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Mikhail Chigorin. Life and art

M. Yudovich

The life and chess of Mikhail Chigorin, founder of the Russian school.

My system

A. Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch's classic textbook of positional play.

Nimzo-Indian Defence

M. Taimanov

Grandmaster M. Taimanov sums up his long research on the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

Nimzo-Indian Defence

M. Taimanov

The Nimzo-Indian, an opening rich in deep strategic and tactical ideas.

One hundred winning games

A. Karpov

Anatoly Karpov's selected games from 1969 to 1983, with his own notes.

Pirc-Ufimtsev defense

G. Friedstein

G. Fridshtein on the Pirc–Ufimtsev Defence, played by the world's strongest grandmasters.

Queen's Gambit Declined

Ya. Neishtadt

Ya. Neishtadt on the Queen's Gambit Declined, including the Exchange Variation.

Queen's Indian Defence

E. Geller

Grandmaster E. Geller systematises the theory of the Queen's Indian Defence.

Queen's Indian Defence

B. Voronkov

The Queen's Indian: the history and theory of an opening in which neither side rushes to take the centre.

Rashid Nezhmetdinov

Ya. Damsky

Rashid Nezhmetdinov, the world's only master of both chess and draughts, and his combinative masterpieces.

Ratmir Kholmov

R. Kholmov

An account of grandmaster Ratmir Kholmov's career and his selected annotated games.