He has produced translations of Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-70 and the Soviet world champion's autobiography (Achieving the Aim) as well as collections of the best games of Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.
Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of "Bolshoy Karetny" (Большой Каретный) and Anna Akhmatova (in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky) was quoting Vysotsky's number "I was the soul of a bad company..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.
Mikhail Gorbachev | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Mikhail Bulgakov | Mikhail Lermontov | Mikhail Vrubel | Mikhail Bakunin | Mikhail Botvinnik | Mikhail Skobelev | Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov | Mikhail Glinka | Mikhail Chigorin | Tal Farlow | Mikhail Tal | Tal Brody | Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov | Mikhail Turovsky | Mikhail Trepashkin | Mikhail Sholokhov | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Kaneev | Mikhail Boyarsky | Mikhail Bakhtin | Mikhail Vorontsov | Mikhail Tukhachevsky | Mikhail Pletnev | Mikhail Nesterov | Mikhail Natarevich | Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet | Tal-y-llyn | Mikhail Tomsky |
From 1991 until 1994 he edited the "Schach-Journal" together with Alexander Koblencs, former trainer of Mikhail Tal.
Over the course of his career, Csom defeated many top Grandmasters, including Ulf Andersson, Boris Gulko, Tony Miles, Lajos Portisch, Samuel Reshevsky, Nigel Short, former World Champion Mikhail Tal, Rafael Vaganian, and Arthur Yussupov.
At his strongest in the mid-seventies to early eighties, Hübner participated in many of the elite tournaments of the day, such as Tilburg 1978 and Montreal 1979 (The Tournament of Stars), playing alongside Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal, and Jan Timman.
The Two Knights has been adopted as Black by many aggressive players including Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Keres, and World Champions Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.