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  • 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:
    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 $
  • Reprint of a large badge (4 cm x 3.5 cm) dedicated to the failed match between Karpov and Fischer in 1975. The original was issued in an edition of  in several signal specimens (only specimens from the collection of A. Karpov and the Central House of Art Museum are known). 

    17.24 $
  • Made in Holland. Chess computer "Centaur" easy to use. You can easily install any language. Using the touch panel  40x40 cm (cell size 48 x 48 mm) you can easily move the figures. The sensors will record strokes. The board has a capacious rechargeable internal battery. The uniqueness of the computer is that it quickly adapts to  your playing strength (from beginner to grandmaster) so that you have the right opponent. Centaur will help you analyze the game so as not to make the same mistakes and improve your chess skill. Please note, computer is not compatible to connect to your PC or online chess. The set includes USB cable and DGT electronic chess pieces . Height of the king is 86mm.  

    1333.30 $
  • Author:
    Karpov

    New, significantly enlarged edition of the famous book - 75 games. Anatoly Karpov is the greatest expert on Caro-Kann defense. He scored many bright victories in it, playing both white and black. In this paper, the multiple world champion talks about the most important and interesting discoveries made in the Caro-Kann defense. Many examples from modern practice are given.

    17.24 $
  • Author:
    Barsky

    18.97 $
  • Magnetic road chess: folding board-case made of artificial leather, tablet-figures with a convex image. Wallet size 19x22 cm. The playing field is 15.5 x 15.5 cm. Cell 2x2 cm.

    51.72 $
  • Author:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
  • Author:
    Gelfand

    The 2012 World Vice-Champion continues his story, begun in the best-selling books Positional Decision Making in Chess. ("Book of the Year" according to the English Chess Federation), "Dynamic Decision Making in Chess" and "Technical Decision Making in Chess." The new book discusses ways to make decisions in positions without minor pieces. The reader will get acquainted with rook and queen endings, as well as with what Romanovsky called the "fourth stage", that is, the late middlegame / early endgame, where only heavy pieces remain on the board. «Gelfand is very good– and very honest – explains what decisions he was able to calculate and what he had to make on the basis of general reasoning, and how he did it. This resulted in a book of the type that I love. A chess player of any strength can find a lot of useful things here. (Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, reviewer of novelties in chess literature in the magazine "New in Chess"). For a wide range of chess lovers.

    22.41 $
  • Author:
    Galkin

    The book by grandmaster and experienced coach Alexander Galkin is  the final link in a series of publications by the author, directed  to study the classical endgame using examples of modern games   grandmasters. This time the subject of the study – light piece endgames. Clarification of the methodology for working on this stage of the game, as well as the main features and methods of playing such endings. Examples  taken from the practice of modern grandmasters and dated back to 2020-2023. The author offers the reader the most recent and unique information. The material is structured in such a way that the reader can get the maximum  benefit from studying the examples offered by the author  queen endings and its  other derivatives. 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 $
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    1. The International Chess Tournament. Moscow 1981. Size: 19x12.5 cm 2. The World Chess Championship Match. Kasparov-Karpov. Leningrad. 1986. Size: 16x11.5 cm Art PK4

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    Full color printing. On coated paper.Chess is a Royal game that will be taught to you by the chess king - multiple world champion Anatoly Karpov. You will learn about the manners and habits of the figures, learn how to attack vigorously and defend in cold blood. You will learn a lot of tricks and traps that can be put careless rivals and, equally important, learn how not to get into them. Having made a journey through the pages of this book, you with the help of a great chess player will prepare for his first chess battle - against mom or dad, friend or computer, on the Internet or in a competition. The book will allow your child to easily learn the rules of the game, will help him to win not only chess, but also in life. After all, chess develops perseverance, logical thinking and memory, learn to use time rationally. According to this tutorial, teachers, coaches or parents, even with minimal chess training will be able to teach children the basics of wise play. The book is colorfully decorated and will be a great gift to anyone who wants to learn the ancient and wise game. 1. Anatoly Karpov's Color Chess Textbook. First stage. Gift edition.Publisher: Russian Chess HouseAuthor(s): KarpovLanguage: RussianFormat: Increased(approx. 30x22.5 cm)Pages: 136Binding: HardcoverYear of issue: 20172. Anatoly Karpov's Color Chess Textbook. Second stage. Gift editionPublisher: Russian Chess HouseAuthor(s): KarpovYear of issue: 2019Language: RussianFormat: Increased(approx. 30x22.5 cm)Volume: 128Binding: HardcoverDate: 2019

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    Antique Soviet (Russian) Football Original Photos: «Dynamo» Sports Club (Moscow)The USSR. The middle of the 20th century21 photos Dimensions:12 * 13 cm – 11 photos9 * 12 cm – 8 photos11,5 * 15 cm – 2 photos Cut off a corners of the two photos (look at the photos) Art PK3

