Tkachenko: Bishop and Knight Save the Day Bestseller Grandmaster Alexander Kalinin is a

Grandmaster Alexander Kalinin is a distinguished chess trainer from Russia

as Ivan Solokov explains in this groundbreaking work

but few indeed are able to do the same when analyzing the games of their fellow Grandmasters

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Tkachenko: Bishop and Knight Save the Day Bestseller Grandmaster Alexander Kalinin is aSergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just a bishop and knight in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no more than six moves in almost all solutions, so experienced chess players can analyze the positions directly from the diagrams. Newbies to