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The Soviet School of Chess

How Russia dominated the world chess

391 Seiten, kartoniert, Hardinge, 2002, original erschienen 1958

Aus der Reihe »Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics«

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Descriptive Notation.

For four decades - barring the brief intervention of Bobby Fischer - the Soviet Union dominated world chess and Russian grandmasters continue to lead the world even after the demise of the country they once represented. This is an account of the hegemony of the most powerful state-supported chess juggernaut ever created, written at the apex of Soviet success. The book outlines the triumphs achieved by the Stalin-inspired drive to establish the USSR as the planet's leading chess dynamo. This is a hymn to the socialist utopia in which the goal of sporting success in general and chess victory in particular replace religion as the opium of the masses.
The Soviet School of Chess is the Bible which recounts this movement, written by two experts who were positioned at the very heart of this grandiose initiative. Alexander Kotov represented the USSR in two World Championship Candidates Tournaments and went on to become a senior official of the Soviet Chess Federation. Mikhail Yudovich was a chess journalist and Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

Introduction

Chess has become a national game in the Soviet Union. It is played by millions of men, women and children. Large-scale tournaments are held regularly in factories, offices, schools and collective farms.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. Soviet playhave taken over the best traditions of Russia's outstandmasters of previous decades and considerably surpassed their achievements. They are renewing and enriching chess theory and practice.
The Soviet style of play is characterized by creative scope, boldness and energy in attack, plus tenacity and resourcefulin defence. It is founded on scientific methods of studying theory and training for competitions.
The U.S.S.R. Chess Federation takes an active part in the activities of F.I.D.E., thereby promoting international conand chess progress the world over.
The authors of this book have endeavoured to show the sources of the vigour of Soviet chess and to outline its distinguishfeatures.
The games and endings give an idea of the play of leading exponents of the Soviet school. They make it clear that unity in creative approach by no means excludes a wealth of individual variety.
Previously published variations and analyses have been takinto account in the annotations.
Deskriptive Notation.
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EAN 1843820072
Gewicht 520 g
Hersteller Hardinge
Breite 13,7 cm
Höhe 21,6 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
Autor Alexander KotovMikhail Yudovich
Reihe Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
Sprache Englisch
ISBN-10 1843820072
Jahr der Originalausgabe 1958
Seiten 391
Einband kartoniert
007 Introduction
PART ONE
009 Chapter One. Early History
016 Chapter Two. Founder of the Russian School
022 Mikhail Chigorin's Contribution to Opening Theory
024 Open Games
029 Semi-Open and Close Openings
036 Chapter Three. Russia's Greatest Player
044 Alekhine and the Theory of Openings
044 Open Games
047 Semi-Open Games
049 Close Openings
053 Chapter Four. Development of the Soviet School
058 Illustrious Names
079 Chapter Five. Main Features of the Soviet School
081 A. The Opening
089 Open Games
094 Semi-Open Games
098 Close Games
101 B. The Middle Game
108 C. The End-Game
112 Chapter Six. Chess Literature
PART TWO
122 Chapter One. Grandmasters
122 Mikhail Botvinnik
139 Vasily Smyslov
155 Yury Averbakh
160 Isaac Boleslavsky
168 Igor Bondarevsky
177 David Bronstein
188 Salo Flohr
194 Yefim Geller
201 Paul Keres
208 Victor Korchnoi
211 Alexander Kotov
220 Grigori Levenfish
229 Andrea Lilienthal
235 Tigran Petrosian
243 Vyacheslav Ragozin
251 Boris Spassky
255 Mark Taimanov
232 Mikhail Tal
266 Alexander Tolush
272 Chapter Two. Prominent Masters
272 Vladimir Alatortsev
274 Lev Aronin
277 Vitaly Chekhover
281 Pyotr Dubinin
284 Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
291 Semyon Furman
294 Victor Goglidze
296 Gorgi Ilivitsky
299 Ilya Kan
302 Genrikh Kasparyan
305 Ratmir Kholmov
309 Alexander Konstantinopolsky
312 Isaac Lipnitsky
315 Georgi Lisitsyn
317 Vladimir Makogonov
320 Vladas Mikenas
323 Rashid Nezhmetdinov
326 Nikolai Novotelnov
329 Vasily Panov
332 Pyotr Romanovsky
340 Vladimir Simagin
343 Alexei Sokolsky
347 Gavrill Veresov
349 Mikhail Yudovich
352 Chapter Three. Women Players
354 Elizaveta Bykova
360 Olga Rubtsova
363 Ludmila Rudenko
367 Valentina Borisenko
370 Olga Ignatieva
373 Nina Voitsik
375 Larisa Volpert
377 Kira Zvorykina
380 Appendix
380 Soviet Grandmasters
380 Soviet Masters
381 Masters of Chess Composition
383 Name Index
388 Game Index