Editions Payot, Paris, 1994, in French, paperback, 295 pp., 435 grams, condition: reading copy, many text underlinings with colored marker (see photos).

Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch (July 25, 1894 – February 13, 1973) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known.

In 1956, Hans Kmoch wrote his most famous book, Pawn Power in Chess (German: Die Kunst der Bauernführung, in French: L'art de jouer les pions), which is notorious for its use of neologisms.