This book in danish, easily readable with the Google translate app, gives 229 exercises where a chess grandmaster was on the losing end. At the end of each problem, a brief biographical note of the losing player is given. Very entertaining! I paid about $3.25 in 1987 for this book, about $10 now. The book is an overall very good condition, but someone has scribbled “P10 P37” on the front cover, as shown in the photographs. I did not see any internal marginalia. From the rear cover via the Google translate app: “MATE put all the great masters of the world in check! All of today's active grandmasters are represented in this book by a position where their opponent did the ugly to them. Few were checkmated - the champions almost always give up before that happens - but the points in the many combinations are all ones that cost the grandmasters the points they had hoped for. By making them unable to avoid mate; by depriving them of material so that they are lost; or perhaps by robbing them of a win with an elegant draw combination. During the course of the book, the reader acts out the world's funniest simultaneous performance. Goes from board to board and demolishes all opposition, as the masters are wont to do, and along the way develops his sense of the noble art of combination, for many the very finest spice of the game of chess. CHARLOTTE PEDERSEN has had a chess column in Bornholmeren for several years, she has written features about chess at home and abroad, covered leading events for all kinds of bodies, even the venerable British The Times. She has written bulletins at important chess tournaments at home and abroad and as an active player has won a DM in chess for girls and was on the Danish women's national chess team. SVEND NOVRUP has been Politiken's editor for bridge and chess since 1970. His book output is approaching 50, of which almost a dozen are about chess. The books have been published in several languages, just as Svend Novrup has for many years written articles for trade journals in many countries and been for AIPE, the worldwide organization of chess journalists.”