Francois Andre Filidor. Barsky V.L., Henkin V.L.

Capital work tells about the life and work of the outstanding French chess player and musician Francois Andre Danikan Filidor, the founder of the modern theory of chess and one of the creators of the comic opera. The materials included in the publication represent both historical and great practical interest.

In particular, the famous textbook of Filidore “Analysis of the Chess Game”, the attention to which has not weakened for several centuries, has been published in Russian for the first time. The book also contains all the parties of the great master preserved to our days, most of which are re -commented. Fans of historical and adventure literature will attract an excerpt from V. Henkin’s novel “Odyssey of the Chess Automat”, which brightly recreates the atmosphere of the chess life of France and England in the second half of the 18th century.

for a wide range of fans of chess.