This is the first book in Russian dedicated to the work of one of the world's strongest chess players, Vladimir Kramnik. The sports biography of the grandmaster, his views on the situation in the chess world are covered in detail. Kramnik commented on the games he played - an excellent teaching aid for those who comprehend the secrets of the game. Designed for the widest circles of chess players.

333 parties of a brilliant American with notes in the Informator style, many have not previously been published in Russia. Comments on the games are given in modern notation. The book is intended for all chess lovers: from beginners to professionals. It will serve as a valuable tool for students of chess and general education schools in mastering the secrets of the chess game.

333 parties of a brilliant American with notes in the Informator style, many have not previously been published in Russia. Comments on the games are given in modern notation. The book is intended for all chess lovers: from beginners to professionals. It will serve as a valuable tool for students of chess and general education schools in mastering the secrets of the chess game.

This book is based on the experience of several years playing chess and is written as a result of the working up a lot of books dealing with chess tactics. Its primary aim is to entertain the reader, since the study of a combination of genius gives much pleasure to those who like chess. The tactical blows give you much help to understand the tactical miseries of the positions and sometimes you can discover very rare and brilliant ideas when the combinations need making an extreme move.

The book contains memoirs of the author - the champion of Europe, the two-time champion of Russia, the winner of numerous international tournaments, the famous coach, the vice-president of FIDE about meetings with outstanding chess players, statesmen, complex and often conflictual relations existing in the sport of higher achievements. The author tells about a number of the largest chess players of different years, including the tenth world champion B. Spassky, whose coach N. Krogius was at the time of winning the highest title. Part of the book is devoted to the problems of chess psychology, in which the author is one of the universally recognized world authorities. In addition, we are talking about negative trends in the behavior of some chess players, arising from their excessive ambitiousness and selfishness, which is typical not only for the world of chess, but for any human activity in which there is conflict. The book is intended for a wide range of people interested in chess, their theory, history and psychology, and for professionals - athletes and coaches.

This book tells about the long chess path of the international master of Samuel Markovich Zhukhovitsky (1916 - 2016). He met at the board with the world champions: Capablanca, Smys- lovym, Tal, Petrosyan , Spassky, Karpov, Kramnik. In his asset victory over outstanding grand masters and masters. The book is designed for a wide range of admirers of chess games.

Time is moving inexorably forward, according to its own laws. And we divide it into segments by our deeds and actions. Sometimes the minutes last for a long time and can take shape in painful hours, days, years. And when it’s quiet around & mdash; in decades. These are not identical in perception, they flew for our family members, the descendants of Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov, who was born in Riga in the distant 1908. And now it's 2013, the 105th anniversary of his birth. 5 years have passed since the publication of the book & laquo; Star, extinguished before the deadline & raquo; & mdash; memories of Vladimir Petrov my grandmother. We, the grandchildren, decided to decipher her notes on scraps of newspapers, napkins and even cigarette packs only after her death.

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

A historical sketch and review of the current state of Siberian chess with creative portraits of grandmasters (Tymoshenko, Weisser, etc.) and the strongest masters. Many rare chess examples. Richly illustrated. The reader & quot; will visit & quot; at the first All-Russian and Siberian congresses and championships, he learns a lot of interesting things about the chess pioneers of Barnaul, Biysk, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuzbass, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, as well as about N., who stood at the helm of the country in the 20-30s. Krylenko and A. Ilyin-Geneva. The book has many rare photographs. For a wide range of readers.

Garrik Kasparows Aufstieg vom Jugendmeister der UdSSR bis zum Teilnehmer an den Kandidatenkдmpfen um die Weltmeisterschaft innerhalb von nur sechs Jahren vollzieht sich vor unseren Augen wie ein Mдrchen aus Tausendundeiner Nacht. Es ist dies die steile Karriere eines nunmehr 20jдhrigen Mannes, dessen Talent durch die Fцrderung des sowjetischen Schachimperiums soweit gereift ist, daЯ er befдhigt ist, nach dem Weltmeisterthron zu greifen, um im gleichen Augenblick von der eigenen Fцderation zurьckgehalten zu werden.