Sergei Vsevolodovich Belavenets was born in 1910. He died defending his country in 1942. Before the Patriotic War S. Belavenets was one of the strongest Soviet chess players. Then in the USSR there were only a few grandmasters. S. Belavenets was in the first line of masters, practitioners and theoreticians. All those who met with him kept the memory of Sergei Vsevolodovich as a man who was extremely friendly, calm, intelligent, with an innate tact and great culture. SVBelavienets devoted a lot of time to methodical and literary work. The master's daughter, Lyudmila Belavenec, champion of Moscow, gathered all his parties and materials, which he was preparing for the lectures. After reading this book, a chess player can imagine the creative appearance of a master who has done a lot for the brilliant heyday of the Soviet chess school triumphantly released to the international arena after the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. For this victory SV Belavenets gave his life.

The book tells about the life and work of the outstanding Dutch chess player, fifth world champion, former FIDE President Max Euwe. It contains the best games, commented by M. Euwe. The central place is occupied by games from the 1935 world championship match between M. Euwe and A. Alekhine. The book is intended for highly qualified chess players.

Alexander M nninghoff tells the unforgettable tale of the fifth World Chess Champion. Filling a gap in the literature of chess, he shows that Euwes world title was the result of his iron will, his methodical drive and his energetic handling of all aspects of the game. By bringing his world title under the aegis of the world chess federation FIDE, Euwe profoundly changed the history of chess, and it was Euwes diplomatic determination as President of FIDE that saved the Match of the Century in 1972 between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. This gripping story is illuminated by numerous photos and fifty games with the original annotations by Max Euwe.

Die 60 mit Anmerkungen versehenen partien wurden alle in den Jahren von 1957-67 gespielt, und, mit Ausnahme der nummern 44 und 50, unter strengen Turnierbedingungen. Die Anmerkungen schließen häufig Verweise ein auf weitere partien und geben sie gelegentlich in vollem Umfang wieder. Der interessierte Leser mag 34 meiner früheren bemühungen in ''Bobby Fischers Schachpartien'' (Verlag Simon und Schuster 1959) finden. Alle 60 hier gebotenen partien enthalten für mich etwas Bemerkenswertes und Erregendes - auch die 3 Verlustpartien. Ich habe versucht, in meinen Ausführungen klar und präzise zu sein in der Hoffnung, daß sie Einsichten in das Schachspiel vermitteln, die zu einem volleren Verständnis und besseren Spiel führen sollen. Endlich möchte ich meinem Freunde und Kollegen Lary Evans meinen Dank abstatten für seine wertvolle Hilfe bei der Vorbereitung des Textes wie auch für seine lichtvollen Einführungen. - Robert J. Fischer, New York City

(IN ESTONIAN LANGUAGE. !!!). Posthumous commemorative edition (over 30 authors, including 7 world champions!).

A narrative about the life and struggle of the great Russian chess player.  The grandson of the soldier, the son of the worker, Chigorin, thanks to his talent, made his way in the conditions of tsarist Russia to the heights of world chess glory and became the founder of the Russian, national chess school. The winner of a number of international competitions, the permanent champion of Russia at the end of the past and the beginning of the current centuries, a brilliant theoretician and journalist, an unselfish, passionate public figure, a progressive intellectual, an eager organizer of Russian chess life-this is how Mikhail Chigorin appears on the pages of the book of the international master V. Panov. In his work, the author widely used the memories of Chigorin his contemporaries in Russia and abroad, the literary fragments and letters of Chigorin himself, his theoretical works of the utterance about Chigorin champions of the world Steinitz, Lasker. Botvinnik. The book gives the life, creative and sports way of Chigorin, the chess life of the end of the last century. There are also many creative portraits and characteristics of other leading chess players of the last century.

"Dimitrije Bjelica, internacionalni majstor šaha i prvak sveta u magičnom šahu, koji je izmislio, dobitnik je četiri Oskara za šahovsku literaturu. U Ginisovu knjigu svetskih rekorda ušao je odigravši simultanku na 301 tabli 1982. godine u Sarajevu".