With the remarkable increase in the number of tournaments and weekend congresses over the last decade, the understanding of the Laws of Chess, and the way they work in practice, is of paramount importance to all chess players. To date, organisers and participants have had no authority to which they could refer but this gap has now been gilled bu Bozidar Kazic, the Chief Arbiter of FIDE, with contributions from Dragutin Djaja, Arpad Elo and Martin Morrison. The book also inclusdes a detailed explanation of the FIDE Rating System and the method bu which International Titles are awarded and all controllers will benefit from the thorough coverage afforded to the various forms of the Swiss System and other tournament systems.

Alexander Alekhine, one of the all-time chess greats (comparable perhaps only with Lasker, Capablanca, Botvinnik and Fischer) has long been known to the chess public from his games, but his personality and life story have rarely been written about. The Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov is an expert on Alekhine, having published five books in the USSR about him. The present work represents a synthesis of all the work Kotov has done.

Knight Endings is the fifth volume to appear of Averbakh's great classic series on the endgame. The original Russian edition quickly established a world-wide reputation -- these are the endgame books that Fischer had sent to him during his world championship match. The English translation has been updated and is by far the most complete work on knight endgames ever published. Every one of the 267 examples has its own diagram. In both matches and tournaments, games are often adjourned at the moment that the ending is reached. It is then that any played without the most authoritative work to refer to puts himself at a great disadvantage and is in danger of throwing away both half and whole points.

Grivory Levenfisch, the international and Soviet grandmaster, was one of the key Russian chess-teachers responsible for the current Soviet supremacy ; he was USSR champion in 1937. Ex-world Champion Vasily Smyslov, who has revised and added to the original work, is still one of the world's leading grandmasters and amongst the greatest endgame players of all time.

Bishop v. Knight Endings is the third volume to appear of Averbak'hs great classic series on the endgame. The original Russian edition quickly established a world-wide reputation - these are the endgame books that Fischer had sent to him during his world championship match. The English translation has been updated and is by far the most complete work on bishop v. knighte endgames ever published. Every one of the 325 examples has its own diagram. In both matches and tournaments, games are often adjourned at the moment that the ending is reached. It is then that any player without the most authoritative work to refer puts himseld at a great disadvantage and is in danger of throwing away both half and whole points.

Bishop Endings is the fourth volume to appear of Averbak's greats classic series on the endgame. The original Russian edition quickly established a world-wide reputation - these are the endgame books that Fischer had sent to him during his world championship match. The English translation has been updated and is by far the most complete work on rook v. minor piece endgames ever published. Every one of the 370 examples has its own diagram. In both matches and tournaments, games are often adjourned at the moment that the ending is reached. It is then that any player without the most authoritative work to refer puts himseld at a great disadvantage and is in danger of throwing away both half and whole points.

When Viktor Korchnoi lost by the narrowest of margins to Anatoly Karpov in Baguio City in 1978, many experts thought it would be his last attempt at the World Championship. However, at the age of 50, he again fought his way through several bitter clashed to earn the right to challenge for a crown he has so eagerly sought since defecting from the USSR in 1976. The failure of this attempts to obtain the release of his wife and son would obviously affect his play for this match and yet he has smashed through previous encounters with Petrosian and Poluhayevsky spurred on by this hatred for the soviet regime. Karpov, at 30, becam World Champion when Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title in 1975, and has been one of the most active and successful World Champions ever, winning almost every top level tournament in which he has played. Grandmaster Raymond Keene is uniquely placed to write this gripping account of the "revenge" match in Merano. He was Korchnoi's second at the last World Championship match but his relationship with the challenger soured amid bitter altercations about gurus, and the sinister Soviet parapsychologist Zukhar which caused his subsequent resignation. He now provides the answer to Anti-Chess, Korchnoi's own embittered account of the previous match.

Rock v. Minor Piece Endings is the sixth volume to appear of Averbak's greats classic series on the endgame. The original Russian edition quickly established a world-wide reputation - these are the endgame books that Fischer had sent to him during his world championship match. The English translation has been updated and is by far the most complete work on rook v. minor piece endgames ever published. Every one of the 312 examples has its own diagram. In both matches and tournaments, games are often adjourned at the moment that the ending is reached. It is then that any player without the most authoritative work to refer puts himseld at a great disadvantage and is in danger of throwing away both half and whole points.