Soviet Chess 1917-1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soviet Chess 1917-1991 write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Soviet Chess 1917-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. 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. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 write by David Bronstein. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perceptive coverage of all 210 games from the legendary tournament, which featured Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others, including the author. Suitable for players at all levels. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English. Mikhail Tal, the roguish, doomed Latvian who changed the way chess players think about attack and sacrifice; Tigran Petrosian, the brilliant, henpecked Armenian whose wife drove him to become the world's best player; Boris Spassky, the prodigy who survived near-starvation and later bouts of melancholia to succeed Petrosian--but is best remembered for losing to Bobby Fischer; and "Evil" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion).
Lenin and His Comrades
Lenin and His Comrades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lenin and His Comrades write by I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Lenin and His Comrades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reads like a true crime investigation. Hard-hitting anti-communist slant by dissident critic of the communist regime.
The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked
The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2006-02-21. The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But "best"? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics (clever and relentless are insufficient qualities); the originality (e.g., not yet another white knight sacrifice in a Sicilian); the level of opposition (the loser played very well); the soundness (i.e., are the moves refutable with perfect play?), accuracy (few of the moves are second-best), and difficulty (the winner overcame major obstacles) of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth (one wants a series of sparkling ideas, with no dry patches). The 100 best games were taken from an initial field of about 7,000 played from 1900 through 1999 that had already gained some attention in magazines, books and periodicals. Three hundred games were then selected that appeared to have features consistent with the criteria. The 300 games were evaluated with scores--points given for each category of criteria. The games were then ranked, one to 100, by the score they received. No attempt was made to balance the selection according to period, nationality of players or opening. Also included is a chapter on the most overrated games of the twentieth century and one on games that would have made the list if... Includes 335 diagrams, an index of players and an index of openings by ECO codes.
