Peter Zhdanov is the manager of Vice Women´s World Chess Champion Natalia Pogonia and frequent contributor to ChessBase and other major chess sites. Prior to that, he was an IT project manager, a distinguished public speaker, and an expert and author of two books on parliamentary debate. Peter earned A bsC IN Applied Mathematics & Computer Science and also studied for an MA in Economics and a PhD in Psychology, but eventually decided to pursue a career in the chess industry. "Yearbook of Chess Wisdom" (2015) was his debut book for Chess Evolution.