Burgess Graham. The Mammoth Book of Chess

Constable & Robinson Ltd.; Running Press, 2009. — 1029 p. — (Mammoth Book of...). — ISBN10: 076243726X; ISBN13: 978-0762437269.Гигантская книга по шахматам.
For rookie chess players or advanced players who simply want to hone their skills, this new edition of the chess classic has been fully revised and updated. With this guide, which includes courses in tactics and attacking strategy, a selection of the greatest games ever played, helpful advice on club and tournament chess, and a useful glossary of chess terms, victory will be yours. Checkmate!
Graham Burgess achieved the FIDE Master title at the age of twenty following his first place at the international open tournament at Val Thorens, France, in 1988. Since then he has been a regular international competitor, and is the veteran of several chessboard battles with World Championship Candidates.
He is the author of twenty highly acclaimed books on chess, and editor of more than two hundred and fifty.
He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Mathematics in 1989. Since then he has worked as a chess writer, for two years based in Denmark as a club trainer, and later as a commissioning editor in London. Now he is Editorial Director of Gambit Publications Ltd, a chess publishing company founded in 1997. In 1994 he established a new world record for marathon blitz chess playing, scoring a remarkable 87% in 510 games over three days and nights.
In 1997, the first edition of The Mammoth Book of Chess won the prestigious British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.