Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes: A Personal Memoir

by Yuri Averbakh

Yuri Averbakh (1922) is a distinguished Russian chess grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career. He has been a top player, a journalist, an editor, an arbiter, a trainer and a long-time member of the board of the Soviet chess federation.

Averbakh won the USSR championship in 1954 ahead of players like Kortchnoi, Petrosian and Geller and was a leading Soviet grandmaster for two decades. In this personal memoir he looks back on his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056913646
• ISBN13: 9789056913649
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"