Recently the German publisher Droemer Knauer published an unusual chess book: Schachgeschichten was written by two authors: Frederic Friedel, described by the publishers as "the grey eminence of the international chess world"; and Christian Hesse, a mathematics professor and chess expert, who has written over twenty popular books. Now Chess Stories has been published in English, by none other than ChessBase India. Christian Hesse has already published two bestselling books on chess, and in this one adresses the relation between chess and mathematics in a most delightful way. – Viswanathan Anand, five-time Chess World Champion Frederic Friedel and Christian Hesse have written an unusual chess book. He has also created an entirely new genre of chess problems, the Zen Chess Logicals, that have been described by Garry Kasparov as adding a whole new dimension to chess studies and logic.