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Hardback, 355 pages, Thinker's Publishing 2025
I decided to divide the book into four parts. In the first and the most difficult and time-consuming
part of the book you will find my memorable games. I emphasize that these are my most memorable
games, not my best games so out of 25 games given here there are a few draws and one loss. If I had
decided to collect my best games the selection would have been quite different. It should therefore
come as no surprise that as many as seven games with world champions found their way into the
book.
The second part consists of my 50 most memorable fragments. There you will see both instructive
and curious examples. Here too the selection process was quite strict. While the memorable games
cover the period of 1991-2010, the fragments cover the span from 1982 till 2016. And since they cover
my early years as well, you will find some of them that did not find their way into databases.
The third part of the book contains my 75 studies, in 50 of which White must draw and in 25 must
win. I have many more but except for a couple of examples I decided not to include the most difficult
and interesting rook studies in the book. I have to say that composing studies is much more difficult
than problems; it's just a hell of a job.
And finally, the fourth, my favorite part of the book, featuring my 150 best chess problems. I should
talk about this in greater detail: I was 12 when I composed my first problem. It was later published in
the article by the famous composer and study-maker Alexander Sarychev, whom I had had the great
fortune to meet. Yet, despite this positive experience at a young age, it was only much later that I
composed a significant number of problems.
And so, I hope that in each of the 300 snippets presented in the book, be it games, fragments, studies
or problems, the reader will find something worthwhile. At least, the author really strove for that.
Vladimir Akopian, August 2025, Los Angeles.
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