Questions of Modern Chess Theory is the lost masterpiece of Soviet chess literature. It was written by a double Ukrainian Champion, and published in the Soviet Union in 1956. Russian experts say it is one of the most important chess books of the 20th century, yet it has never been published in English, so only those few westerners who understood Russian, like Bobby Fischer, had the chance to read it. Questions of Modern Chess Theory has been edited to make it useful for the 21st century and is now accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience.

Isaac Lipnitsky was a major player on the Soviet chess scene just after World War Two, strong enough to take the scalps of Keres, Smyslov and Petrosian. He would no doubt have been a household name had he not tragically passed away at a young age in 1959.

This is the missing link between Nimzowitsch"es My System and chess today, updated for the 21st century.

Content:
005 Preface Isaac Lipnitsky and his Super-Book, by Efim Lazarev

009 Foreword by Anatoly Karpov

010 Foreword by the UK Publisher

011 Introduction

012 Chapter 1 On the Opening

014 Chapter 2 The Centre

037 Chapter 3 The Centre and the Flanks

052 Chapter 4 Conquering the Centre from the Flanks

058 Chapter 5 Mobilizing the Pieces

073 Chapter 6 Evaluating the Position

081 Chapter 7 The Concrete Approach

088 Chapter 8 From Critical Positions to Settled Positions

098 Chapter 9 Positional Flair

109 Chapter 10 Plans in the Opening

122 Chapter 11 The Initiative

131 Chapter 12 Modern Gambits

153 Chapter 13 Opening and Middlegame

167 Chapter 14 Reevaluation of Values

178 Chapter 15 How Long Does a "Novelty" Last?

182 Chapter 16 How Is an Innovation Born?

186 Index of Games and Fragments

188 Appendix: Selected Games of Isaac Lipnitsky

229 Index of Opponents