The book contains a chess biography and a history of tournaments in which Winawer participated. The author of this part is Tomasz Lissowski. The author of the second part is Grigory Bogdanovich - it contains 132 detailed annotated games and presents Winawer's playing style. Accompanied by many interesting photos, tournament crosstables, indexes at the end. Simon Winawer, 1838-1919, was one of world top players in 1860s-1880s. He won German congress in Nuremburg 1883, Vienna tournament 1882 (together with Steinitz), was second in his first international tournament in Paris 1867 etc. The book was also published in Russian under the title Szymon Winawer. Genialny samouchka i evo shakhmaty. 2 pictures. Further information about the book is available at elkandruby.com