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Chess Endings. Queen Endings

Yu. Averbakh

A fundamental study of queen endings, from the simple to the complex.

Chess Endings. Rook Endings

Yu. Averbakh

A comprehensive study of rook endings, from teaching positions to complex ones.

Chess in Rus'

I. Linder

How chess reached medieval Rus and what its chessmen looked like.

Chess is fighting

B. Vainshtein

Chess players who fought in the Second World War, and chess life in the country from 1941 to 1945.

Chess laboratory

A. Suetin

A grandmaster shares how he studies each stage of the game, for club players of first category.

Chess legacy of Alekhin. Volume 2

A. Kotov

The second volume, on Alekhine's strategic art and his contribution to endgame theory.

Chess pearl at the sea

S. Tkachenko

The history of chess in Odesa, from the Duc de Richelieu to the present day.

Chess Player Nikolai Riumin

Ya. Estrin

A biographical sketch of the chess player Nikolai Riumin.