(in English known as Obsession: A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer). Vsevolod Alfredovich Rauzer, 1908-1941, was a strong Ukrainian-Soviet master, twice champion of Ukraine, in the 1920s-1930s a multiple participant in the USSR championships. He was a noted theoretician, one of the main variants of the Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5, known as the Richter-Rauzer Attack, is named after him. He died during the siege of Leningrad on 29 December 1941. The book, which is the first publication on Rauzer, includes a biography, 74 deeply annotated games, career record, indexes of openings and opponents and other materials. GM Konstantinopolsky (1910-1990), Rauzer's close friend and collaborator, wrote the book during his life, but for various reasons it was not published. The analyses were checked or corrected by IM Grigory Bogdanovich with the help of a computer. 4 pictures. Further information about the book and a sample are available at elkov.ru