A handsome football player is hitting the ball. His gaze is calm and focused, and he himself & ndash; the embodiment of Victory! He has already, of course, performed his slightly ridiculous dance, an incomprehensible, cosmic way directing the blow exactly to the goal. And the goalkeeper does not depend on anything. Because in this millisecond, his boot already touched the ball, which only he alone in history could truly pacify and tame. Now this submissive ball with a frenzied speed, whistling through the air, after a fantastically luxurious, twisted, superpowerful, not striking blow, from which it is impossible to take a reverent and enthusiastic glance, will crash into the gates, and all the surrounding space will explode in ecstasy from contact and complicity with this divine genius ...

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The plot of this book & ndash; not just a romantic fiction of the author, but also an attempt at a historical study of one of the most delightful hoaxes of the Enlightenment, so rich in all sorts of inventions. 250 years ago, the outstanding inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen designed a mechanical chess player, the great-great-grandfather of modern chess computers. The Kempelen submachine gun toured extensively throughout Europe from Vienna to Paris and London, beating up nobles and even crowned heads - ndash; Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Attempts to penetrate the automaton’s secret have been made repeatedly, often by the most insidious methods that endangered the life of Kempelen and his companions ... Viktor L. Henkin (1923-2010), a chess master, a journalist and a writer, worked on a novel for about a quarter of a century, trying to recreate as precisely as possible the atmosphere of a distant 18th century. Striving for perfection, he rewrote many times and rewrote ready-made chapters and did not manage to finish his novel. The work was completed by his wife, Tatyana Gubarkova, with whom Victor Khenkin always shared his creative ideas, and discussed in detail the plot lines. For lovers of history, chess and adventure literature.

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.

Color illustrations. What a winning strategy came up with a great financier Mikhail Kasyanov? What shape does the summer cottage of Gennady Zyuganov have? How did Berezovsky, Makashov and Khinshtein manage to cross the river, stay alive and get, for example, to the minister? How many billions of each of the seven oligarchs? How much was the check drawn by `Chara` bank and how much did the reviewer` MK` cheat? Eugene GIK - member of the Writers' Union, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, columnist for the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets".

In the book of Evgeny Gik and Ekaterina Gupalo, the authors of numerous articles and books on sports topics, popularly tells about the history of sports, about its role in the modern world. & nbsp; the names of many outstanding athletes. The book tells about major competitions and championships, about phenomenal records and achievements, about the features and traditions of sports in Russia and other countries. Shows the relationship of sports with different areas of activity & mdash; medicine, literature and art, politics, commerce. A significant place is occupied by the history of the Olympic Games & mdash; the largest competitions of antiquity and modernity. Some topics are reviewed in detail for the first time, for example, sport in legends and myths, & laquo; sport & raquo; animals, sports in fiction. & nbsp; Every sports fan & mdash; and a simple fan, and a novice athlete, and a professional & mdash; learns from the book something new and interesting for yourself. Very young athletes and parents who choose a sports school or section for their children will find useful information. The book can also be used as an additional educational tool for sports schools and universities. & nbsp;

Gallery of portraits of all world chess champions of the twentieth century, other outstanding chess players, musicians, scientists, colleagues and contemporaries of the author. A frank and impartial chronicle through the eyes of a five-time world champion, a major scientist, computer theorist Mikhail Botvinnik. For a wide range of readers.

Author & mdash; outstanding writer, historian, doctor of political sciences. After graduating from the Institute of Red Professorship, he worked in the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), was in the center of the political life of the USSR of the 30s. "Technology Technology" & raquo; & mdash; one of the most famous and popular books in the world about the functioning of the Soviet machine of power. & laquo; For me, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov became a great teacher on how to write books & raquo ;, & mdash; Victor Suvorov. Cover: Bulganin N. A., Bukharin N. I., Khrushchev N. S., Beria L. P., Malenkov G. M., Molotov V. M., Stalin I. V., Lenin V. I., Kalinin M. And

In English.

In front of you is one of the most controversial and scandalous books about chess. The author is one of the strongest chess players of his time, an applicant to the world chess crown. Fain appears here in another of his hypostases - a well-known scientist-psychoanalyst, a doctor of psychology, trying to find out what exactly are the motives in the behavior of chess players.

With color illustrations. "Battle" was written by us back in the 60's. Then we worked together a lot. But they did not publish us. What we did did not fit into the framework of the then censorship. Already in emigration we published almost everything written before, still in Russia, and this poem was still lying forgotten before my acquaintance with Boris Spassky. Our meeting happened in the house of artist Vitaly Statsinsky at the feast, and then I remembered it and sang it. Then the idea to release it with illustrations of Vitaly was born. In admiration for getting to know my old "idol" I wrote to the grandmaster an initiation - and here is the poem in front of you ... " Alexey Khvostenko