Alexander Kalinin Author

Grandmaster Alexander Kalinin, Moscow-born and based, is a respected trainer. His former students include such names as the Russian Olympic champions V.Gunina and O.Girya, grandmasters A.Kharitonov, I.Vasilevich, D.Naroditsky. He has authored ‘Walking with the French Defence’ (together with V.Kortschnoj), 'Sergey Karjakin: Best Games of the Minister of Defence’, ‘Fabiano Caruana: His Amazing Story and His Most Instructive Chess Games’, ‘Chess Training for Candidate Masters’ and other books published in Russia and Europe. Nikolai Kalinichenko, now an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, has been living in Moscow his entire life. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was the science editor for chess literature issued by the famous ‘Fizkultura i sport’ publisher. He has published over 50 books on the theory of chess in Russia, Germany, France, Spain, the U.K., the USA and other countries. One of his most notable works is the multivolume encyclopaedia ‘Modern Chess Openings’, published by Thinker’s Press at the turn of the centuries.