Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller but among most chess players

but among most chess players confusion reigns when it comes to improving their playing strength

Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-day look at the gambit

Foreword by Sune Berg Hansen

The reader also has the ideal training opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of the world champions by means of numerous tasks and to look for solutions themselves

Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller but among most chess playersGalina Satonina (19052000) was the leading chess painter of the Soviet era. A multiple time Kazan and Tatarstan ladies chess champion, she saw life as a game of chess, and her paintings speak the language of Caissa. She painted world champions and other famous players, ranging from early stars Philidor, Morphy and Anderssen, all the way through to Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov. Several of her paintings depict the chess pieces themselves and emotions