New In Chess, 2011, 268p., paperback, many photos, no games, 520 grams, condition: NEW

Yuri Averbakh (1922-2022) was a distinguished Russian chess grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career. He has been a top player, an editor, an arbiter, a trainer and a long-time member of the board of the Soviet chess federation. Averbakh was also a major endgame study theorist. More than 100 studies were published during his lifetime, many of which have made notable contributions to endgame theory. 

Averbakh was also an important chess journalist and author. He edited the Soviet chess periodicals Shakhmaty v SSSR and Shakhmatny Bulletin. From 1956 to 1962 he edited (with Vitaly Chekhover and others) a four-volume anthology on the endgame, Shakhmatnye okonchaniya (revised in 1980–84 and translated as Comprehensive Chess Endings, in five volumes).