Queen v rook/Minor Piece Endings is the seventh volume to be translated from Yuri Averbakh's classic series in Russian on the endings and then updated. It deals with endings in which the queen is matched against rook, knight or bishop, with or without pawns. It is by far the most complete work on the subject ever to be published. Yuri Averbakh, international grandmaster, who master-minded the series in the 1950's, is a leading UUSR chess organiser. Ken Neat, who has competed in the last two British championships, has translated three of the earlier volumes and a number of other Batsford chess books.