Soviet Chess 1917-1991 Soltis AndrewPaperback
Soviet Chess 1917-1991 Soltis AndrewPaperback This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. The…
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Soviet Chess 1917-1991 Soltis AndrewPaperback
This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the devastations of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet-dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played.
The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and