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Combinational vision and the abilities of calculating all the variations are the basic ways which lead to success in chess. All grandmasters of chess art wholly possessed a gift for that. Many outstanding chessplayers such as P. Morphy, M. Chigorin, A Alekhin, M. Tal, B. Spassky, R. Fischer, A Karpov, G. Kasparov and others are well famous for their brilliant combinations, cal­ cuted accurately and for remote future. It's quite possible to develop such abilities to a great degree by regular training. That's what this book is devoted to. The book contains many exercises based on a practical ex­ perience. And they are gathered in such a way, that the follo­ wing exercises are more complicated than the previous ones. These exercises can be used by all chesspllayers for training on their own. The book mainly shows the positions with crises and the de­ cisions - forced variations or the series of variations. All the diagrams given in the book can be divided into three parts: the technique of tactical operations (1-159); the technique of positions' strategic features realization (160-519); and complica­ ted positions with the themes gelling together (520-700). N. Kalinichenko.