The book of the famous chess master and writer Yevgeny Gik appears in the series "Popular Sports History". It presents the most diverse aspects of chess, "intellectual sport" - from duels for the crown and a match between the national teams of Russia and the world to the personal life of chess kings. There are fifteen stories in the book: conversations with the great champion Garry Kasparov, the best games of grandmasters for four decades, samples of the game of chess prodigies. Such topics as battles of world champions with robots, grandmasters and money, chess in fiction, etudes-miniatures, chess by Fischer, etc. are reflected. The book is read with pleasure by qualified chess players and simple amateurs, as well as everyone who is interested in the world of sports.

Official edition of FIDE album format on coated paper. Many photos (including color images) and reference information.

Product Description Some players seem to have an inexhaustible supply of chessboard luck. No matter what trouble they find themselves in, they somehow manage to escape. Among world champions, Lasker, Tal and Kasparov are famed for peering into the abyss but somehow making sure it is their opponents who fall. This book aims to help ordinary players, who may have little time for studying chess, to make the most of their abilities. Unlike most previous literature on chess psychology, this is no heavyweight theoretical treatise, but rather a practical guide in how to lure opponents into error - and thus create what is often called "luck." About the Author David LeMoir is an experienced chess player and writer. He twice won the championship of the West of England and was runner-up on four occasions. In 2000, he was County Champion of Norfolk. In a successful career as a business strategy consultant, he has made good use of the strategic and decision-making skills that are developed by playing chess.

Collection. Reprint edition of 1925

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.

Genna Sosonko (Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) & mdash; international grandmaster, two-time champion of the Netherlands. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. Being a famous journalist and commentator, for the last decade and a half he devotes himself to literary work. In the opinion of 13th world champion Garry Kasparov, today Genna Sosonko is undisputedly the number one chess player. " In his new book the author tells about R. Fischer, V. Korchnoi and other outstanding people whose fates were connected with chess. Many of them he knew personally, played and constantly communicated ... For a wide range of chess lovers.

Gift edition. On coated paper. Full color printing. In this book, the famous chess writer Yevgeny Gik gathered together thirty of his chess essays published in recent years. Serious, entertaining and humorous essays are written in free form - with lyrical digressions, history excursions, chess bikes, etc. A variety of genres are presented: interviews, humorous sketches, irony or sarcasm, episodes from biographies of famous people, historical and sports stories. The heroes of the book were the chess kings Karpov and Kasparov, Botvinnik and Tal, the contenders for the Korchnoi and Taimanov crowns, Grandmasters Flor and Gulko, as well as the poet and artist Vysotsky, the writers Aksenov, Vainer, Zorin, Arkanov, composer Dashkevich, the scenographer Krasnov, the television commentator Maslachenko and others. Funny stories about how the chess program won TEFI, as the author was in the Interrekord, and his wife was a double Mireille Mathieu, etc. The book can be considered as a chess album - it contains more than 200 unique photographs.

Each book has its own destiny. But not every author is destroyed while working on the text on the personal instructions of the hero of his work. It happened with Leon Trotsky, one of the main organizers of the October Revolution of 1917, the creator of the Red Army and one of the leaders of our country in the first years of Soviet power. Relentless and reliable, like an ice ax, the principle of 'no man & mdash; no problem & raquo; did not allow Trotsky to complete the book to the end & hellip; But even what they managed to publish caused shock to Stalin's supporters (the dictator of the USSR for a quarter of a century), and to his ardent opponents. About Stalin written hundreds of books, but this & mdash; The first one from which all the others grew. And, unlike other authors, Lev Davidovich for many years knew Joseph Vissarionovich personally and was an immediate participant in the events described. This edition is addressed to all not indifferent to the history of our Motherland.