- Paperback: 396 pages
- Publisher: Hardinge Simpole Limited; New edition edition (20 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843820072
- ISBN-13: 978-1843820079
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,101,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. Written at the apex of Soviet success.
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in depth analysis of soviet chess domination,
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This review is from: The Soviet School of Chess: How Russia Dominated World Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
written by two experts at the heart of the soviet chess programme this book gives thumbnail sketches of the champions. grandmasters, masters and theorists who together brought russsian chess to the forefront of world sporting achievement. the tone is chauvinistic but the russians had plenty to boast about in their chess achievements.the book also tells you a lot about the nature of soviet society and the pressures to conform-even in a creative sphere such as chess.
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This review is from: The Soviet School of Chess: How Russia Dominated World Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
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.
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The Soviet Union and its affair with chess,
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This review is from: The Soviet School of Chess: How Russia Dominated World Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
Interesting book by two experts in their field providing an explanation to Russia's fascination with chess.
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