Chess dictionary

A scholarly reference work covering the full scope of chess culture, aimed at a broad audience — practicing players, coaches, trainers, and journalists. The idea for the dictionary belonged to G. M. Geiler and A. M. Iglitsky; Geiler carried out the preliminary work, and the publisher's editorial staff completed the final version.

The material is organized by theme and then alphabetically: six sections, with entries within each arranged alphabetically.

Sections and editors

1. History, press, chess in the USSR — I. M. Linder, A. Yu. Markevich
2. Competitions
3. Biographies — I. M. Linder, A. Yu. Markevich
4. Organization — L. Ya. Abramov
5. Theory — A. M. Konstantinopolsky
6. Composition — E. I. Umnov (section text written by R. M. Kofman)

General editorship — L. Ya. Abramov and I. Z. Romanov. Compiler of the dictionary — G. M. Geiler. Bibliography — I. Z. Romanov and N. I. Sakharov.

Contributing authors include international grandmasters M. M. Botvinnik and Yu. L. Averbakh, international masters E. I. Bykova, A. M. Konstantinopolsky, V. N. Panov, A. S. Suetin, L. A. Shamkovich, M. M. Yudovich, and other Soviet chess theorists, historians, and journalists.

Fizkultura i Sport publishing house, Moscow, 1964.