Book of the fifth world champion "Course of chess lectures", long-term president of FIDE, professor Max Euwe was written soon after the conquest of title of world champion and is the attempt of new champion to reflect the looks on the pas, nastoyaschee and future of chess. In it the evolution of understanding chess is consistently analysed beginning from Dzhoakino Greko and to William Steynits (lection 1-6). Five last lectures are devoted strategy and end-game technique.

"The problems of modern chess theory, being based on the basic law of development of chess game - law of co-operation of forces are analysed in this book (figures and pawns). The offered solutions of these problems are a result of long-term researches and personal practice of author as chess master. A book is intended for the chess-players of most significant digits, methodists, teachers and trainers and can be useful for self-education".

On Your court, respected chess enthusiasts, the article of one of the most gifted chess masters of pre-war chess school of USSR Sergey Belavenets darts out . This article was first published in 1963 in a book "Master Sergey Belavenets".

Continuation of work of author "The Middlegame. Plan". The book "The Middlegame. Combination", not denying importance of aesthetic essence of tactic in a chess art, above all things called to show the position hidden motive of combination shots, necessity of strategic ground of tactical actions.
The permanent estimation of position, even on a "burning" chess-board, serves as reference point for us at the choice between motions-candidates, helps to chop off from a position point sights that have no prospects, though and tempting, continuations. This book is directed to develop these skills.

"In this work we aimed to reflect the modern understanding of row of key questions of general theory of debut and its connection with middlegame.
Correct understanding of general principles of debuts, laws, ideas, I.e. a major value has mastering so to say of general "spirit" of debut. A chess-player as though gets durable foundation for creative development of the most various projects, not feeling tied down to the numberless reference books of debuts".

"The book of the honoured master of sport and deserved trainer of USSR P.A. Romanovsky "Middlegame. Plan" comprehensively lights the questions of theory of middlegame - the major stage of chess game. The book will help chess-player to capture skill of drafting and realization of plan in chess game".

From kind permission of author Bulat Magsumovich Musin we publish his excellent manual, devoted major theoretical completions knowledge of which needs a chess-player-practical worker. Presently an author finds possibilities of edition of book in a "paper" variant, therefore if someone from our visitors can help him in this question we ask to report about them to Bulat Magsumovich.

In bringing before the chess playing public this account of the matches contested for the highest crown of chess ability, the title of Champion of the World, William Winter (British Open Chess Champion 1935, 1936) actuated by the desire to give present-day players some idea of the colourful personalities who strove for it, their general concepts of play and the conditions under which they fought.

"230 examples in this book are not dry chess material at all. In them - critical, deciding the moments of games, minutes of the greatest tension, requiring the most intensive mental efforts. Life of man also can be compared to large chess party. Happy memoirs are alternated in a book with moments less pleasant; during a bookwork we as though again outlived all chess gladnesses and adversities and now want to divide them with you".

Small book of the known chess-player of beginning of the last century Gans Kmokh devoted defence in chess game and interesting possibility to give a glance on questions of chess problems art by professionals of the last century eyes, seeing in a chess not only the mean of earnings or logical game but also opredelenuyu philosophy, in a great deal calling with life.
Stand and unobtrusive style of exposition, characteristic for literature began XX century, will make happy amateurs, and the interesting ideas of experimental master will interest strong chess-players certainly.

Absolut Chess (AC) is a funny and complete chess for all players. It allows battles in computers nets (LANs and Internet) where your opponent plays remotely with you, or front-to-front battles, where the two players combat in a single computer. When the choice is to face the machine, AC presents 3 levels of difficulties that will prepare you to future fights.

This is a simple chess game that plays against you. It thinks quickly and can beat my chess machine! Click on the piece you want to move, and then the square you want to move it to. There are many levels of difficulty to choose from!
Simple Chess plays a full chess game with a full set of rules, back and forward buttons, and variable level setting. Pawn promotion to any piece, and en passant are catered for.

Play chess with new and old friends alike over the Internet, your local network, through Email (correspondence games), or play against several challenging computer opponents. Meet up with people and make new friends in the Online Rally Rooms (a chat and game service) to chat, play, or just be a spectator. ChessRally is a full-featured game for beginners and masters alike, with robust graphics and sound, fun characters, a customizable interface with free downloadable themes (skins, sets and sounds), smooth animation, a complete User's Guide, and free technical support. ChessRally contains full support for rated games, timed games, all internationally accepted rules, computer move suggestions, a risk indicator, "Experimenting Mode", loading, saving, printing, PGN and FEN import/export, an interactive Move History window, unlimited undo, and more.
This download of ChessRally contains both the Free Edition, a free full-featured email chess game, and the Gold Edition with all of the other features mentioned above, which you get to try for free for 15-days. At the end of the Gold Edition features trial, if you choose not to upgrade to the Gold Edition, the Free Edition is yours to use for as long as you like for playing email chess entirely free, without restrictions or nag screens. Upgrading to the Gold Edition is easy with a fast, self-patching upgrade process (no new downloads to get) and costs $19.99.

