The book is about the brightest period of the "Golden Age" of Soviet chess with its most productive form of holding the national championships - the highest and the first leagues in 1973-1990. All generations of our world champions, heirs of the Patriarch - the legendary Botvinnik, participated in them. Chess in the Soviet Union was a truly popular game. The names of the grandmasters were on hearing, they were followed by the whole country, and the performance for the USSR national team was a matter of honor. The book tells about the history of the last 17 championships of the USSR and includes the 93 most striking - in creative and sporting relations - parties of the country's strongest chess players. The tables of all the higher leagues are given. The authors are most directly related to the events described. Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin is a member of the highest and first leagues, Oleg Stetsko worked in the Department of Chess of the USSR State Committee of Sports, coach of the USSR men's national team (1985-1989)

Information is given on the official competitions for the Russian Chess Championship for men for the period 1899-1999.

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.

The geography of all the largest international team competitions (Olympics, World and European Championships, "Matches of the Century" and much more). In this book, the authors decided to talk about international team competitions. The largest of them are the World Olympiads, male and female. The FIDE motto “We Are One Family” is the best suited for chess Olympiads, where representatives of almost all countries and peoples of our beautiful Earth meet at the board. The World Olympiads are genuine holidays of sports, friendship, internationalism, not without reason until 1940 they were called "Tournaments of the Nations."

Tables of all tournaments.

The new project by Garry Kasparov & laquo; Modern Chess & raquo; is a continuation of its unique five-volume & laquo; My great predecessors & raquo; (& laquo; RIPOL classic & raquo ;, 2003 & ndash; 2006). Summing up the development of chess in the 20th century, the author tells about the debut revolution of the 70s & ndash; the beginning of the 80s, about all his fights with Anatoly Karpov, comments on his best games and matches with computers. This volume & ndash; the last of the three dedicated to the historical duel of Kasparov with Karpov, & ndash; includes their fifth match for the world chess crown (1990) and tournament meetings at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

International chess match R. Ponomarev (Ukraine) - V. Korchnoi (Switzerland) January 16-24, 2001 Donetsk, Business Center of the First Ukrainian International Bank. The general sponsor of the match is AO Danko.