"Chess textbook in practice" is intended for chess coaches and chess players who want to improve the class of the game by independently solving more than 700 positions from the games of grandmasters and masters and sketches on the strategy, tactics and technique of various stages of the chess game. In the section "Decisions and continuation of parties" answers to tasks are given. The book covers all sides of chess art: openings, combinations, attack on the king, middlegame strategy (eight chapters), all types of endgame.