Perhaps no chess player attracted so much attention, did not cause such contradictory judgments as the eleventh world champion Robert Fisher. Since the late fifties of the last century and still do not stop scandals around this man. What are the reasons for interest in such an outrageous and great personality? The book will tell about it.

The book presents the entire history of women's chess, starting with ancient times, the first tournaments and ending today. The life and work of all world champions - Vera Menchik, Lyudmila Rudenko, Olga Rubtsova, Elizaveta Bykova, Nona Gaprindashvili, Mayi Chiburdanidze, Xie Jun, Zhuzhy Polgar, Zhu Chen, Antoinette Stefanova, Xu Yuhua, as well as their main rivals in the struggle for world chess crown. The authors and the outstanding chess player, an uncrowned champion, who fought well with the male grandmasters, Judit Polgar, did not ignore the attention. It will be interesting to get acquainted with ambitious young chess players who are ready to fight for the title.

The book is an interesting autobiographical material about a hundred of the best chess players of the XX century. Stories about the masters of chess sport are arranged in chronological order ...

A book about the young Ukrainian grandmaster Ruslan Ponomarev. His path from a novice to a FIDE world champion is shown, numerous games played are given. It describes in detail the situation that has developed around the match that failed in 2003, Ponomarev & mdash; Kasparov.

According to the latest FIDE data, the number of people wearing the title of "grandmaster" has exceeded 800! Voices are already being heard louder that there is no more strength to endure such a massive inflation and it is time, finally, for especially outstanding chess players to come up with a new title. But you do not need to invent it. It appeared a long time ago, was born in Italy, and he was called major figures in various fields of art, as well as great masters of the chess game. & Nbsp; The treasured word & mdash; & laquo; maestro & raquo;. & nbsp; Two-volume parties of Sergei Rublevsky with a world-class mark will not leave anyone indifferent to the ancient game.

Книга эта рассказывает о гениальном шахматисте и обаятельном человеке, чемпионе мира 1921 – 1927 гг. Кубинце Хосе-Рауле Капабланке. В обстоятельном библиографическом облике автор воссоздает драматическую картину борьбы за мировое первенство, которую в течение трех десятилетий вели за шахматной доской Ласкер, Капабланка, Алехин. Творческие взгляды великого кубинца, его надежды и поражения, его жизнь и его борьба вновь оживают на страницах этой книги. В партиях Капабланки, этих тонких произведениях гениального художника, всегда будут жить его идеи и открытия. Все партии этой книги отнюдь не представляют только исторического интереса, но являются ценными, классическими образцами ведения шахматной борьбы для шахматного читателя любой силы. Настоящее, третье, издание, выходящее одиннадцать лет спустя, капитально переработано в биографической части с привлечением новых, появившихся за этот период материалов. Добавлено также одиннадцать новых партий. Комментарии к остальным партиям пересмотрены и, где надо, модернизированы и дополнены. Книга является библиографической редкостью. Рассчитана на квалифицированных шахматистов.

This book contains 300 of the best games of Alekhin, and almost all of them are commented on by him. Thus, it contains everything most valuable in Alekhin’s purely chess and theoretical legacy. This book mainly included only games won by Alekhin, but also a few drawn games of exceptional interest in their creative content (for example, the 22nd game of the Alekhine - Capablanca match, or the Botvinnik party - Alekhin from the tournament in Nottingham, 1936 .) or worthy of attention according to their psychological екст psychological ’text & raquo; (the last installments of the match Alekhine - Euwe, 1935), by which the reader will be able to see for himself the extent to which the victory of Euwe was accidental. The best lots of Alekhin collected in one volume are included in the golden fund of the world chess culture. From the pages of this book is the voice of the true Alekhine & mdash; a man who is selflessly in love with the creative element of a chess game and who has given his whole life to chess.

Memories of the famous Soviet master and 50 elected parties with comments.

A narrative about the life and struggle of the great Russian chess player.  The grandson of the soldier, the son of the worker, Chigorin, thanks to his talent, made his way in the conditions of tsarist Russia to the heights of world chess glory and became the founder of the Russian, national chess school. The winner of a number of international competitions, the permanent champion of Russia at the end of the past and the beginning of the current centuries, a brilliant theoretician and journalist, an unselfish, passionate public figure, a progressive intellectual, an eager organizer of Russian chess life-this is how Mikhail Chigorin appears on the pages of the book of the international master V. Panov. In his work, the author widely used the memories of Chigorin his contemporaries in Russia and abroad, the literary fragments and letters of Chigorin himself, his theoretical works of the utterance about Chigorin champions of the world Steinitz, Lasker. Botvinnik. The book gives the life, creative and sports way of Chigorin, the chess life of the end of the last century. There are also many creative portraits and characteristics of other leading chess players of the last century.

Biography and 64 selected parties. Favorite book of Karpov.

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.

Documentary narration about the great Russian chess player Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin.