The new book of the former world champion, international grandmaster A. Karpov and candidate of technical sciences, USSR master of sports in chess E. Gika covers a variety of aspects of chess (sports, art, science). A. Karpov comments on the games of his match for the world championship with G. Kasparov in Seville, illustrates the development of popular debuts at grandmaster fights. E. Gik talks about the world championships among cars, about their battles with humans, about the achievements of computers in the analysis of chess endings.