The author, a well-known grandmaster and theorist, is the world's best expert on system 2. c3 in the Sicilian defense. E. Sveshnikov considers this system, which he experienced in tournament practice more than 600 (!) Times over the past 40 years, “ingenious in his practicality”. All theoretically important games selected for the book were commented on in detail, and the author explains not only specific opening variations, but also typical techniques of playing the middle game and even the endgame. Many of the games mentioned have never been published, for example, matches from the closed training match Kasparov - Sveshnikov. Also provides positions for self-decision. For a wide range of chess lovers

The reader is offered a unique collection of lessons, lectures, seminars on all issues of chess perfection, including psychology, opening preparation, solving problems in the middle of the game, enhancing the endgame skill, etc. Among the authors are world champions, outstanding chess players, coaches and teachers.

With the help of the assignments of the international masger J. Levitg each reader will be able to learn about the degree of his chess genius.

The phenomenon of “chess blindness” is analyzed. The author explores how an erroneous idea is conceived, makes an excursion into the history of the most “inexplicable” and “rarest” views in matches for the world championship.

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Original tutorial. The name Lasker Compensation is sufficiently conditional. In the classical literature, this ratio of material is unequivocally determined: a queen against a rook, a light piece and a pawn. In the book presented to the reader, this question is considered more widely: the queen is on one side, and the rook and the light piece on the other side are the fundamental position. One or two pawns can be on either side without disturbing the integrity of the logical narrative. Moreover, the queen's sacrifices for a rook, a light piece and pawns are usually referred to as a mid-spiel position. This paper discusses the issues of struggle for a given material ratio in all phases of a chess game. The book is for chess dischargers, coaches, heads of chess clubs and sections and just chess lovers.

64 lessons on strategy and tactics.

The most vivid examples of the games of world champions.

In this book, related to the classics of chess literature, outlines the principles of chess art in their historical development. It contains the biographies of outstanding chess players, their best games with a description of the theoretical problems of the debut.

This book consists of twenty conversations, covering various chess topics. The first twelve conversations, as it should be in the textbook, are devoted to the three stages of a chess game. The first of five debut conversations tells about popular combinations and traps at the start of the battle. And in the second conversation, super-fast victories are collected, and all games here belong to world champions! The following three conversations are more solid. The examples of games played at the highest grandmaster level show how to play open, half-open and closed openings, respectively. Further there are four conversations about the middle game. The first two are tactics, the other two are more about the strategy of the game. Here are numerous combinations - from typical, educational to famous, classic. In one of the conversations there was a collection of combinations with the queen sacrifice, made in the games of chess kings! Finally, three more conversations are dedicated to the endgame. The most common endings that are most often encountered in practice are pawns and rooks.

Essay, 136 parties.

Frankly, I began to read this book with skepticism. And in vain! The further, the more you fall under the charm of the author’s ironic personality. Soft, not humorous humor, ease of thought and style, juicy chess examples with unexpected endings. All this could already be appreciated by the readers of & quot; 64 & quot ;, where several stories that have been included in this collection have been tested.   Most of it is given to the marvelous "landscape gardening" park. chess, filled with the clash of blitz, bikes and brandy. But flashes and leading figures of varying degrees of adulthood. & quot; It was enough for me to cross the street, go to the next school and, catching the little Boria Spassky on the break, strictly ask: "Well, how does Zack teach you there?" & quot; & quot; Here is a meeting with Vitya Korchnoi in besieged Leningrad, and a cruel defeat by the modest pioneer Vova Kramnik, and a surreal simultaneous game session in Spanish Plinares, in which the author beautifully blew Barry Klimovich Bazarov himself ... Truth and fiction, reality and mystification are to separate one from another sometimes as difficult as the vodka from tomato juice in a famous cocktail. But is it worth separating? Drink in small sips at night, and no bad dreams you will not dream!