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  • Author:
    Ezhov

    Grandmaster Carlos Torre – like a chess comet; his genius flashed dazzlingly and quickly went out in the chess firmament! He – the author of the most famous “mill” in the history of chess, the 2nd world champion Emanuel Lasker fell into its merciless millstones. The authors spoke about the life and work of the Mexican genius (the book contains 25 commentated games by K. Torre). Torre’s book “How a Chess Player is Formed” is presented, an essay by international master Yaroslav Prizant about Torre’s attack in modern practice. In the section "Play like Torre" – 36 instructive examples from his practice to solve. Finally, there is an interview with Carlos Torre, conducted by Gabriel Velasco in 1977. Working with the book will give readers not only aesthetic pleasure, but will also help improve their skills.

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is dedicated to the strongest piece on the chessboard – to the queen. Using the example of episodes from games of modern grandmasters (the vast majority of games date back to 2020-2023) and his own grandmaster practice, the author tries to generalize, and in some places even clarify the methodology for understanding and playing queen endings, as well as other types of endgames with the presence of queens ) On the desk. The book presents various ratios of material – “queen against queen”, “queen and minor piece against queen and minor piece”, “queen and rook against queen and rook”, “queen against two rooks”, “queen against rook and pawns”, “ queen against a rook and a minor piece”, “two queens against two queens” – practically the entire spectrum of encountered endgames of this type. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get maximum benefit from studying the examples of queen endings and its other derivatives offered by the author. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans.

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
  • Author:
    Zhuravlev

    This tutorial is addressed to those who want to learn to play chess on their own and improve further. The lesson-based method of presentation, as well as numerous exercises, contribute to the consistent assimilation of the rules and laws that form the basis of the chess game. The book contains extensive educational material, which is presented to the reader in accordance with modern pedagogical principles. The purpose of this manual is to train chess players of the III category (rating up to 1800). The textbook can also be used for classes in groups - it covers the material of existing programs of the first year of study in children's and youth chess schools.

    23.33 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises. In each opening, attention is drawn to its characteristic tactical and strategic ideas of combinations for independent solution strictly corresponds to the opening theme. Written in clear and easy language, the book is furnished with a large number of diagrams. Colored explanatory arrows on the diagrams and the selection of individual pages with a colored background make the book easier to understand. Regular work solve two problems: deepen the student's knowledge and develop his tactical vision, thus improving his skill and results.

    28.80 $
  • A limited edition of the most famous electronic chess clock. Design & quot; under the tree & quot ;. Released for the 25th anniversary of the DGT. & Nbsp; These watches are used in all major tournaments, world championships and World Cups, World Chess Olympiads. Installation of any time controls, including Fisher and Bronstein controls (with added time). & Nbsp;

    300.00 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    16.67 $
  • Magnetic road chess: folding board-case made of artificial leather, tablet-figures with a convex image. Wallet size 19x22 cm. The playing field is 15.5 x 15.5 cm. Cell 2x2 cm.

    51.72 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is  the final link in a series of publications by the author, directed  to study the classical endgame using examples of modern games   grandmasters. This time the subject of the study – light piece endgames. Clarification of the methodology for working on this stage of the game, as well as the main features and methods of playing such endings. Examples  taken from the practice of modern grandmasters and dated back to 2020-2023. The author offers the reader the most recent and unique information. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get the maximum  benefit from studying the examples offered by the author  queen endings and its  other derivatives. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

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    The amateur chess player Gardemarin V. Soldatenkov was first notified as a talented analyst. It is known that the “attack of Marshall” was first used by him in 1901. in Paris (Zittenfeld - Soldiers), i.e. on 17 years old before the American Champion. This party was published in the Chancellery Magazine, edited by E. Schiffers ...

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    Biographies and selected parties of world champions. Chess has existed for many centuries, but only a little over a hundred years ago - in 1886 - did the first official world champion appear. Since then, only 13 chess players have been awarded this high rank. Our book is about them.

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    The experience of chess-psychological research. The brochure is not so much about the reconstruction of the inner world of Robert Fisher, the athlete and the person, but about the character - the creator of the system, which reflected both the struggle and the harmonization of interaction between the interaction on the chessboard. At the same time, the creator postulates the proximity of chess to art. And the game is considered as a forced and desirable co-authorship.

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    Capital work tells about the life and work of the outstanding French chess player and musician Francois Andre Danican Filidor, the founder of modern chess theory and one of the creators of the comic opera. The materials included in the publication are of both historical and great practical interest. In particular, the famous textbook by Philidor & laquo; Analysis of the Chess Game & raquo;, the attention to which has not been weakening for several centuries, is for the first time fully published in Russian. The book also contains all the surviving parties of the great master, most of which are re-commented. Fans of historical and adventure literature will be attracted by an excerpt from the novel by V. Henkin Odyssey of a chess machine, vividly recreating the atmosphere of the chess life of France and England in the second half of the 18th century. For a wide range of chess lovers.

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    This book is about personal and very emotional relationships between two extraordinary personalities - the great chess player, world champion Mikhail Tal and his first wife and a person close to him, the author of the book Sally Landau, & quot; about relationships that are first intimate, then closely related, tender and contradictory, bright and sad ... And always colored with a rainbow by the rich, very different, open and mysterious personality of Mikhail Tal & quot ;.

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    A collection of games from the international tournament of correspondence with comments by participants.

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    8.33 $

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    About the work of two famous fellow countrymen - Y. Balashov, the famous grandmaster, second coach A. Karpov, and P. Maksimovskikh - the master of chess composition, the world champion in the team event. The best examples of creativity are given.

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    10.34 $

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    The international master and international referee of the ICCHF, chairman of the RCF correspondence chess commission, talks about his chess path, which was a lot of interesting things. 63 games.

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    41.67 $

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    The book tells about the life and career of one of the most original grandmasters - Anatoly Lutikov. The original presentation of the material allows you to use the book as a textbook chess game.

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    4.49 $

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    The founder of a modern thematic chess task. Regardless of the genre, Loyd's tasks are characterized by a difficult introduction, a witty and original combination, and, as a rule, an easy construction.

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    4.49 $

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    100 masterpieces of the world chess composition of the classics of modern chess etude. The progress in the sketching composition was attributed by the Platov brothers to the priority development of the combination-positional direction.

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    Systematic studies by Rinkom of the possibilities of fighting only curly material became an invaluable contribution to the theory of endgame and now they have found a competitor only in the image of a computer.