Personalities
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53.80 $
A chess player of Ukrainian descent from the USA, an international master and professor, about himself and the chess community. Parties (with Fisher, Spassky ...) are commented by A.Mikhalchishin. Great published!
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53.80 $
All 14 champions of the world from Wilhelm Steinitz to Vladimir Kramnik. About their life and creativity, competitions with their participation, about their contribution to chess art and rivals. The best games, combinations, endings. Archival materials and numerous photographs. Personal impressions of the authors about the matches for the world championship and meetings with the champions. The authors are well-known chess historians and writers.
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51.72 $
The book contains 100 selected games of Keres, which are an excellent illustration for his creative biography. The author's analyzes and comments are principled, filled with characteristic features of individuality and that spirit of self-criticism, without which it is impossible to comprehensively and objectively reveal the process of struggle and the depth of chess art.
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51.72 $
A fascinating story about one of the most remarkable chess players of the past century. To some extent, the book reflects the 20th century. Here is the end of tsarism, the October Revolution and the formation of the Soviet state, and universal education, and ... the popularity of chess! There is a gallery of figures of art, literature, science, rulers of the state, sports leaders. And most importantly - portraits of ordinary people, who are the very essence of Russian land. One can understand how science, culture (including chess), and the life of the people themselves are adapting to the changing structures of public life, changing ideology; Adapts to, as far as possible, develop successfully. Yes, the conditions in which people operate are changing. They dissolve in history over time, but genuine achievements remain. Chess passed through his whole life; they forced to think, strive for truth - otherwise you won’t win at the chess table - and tempered character. These "chess" qualities were subsequently used both in engineering and in cybernetics. This is a story about how an ordinary boy, who was born back in tsarist Russia, was educated (already in Soviet times), became an engineer, and then a scientist.
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51.72 $
Five-volume Garry Kasparov has no analogues in chess literature. The 13th world champion reflects on the fate and creative work of the twelve previous champions and their rivals, about a half-century struggle for the world championship. Exploring the famous parties under the microscope of powerful computer programs, the author changes many previous estimates and, in essence, sums up the development of chess in the 20th century. The fourth volume is dedicated to the world champion Fischer, as well as to other outstanding chess players of the West - Reshevsky, Najdorf and Larsen.
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51.72 $
Deluxe Edition, coated paper, gold stamping, metal corners Outstanding chess player and pianist Mark Taimanov recalls his bright and rich life. An entire epoch passed before his eyes. Among his friends are not only his fellows in the chess workshop, but also famous artists, musicians, and writers. He was personally acquainted with Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. In the book you will read about the meetings of Taimanov with Botvinnik, Fisher, Karpov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rostropovich and many other legendary personalities of the twentieth century.
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50.00 $
The circulation is only 200 copies !!! The author is an international master.
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50.00 $
English; interesting post-war parties.
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50.00 $
This book is about two popular schemes in the Slavic defense: the Moscow version and the Anti-Moscow gambit. Among those who regularly use them are Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Alexnadr Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Teimour Radzhabov, Konstantin Sakaev, Peter Svidler, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Khalifman ... Alexei Dreev has been playing these variants with black for many years at the highest level; and often quite successfully. The results of his analyzes (conducted in preparation for parties and after parties), as well as reflections during the parties themselves, formed the basis of this book.
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Sicilian Defense
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Palacio 25.00 $ -
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Fisher 15.00 $ -
White
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Khalifman 41.67 $ -
White
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Khalifman 60.00 $ -
The debut is white on Kramnik (volume 1b)
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Khalifman 46.67 $ -
The creative heritage of M. I. Chigorin
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Romanov 80.00 $ -
Michael Tal. All parties. Set in 4 volumes. Mikhail Tal. Games.
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Khalifman 300.00 $ -
Boris Spassky
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Solovyov 116.67 $ -
Chess for Dummies
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Dzheims 50.00 $ - Chess in the USSR complete annual set for 1938 in hardcover 283.33 $