Mihail Marin is a grandmaster from Romania. His books for Quality Chess have established him as one of the world's finest chess authors.

"A good place for the reader to start is a preliminary chapter entitled ‘Structures and Strategy'. a sort of tutorial masked as the Introduction with plenty of aims and aspirations mixed in with some instructive dos and don'ts. Already you can appreciate Marin's trademark positional synthesis that somehow clarifies to the reader even quite complex struggles…So, summing up, the work is a modernized …Qe8 Leningrad monograph with far more explanatory text and high-level analysis than has ever been available before. If you desire an unbalanced struggle and are game for a fair dose of provocation, maybe this fascinating work could be for you?" -- GM Glenn Flear, New in Chess Yearbook