Zhivko Kaikamjozov was born in 1931 in Dobrich (Bulgaria). He graduated from the Sofia Institute of Economics. In January 1962, after becoming a chess master, Zhivko established the first Bulgarian chess school for children in his native town.

Kaikamjozov is well-known in the chess world, particularly for his students, who include grandmasters Velikov, Spassov, and Voiska, as well as Topalov's manager Silvio Danailov.

Kaikamjzov was the manager of Bulgarian chess federation in the 1980s, he is an international arbiter. In 1990 he was one of the referees of the world title match Kasparov vs. Karpov in London.

In 1986 he was elected President of the East-European zone of FIDE and became a member of the FIDE Central Committee. He was an editor of the Bulgarian chess magazine Chess thought and has been a journalist since the mid 1990s. Kaikamjozov has authored 33 chess books.

005 Introduction

007 As-Suli the Exile (880-946)

010 Gioachino Greco (1600-1634)

012 Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais (1795-1840)

016 Lionel Kieseritzky (1806-1853)

019 Isidor Gunsberg (1854-1930)

023 Paul Morphy (1837-1884)

030 Rudolf Charousek (1873-1900)

035 Rudolf von Bilguer (1815-1840)

037 Cecil de Vere (1845-1875)

039 Carl Walbrodt (1871-1902)

041 Daniel Noteboom (1910-1932)

043 Karl Schlechter (1874-1918)

049 Wilhelm Steinitz (1842-1889) and Johannes Zukertort (1836-1900)

060 Gustav Neumann (1838-1881)

063 Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906)

072 Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1962)

078 Gyula Breyer (1894-1921)

082 Jose-Raul Capablanca (1888-1942)

085 Samuel Reshevsky (1911-1992)

089 Carlos Torre (1904 - 1978)

093 The Tragic Fate of the Gamblers

095 David Janowsky (1868-1927)

098 Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

102 World War II and the chess players

103 Klaus Junge (1924-1945)

108 Mark Stolberg (1922-1942)

112 David Przepiorka (1880-1942)

116 Vladimir Petrov (1908-1943)

119 Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946)

120 Jan Donner (1927-1988)

131 Boris Spassky (born 1937)

137 Robert Fischer (1943-2008)

148 Henrique Mecking (born 1952)

152 Garry Kasparov (born 1963)

160 Nigel Short (born 1965)

166 Maia Chiburdanidze (born 1961)

169 Gata Kamsky (born 1974)

175 Judit Polgar (born 1976)

181 Veselin Topalov (born 1975)

186 Peter Leko (born 1979)

191 Antoaneta Stefanova (born 1979)

197Étienne Bacrot (born 1983)

201 Ruslan Ponomariov (born 1983)

207 Teimour Radjabov (born 1987)

211 Humpy Koneru (born 1987)

213 Kateryna Lahno (born 1989)

215 Sergey Karjakin (born 1990)

220 Magnus Carlsen (born 1990)

224 Suggested further reading