Oleg Pervakov (born in 1960 in the city of Kirov) is widely recognized as Russia's greatest livin...

*** SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 ***Sergei Tkachenk...

Yakov Vilner (1899-1931) was one of the leading Soviet chess masters in the 1920s. He won the Ukr...

Have you ever thought about trying your hand at composing endgame studies? Probably not, it alway...

***Short-listed for the English Chess Federation Book of the Year award, 2023***Have you ever tho...

Born in Bakhmut, Ukraine, and brought up in Odessa, Boris Verlinsky (1888-1950) was the first hol...

Born in Bakhmut, Ukraine, and brought up in Odessa, Boris Verlinsky (1888-1950) was the first hol...

Sergei Tkachenko has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just a b...

Sergei Tkachenko has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one...

Sergei Tkachenko has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one...

Sergei Tkachenko has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just one...

Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournam...