Igor Stohl

(born 1964), is one of the strongest Slovakian chess players and has taken part in numerous Olympiads. His book “Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces” was nominated the best chess book of 2001 by the USCF, with an expanded second edition being published in 2009. His subsequent works on Kasparov’s games have also met with high acclaim in the specialist press and were translated into 5 languages. Grandmaster Igor Stohl has worked for ChessBase Magazine since 1990. He lives in Bratislava and is active as an author and a trainer.