Irving Chernev was a prolific Russian-American chess author.
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- Don't fiddle while Byrne roams!
- Advice passed to the chess player and teacher Jack Collins while watching chess master Robert Byrne snip off his pawns
- The Bright Side of Chess (Hollis and Carter, 1952)
- The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.
- The Chess Companion, (Faber & Faber, 1970)