How do amateur and top-level chess players build their debut repertoire? Grandmasters choose openings based on practical considerations, taking into account their ability to attack and defend, to play an endgame, to be ready (or unprepared) for a long fight. Lovers most often just imitate their idols and prefer the currently popular top-level systems. A more ridiculous approach is difficult to imagine! Fashionable systems are constantly being improved, they regularly apply complex novelties & mdash; their mechanical repetition will not help to achieve high results. At the same time, there are correct, insidious for the opponent debuts, which in our time for various reasons have receded into the background. It is from such debuts that it is most advantageous to create your repertoire for future champions. This book offers chess players a carefully thought-out and already built up a full debut repertoire that helps them achieve tournament victories, driving their opponents to well-studied positions with thoughtful game plans. For a wide range of chess lovers.

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The book is dedicated to one of the brightest and most intense fights for the world crown of the last decades, during which chess in our country returned to television screens and front pages of central newspapers. Grandmaster Lev Alburt and master John Krumiller not only thoroughly analyzed all the games, but also managed to present comments in a convenient and instructive manner. The 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who explains in detail the key moments of each game, and also shares his thoughts on the psychology of the struggle at the highest level, helped the authors greatly. It is not by chance that this work won the highest award of the US Chess Journalists Union. & Nbsp; Especially for the Russian edition, the foreword was written by Sergey Karjakin, who after the match in New York was perhaps the most popular athlete in Russia. Numerous photographs will help the reader to plunge into the atmosphere of this intellectual confrontation. For a wide range of chess lovers.

The book of one of the strongest Soviet grandmasters, the champion of the USSR and the participant of the candidates' tournaments Alexander Kotov, was originally intended for a foreign reader, was a bestseller in the West, but never published in Russian. Publisher & laquo; Russian Chess House & raquo; gladly fills this gap. The author tells about the strongest Soviet chess school in world history, about the techniques that made it possible for decades to draw the title of world champion by the internal affair of Soviet chess players. You will learn how to learn debut, middle game and endgame, how to work on your games and much more. For a wide range of chess lovers.

The book tells about the chess way of Grandmaster Alexandra Goryachkina. The reader will learn about how a young athlete from chess remote provinces successfully went to storm the most prestigious tournaments, won the children's championships of Russia, Europe and the world, then entered in the adult national team of the country and has achieved the greatest successes in the process professional chess. Authors share the secrets of successful workouts from Alexandra and her parents, suggest what problems can expect young talents on the road to success. The book provides many details commented on chess pieces, revealing the creator Grandmaster’s image. For a wide range of chess lovers.

The gift album is dedicated to the works of the Soviet artist Galina Satonina (1905-2000). A student of vivid representatives of the Kazan avant-garde & raquo; in the person of K. Chebotarev - A. Platunov, she found her innovative way in painting and original performing technique. And life in chess prompted many champions of the Kazan and Tatarstan chess main theme in the work of Satonina: "Chess is a realistic fairy tale". The illustrated edition presents the most significant works of the artist from the collection "Russian Chess House", whose talent is widely known both in our country and abroad. Designed for fans of painting and chess.

World champion Magnus Carlsen is the undoubted leader of modern chess. Unlike most of the strongest grandmasters of the 21st century, the Norwegian goes its own way, relying not on the “slaughter” & raquo; computer preparation of the debut repertoire, and the ability to play the original positions of the mittfiel and fight in the endgame to the last "patron". Being an adherent of the positional style, M. Carlsen has a remarkable combinative imagination and feels the dynamic resources of the struggle perfectly.30 M. Carlsen's games included in this book will give the readers considerable aesthetic pleasure and will be an excellent school of modern chess. divided into thematic sections, each of which is provided with a brief introduction.

A large-scale & nbsp; project & nbsp; a well-known & nbsp; historian & nbsp; and & nbsp; writer & nbsp; Sergey & nbsp; Voronkova & nbsp; is an attempt to understand what is hidden under the legendary brand & quot; Soviet nesp; All the best chess players of the country, including eight world champions, took part in the USSR Championships (1920-1991)! That is why in these tournaments, as in the annual rings on the sections of trees, you can trace the entire history of the development of Soviet chess. This volume is dedicated to the USSR Championships from 16th to 20th (1948-1953). & Nbsp; It includes 76 selected masterpieces and dramas & raquo; and 200 archival illustrations. Circulation 500 copies. Volume 1 is also available. & Nbsp; http://www.chessm.ru/catalog/show/2550 & nbsp; & nbsp;