The official selection of the world's best chess compositions of the period 2004-2006 contains 1367 works from 312 authors, sorted into 8 sections: Two-movers, Thre-movers, Moremovers, Endgame studies, Helpmates, Selfmates, Fairy chess, Retro and mathematical problems. Each composition includes a diagram, place and date of the first publication and an annotated solution in 3 languages. The book is accompanied by many various statistics, indexes of authors and sources, definitons of terms and themes etc. The texts are in three langauges - English, German and French, figurine notation. 2 pictures.
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