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Each book of the international grandmaster and chess popularizer Nikolai Kalinichenko is of great interest. This publication combines the functions of a textbook and an encyclopedia, richly illustrated with both classic and original examples.
With this book you can successfully go from the very beginning to the professional game. Here are the most important concepts and rules, contains the basics of tactics and strategies. More than 500 positions from famous games, sketches on strategy, tactics and techniques of various stages of a chess game are offered for acquiring practical skills or checking the level of skill.
The book is written in a lively, figurative language and will not let you get bored. It is recommended for those who are well versed in chess and loves them, as well as those who are only going to get acquainted with the "king of all games".
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An active practice chess player does not have enough time to study the endgame in depth, but every qualified chess player should know a certain set of positions. This problem is the answer of this book. It can be divided into two parts. The first, the theoretical, deals with simple endings in which the final estimate, methods for achieving a win or a draw are already known. In the second part of the book, the reader will learn the methods for implementing the advantage in the endgame, the basic techniques.

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Everything happens in the fairy kingdom of chess: heated battles, ingenious intrigues and happy salvations! Do you want to know by what laws magical chess people live? You are waiting for a handsome king in need, a magnificent war horse rushing to his aid, an almost omnipotent queen and other wonderful characters. Interesting chess stories created by grandmaster Stefan Kindermann and artist Anna Franke will help you easily learn the basic rules of the game and will serve as a great start to discover chess.
Book for children of preschool and primary school age.

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Vsevolod Kostrov - a chess coach of the highest category, the author of about 100 books and manuals on chess. She has been working as a teacher and methodologist for more than 35 years. She is responsible for organizing chess lessons at schools in St. Petersburg. Winner of the competition & quot; Chess All-Education Russia & quot ;.
According to textbooks and problem books Kostrova is engaged in a huge number of children in schools of St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia. His students turn into masters and grandmasters, win the championships of St. Petersburg and Russia, become prize-winners of international tournaments.
& quot; Chess for schoolchildren in games and stories & quot; - a pass to the exciting world inhabited by the shahs and kings, wise men and travelers.

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The book you hold in your hands is not quite ordinary, to some extent it is even sensational, because, as the name implies, it is not about victories, but about defeats of world chess champions from Botvinnik to Fisher. Victories & quot; Celestials & quot; hearsay, they are replicated in numerous publications and monographs, young chess players learn from them. But after all, the defeats of the greats are no less instructive and spectacular, for the champion can be defeated only by applying super-efforts and showing all his creative abilities. The book contains more than 200 exciting fights, which not only makes it an excellent textbook on strategy and tactics, but also fills in some degree the lack of historical information about its heroes. All parties are commented on in detail, which allows the reader to easily understand the course of events occurring in them. & quot; Learn from mistakes & quot; - proverb says, let's try to learn from the mistakes of great chess players.