The Slav : Concise coverage of a dependable and dynamic opening favoured by many top-class players
Graham Burgess holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing.  He is a highly versatile chess writer, whose previous books range from general guides for relatively inexperienced players to high-level theoretical manuals.  His "Mammoth Book of Chess" won the 1997 British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award, while "Nunn's Chess Openings," of which he is a co-author, has established itself as the leading modern one-volume openings encyclopedia.