The book tells about the life and work of the outstanding Dutch chess player, fifth world champion, former FIDE President Max Euwe. It contains the best games, commented by M. Euwe. The central place is occupied by games from the 1935 world championship match between M. Euwe and A. Alekhine. The book is intended for highly qualified chess players.

Alexander M nninghoff tells the unforgettable tale of the fifth World Chess Champion. Filling a gap in the literature of chess, he shows that Euwes world title was the result of his iron will, his methodical drive and his energetic handling of all aspects of the game. By bringing his world title under the aegis of the world chess federation FIDE, Euwe profoundly changed the history of chess, and it was Euwes diplomatic determination as President of FIDE that saved the Match of the Century in 1972 between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. This gripping story is illuminated by numerous photos and fifty games with the original annotations by Max Euwe.

Party, biography, photo, statistics. Among chess professionals, he was known as an amateur for many years, and among chess amateurs he was always considered a true professional. Gentle and kind by nature, helped by the teaching in the female lyceum, and the girlish kingdom in his own home (three daughters!), He became decisive and uncompromising in the chess struggle. Chess, math, computer - & quot; life triathlon & quot; Max Euwe, who managed to succeed in each of these areas thanks to a special internal self-control, the ability to isolate the most important thing at the moment and a stunning ability to concentrate all efforts to achieve the goal. From time to time he would postpone the blunt & quot; chess lance & quot; and was taken for a brilliantly honed & quot; literary spear & quot ;. His works on the theory and practice of chess became bestsellers. And today they are considered classics.

Die 60 mit Anmerkungen versehenen partien wurden alle in den Jahren von 1957-67 gespielt, und, mit Ausnahme der nummern 44 und 50, unter strengen Turnierbedingungen. Die Anmerkungen schließen häufig Verweise ein auf weitere partien und geben sie gelegentlich in vollem Umfang wieder. Der interessierte Leser mag 34 meiner früheren bemühungen in ''Bobby Fischers Schachpartien'' (Verlag Simon und Schuster 1959) finden. Alle 60 hier gebotenen partien enthalten für mich etwas Bemerkenswertes und Erregendes - auch die 3 Verlustpartien. Ich habe versucht, in meinen Ausführungen klar und präzise zu sein in der Hoffnung, daß sie Einsichten in das Schachspiel vermitteln, die zu einem volleren Verständnis und besseren Spiel führen sollen. Endlich möchte ich meinem Freunde und Kollegen Lary Evans meinen Dank abstatten für seine wertvolle Hilfe bei der Vorbereitung des Textes wie auch für seine lichtvollen Einführungen. - Robert J. Fischer, New York City

(IN ESTONIAN LANGUAGE. !!!). Posthumous commemorative edition (over 30 authors, including 7 world champions!).

Practically for the first time in Russian it is told about the most talented chess players, meteors flashed on the rich chess sky. They did not manage to take part in the struggle for the world chess crown, but left their bright trace in the ancient and wise game. It is designed for the widest circles of chess fans.

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.

Four-volume work devoted to the full study of the creativity of the eighth world champion. In total, in four volumes - over 2700 (!!) Tal parties, i.e. absolutely all the serious games played, all of them commented, in the Informator style. Many well-known chess players took part in the work, incl. Kramnik, Khalifman, Sveshnikov and others.