BATTLE OF STRATEGISTS

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Thriller

Copies sold: 264000.

Once at the USSR Chess Championship, Rustam Azimov lost the title of champion to Anton Knyazev. Later, thanks to their outstanding abilities, both became military analysts, only one worked at the headquarters of the armed forces of Ichkeria, the other at the "Center for Operational Analysis of the FSB". It was then that the strategist Azimov decided to take revenge from the strategist Knyazev, only in a much more complex and responsible game - he planned to seize Grozny, insidiously diverting the influence of the former chess rival by false activity in the Dagestan border area. Azimov was already, in fact, preparing to declare check and checkmate, but suddenly a third force intervened in the game - a group of special forces of the Airborne Forces under the leadership of Major Konstantin Yarovoy went to mountain Chechnya with reconnaissance. This changed the course of the game in the most unexpected way ...

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2009