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  • Old Indian protection. Repertoire for black
    Old Indian protection. Repertoire for black
    Author:
    Bologan

    The 2nd edition, revised and supplemented, of the popular monograph, which is dedicated to one of the most combat modern debuts – the Old Indian defense. The author meticulously builds the entire defensive line of black (including on the territory of "adjacent" openings, such as the English beginning or the London system), explains standard plans and tactical techniques, offers a number of novelties in current schemes. Carefully selected positions for the solution will help the reader to consolidate the acquired knowledge. The book is addressed to chess players of any level, since the laws of Old Indian are the same for both amateurs and super grandmasters.

    21.67 $
  • Game set 3 in 1: chess, checkers, backgammon with wooden pieces, large
    Game set 3 in 1: chess, checkers, backgammon with wooden pieces, large

    Chess was invented in the 5th century AD in India and spread throughout the world. The uniqueness of this game is that it still covers the minds of everyone - from young to old! Chess combines elements of science and sports. They develop logic, perseverance, attentiveness, analytical thinking and memory.  Checkers is a fun, dynamic and relatively simple game. Every country in the world has it. It is comparatively easier to find a partner here than in chess. Backgammon – one of the oldest known board games. It is known that it came to us from the East. First, you need to master the basic techniques, so that later you can boldly apply various tricks during the game.  Cage length: 4.5 cm. King height: 8.8cm King base diameter: 2.8 cm The length and width of the field when unfolded: 44 X 44 cm. Material: wood Country of origin: China.

    84.48 $
  • Decision Making in Heavy Piece Endgames
    Decision Making in Heavy Piece Endgames
    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 $
  • Chess pocket magnetic
    Chess pocket magnetic "Chessm.com". With gift box.

    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:
    Tal

    21.67 $
  • Learn to play the Caro-Kann Defense. 3rd edition, (revised and greatly expanded)
    Learn to play the Caro-Kann Defense. 3rd edition, (revised and greatly expanded)
    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:
    Getmanchuk

    16.67 $
  • Plastic DGT chess with a weighting agent. (king height 95 mm) (Holland)
    Plastic DGT chess with a weighting agent. (king height 95 mm) (Holland)

    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 $
  • Queen endgame
    Queen endgame
    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:
    Kasparov

    41.67 $
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    The mini-edition contains 100 tasks for solving from the practice of G. Kasparov.
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    The publication contains 100 tasks for solving the practice of R. Fisher.
  • Chess rules. The smallest textbook AST
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    5.00 $

    Before you are the complete rules of an ancient and wise game. In a simple, accessible and concise form, the publication outlines the basic rules of a chess game: you will learn how pieces move, how to use castling, what is “taking on the aisle”, how to record a game and much more. The book will be interesting not only for adults, but also for children who are just starting to take their steps in understanding the amazing and fascinating world of chess. Examples of the game of champions, whether it is possible to take the move back, what are the cases of draws - all this can also be found here. And having mastered, with the help of this book, the recording of a chess game, you will be able to read on your own the textbooks of the chess game and other special literature.

  • Play as Lasker (Play Champion series of mini-books.) AST
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    The mini-edition contains 100 tasks for the solution from the practice of E. Lasker.
  • Future Chess Kings AST
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    8.99 $

    Karpov, Kasparov, Ponomarev - personalities known today to the whole world. Already in their youth, these chess players won victories over the venerable grandmasters, won various tournaments. Who gives high hopes today, who tomorrow will dictate fashion in the chess world? About this, about the first victories, about innovations in chess and about many other things the book tells ...

  • Robert Fisher: the paradoxes of chess genius AST
    book

    8.99 $

    Perhaps no chess player attracted so much attention, did not cause such contradictory judgments as the eleventh world champion Robert Fisher. Since the late fifties of the last century and still do not stop scandals around this man. What are the reasons for interest in such an outrageous and great personality? The book will tell about it.
  • Last Earth Champion AST
    book

    11.05 $

    Preface by Garry Kasparov.   A computer is a great thing! With it, you can solve a lot of problems without leaving your home. You can find the necessary information. You can communicate. In the end, just play! True, there is one inconspicuous and seemingly harmless trend: a computer can gradually become the most indispensable and expensive creature in the world for humans. And then it is not clear where the computer ends and the person begins. And is the main thing left of him - the desire to think independently.   Mark Gardner was the world chess champion. He spent ten years on a desert island, and when he returned to his homeland, it turned out that the world had changed a lot - everyone around was happy. But Mark is somehow worried about this ...   Artist B. Trzhemetsky.   Color illustrations, gift edition.
  • Collection of chess problems, sketches, puzzles AST
    book

    12.00 $

    Practical play is often called the prose of chess, and the composition is called poetry. This book will introduce you into the wonderful and pre-corn world of chess poetry, will acquaint you with the art of chess composition - a truly inexhaustible area of ​​ancient and wise play. From the many thousands of treasures of tasks and sketches, the author tried to choose samples of masterpieces, as well as works of half-forgotten composers of the past, whose names and creativity must be revived.

