Tkachenko: Oleg Pervakov's Endgame Studies improvers Masters of the Chessboard by

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The consistent execution of several well-considered and connected moves that force the opponent to react in a very specific way is probably the supreme discipline of tactics

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Tkachenko: Oleg Pervakov's Endgame Studies improvers Masters of the Chessboard byOleg Pervakov (born in 1960 in the city of Kirov) is widely recognized as Russia's greatest living chess composer. He has composed nearly 500 studies and he has won the individual chess composition world championship three times: in 2004 2006, 2007 2009 and 2013 2015. In this book, Sergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has