Chess Dictionary

A scholarly reference work covering the whole content of chess culture, aimed at a broad audience — practical players, methodologists, coaches, 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 did the final work.

The material is organized on a thematic-alphabetical principle: six sections, with entries arranged alphabetically within each.

Sections and editors

1. History, the 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 (text of the section 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.

Among the authors of the entries were 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.