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)