The book of the outstanding Soviet grandmaster and popular chess writer D. Bronstein is unusual. It does not have the chapters familiar to chess textbooks devoted to openings, the middle of the game, and endgames. And there is no "dry" academic language of storytelling. Instead, the author offers himself as an interlocutor to the reader and in a lively form conducts a conversation about how the strongest chess players of the world play, how they strive to get this or that favorite position - after all, in chess, first of all, they are looking for not the best move, but a way to achieve a favorable position. The self-taught teacher is designed for a wide range of readers familiar with the chess game, but experienced chess players and methodologists of chess sections will also learn a lot of useful things from the book.