Эта книга о той стороне шахматной игры, которая остается в тени сияния корон чемпионов и блеска сложных шахматных комбинаций. Эта книга об истории, философии, духовной и эстетической красоте древней игры. Шахматы в ней предстают, как учитель жизни, наставник в выборе оптимальной жизненной стратегии. О том, как шахматы с помощью утонченных и исторически выверенных дизайнов превращаются в вид художественного искусства. Для любителей истории, шахматистов и коллекционеров шахмат.

France, Russia. The middle - the end of the 90s of the 20th century. Russian chess master Viktor Odintsov plays at a tournament in a suburb of Paris. But instead of an honestly earned prize, by the will of circumstances, he falls into a French prison ... Once released, he again encounters an insurmountable barrier - a kind of "French wired" associated with an unfair game of opponents, the arbitrariness of the judges. Victor has a girlfriend, Simon, who helps him. However, the Russian player is haunted by one setback after another. Odintsov, driven to despair, invents a tricky way, his "know-how", with which he begins to smash all rivals. Together with Simone, Victor overcomes numerous obstacles raised by their detractors. He comes to the main match with the world champion. And confidently leads in this fight, where the opposing team uses dirty game methods. A step before Odintsov’s victory, the French beauty Genevieve intervenes in events, avenging her rejected love. And Victor would inflict a seemingly crushing blow to the back ... The novel tells about the difficult fate of Russian emigrants living in France.

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 addition to a wide circle of chess lovers, the book will be interesting and useful for those parents and teachers who want to discover the talents of their children with love and patience (section “The genius of the son grew up on the talent of parents”).

For the first time in chess literature, this book tells about record achievements and cases of honor in 100 nominations that are directly related to chess. Here you will find fascinating stories about the most-most games, people, tournaments, matches and events in the chess world.

This is a real ode to chess aesthetics - the most beautiful games played in the last 150 years. There are essays about all chess pieces, about the centuries-old evolution of views on the ideal of beauty in chess. At the request of the author, the world's outstanding chess players expressed their opinion on the issues raised.

Tom & quot; Sport & quot; series & quot; Encyclopedia for children & quot; - The first attempt in the Russian literature encyclopedic publication, which in a lively and fascinating form tells the story of sports. The first section is devoted to its history, first of all - the Olympic Games. The second covers more than 50 of the most popular sports. It tells about their history, competition rules, tournaments and championships. Given the biographies of outstanding athletes and coaches. The third section deals with the place of sports in society, its relations with physical education, science, medicine, politics, business, etc. The articles are written by famous scientists and sports journalists, and some authors themselves have recently shone on sports arenas. The book is richly illustrated and contains about a thousand drawings and photographs. & Nbsp; Tom will be of interest primarily to schoolchildren, but also to adults who care about the world of sport. The book can be used as a textbook in high school - in physical education classes, history. There is a large chess section. & nbsp;

The author, V.A. Ivonin, has a lot to share with readers: he has a long life, work for a large sports worker, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, the World and European Championships, the largest international chess competitions, in over a decade, including world championship matches in which he participated as one of the organizers.

The connections and correspondences of the Harmony of the energy field structures of the Universe - Space - the planet Earth - a person with the world of complex DIVINE chess (magic Durer and Franklin squares, energy field structures of DNA and Man, the Mayan Galactic module) are revealed, formulate a number of new hypotheses. For the first time, the name of the Father of Chess - Chiquity Arlic Vomalites - the ruler of Atlantis is called. The book is designed for the reader seeking the Truth. Dedicated to the Genius of Russia E.P. Blavatsky.

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.

Yevgeny Gik published many books devoted to two related topics - "Mathematics on a chessboard" and "Computer chess". In this voluminous volume, he sums up his years of research in both directions. A kind of chess-mathematical "Bible" will be interesting both to chess fans, and lovers of mathematics (serious and entertaining) and computers.