BOOKS IN ENGLISH
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42.00 $
The defense of Alekhine, a brave debut that defies all the classical rules of the game at the beginning of a chess game, has evolved over time into a flexible system that allows blacks to either agree to "extreme" options, or to move to three horizontal lines. This is a debut for the gaming positions. Choosing it, Black sets himself, the task of winning, not only to fight for a draw. From playing, both white and black, Alyokhin's protection is demanded by specific knowledge, books, devoted to this protection. This edition, consisting of 16 parts and 87 chapters, examines, among others, the lines of protection, the practice of which is dated exclusively to the twenty-first century. Thanks to modern technology and in-depth analysis, estimates of many previously known variants have also been changed. The book is written in a living literary language and will be useful as chess players with a high Elo ratio, and for fans. Increased format
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36.00 $
The price include postage and packing. 300 games commented by A.Karpov, 23 selected commented combinations and 24 selected commented endings.
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36.00 $
The price include postage and packing. Collection of the awarded games in chess tournaments and matches from 1876 till 1995. The idea of beauty in chess is closely connected with our understanding of chess as a wide sphere of human culture and art. Not only for brilliant strokes or bright combinational ideas we are impressed by formidable games played by outstanding masters: depth of logic in positional play, refined technique of exploiting an advantage, lelgant implementation of strategical ideas are no less attractive. A point of a chess combination attracts both an ordinary amateur and an experienced profy. The eventual possibility of sacrificial combinations is what makes ches so impressive. The major part of these 1640 games are annotated by ourselves. Garry Kasparov: «This book will undoubtedly find a special place among fundamental works on chess esthetics and beauty. It contains a great amount of awarded games – plenty of material for studies in all aspects of chess. The principle of the selection is very democratic – together with grandmaster games, there are many nice examples of play originating from games by amateurs. The enormous effort in systematization and analysis of games made by the authors deserves all respect and gratitude».
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36.00 $
This new book by the many-times world champion Anatoly Karpov and the author of more than fifty books, grandmaster Nikolay Kalinichenko, is devoted to one of the most complicated and strategically deep openings & mdash; the Queen's Gambit Declined. Using games played by the strongest grandmasters, it describes the interesting ideas which have appeared in the main development systems of this opening. Along with games from recent years, the book presents the most important encounters from the chess heritage. And of course, it includes games by Anatoly Karpov himself & mdash; a great expert on the Queen's Gambit, who generously shares with the reading his unique understanding of the concepts involved. The book is aimed at strong players, but it will also be of interest to a wide range of chess enthusiasts.
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35.94 $
The price include postage and packing. This book contains all of Lasker's match and tournament games from this period with annotations by various Russian masters. The notes are in languageless, chess symbol notation. It features tournament crosstables and diagrams throughout as well as indexes of opponents, openings and events. During this time Lasker played matches against Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowski, Schlechter and Capablanca for the World Championship. He also took part several famous tournaments including St Petersburg 1914, New York 1924, Moscow 1935 & 1936 and Nottingham 1936.
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35.94 $
The price include postage and packing. This book contains all of Lasker's match and tournament games from this period with annotations by various Russian masters. The notes are in languageless, chess symbol notation. It features tournament crosstables and diagrams throughout as well as indexes of opponents, openings and events. During this time Lasker became World Champion and played matches against Steinitz (twice for the World Championship), Bird and Blackburne amongst others. He also took part several famous tournaments including Hastings 1895, St Petersburg 1895-96 and Nuremburg 1896.
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33.60 $
Chess is the game of kings, and in this book you will learn how to play from the king of chess, Anatoly Karpov, who won the world chess championship many times. You will read about the nature and behaviour of the pieces. You will learn to attack energetically and defend calmly. You will discover a number of tricks and traps that you can use to trip up unwary opponents and, just as importantly, which you will learn how to avoid falling for yourself. Having completed your journey through this book with the help of one of chess’s all-time greats, you will be ready for your first chess battle – against Mum or Dad, against a friend or a computer, on the Internet or at a tournament. This book will enable your child to master the rules of the game in a relaxed manner and will help him or her to conquer new heights not only in chess, but in life, too. This is because chess develops patience, logical thinking and memory, and teaches us how to use our time rationally. Teachers, coaches, and parents with no more than a smattering of chess preparation can use this book to teach children the basics of this complex game. This book is printed in full colour and will be a great present for children wanting to learn about this ancient and the most popular game in the world. Coated paper. Color illustration. Size 22,5 cm * 29,5 cm.
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32.40 $
The price include postage and packing. This book is devoted to the games of a great chess player who has done much to set the agenda for the development of modern chess - Bulgarian Grandmaster, FIDE 2005 World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. After becoming Under 14 Would Chess Champion in 1989 Topalov become one of the leading chess players in the world in the mid 1990s. The wider Russian public first heard of the Bulgarian Grandmaster in 1994, when Topalov beat the Great and Fearsome Garry Kasparov at the Olympiad.
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32.40 $
The price include postage and packing. The author of the book is the Grandmaster and honored Russian coach who headed the All-Russian chess school. At his lessons Alexander Panchenko, following the advice of world champions J.R.Capablanka and V.V.Smislov, placed the highest emphasis on endgame (without neglecting the other stages of a chess game, for sure). The result surpassed all expectations: dozens of grand masters and masters graduated from the school – Sergey Rublevsky, Alice Galliamova, Ruslan Scherbakov, Svetlana Prudnikova, Tatiana Shumjakina and many others. The well-known lectures of Panchenko’s school have underlain the basis of this fascinating book on the endgame that will help to increase playing skills and to achieve higher practical results both for amateurs and professionals. Moreover, it is an indispensible assistant for coaches-teachers. Besides theoretical material, the book contains numerous examples from the practice of the classical and modern chess players and the tasks for the independent solving and playing.
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30.00 $
The price includes postage. This volume of the anthology contains a number of collected and annotated games taken out of all the matches for the world chess championship between 1886 and 1937. This book covers the period of Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine and Euwe as the world title holders. Apart from being an encyclopedia, this work also bears considerable instuctive value, since at all times people learned primarily from the games of the champions.
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30.00 $
The price include postage and packing. The book is intended for the instruction of children by teachers or parents, and is aimed at quite a lengthy teaching period, beginning with the very rudiments of the game. For each of use the present edition has been divided into two volumes, to which significant corrections and additions have been made. The book will be extremely useful, both for independent work, and for study in schools or in clubs.
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30.00 $
The price include postage and packing. Learn to solve more complicated problems. Our new book includes combinations occurred in the games by well-known players, including outstanding masters of the past and the present. There are many specially composed positions, called studies. As in our previous book instructional material is arranged in sections of increasing complexity. The study of each section can be roughly estimated as adding 100 points to your rating. Thus our book should lead you up the rungs of chess mastery from a rating of 1600-1700 to a solid level of 2200 points or more which in practice corresponds roughly to that of a candidate master. Of course with tactics alone you will not defeat all of your opponents, but without tactics nothing can be done in chess.
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2452 chess combinations
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Gipslis 40.00 $ -
Civil War
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Trotsky 28.33 $ -
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Trupan 66.67 $ -
Components of chess strategy
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Slavin 30.00 $ - 596.67 $
- Wooden chess pieces made of Staunton oak No. 6 (Art T) 183.33 $
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A textbook of chess endings. All kinds of endgames
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Kalinichenko 46.67 $ -
Middlegame typical positions
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Zlotnik 23.33 $ - Amber chess with a board in a wooden case Kaliningrad 6000.00 $
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VII All-Union Chess Tournament. Collection of games. Moscow 1931
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Alatortsev 233.33 $