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  • 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.  

    1099.75 $
  • Author:
    Zhuravlev

    This tutorial is addressed to those who want to learn to play chess on their own and improve further. The lesson-based method of presentation, as well as numerous exercises, contribute to the consistent assimilation of the rules and laws that form the basis of the chess game. The book contains extensive educational material, which is presented to the reader in accordance with modern pedagogical principles. The purpose of this manual is to train chess players of the III category (rating up to 1800). The textbook can also be used for classes in groups - it covers the material of existing programs of the first year of study in children's and youth chess schools.

    23.33 $
  • 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:
    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:
    Ezhov

    Grandmaster Carlos Torre – like a chess comet; his genius flashed dazzlingly and quickly went out in the chess firmament! He – the author of the most famous “mill” in the history of chess, the 2nd world champion Emanuel Lasker fell into its merciless millstones. The authors spoke about the life and work of the Mexican genius (the book contains 25 commentated games by K. Torre). Torre’s book “How a Chess Player is Formed” is presented, an essay by international master Yaroslav Prizant about Torre’s attack in modern practice. In the section "Play like Torre" – 36 instructive examples from his practice to solve. Finally, there is an interview with Carlos Torre, conducted by Gabriel Velasco in 1977. Working with the book will give readers not only aesthetic pleasure, but will also help improve their skills.

    18.33 $
  • Author:
    Getmanchuk

    16.67 $
  • Author:
    Fisher

    15.00 $
  • 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 $
  • A limited edition of the most famous electronic chess clock. Design & quot; under the tree & quot ;. Released for the 25th anniversary of the DGT. & Nbsp; These watches are used in all major tournaments, world championships and World Cups, World Chess Olympiads. Installation of any time controls, including Fisher and Bronstein controls (with added time). & Nbsp;

    237.50 $
  • Author:
    Kalinichenko

    This new book by the many-times world champion Anatoly Karpov and the author of more than fifty books, grandmaster Nikolay Kalinichenko, is devoted to one of the most complicated and strategically deep openings & mdash; the Queen's Gambit Declined. Using games played by the strongest grandmasters, it describes the interesting ideas which have appeared in the main development systems of this opening. Along with games from recent years, the book presents the most important encounters from the chess heritage. And of course, it includes games by Anatoly Karpov himself & mdash; a great expert on the Queen's Gambit, who generously shares with the reading his unique understanding of the concepts involved. The book is aimed at strong players, but it will also be of interest to a wide range of chess enthusiasts.

    36.00 $
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    372.41 $

    In this book, Bent Larsen, an outstanding Danish grandmaster (in the USSR-1970 rest of the world match, played for the rest of the world on the first board!), excitingly tells about himself and his views on chess, in his performances, 50 carefully selected parties are accompanied by interesting and popular comments. The book was preceded by the grandmaster Polugaevsky, and the translator's afterword complements the author's story. With an autograph and an inscription of the author.

  • book

    34.60 $

    With Winderman's autograph to master Polunov.

    The work of famous checkers and educators of the USSR Honored Coach A. Winderman and B. Gertsenson is a training tool for Russian drafts. The book tells about the history of the game, its rules, gives a brief presentation of the theory (traps, combinations, debuts, positional game techniques, playing in endings), gives as examples the games of famous masters and exercises for independent work. For a wide range of fans of Russian drafts.

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    Book from T.Ya. Zatulovskaya with an autograph and an inscription of the author, BD Persica, International Master of the ICCF, for T.Ya. Zatulovskaya. Tatyana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya - international grandmaster, champion of the USSR. Winner and winner of many international competitions, the USSR Championships (1960, 1962, 1963), the contender for the title of world champion (1961, 1964, 1967).

    Boris Davidovich Persits (September 12, 1916, Nizhny Novgorod & 1992;) & mdash; Soviet chess player, Honored Coach of the USSR (1965), international master ICCF (1984). Chess writer. Mathematics teacher.

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  • book

    103.45 $

    The book is devoted to the work of the triple world champion, the outstanding Soviet chess player A. Karpov. It includes favorites & nbsp; games , played from 1969 to 1983, carefully selected and commented by the author. The notes to them reflect Karpov’s views on the chess struggle, his creative principles.

  • book

    15.20 $

    The book is devoted to the life, creativity and sporting way of the brilliant Cuban chess player, world champion 1921 - 1927, X.- R. Capablanca. The book gives a detailed biography of Capablanca, which uses the memories of contemporaries and rivals of the Cuban grandmaster and opinions about his work of the greatest connoisseurs, first of all - Alexander Alekhine. Then follow the 64 elected parties of Capablanca. In the comments to them, analyzes were used of both Capablanca himself and his partners and critics. The author of the book tried to preserve the spirit and color of the chess world of the first quarter of the century, in which the passionate rivalry of the three world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine unfolded, which ended with the victory of the creative and sports facilities of the Russian chess school, which were brilliantly developed in the achievements of Soviet chess players.
  • book

    11.75 $

    The creative heritage of AA Alekhin has and continues to exert a tremendous influence on the formation of many outstanding chess players. In his book, published almost 75 years ago, the fourth world champion with all objectivity and self-criticism tells about the hard way to the chess Olympus, the peak of which was the victory over XR Capablanca in the match for the world championship. In the second part of the book are collected articles, letters and parties of both Alekhine himself and his contemporaries relating to the same period. For a wide range of chess players.
  • book

