(Mentor of Champions). Anatoly Georgiyevich Kuznetsov (1932-2000), was a Master of the USSR in both practical play and composition, a journalist and a teacher (kuznets) of study composers. The book contains 50 annotated games and fragments. Among his opponents were Boris Spassky, Igor Bondarevsky, Alexander Tolush, Yevgeny Vasyukov, Vladimir Liberzon, Vladimir Simagin, Leonid Shamkovich, and others. You can also find 100 of Kuznetsov's endgame studies and problems with coments and solutions. Several indexes at the end. Sergei Tkachenko is a chess historian, respected writer and Grandmaster and World champion of chess composition. 2 pictures.