Kupreichik - The Maestro from Minsk How Chess Pieces Move but with author’s clear preference

but with author’s clear preference for the black side

without having to set up the positions

Checkmate with a King

The appeal of the Scandinavian Defence is easy to understand: it is very forcing – Black is virtually guaranteed to get his desired structure

Kupreichik - The Maestro from Minsk How Chess Pieces Move but with author’s clear preferenceKupreichik: The Maestro from Minsk features tributes to the legendary attacker from those who regularly faced him at the board, including Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Romanishin, Evgeny Sveshnikov and Vladimir Tukmakov. Kupreichik also inspired the next generation, as the contributions of Boris Gelfand, Garry Kasparov, Andrey Kovalev and Rauf Mamedov reveal. Our picture of Viktor Kupreichik is completed by a series of pen portraits from his family, which