Raymond Keene

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1. Alexander Kotov

   Author of Think Like a Grandmaster, The Soviet School of Chess, Alexander Alekhine

2. David Bronshtein

   Author of Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953, 200 Open Games (Chess), Modern Chess Self-Tutor

3. Mikhail Botvinnik

   Author of Botvinnik's Best Games: Volume 1, 1925 - 1941, Botvinnik's Best Games: Volume 3: 1957-1970 (Botvinnik's Best Games, Volume 3)

4. Viktor Korchnoi

   Author of Chess is My Life, King's Gambit

5. Irving Chernev

   Author of Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy, The Fireside Book of Chess

6. Mikhail Tal

   Author of Life & Games of Mikhail Tal, Tal-Botvinnik, 1960

7. John L. Watson

   Author of Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Chess Strategy in Action

8. Fred Reinfeld

   Author of One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, Attack & Counterattack in Chess, Lasker's Greatest Chess Games, 1889-1914

9. Ludek Pachman

   Author of Complete Chess Strategy: First Principles of the Middle Game, Complete Chess Strategy: Principles of Pawn Play and the Center

10. Peter Hugh Clarke

    Author of Petrosian's Best Games of Chess, 1946-63, 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures

11. Philip Sergeant

    Author of Morphy's Games of Chess, Pillsbury's Chess Career

12. Paul Keres

    Author of The Art of the Middle Game, Practical Chess Endings, Keres' Best Games of Chess 1931-1948

13. Bobby Fischer

    Author of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, My 60 Memorable Games, Bobby Fischer's Chess Games

14. Alexander Alekhine

    Author of My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923, My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937, Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament

15. Raymond Keene

    Author of Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal, The Chess player's bedside book (Batsford chess books)

16. Max Euwe

    Author of Judgment and Planning in Chess, A Guide to Chess Endings, The Development of Chess Style

17. Richard Reti

    Author of Modern Ideas in Chess

18. Samuel Reshevsky

    Author of Best Games of Chess

19. Hans Kmoch

    Author of Pawn Power in Chess, Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games

20. Jonathan Tisdall

    Author of Improve Your Chess Now