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Lev Polugaevskiĭ, Lyev Polugayevsky, Iakov Damsky

The Art of Defence in Chess by Lev Polugaevskiĭ, Lyev Polugayevsky, Iakov Damsky takes about 4 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 55 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1988. 268 pages, about 73,700 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 55 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 4 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Chess, Openings, Defenses, Chess, openings

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