world champion among young men, the author of the "Chess Textbook", united by the theme of improving the skills of young chess players. The basic idea of chess sports, wrestling, runs through the entire book like a red thread. The importance of developing personal qualities is emphasized - the desire to defeat an opponent, self-confidence, mental balance, objectivity, efficiency, harmonious health. "Training of young people and treatment of "childhood diseases"" is an article on the methodology of teaching chess and analyzing a number of problems that arise among child chess players on the way from beginner to master, and ways to overcome them. "Where is the King going" is an educational and methodical work on a topic that is often the "Achilles heel" of young dischargers, the game of the king. "How to defeat the strong" analyzes the necessary conditions for the education of a successful chess player and coaching problems. "Chess School in sketches" is the author's final work on the use of sketches to improve the skills of chess players. Of the nearly 70,000 chess sketches known in the world, about three hundred have been selected for this book, which are instructive for chess practitioners. The book consists of two parts: "Good and bad pieces and pawns" and "Methods of chess fighting" (11 chapters in total). Each chapter first provides detailed commented sketches with typical and important ideas on each topic for the reader to analyze, as well as a number of sketches for independent decision. The author offers the sketches not as examples of a special field of chess art - composition, but as educational tasks - first simple, and then medium and high difficulty. The answers are given in the "Study Solutions" section. The book is intended for beginners and graduates who want to improve their skills, coaches and leaders of chess clubs, parents whose children are interested in chess.