Nikolay Minev
Nikolai Nikolayev Minew ( born January 8, 1931 in Russian) is an American, formerly Bulgarian chess master.
Minew received in 1960 awarded the title of International Master by FIDE. He won the Bulgarian Cup in 1953, 1965 and 1966.
His current Elo rating is 2370 (as of November 2010), however, he has played a game of chess -evaluated more since the U.S. Open in 1999 and is therefore out to be inactive.
Minew is also active as a chess author, he wrote, among others, together with John Donaldson, a two -volume work on Akiba Rubinstein, along with Yasser Seirawan the book Take my Rooks (1991, ISBN 1-87947 -901 X) over double rook sacrifice and French Defence: New and forgotten ideas (2nd edition 1998, ISBN 0-938650-92-0 ) about the French defense. He has published more than 50 chess studies.