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  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is dedicated to the strongest piece on the chessboard – to the queen. Using the example of episodes from games of modern grandmasters (the vast majority of games date back to 2020-2023) and his own grandmaster practice, the author tries to generalize, and in some places even clarify the methodology for understanding and playing queen endings, as well as other types of endgames with the presence of queens ) On the desk. The book presents various ratios of material – “queen against queen”, “queen and minor piece against queen and minor piece”, “queen and rook against queen and rook”, “queen against two rooks”, “queen against rook and pawns”, “ queen against a rook and a minor piece”, “two queens against two queens” – practically the entire spectrum of encountered endgames of this type. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get maximum benefit from studying the examples of queen endings and its other derivatives offered by the author. The book is aimed at advanced chess players, is useful for coaches and can be recommended to a wide range of chess fans.

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Gipslis

    This collection of wonderful combinations is based on the famous magazine “Chess” published in the USSR. The editorial office was located in Riga, its members included strong Latvian chess players, and the editor-in-chief of the publication for many years was the eighth world champion Mikhail Tal, who always took an active part in the development of the magazine. Perhaps the most popular section among readers has always been “Find the best continuation without moving the pieces.” A fresh dozen of the most beautiful and instructive combinations, mainly from current tournaments, were published on the back cover, and the solutions were given in the next issue. The combinations were selected by the editorial team very carefully, because the magazine's circulation was more than 60,000 copies and was distributed in more than 50 countries! This edition includes combinations published in the mentioned section from 1980 to 1990. By solving these combinations, you are sure to improve your tactical skills and significantly strengthen your game.

    40.00 $
  • Author:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
  • Author:
    Blokh

    The answer book of an international grandmaster and an experienced coach (among whose students is A. Grischuk) Bloch's Maxim contains over 1200 combinations from practical games and specially compiled examples. All tasks are characterized by intense struggle, in which the goal is achieved by single moves. The book is intended for both young and adult amateurs, and for masters. The arrangement of examples by topic allows you to use the book not only as a task book, but also as a textbook. Of particular interest are over two hundred specially compiled by the author overstressed positions in which white wins the only way during the course of white, and black wins during the course of black. These examples, as well as over 50 fragments from the parties of the author and his students, are published for the first time.

    21.67 $
  • Author:
    Bologan

    «The idea of continuing the autobiographical book “Steps” has been in the air almost since the moment it was written. Despite the bullet point at the end of the book in the form of a victory over Magnus Carlsen, my chess career continued for another full 14 years, and the subsequent stormy socio-political career is only gaining momentum.” (V. Bologan).  The book contains 75 games commented in detail and a number of fragments. A frank story about the life and professional path, about cooperation with the leading grandmasters and coaches of the world (among them - A. Karpov, G. Kasparov, Yu. Polgar, Zhu Chen, R. Ponomarev, A. Shirov, A. Morozevich, A. Onischuk, A. Ryazantsev, E. Inarkiev, M. Al-Mudakhka, M. Dvoretsky, M. Podgaets, V. Chebanenko, Z. Lanka and others), about political activities in the Parliament of Moldova and about work in FIDE are complemented by numerous photographs.   For a wide range of chess lovers.

    36.67 $
  • Author:
    Fisher

    15.00 $
  • Author:
    Kapengut

    An outstanding theorist and successful coach shares his memories of communication and cooperation with Mikhail Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Elena Akhmylovskaya and other outstanding chess players. Separate large chapter – a story about many years of work with Boris Gelfand: over these years (1980-1993) the student went from a 12-year-old candidate for master to the holder of the 3rd rating in the world. Albert Kapengut – winner of 6 gold medals at the World Student Olympics, seven-time champion of Belarus, participant in the individual and team championships of the USSR among men, champion of the USSR as part of the Burevestnik team. The book includes 70 games commented in detail by the author, a careful study of which will help the reader not only better understand popular opening schemes, but also get a taste for serious analytical work. “My story is not so much about a career, although “you can’t erase words from a song,” but about memorable situations, often funny, sometimes absurd, and dotted about people I met along the way, sometimes with touches of biography, prompting readers to become interested in more complete information.” ;" (A. Kapengut). For a wide range of chess lovers.

    43.33 $
  • Author:
    Karoii

    50.00 $
  • The height of the king is 95 mm, the diameter of the base of the king is 42 mm. Currently used in tournaments of the Central House of Chess Players. The kit is sold without a board.

    60.00 $
  • Author:
    Tal

    21.67 $
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    Russian Chess Minibook:  Author: Alexander Kalinin Title: Garry Kasparov. Great Chess Combinations Publisher: Moscow, Russian Chess House, 2013 Binding: Hardcover Format: Pocket book, 80 * 90 * 25 mm Language: English, Russian 400 pagesIn this book, devoted to Garry Kasparov, the examples are arranged in chronological order. All the diagrams are give an additional mark – a number from 1 to 4. This classification allows the book to be used as an aid, both for trainers and teachers in lessons with their pupils, and for independent training.

