The first edition of this monumental work of the outstanding grandmaster, writer, poet and translator Savely Grigorievich Tartakover was published in 1924 in four separate issues and was immediately adopted by chess lovers, who later became famous masters, grandmasters, future theorists of modern chess. The "ultramodern chess game" reveals in detail the essence, the ideas of such chess players as Nimtsovich, Reti, Alekhine and others, the antagonists of Tarrash's teachings.