Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller Irrationally Logical Sacrifices

Irrationally Logical Sacrifices

Christoph Scheerer takes a modern-day look at the gambit

But what if you want to familiarize yourself with the middlegame strategy that should be used in positions that have arisen from exactly this or that opening

Foreword by Sune Berg Hansen

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

Kudryavtsev: Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina (hardcover) Bestseller Irrationally Logical SacrificesGalina 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