Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-day

Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-day look at the gambit

Foreword by Sune Berg Hansen

For many years this opening has served as the main black weapon for chess giants as Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand

Irrationally Logical Sacrifices

New exercises and short games were added and some chapters were "refreshed" by adding current and instructive examples

Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-dayGalina 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