Chessmaster is a good version of a chess puzzle game, with nice and friendly alternatives for the player. This game allows you to select to learn the game, to play fun and to solve puzzles; learning will show you the main rules of the game and moves of each piece; play fun will allow you to start a match with another player, and solve puzzles will give you a situation during a game that you must solve doing a move selected random, like mate in one, mate in two, find fort, between all the move you can make in a Chess game. In order to play all you need is your mouse, move your mouse over your objective and click the left button to select a piece, move your mouse where you want to place the selected piece and press the left button again to release it. Rules of the game are complex but very entertain, you must protect your king from your enemy, all pieces moves in different ways and different numbers of places. The main objective is to mate the others players king, when he is no able to move any piece, then the game is over.

Real Chess features this all-time classic game with great 3D graphics and excellent gameplay. Developed by Media Contact LLC, Real Chess is a great option among the great number of chess games available that besides has a freeware license.

We all know that chess is one of the most challenging strategy games ever, specially if you play against the computer! In spite of this, chess is such an addicting and entertaining game that you can play it hours and hours without even noticing it.

Real Chess offers excellent gameplay, with great 3D graphics and a nice set of colors, to let you fully enjoy the experience of playing this classic. The game runs really smoothly, and the movement and animation of the pieces is superbly done.

You can select between two game modes, one against the computer, and the other against another player. Its 3D graphics are great, with soft colors and two camera modes that gives you a better perspective of what is going on in the game, and cool sound effects. Real Chess is a must-have for all PC users.

ChessPartner is a full-featured chess game that lets you play against the computer or against opponents across the Internet. With ChessPartner you can: choose from ten different sets of chess pieces (including a 3D chess set), choose from various levels of play, read and write PGN and EPD files, print diagrams or whole games, create your own books, copy and paste games to the Clipboard, and analyze positions or even entire games.
It also features timing clocks for speed matches, hints, a list of moves, a large opening book (and the ability to create your own books), a game histogram that gives a graphical overview of the scores in the game (which makes it easy to spot where you made a mistake), a database capable of storing millions of games, and more.
It also has a Winboard adapter which allows you to use the ChessPartner interface with any Winboard compatible chess engine (such as Crafty or GNUCHESS).
Has support for the Nalimov endgame table bases, new office 2000 look with fully customizable menus and toolbars. Layout function to create your own layouts, a number of layouts are included.
Included is the Engine research tool which let you play engine / engine matches.
The latest release now supports UCI and Winboard I and II compatible engines.

Chess Mafia is a chess simulator game for your computer. In this game you will be able to play chess against the computer, that uses the Grand Master Chess engine. You can play with the white or black pieces. You can even rotate the board at anytime. The game will annotate every move in a box in the bottom right. You can choose if you want it to show the computer's moves. You will see the board in 2D, and you will move the pieces by clicking the left button of the mouse over the piece you want to move, and then the cell where you want to move it. You can turn highlights, effects and sound on or off. You can pause the clock at anytime. The program allows you to save the game in order to resume it at any other moment. You can ask the computer for a hint if you get stuck during a match. You can undo or redo moves, and review the moves history. In order to run Chess Mafia you´ll need to have a computer running Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista, with at least a 233 MHz. processor and 32 MB of RAM.

The program "Chess-7" offers you the following possibilities: 1. play chess with the computer (three levels of difficulty) or with a partner; 2. analyse chess positions or solve chess problems; 3. change the appearance of the chess board and pieces: there are seven inbuilt skins and seven external skin; 4. apply your own skins; 5. modify the appearance of the non-game part of the window: background and tone color, moves list visibility, chessboard position, coordinate readout; 6. show possible moves, the last move, check and captured pieces during the game; 7. save or load (export/import): games in the widespread PGN format (portable game notation), positions in FEN format (Forsyth-Edwards notation). Additional possibilities: 1. import and export game to multi-game file; 2. print game listing; 3. set piece letters; 4. save position as text or image to file or clipboard, customize key map for export position as text; 5. move piece using two methods: click by click or drag and drop; 6. network game; 7. "drag and drop" method for fast load game or position.

Play a game of chess against your PC or another player. The realistic 3D view can be rotated & zoomed and there are different sets of boards and chess pieces chooseable. Some sets of pieces are animated and displayed in a suitable environment such as dungeon, medieval and graveyard. You can watch the figures walking and fighting at every move or you can even throw the figures down the board if you get angry about losing a game due to the build in physics engine. Also included are hundreds of famous games you can analyze and continue to play at any point and other chess games in PGN format can be imported.
Network playing over LAN or Internet is supported.

O melhor treinador do mundo fez um maravilhoso curso em 4 volumes e este é o último volume e realiza uma fantástica preparação de aberturas!!!