Dmitry Kryakvin has been researching the career and life path of Alexey Vyzhmanavin for 8 years. He talked for a long time with Vyzhmanavin's ex-wife Lyudmila (the memoirs she wrote occupy a significant place in this work), as well as with friends and colleagues of Alexey. In this book, you are waiting for 75 games of Vyzhmanavin with tasks that are designed to improve your positional class and the quality of calculating options. At the same time , the legacy of the first Russian Oli

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.

This book is more than just a fascinating collection of traps and combinations. It contains more than 700 bright miniatures - thematic games played by a variety of chess players, from world champions to amateurs. They are chosen for their educational value, not just to catch blunders or blunders. The author always explains the ideas and plans for the debut, as well as how the game could be improved. The games are structured according to the opening principle, which makes it possible to use the book for educational purposes. Knowledge of typical tactical strikes in various openings will allow not only to avoid possible mistakes and pitfalls at the beginning of the game, but also to surprise your opponent. Thanks to the ideas presented in this book, an enterprising chess player will undoubtedly be able to achieve new quick victories!

Tal Mikhail Nekhemievich (9.11.1936— 28.06.1992) 8th world champion (1960—1961), international grandmaster (1957). Champion of Latvia 1953, 1965 Champion of the USSR 1957, 1958, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978 Eight-time winner of the World Chess Olympiad as part of the USSR team, six times European champion and three-time world champion among students in team standings. Winner of the first unofficial championship blitz world (1988). 1958 Interzonal Winner, 1964, 1979, 1959 Candidates Tournament, participant in two matches for the world championship and seven matches of applicants. Won wins in 44 international tournaments. The most complete collection of M. Tal's games is designed for a wide circle of chess lovers. This volume covers the peak years of his career genius chess player — victorious challenger cycle and factory- the title of world champion.

Good news: any chess player can improve their game by regularly solving tactical problems! Even the great combinations of the great masters are based on a small number of simple tactics that anyone can learn and apply. Unlike memorizing a bunch of opening variations, solving tactical exercises will surely seem very enjoyable and inspiring to you.  This book is intended for rated chess players who want to improve their tactical vision, as well as combinational and counting skills. The author, an international master in practical play and a grandmaster in composition, an experienced coach and a popular writer, carefully selected spectacular combinations with sacrifices from the work of world champions, as well as brilliant studies that demonstrate tactical ideas in their purest form.  The book deals with 15 basic tactics and motives. 342 combinations and etudes are intended for independent solution. For a wide range of chess lovers. 

The 2012 World Vice-Champion continues his story, begun in the best-selling books Positional Decision Making in Chess. ("Book of the Year" according to the English Chess Federation), "Dynamic Decision Making in Chess" and "Technical Decision Making in Chess." The new book discusses ways to make decisions in positions without minor pieces. The reader will get acquainted with rook and queen endings, as well as with what Romanovsky called the "fourth stage", that is, the late middlegame / early endgame, where only heavy pieces remain on the board. «Gelfand is very good– and very honest – explains what decisions he was able to calculate and what he had to make on the basis of general reasoning, and how he did it. This resulted in a book of the type that I love. A chess player of any strength can find a lot of useful things here. (Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, reviewer of novelties in chess literature in the magazine "New in Chess"). For a wide range of chess lovers.