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  • Made in Holland. Chess computer "Centaur" easy to use. You can easily install any language. Using the touch panel  40x40 cm (cell size 48 x 48 mm) you can easily move the figures. The sensors will record strokes. The board has a capacious rechargeable internal battery. The uniqueness of the computer is that it quickly adapts to  your playing strength (from beginner to grandmaster) so that you have the right opponent. Centaur will help you analyze the game so as not to make the same mistakes and improve your chess skill. Please note, computer is not compatible to connect to your PC or online chess. The set includes USB cable and DGT electronic chess pieces . Height of the king is 86mm.  

    1333.30 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    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.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
  • Author:
    Golenishchev

    Like other titles in the Training Program for Chess Players series, this volume is both an excellent textbook for independent study and a powerful training aid for chess coaches. In the view of many experts, no better work of this kind has ever been written. coach and Master of Sport. Golenishchev's programs are still considered. critically important and are successfully employed in chess schools. His teaching methods remain popular in Russia and around the world. Supervised by Editor-in-Chief and former Karpov, this new edition of Golenishchev's classic work is updated to include important games from the recent high-level chess competitions, reflecting modern approaches to the game. OPENING Fragment 1 OPENING Fragment 2

    30.00 $
  • Author:
    Getmanchuk

    16.67 $
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    Vysotsky

    20.00 $
  • 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:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • Reprint of a large badge (4 cm x 3.5 cm) dedicated to the failed match between Karpov and Fischer in 1975. The original was issued in an edition of  in several signal specimens (only specimens from the collection of A. Karpov and the Central House of Art Museum are known). 

    17.24 $
  • Author:
    Gelfand

    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.

    22.41 $
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    США, на английском языке, увеличенный формат, 190 партий. In 1964 Bobby Fisher wasn't a complete unknown, not with six U.S. Championships to his credit including a scintillating 11-0 in the 1963/64 affair­ but U.S. chess players had never had a real opportunity to see him in action up close. During his 1964 exhibition tour, he barnstormed the U.S. and Canada from coast to coast, and his entertaining lectures, high level of play and personable manner won him many new admirers. This is a comprehensive look at the tour with newspaper reports, magazine articles, personal reminiscences and lots of games, many of which have never been published before. This second edition features new material including a recently rediscovered exhibition in Indianapolis, first-hand accounts from San Francisco, Little Rock and Pittsburgh. With over 190 games - many annotated! - and almost two dozen photos, it is a treasure trove for every Fischer fan.

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    This book is about two popular schemes in the Slavic defense: the Moscow version and the Anti-Moscow gambit. Among those who regularly use them are Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Alexnadr Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Teimour Radzhabov, Konstantin Sakaev, Peter Svidler, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Khalifman ... Alexei Dreev has been playing these variants with black for many years at the highest level; and often quite successfully. The results of his analyzes (conducted in preparation for parties and after parties), as well as reflections during the parties themselves, formed the basis of this book.

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    One of the strongest Russian chess players - international grandmaster Alexei Dreev, selected and analyzed in detail 100 of his most memorable parties. In addition to purely chess comments, fascinatingly talks about meetings with interesting people who influenced his life, about how his sports career was developing.

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    Friends of the departed in 2004 L.Ya. Abramova - international arbiter E. Dubov, grandmaster I. Zaitsev and master S. Rosenberg - in the book & quot; Lev Abramov & quot; They talk about the interesting life of L. Abramov. L.Ya. Abramov was a strong master, a major civil engineer during the Great Patriotic War, head of the Chess Department of the USSR Sports Committee. The book contains over 40 interesting and very instructive parts played by the master L. Abramov.

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    19.34 $

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    The work of the famous master, student of Chigorin.

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    As a gift option.

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    20.15 $

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    “In my book I do not embellish anything and do not smooth sharp corners, I tell everything as it was and is. I remember both good deeds and dubious deeds of those with whom fate brought me together. ” The biographical book of the Honored Trainer of the USSR, Russia and Georgia consists of two parts. The first is a memoir, but this is not a biography in its purest form. The author comprehended and used the conclusions arising from various life conflicts in classes with students, the most famous and successful of which were Arthur Yusupov, Sergey Dolmatov, Nana Alexandria, Alexey Dreev, Vadim Zvyagintsev, Alexander Ryazantsev, Viorel Bologan, Ernesto Inarkiev. The story is illustrated with chess examples, most of which can be used as educational material. The book also includes many funny stories from the life of the author and other famous chess players. The second volume consists of articles and interviews that reflect the author’s views on coaching, contain tips on choosing chess literature and mastering its contents, some personal characteristics, etc. For a wide range of chess lovers. Table of Contents Excerpt

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    Книга посвящена спортивному и творческому пути старейшего советского шахматиста, заслуженного мастера спорта СССР, международного мастера В. Микенаса. О Микенасе рассказывают экс-чемпион мира М. Ботвинник, эстонский писатель О. Кунингас, международный арбитр Я. Рохлин. Сам Микенас вспоминает о своих встречах с А. Алёхиным, П. Кересом, С. Тартаковером, Г. Мароци, М. Видмаром, Е. Боголюбовым и другими выдающимися шахматистами. Предназначена для квалифицированных шахматистов. Содержит иллюстрации.

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    This book is dedicated to the work of one of the strongest chess players in the world from 1930-1940. Ex-world champions M. Botvinnik and V. Smyslov, outstanding grandmasters D. Bronstein and S. Flor share their memories of him and his work. The essay on Lilienthal is written by the writer V. Vasiliev. A. Lilienthal selected and commented on his best games for this book.

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    The gift album is dedicated to the works of the Soviet artist Galina Satonina (1905-2000). A student of vivid representatives of the Kazan avant-garde & raquo; in the person of K. Chebotarev - A. Platunov, she found her innovative way in painting and original performing technique. And life in chess prompted many champions of the Kazan and Tatarstan chess main theme in the work of Satonina: "Chess is a realistic fairy tale". The illustrated edition presents the most significant works of the artist from the collection "Russian Chess House", whose talent is widely known both in our country and abroad. Designed for fans of painting and chess.

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    17.27 $

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    You have an exciting story about the legendary chess battle in Reykjavik (1972) between Soviet champion Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer, the epic confrontation of the Cold War era and the most famous chess match of the twentieth century. Relying on previously unknown documents and personal conversations with the main actors of those events, the authors - famous British journalists John Aydinau and David Edmonds - managed to create a real thriller on the chess theme!