Mikhail Zinars Difficult Pawn Endings

Sergei 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 selected 100 pawn endings composed by the leading Ukrainian problemist Mikhail Zinar. Zinar is a prolific endgame expert who has produced several hundred studies since the 1970s, with a focus on pawn endings. His works have appeared in many leading Russian-language chess publications, including Chess in the USSR, 64 - Chess Review, and Chess Bulletin. He collaborated with Yuri Averbakh on the second edition of Averbakh's Chess Endings (1983), in which he revised the theory of "corresponding squares". Zinar co-authored a Russian-language manual for creating pawn §tudies with Vladimir Archakov in 1990 called Harmony of the Pawn Study. He coHaborated with Tkachenko in compiling this book. This English language edition is updated and expanded from the Russian version, published in 2016.