    113.33 $

    Because of the war, only this first volume was published. The principle of submitting the material was subsequently used by the Yugoslavian ESR. Debuts beginning with the moves 1. e2-e4 e7-e5 are considered. Usually they are called open. Contents: Spanish party, Debut of three horses, Debut of four horses, Scottish party, Italian party, Gambit Evans, Hungarian party, Debut of two horses, Pontsiani's debut, Russian party, Philodor's defense, Latvian gambit, Wrong defenses at 2. Kg1-f3, Alapin's debut, the Vienna party, the debut of the elephant, the Northern gambit, the central gambit and central debut, the Royal gambit horse, the Royal Elephant gambit and rare gambit systems, the Rejected Royal Gambit.
  • book

    After the war, the annuals were published in Moscow from 1946 to 1962, inclusive. These voluminous publications contained materials on the largest international and domestic competitions sponsored by all the leading chess players of the USSR, as well as theoretical articles on all stages of the chess game and reviews on the composition.

  • book

    20.69 $

    The best parts of the bright Master with his own comments, placed in this collection, will undoubtedly serve as a good educational material for numerous readers and will give great pleasure to connoisseurs of chess art.

  • book

    22.76 $

    Sergei Vsevolodovich Belavenets was born in 1910. He died defending his country in 1942. Before the Patriotic War S. Belavenets was one of the strongest Soviet chess players. Then in the USSR there were only a few grandmasters. S. Belavenets was in the first line of masters, practitioners and theoreticians. All those who met with him kept the memory of Sergei Vsevolodovich as a man who was extremely friendly, calm, intelligent, with an innate tact and great culture. SVBelavienets devoted a lot of time to methodical and literary work. The master's daughter, Lyudmila Belavenec, champion of Moscow, gathered all his parties and materials, which he was preparing for the lectures. After reading this book, a chess player can imagine the creative appearance of a master who has done a lot for the brilliant heyday of the Soviet chess school triumphantly released to the international arena after the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. For this victory SV Belavenets gave his life.

  • book

    34.55 $

    Chess alphabet, elements of a chess game, tactics. A wealth of material for classes in the classroom or self-education. The purpose of this manual is to prepare chess players of the IV-III level, but it will be useful to read it and already having these ranks and even second-rate players. It contains extensive educational material. The author, in accordance with modern pedagogical principles, acquaints readers with the basics of the chess game. Pourochny method of presentation, as well as numerous exercises contribute to the consistent mastery of the material. The book can be used for classes in schools and pioneer houses under the guidance of a coach. It is designed for the mass reader.
  • book

    103.64 $

    Practical manual for self-study, second edition.

  • book

    7.60 $

    The book is dedicated to the work of one of the most important chess players of the postwar period - the international grandmaster V.Simagin. The book contains memories of people who knew this chess player. The chess creative work of the grandmaster is widely represented. Among the authors of memories and comments to the parties are M. Botvinnik, Yu. Averbakh, E. Houfeld, A. Soutin, I. Kan, J. Estrin and other famous masters.
  • book

    6.91 $

    In this book the best parties of 62 outstanding chess players of the world are collected. Each game is accompanied by a biographical sketch of the grandmaster and his portrait. Unlike the second in this edition, the sections "Champions of the World", "Pretenders for the Chess Crown", "On the approaches to Olympus" are expanded. In addition, biographical sketches are supplemented by a number of new information. Contains illustrations.
  • book

    18.75 $

    The theory of debuts is one of the main sections of the theory of chess art. This work in a condensed form summarizes all the most important information on the theory of beginnings and makes it possible to navigate in the intricacies of debut systems and options. For chess players-dischargers.
  • book

    9.67 $

    In this work, devoted to the Soviet chess school and the creativity of its most prominent representatives, the authors sought to show the sources of the strength of the Soviet chess movement, which has no equal in the world, both in mass character and in outstanding sports and creative achievements, sought to determine the characteristics of the Soviet chess art. There is a detailed gallery of creative portraits with numerous parties and grades: Botvinnik, Bronstein, Petrosyan, Korchnoi, Spassky, Keres, Smyslov, Geller and many others. The parties and grades placed in the book, according to the authors' intention, should show the broad circle of chess fans the character of the creativity of the leading representatives of the Soviet chess school. Unity of creative attitudes, of course, does not exclude a rich variety of individual traits in the game of the best Soviet chess players. This is evidenced by the materials of the book. The comments to the parties took into account the options and analyzes given in various publications. Calculated for a wide range of chess lovers.
  • book

    13.13 $

    Petrov Alexander Dmitrievich (1.2.1794, p. Biserovo Pskov Gubernia, 10.4.1867, Warsaw), the first Russian chess master, chess. theoretician and composer, founder of the first chess club in Russia (Petersburg Society of Chess Game Makers). The writer. State Councillor. In 1804-1840 he lived in St. Petersburg, from 1840 - in Warsaw. He played chess at the age of 7. In 1809 he won a match at one of the best peterbes. chess players A. Kopyev. For half a century he was the strongest chess player in Russia. He won in the matches of K. Janisch in the 1840s. (with a handicap), S. Urusova - 3: 1 (1853) and 13: 7 (1859), I. Shumova - 4: 2 (1862). Bright master combinational style.