Readers are offered a two-volume monograph devoted to the biography and exciting career of the world champion in chess Boris Vasilievich Spassky. The book presents 198 parties, many of which were specially commented on by international grandmasters for the first time, as well as literary essays by Leonid Eduardovich Gutzeit and grandmaster Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius about the difficult path of Boris Spassky up the chess staircase. The materials from the first person were drawn to the maximum extent - Spassky's interview and comments to parties published in the open press. Designed for a wide range of chess fans

An outstanding theorist and successful coach shares his memories of communication and cooperation with Mikhail Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Elena Akhmylovskaya and other outstanding chess players. Separate large chapter – a story about many years of work with Boris Gelfand: over these years (1980-1993) the student went from a 12-year-old candidate for master to the holder of the 3rd rating in the world. Albert Kapengut – winner of 6 gold medals at the World Student Olympics, seven-time champion of Belarus, participant in the individual and team championships of the USSR among men, champion of the USSR as part of the Burevestnik team. The book includes 70 games commented in detail by the author, a careful study of which will help the reader not only better understand popular opening schemes, but also get a taste for serious analytical work. “My story is not so much about a career, although “you can’t erase words from a song,” but about memorable situations, often funny, sometimes absurd, and dotted about people I met along the way, sometimes with touches of biography, prompting readers to become interested in more complete information.” ;" (A. Kapengut). For a wide range of chess lovers.

Party, biography, photos, statistics. Mikhail Tal, the eighth world chess champion. A short, fragile youth with big black eyes, a phenomenal memory and unique intuition proved to the chess world that 2x2 = 5 (!). A genius of attacks and combinations, he always acted in accordance with S. Tartakower's postulate - “sacrifice in order not to become a victim!”. For Tal, chess matter in battles is nothing, beauty is everything! He melted the "chess Antarctica", took millions of fans into voluntary chess captivity. In the life of Tal, there was no everyday life, the game of chess for him has always been a holiday. Truly the gigantic strength of the spirit again and again prevailed over the hardships of the flesh. He did not think about the future, giving joy to his contemporaries, and his descendants left his creativity - an imperishable bible of chess combinations.

Honored Master of Sports, International Grand Master of the ICCHF, Honored Trainer of Russia Gennady Nesis talks about the creative path of the FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman. Of particular interest is that the fruitful collaboration between the author and the hero has been going on for 17 years, marked by many successes of Alexander Khalifman. The author also shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the coach in the process of preparing players, comments on games illustrating the creative biography of the world champion. The book will undoubtedly be useful and interesting to a wide range of chess lovers.

Gift edition. The book tells about the life and creative path of the Russian genius Mikhail Chigorin, who is rightfully considered the founder of the national chess school. There are about 250 parties with comments first of all Chigorin, as well as such coryphaeus as V. Steinitz, E. Bogolyubov, Z. Tarrash, G. Levenfish, and others. The book in the biographical part is based on the famous work of Grekov, but the meeting of parties is considerably replenished. Mikhail Ivanovich was much ahead of his time and actually played in the chess of the XXI century, and his undying ideas had a huge impact on subsequent generations. Having studied this book, you will greatly strengthen your game and substantially replenish the stock of ideas in all stages of the party. For a wide range of chess fans.

In this book, the St. Petersburg grand master Alexander Khalifman analyzes the actual schemes of the classical version of the Old Indian defense (7 ... exd4, 7 ... Ka6, 7 ... Kc6).

Hundreds of parties (many with notes of Tal himself), articles, diaries and archives. Great printing. This edition - the third book in the series is an attempt to collect and convey to the chess lovers the diverse creative heritage of one of the brightest chess players in history - the eighth world champion Mikhail Tal. The book is based on a chronological principle. The first book covers the games played by M. Talom in the period from 1949 to 1961, the subsequent ones from 1962 to 1976. and from 1977 to 1992. (total 3000 parties and fragments). The difference of this edition from the previous ones is not only in the most complete reflection of the tournament and match practice of the eighth world champion. Undoubtedly, the readers will benefit and give pleasure to his notes to his own games, made without delay and differing in the depth of analysis, expression, fantasy, self-irony and humor inherent in M. Tal.

Comments Khalifman, Sakayev, Shipov, color photos

Full-color printing, lots of photos, coated paper. Alexander Pushkin loved chess. With the genius of genius he was the first among Russian writers to understand and highly appreciate their role in family and social life, he was a visionary of their future. Evidence of this - his letter to his wife in September 1832 and the acquisition of four years after the world's first chess magazine Palamed. In the poet's library, the chess manuals of the famous maestros A. D. Filidor and A. D. Petrov were also studied. Contemporaries mention his chess leisure, including the last game played on the eve of the fateful duel. Pushkin appealed to this game and in his works - novels `Eugene Onegin`,` Arap of Peter the Great`, in sketches to `The Tale of the Golden Cockerel`. All these and many other facts have been studied in the context of the poet's entire life and work, in conjunction with the chess culture of Pushkin's time. The book dedicated to the chess Pushkin is published for the first time. Its author is the well-known Russian writer and historian of chess culture IM Linder. In the form of the appendix includes several literary essays, including two documentary-artistic stories by V. I. Linder.

The book is dedicated to one of the greatest chess players in history, participant of the first official world championship match Johann Zuckertort. The highest point of his brilliant career was the triumph at the largest international tournament in London in 1883, where he took first place, ahead of three (!) Points took second place Wilhelm Steinitz. In the subsequent match for the world championship, Zuckertort was leading with a score of 4: 1, and, according to many experts, only health problems prevented him from becoming the world's first official world champion. The book, in fact, is divided into two parts. The first consists of the best articles and fragments, the authors of which are mostly people who knew Zuckertort well, and gives a full picture of his personality. In the second and the main part of the book, the most complete collection of parties (more than 300), commented mainly on himself, as well as his famous rivals, is presented to the present day & ndash; Steinitz, Chigorin, etc. The continuing value of Zukertort's creativity is evidenced by the fact that many of his parties were commented on subsequently by the fifth world champion Max Euwe. I. Tsukertort, a disciple of the uncrowned world champion A. Andersen, was an adherent of romantic, combinational chess. His party will undoubtedly help you to improve your skills and get pleasure from genuine masterpieces of chess art.

The circulation is only 200 copies !!! The author is an international master.