Have you long dreamed of learning how to play chess, but you constantly feared that it would take too long to learn everything from scratch? Do not postpone the matter in the long box: before the chess battles you have to study just one book! With its help, novice chess players can not only master the rules of the game, but also learn a variety of interesting combinations for future victories! 

How do I know my level and rating? How to identify your weaknesses and how to eliminate them? How to improve your own game? How to make a training plan? These and many other questions are answered in this book. Its author, international master Igor Khmelnitsky, is not only a strong practical player, but also an experienced coach. Before his move to the United States, he helped the leading Ukrainian chess players. Since 1991, working as a trainer in the state of Philadelphia. Among his students are players of all levels, from beginners to masters. His original test book was recognized in the United States as the "Book of the Year". Now it is also published in Russian. Learn your chess power with the help of test solutions! Sold at a discount - 30%.

"Nothing is harder than winning a winning position," says one of the chess aphorisms. And how to bring to victory the hard-won minimum advantage - material or positional? This is a difficult question and is dedicated to this book. The systematization of the advantage proposed by the authors allows one to master the typical techniques used by the world's strongest chess players: examples of their creativity form the basis of this work, which is primarily of an academic nature. Designed for the widest circles of chess lovers.

Practically for the first time in Russian it is told about the most talented chess players, meteors flashed on the rich chess sky. They did not manage to take part in the struggle for the world chess crown, but left their bright trace in the ancient and wise game. It is designed for the widest circles of chess fans.

A set of 5 books by Garry Kasparov. My great predecessors

Grandmaster Alexander Raetsky and international master Maxim Chetverik are the authors of more than a dozen books on opening theory, published in the UK ("Everyman") and Germany ("Schachverlag Kania"). A series of books are being prepared for publication at the Quality Chess Publishing House (Sweden). Their monograph, Catalan Beginning, was praised in the chess world. The Russian edition is the most comprehensive and best to date.

Well-known chess theorists are analyzing one of the ever-pressing problems in chess creativity. Their recommendations make it possible to correctly solve situations when positions with hanging pawns appear on the board.

Как можно соединить в одной книге стремительность и дотошность, увлекательность для гроссмейстера и занимательность для любителя или даже профана; лиричность и объективность? Можно, вообще-то, и по-разному. Но в данном случае это следствие самой личности автора. Гарри Каспаров, тринадцатый чемпион мира по шахматам. Человек кипящий и порывистый, жесткий и целеустремленный, увлекающийся и политический человек. В сотрудничестве с Дмитрием Плисецким он воспроизводит историю шахматного чемпионства - в этом, первом томе – от Стейница до Алехина. Уже в каком-то "наполеоновском" предисловии Каспаров сразу высвечивает несколько важнейших моментов: всего 14 человек за 117 лет были сильнейшими за доской. Это раз И два: все чемпионы, да и их предшественники – дофидешные великие шахматисты были теснейше связаны с ценностями того общества, в котором жили и творили… Так Каспаров распахивает дверь книги и сразу, уже на пороге ясные, рациональные характеристики всех четырнадцати чемпионов. Включая себя, что важно, и без кокетливой скромности Каспаров пишет "Я" и трезво ставит себя в контекст эпохи и игры. Скажу шепотом: "мы, со многими из вас играем в шахматы на уровне детского сада. И буквы, цифры и позиции для нас китайская грамота. Но почитаем комментарии Каспаров к партиям, которые настолько широким радиусом освещают мир вокруг доски, не отвлекаясь ни на секунду от сути происходящего, что мы невольно втягиваемся во вселенную черно-белых фигур и черно-белых клеток". Но и комментирует Каспаров не только сам. О каждом чемпионе – будто интервью дают – говорят в книге все другие, что физически могли знать о нем. Итак, Гарри Каспаров Мои великие предшественники, т.1, "От Стейница до Алехина". Рипол Классик, Москва 2003. А томов будет еще два.

Garry Kasparov - many years of world chess leader, author of the books "Sicilian Defense." Scheveningen & quot; (1984), & quot; Test of Time & quot; (1985), & quot; Two matches & quot; (1987), & quot; Child of Change & quot; (1987), & quot; Unlimited Duel & quot; (1989). This book was written by him in collaboration with the chess master and journalist Dmitry Germanovich Plisetsky, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine & quot; Chess in Russia & quot; (1987-1999), author of the books & quot; Protection Technique & quot; (1985), & quot; David Yanovsky & quot; (1987) and & quot; Russians vs. Fishers & quot; (2004). Multi-volume & quot; My great predecessors & quot; has no analogues in the world chess literature: the 13th world champion tells about the fate and work of twelve previous champions and their rivals. The fifth volume is dedicated to Karpov and his historical rival Korchnoi.

Champion of the World Chess Olympiad of 2004, grandmaster Andrei Volokitin and honored coach of Ukraine Vladimir Grabinsky argue that the greatest reserve in improving a chess player lies not only in the accumulation of knowledge, but in the development of his own thinking. Perfectly selected material, exclusively fresh examples (all of them are taken from the games played not earlier than 2000!) Will bring a lot of pleasure and benefit to any qualified player or coach. Instead of repeating banal truths, the authors will surprise the reader with a scattering of original finds.

Alexander Belyavsky - one of the strongest Soviet grandmasters, four-time champion of the USSR, an applicant to the world chess crown. His book is a kind of textbook of the struggle for a chessboard. The struggle that has led the author to victories for dozens of times.

The book is intended for those enthusiasts who want to include children in intellectual games, but do not know where to start and how to continue. All the games in this book are full of a variety of informative material and, most importantly, equipped with a methodology for training and tournaments.

The manual includes 144 basic training sessions, increasing in complexity, and 18 tournaments (one in each month). This allows coaches and educators to engage in extracurricular thematic games with teens twice a week for two years. In addition, these games can take a worthy place in the family leisure.

This book is a real guide to the complex route, which is a chess game. The deep questions posed by the author and the answers to them allow one to obtain that saving thread, which leads the participant to struggle for victory. It is designed for chess players of any qualification.