Author: Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (1922-2022) and Ilya Lvovich Maizelis
Year: 1974
Publisher: Chess Digest
Place: Dallas
Description:
x+318 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's dark purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Mary Lasher. Edited by Kevin J O'Connell. (Lusis: 1106) First American edition.
Translation and revision of selections from Shakhmatnye Okonchaniye, Moscow, 1956-62 3 volumes.
Revised and updated translation of the first volume of the Russian treatise. The examples have been renumbered in a simpler form (than the Russian edition), with many new examples added; these changes are listed in the comparative index.
Condition:
Previous owners name to front end paper else better than very good in a near fine jacket.