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    Author: Genna SosonkoTitle: Pegasus HitPublished: Russian Chess House, Moscow, 2017Binding: HardcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 254Genna Sosonko (Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) - international grandmaster, two-time champion of Holland. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. As a well-known journalist and commentator, he has devoted the last decade and a half to literary work.According to the 13th world champion Garry Kasparov, today Genna Sosonko is "undoubtedly the number one chess writer". In his new book, the author talks about R. Fisher, V. Korchnoi and other prominent people whose lives were connected with chess. Many of them he knew personally, played and talked all the time...Author: Genna SosonkoTitle: Caligula's Knight Published: Russian Chess House, Moscow, 2019Binding: HardcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 276Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) - international grandmaster, two-time champion of Holland. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. Being a well-known journalist and commentator, he also devoted the last quarter of a century to literary work.According to the 13th world champion Garry Kasparov, today Genna Sosonko is "the undisputed number one chess writer". In his new book, which includes 32 pages of unique photos on coated paper, the author tells about the secrets of success in chess, about the state leaders of the past and the present, one way or another involved in the ancient game, and about the chosen Kaissa - Capablanka, Alekhine, Fisher, Karpov and Kasparov.Author: Genna SosonkoTitle: ThenPublished: Russian Chess House, Moscow, 2011Binding: HardcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 404Gennady Borisovich Sosonko, 1943) - international grandmaster, two-time champion of Holland. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and has since lived in Amsterdam. Winner and prize-winner of many international tournaments. Being a well-known journalist and commentator, he also devoted the last quarter of a century to literary work.According to the 13th world champion Garry Kasparov, today Genna Sosonko is "the undisputed number one chess writer". In his new book, which includes 32 pages of unique photos on coated paper, the author tells about the secrets of success in chess, about the state leaders of the past and the present, one way or another involved in the ancient game, and about the chosen Kaissa - Capablanka, Alekhine, Fisher, Karpov and Kasparov.We can combine shipping if you are ordering multiple items!

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    The set of 3 books, new, re-printed editions:1. Author: Shiffers A.Title: Compilation of games of Petersburg Match-Tournament 1895/96 between Lasker, Steinits, Pillsbury, Chigorin.Published: Russian Chess House, Moscow, 2016Binding: SoftbackLanguage: RussianPages: 60The book of the outstanding Russian chess player Emmanuel Stepanovich schiffers is devoted to the strongest tournament of the XIX century and one of the strongest in the history of chess. It was played by the winners of the famous Hastings tournament of 1895, the strongest chess players of his time: G. Pilsbury, M. Chigorin, Em.Lasker V. Steinitz (Z. Tarrasch from participation in the tournament refused).Reprint edition of the book in 1896, which has long been an absolute rarity. Feel the breath of time!2. Editor: Rabinovich I.Title: VIII All-Union Chess Championship 1933Re-printed edition from the book published in 1935 by OGIZ "Physkultura i Turizm", Leningrad-Moscow Binding: HardbackLanguage: RussianPages: 136VIII all-Union championship (Leningrad 1933) after a long break gathered all the best old and young workshops of the Union and ended, as in 1931, the victory of M. Botvinnik. Unlike other collections, in this collective work of our masters collected selected the best games of the tournament and provides a detailed overview of the theoretical results of the tournament.3.  Author: Barsky V.Title: Third International Chess Tournament 1936Published: Russian Chess House, Moscow, 2004Binding: HardbackLanguage: RussianPages: 280The third world champion Jose Raul Capablanca in the mid-1930s experienced a second youth and played easily and with inspiration. Moscow tournament of 1936, collected almost all color world of chess, but brilliant Cuban was unstoppable. But his main competitors, Mikhail Botvinnik and Salo Flora, he gave a "head start" in two decades!Like the super tournament itself, the collection of all its games with detailed comments of its participants - capablanka, Botvinnik, flora, Levenfish and other grandmasters and masters rightfully took a prominent place in the history of chess. After all, bright ideas do not fade from time, and the great masters of the past always have something to learn.

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    Author: V. A. CharushinTitle: 226 Short Games by Aleksandr AlekhinePublished: Nizhni Novgogos 1992Binding: SoftcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 144Exactly forty years, from 1907 to 1946, continued the chess careers of world champion Alexander Alekhine. During this time, in tournaments, matches and demonstrations, he played more than 50,000 pari. Only a small part of them (about 2000) was recorded and preserved to this day.Author: V. A. CharushinTitle: A Dance on the Vulcano EdgePublished: Nizhni Novgogos 1993Binding: SoftcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 124Only a year and a half played in major tournaments young German grandmaster Klaus Junge (1924-1945). In 1941-1942 he won six tournaments and four became a prize-winner. Having finished his career at the age of 18, he managed to win the world champion A. Alekhine, European champion G. Stolz, E. Bogolyubov and many other strong players.Klaus Junge had a unique style of play, which was called "dancing on the edge of the volcano", and a fantastic technique of playing endings. His work fell on the harsh years of the war and is almost unknown to readers. Fate was ruthless to the young talent: he died at the front.Author: V. A. CharushinTitle: One but Flaming PasssionPublished: Nizhni Novgogos 1995Binding: SoftcoverLanguage: RussianPages: 190The fate of grandmaster Efim Bogolyubov (1889-1952) was not easy. Two-time champion of the USSR, he in 1925 at the first international tournament in Moscow, ostium behind Em.Lasker and J. R. Capablanca. In 1926 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship and lived in Germany until the end of his days. The winner and prize-winner of many tournaments, fide champion - twice challenged the title of world champion in matches with A. Alekhin. The book has more than 200 parties with comments.We can combine shipping if you are ordering multiple items!

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