Seekers of Truth
The story of two men from beyond the Urals: composer Aleksandr Maksimovskikh and grandmaster Yuri Balashov.
All Books
How to solve chess studies
The basics of endgame study theory and how to learn to solve studies yourself.
Chess Composition Coach
The life of Urals chess player and organiser Aleksandr Kozlov, Honoured Coach of the RSFSR.
The Chess Problem
A reissue of the book in Russian translation.
Masters of chess composition
The careers of five leading masters of Ukrainian chess composition.
Deceptive simplicity
Examples of the art of the study and the general questions of composing them.
Fortune
Miniatures with White's king and two knights left out of Victoria, and other works by the author.
Chess Composition of Ukraine. Album 1986–1990
The best works of Ukrainian composers from 1986–1990 that earned qualifying points.
Super-Miniature Studies
The first part of a series on miniature studies: positions with three and four pieces.
World Team Championships in Chess Composition
Reviews of the first five world team composing championships by Odesa writer Anatoly Glushchak.
SAT
The SAT fairy genre explained with examples by its creators, the Szalai father and son.
Triumph of the Soviet Chess Study
The history of the endgame study from 1925 to 1944, when Soviet composers achieved outstanding success.