The story of a ruthless maniac who killed only to fill the chessboard cells with victims. The author reveals the motives of the killer, Alexander Pichushkin. Shows how, step by step, a monster grew from a troubled teenager. How his mother, stepfather, friends and popular culture influenced him. Not only Pichushkin’s murderous ideas look terrifying and strange, but also the behavior of his victims. “He did not rape anyone, he never took anything valuable, he considered it vile and base. He simply killed. He liked to feel his power at the moment when a person’s life was in his power.” Investigator Andrei Suprunenko People disappeared in the Bitsevsky forest. Panic rumors spread across Russia. Criminalists caught imitators, and Alexander Pichushkin still continued to expand his “chess collection”... “I played with them. I knew perfectly well where the patrols were and always calmly walked past them. They didn’t do anything useful, and they couldn’t somehow stop me, no matter how hard they tried. They just had fun and raised self-esteem. Everyone was on edge because of the Bitsevsky maniac, but they greeted me, and no one refused to drink.” Alexander Pichushkin What helped catch the killer? His mistakes? Or is it the correct calculation of the investigators? Perhaps being caught and becoming known to the whole world was the terrible plan of a psychopath and sadist!? The answers to these many other questions will be heard for the first time in this book. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.