  • Chess debuts. Practical guidance. All half-open beginnings AST
    book

    12.43 $

    The book presents all the semi-open beginnings (with the initial move 1. e4, black responds with any move except 1 ... e5), and each debut is revealed by analyzing the most significant and characteristic for a given beginning of the game. Thanks to this, the reader, who studies one or another debut, will better master the basic ideas and typical positions of the given beginning. Particular attention is paid to the protection of Karo-Cann, the Sicilian and French defenses. The book offered to your attention will greatly help in the work on studying the chess theory and will help to solve many problems of your improvement.

  • 105 most popular board games AST
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    12.43 $

    In this book, there is everything for those who love quiet and at the same time gambling. In it you can find games on a chessboard, on the playing field, in dice, with chips, coins, matches, dominoes, card cards and many others. Play and win!
  • Anatoly Karpov: life and play. AST
    book

    13.13 $

    Biography, parties, photos, statistics ... Anatoly Karpov (born 1951) - 12th World Chess Champion (1975-1985) and FIDE World Champion (1993-1998). The widest range in the game - from a subtle positional sense to a bright combination of insights, from resistance to protection to filigree technique in the endings - is surprisingly combined with the scale of the personality - a politician, a businessman, a public figure, a collector. Winner of more than 160 tournaments, matches and other competitions; played more than 1,000 games, including 263 - in matches for the title of world champion.

  • Chess. Children's Encyclopedia AST
    book

    13.82 $

    Chess is one of the most popular board games created by man a half thousand years ago. The next volume of the popular children's looping "I Know the World" tells about the centuries-old history of chess, famous grandmasters - world champions, and, of course, about the secrets of the game itself, the basics of its theory and practice, the origins of extraordinary attractiveness and beauty. The book is intended for all who are interested in this ancient and wise game. Gift Edition. Color print
  • 100 bright chess games of the twentieth century AST
    book

    13.82 $

    The 20th century gave the world many wonderful works of chess sport. The proposed games were played by famous chess players in serious official competitions and made a great impression on contemporaries. Parties are arranged in chronological order.
  • Chess for beginners AST
    book

    13.82 $

    In a popular and fascinating form, the author - master of sports in chess, a well-known coach and journalist - introduces readers into the magical world of chess, introduces them to the basics of chess play. The book is designed for children of primary and secondary school age.
  • Japanese logic games. Tutorial. AST
    book

    14.48 $

    On page 3 is the owner’s tag.

  • Say goodbye to disease AST
    book

    15.72 $

    In order to be healthy, you need not so much: proper nutrition, a few simple exercises, mood. The author of the book, journalist Maya Gogulan, will tell about these health components. This is the story of a man who himself went through a disease and was able to find a way out. The health system of the Japanese engineer Katsuzo Nishi helped to get Maya Gogulan to his feet, and her books have helped hundreds of people in our country and abroad to get acquainted with this system and also find health.

    In the book you will find a description of Niche exercises, detailed tips on selecting foods and diet, recipes for treating certain diseases, tips for maintaining mental health and good mood. A special chapter in the book is about healing cancer.

  • 100 outstanding chess players of the twentieth century AST
    book

    16.55 $

    The book is an interesting autobiographical material about a hundred of the best chess players of the XX century. Stories about the masters of chess sport are arranged in chronological order ...

  • Games for boys number 19. Chess. Checkmate one move AST
    book

    16.55 $

    An entertaining book for boys. It contains 488 chess charts. You play white and in each of these positions you declare mate to the enemy king. Well, black king, flutter! For children of preschool and primary school age.

  • José Raul Capablanca: life and play AST
    book

    16.67 $

    "Of all the questions of interest to the chess world, perhaps the most important is the question of the title of world champion," he wrote. R. Capablanca in 1937. Today, when humanity entered the third millennium, the justice of these words has become even more obvious. Chess is one of the phenomena of civilization, and the title of world champion is surrounded by an aura of honoring the great powers of the human mind. This is confirmed by the example of 14 geniuses who ascended the chess throne. Astrel Publishing House continues to release a new series - Encyclopedia of Chess Olympus, dedicated to the life and work of all world chess champions: from Steinitz to Kramnik. The authors are famous Russian writers and historians of chess Isaac and Vladimir Lindera. The third world champion, the famous Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942). The finest intuition, unparalleled speed of thinking, the technical perfection of the game, combined with elegant combination insights, created during his lifetime an idea of the ideal of a chess grandmaster. For a number of years he was considered invincible, and his every loss was perceived in the world as a sensation. Biography, the best party, photo, statistics ...
  • 1000 most famous chess games AST
    book

    17.27 $

    The book contains 1000 of the most famous chess games played in tournaments, matches, other competitions from ancient times to the present day. Most of these original chess pieces were created by outstanding masters, although some were taken from the works of lesser-known chess players, sometimes even amateurs. The party is accompanied by a brief commentary, which does not pretend to be academic, but animates what is happening on the board. A small preface explains the originator's approach to the huge chess material that he had to sort out and rework. The book gives an idea of ​​how chess art has changed and developed, tastes and evaluations were refined and improved, and how the playing styles of great masters changed at different stages of a centuries-old chess history. Also presented is the "creativity" of machines, their fights with a man, the best examples of women's chess. Some parties have applied, educational value. The book is designed for a wide range of readers familiar with chess, comprehending their depths.
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