Modern Chess Self-Instructor, Book 1 by Victor Pozharsky

Russia 2000, 227 D8 pages $24.00 The book is meant for chess players of intermediate level who wish to improve their play by gaining more knowledge of the strategy, tactics and technique at various stages of the game. Chess instructors are likely to get interested, too. The Self-Instructor is published in three books and on the whole contains 1132 positions to solve, among them 852 games of grandmasters and masters and 280 studies (with answers and notes). Book I is concerned with the opening and middle-game (combinations; attack on the King).