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    Size: approx. 21.5x11 cm (envelope) 20x10.5(postcard)art pk5

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    Cover: false leather Embossed leather.  Dimensions : length 20 cm, width 13.5 cm, thickness 2 cm.  Includes page: personal data, calendar 2001-2003, Phones, necessities in Moscow, long-distance and international communication codes,calendar of holidays and other useful information. The pages of the diary are not dated,which allows you to use it only on the days you need and regardless of the current year.  Available in brown and black.   The match was held from 8 to 11 September 2002 in the Kremlin, it was attended by the best international grandmasters at the time. This fact, plus the fact that former world Champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov for the first time in many years played in the same team, attracted the attention of the world community to the competition.

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    Painting by Galina Satonina + Album«Emanuel Lasker - Second World Chess Champion» Signed by Galina Satonina: «To Emil Vasilyevich – in birthday, and happy New Year! 5.01.87. From the author. Galina Satonina»Dimensions: approx. 354 * 290 mmThe picture is painted of a remarkable Russian artist Galina Satonina.   Galina Satonina (1905 – 2000) – the most famous chess painter in the world. She was a multiple Tatarstan Chess Champion, and her paintings depict a wonderful chess life of the people, figures, fantastical positions, emotions that cannot be expressed in words, but in her works, they are easily recognizable. Exhibitions of her works were shown in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Voronezh and other cities of Russia. During her life there were about 200 solo exhibitionsAs a gift you can have a unique album dedicated to the works of Galina Satonina Title: Galina Satonina Amazon of Kazan Avant-gardeAuthor: Under the editorship by V. KudryavtsevPublished: Publishing House "Russian Chess House" 2018Language: RussianPages: 104Format: encyclopedicDimentions: 29.5x22.5x1.5 cmThe gift album is dedicated to the works of the Soviet artist Galina Satonina (1905-2000). A student of bright representatives of the "Kazan avant-garde" in the person Of K. Chebotarev – A. Platunova, she found her innovative way in painting and original performing technique. And life in chess prompted multiple champion of Kazan and Tatarstan chess main theme in the work of Satonina: "chess-a realistic fairy tale."The illustrated edition presents the most significant works of the artist from the collection Of "Russian chess house", whose talent has become widely known both in our country and abroad.

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    Pen length - 14,5 cm The match was held from 8 to 11 September 2002 in the Kremlin, it was attended by the best international grandmasters at the time. This fact, plus the fact that former world Champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov for the first time in many years played in the same team, attracted the attention of the world community to the competition.Art stellazh Batumi

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    Title: World Chess champions on postage stamps   Published: Jugomarka, Yugoslavia     Philatelic set of chess blocks and envelopes in a cardboard folder. 14 envelopes, 3 blocks and annotation. Very nice colored stamps and envelopes.Size of envelope: 16,5x11,5 cm. Size of chess block: 13x11,5 cm Size of cardboard folder: 26 x21 cmEK31-2

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    Publishing house: FSHR LibraryAuthor (s): OleynikovLanguage: RussianFormat: Encyclopedic formatPages: 88Binding: SoftDate: 2021A luxurious photo album on coated paper!To mark the centenary of Vasily Smyslov, the Russian Chess Federation has released a photo album-a chronicle of the life of the seventh world champion. This is not only a photobiography of the great chess player, but also a panorama of the chess life of our country for seventy years, from the 1930s to the early 2000s. From about one and a half hundred stopped moments of V. V. Smyslov's life, an amazing line of continuity is formed. It goes from the chess of the Russian Empire, through the stages of development of the Soviet chess school and to the chess of post-Soviet Russia: here is the father of the champion, Vasily Osipovich, a chess enthusiast-a student of the Technological Institute in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, later the champion of the Soviet Goznak ,and here are the Soviet chess players against the background of the defeated Reichstag; here is a short stop at the ramp of the silver TU-104 on the way to the next tournament, and here is the celebration of the absolute world champion Vladimir Kramnik…In many photos, next to Vasily Vasilyevich, his wife, Nadezhda Andreyevna, with whom they lived for more than 60 years: they are together on vacation in the mountains, and in the first minutes of the triumph of the spring of 1957, and at the 85th anniversary of Smyslov, and until the last days…The album includes photos from the photo archives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, from the family archive of the Smyslovs (provided by his nephew Yu. V. Fominykh), as well as rare and completely unknown documents, including a letter to the president of FIDE, F. To Olafsson with a request for admission to the same contender cycle, where Smyslov set a special record: at the age of 63, he reached the final match of the contenders!

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    Evgeny Alexandrovich Beibchuk - Head of the Russian Chess Federation.Size: approx. 18x12 cmАрт пк1

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    Soviet Chess Photo by Boris Dolmatovsky: Women's chess team   Chiburdanidze, Alexandria, Gaprindashvili   Size: 10x15 cmArt PK5  

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    Size: 10x15 cmArt PK5

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    Size: 23x15 cm   Diamond Award. Lyon. The winner of the match for the chess crown award will also have a prize from Korloff company made from bronze, gold and covered with 1018 white and black diamonds. On the photo: G. Kasparov A. Karpov President of Korloff  Pelasye 27.11.1990. Print run 340арт пк1