One of the world's leading chess composers, Yakov Vladimirov, has collected in it the most valuable and significant tasks and studies in the entire chess history. By studying them, you can experience pleasure, while cultivating the right taste. The book also tells in a fascinating form about the formation and improvement of the "poetry of chess," its main genres and styles, its current state and prospects for development. The story of the best chess composers of the past and present is an undoubted decoration of the book.