This original chess textbook is designed to develop the reader's strategic skills and, thus, increase his understanding of chess. The purpose of this book is to expand the chess "lexicon", to increase the number of standard strategic means of fighting, to make the player's thinking more productive. The collection consists of positions, in each of which the reader should choose a continuation, relying not so much on calculating options as on assessing the situation. The deepening of positional understanding is given in parallel with the development of art combining and the ability to take into account all the tactical features of the position. For a wide range of chess fans.

This book presents: the best and most instructive games of John Nunn; excellent instruction on strategy and tactics; advice on how to think at the board; facts from the world of professional chess.

In an accessible and entertaining form, the book sets out the basic rules of the game of chess; it tells how the pieces go, what check and checkmate is, how and why it is necessary to record a chess game and much more; The ways of matting a lonely king with two rooks, a queen, a rook, and light pieces are considered in detail. After a detailed description of each topic, the lesson gives tasks for independent work. The third section of the book is fully devoted to the exercises on the subject “Mate in 1 move”. This ensures control and consolidation of the knowledge gained. The textbook is equipped with a large number of diagrams, contains funny verse couplets and fabulous parables on a chess theme? The book will help you quickly learn how to play chess. Designed for young chess players, but may be useful for adults. According to this textbook, teachers, coaches or parents, even with minimal chess preparation, will be able to teach children the basics of a wise game.

The Italian expression dare il gambetto - & quot; substitute the leg & quot; - it became a common language of chess players at the end of the 16th century, when the Spaniard Ruy Lopez applied it in his famous guide. & quot; Substitute leg & quot; - It means playing sharply and unconventionally at the very beginning of the game, sacrificing a pawn or even a piece to seize the initiative, quickly develop your attack and threaten the enemy king. For the first time a whole encyclopedia is dedicated to gambits! Grandmaster Yuri Razuvayev and chess writer and master Anatoliy Matsukevich invite us to an exciting, bright world of the gambit game.

This technique is designed to conduct classes in primary school junior classes during the second year of study (34 lessons, one lesson per week). In addition, this tutorial can be used by chess enthusiasts of any age who have mastered basic knowledge and want to improve their level of play: expand the arsenal of tactics, get acquainted with the basic principles of the game in the debut, middlegame and endgame, as well as parents who want to independently teach chess their children.

For the first time, the "Chess Game Tutorial" by Jose Raul Capablanca was released in 1935 in London. It was translated into many languages ​​and quickly won recognition and popularity throughout the world. Due to the simplicity and clarity of presentation, the accepted methodology - from simple to complex - the "Chess Game Tutorial" took an honorable place among the works of chess pedagogy. In this edition, the number of chapters and paragraphs has been increased, mainly due to the (Chess Game Principles), which in other publications have been omitted or the content of which is mentioned in passing in the text. Applied to the modern chess language, the style of the original translation has been improved.

Strategy, tactics and psychology in defense.

The problem of an isolated pawn, noted one of the outstanding chess researchers A. Nimtsovic, belongs to the cardinal problems of the positional game. In the proposed book, famous grandmasters, four-time USSR champion A.Belyavsky, a member of the famous coaching team A. Karpov during his epochal matches with G.Kasparov A.Mihalchishin and experienced trainer master O.Stetsko systematized the methods of fighting in positions with an isolated pawn from the exit from the opening to the deep endgame.

Joseph Dorfman & mdash; talented grandmaster, coach G. Kasparov and E. Bacrot for the first time appears before the Russian-speaking reader in a new capacity: as the author and propagandist of the original theory. Two textbooks, illustrating the practical application of his peculiar method, have become in the West chess bestsellers of recent years. The algorithm of searching for a course and the way of actions in critical positions proposed by I. Dorfman have been repeatedly tested at training camps with chess players of various levels, and their effectiveness is confirmed by the excellent results of the author and his students.

The last book of the famous coach Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky (1947-2016), over which he worked until the last days of his life. This is a collection of tests on a variety of topics: training combinational vision and techniques for calculating options, finding candidate moves, adopting optimal positional solutions, and a number of others. Among the exercises you will find both debut, and middlegame, and endgame positions, not only taken from practical games, but also sketches. & laquo; Mark Izrailevich wanted to write a book that not only teaches some chess tricks, but also simply delivers fun to game lovers. Therefore, he tried to collect the most & laquo; tasty & raquo; examples. I hope that this last book of Mark Izrailevich will reach its goal and give readers many chess discoveries and the joy of communicating with the wonderful coach and author & raquo; (A.Yusupov). For a wide range of chess fans.

International Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov is a champion of Yugoslavia, a two-time champion of the Netherlands, having in his credit victories over G.Kasparov, V.Kramnik, V.Anand. This book is devoted to one of the most important questions of improving the chess player & mdash; the study of typical positions and methods of playing in the middlegame. This problem has for the first time been subjected to such thorough and profound research in the chess literature. Detailed analyzes of chess games by top-level players with clear explanations will allow players wishing to improve their results to sharply increase in the middlegame. You will be able to understand which positions are right for you in style, to acquire the & laquo; practical & raquo; understanding debuts and learn the right approaches to the main problems of the middle of the game, such as & ndash; space, dynamics, initiative. Foreword by international grandmaster Michael Adams. For a wide range of chess fans.