- Paperback: 514 pages
- Publisher: Ishi Press,Japan (16 Sep 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 4871878198
- ISBN-13: 978-4871878197
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,589,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Soviet School of Chess" is one of the most important books ever written on chess. It starts with the pre-Soviet Era with the beginning of the 19th century and recounts not only the histories of their greatest players up to modern times but also the history of their ideas. A biography is provided for each of the greatest players plus examples from their games and their contributions to chess knowledge and chess opening theory. This revised edition has added in Algebraic Notation the complete scores of all 200 games referenced in the book plus the concluding diagram, in the appendix in the back. Here is the name of the player of white and black, the year the game was played, the opening and opening code, the number of moves, the result and the page in the book where the game is referenced. The games are in the order in which they are referenced in the book.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format: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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Interesting book by two experts in their field providing an explanation to Russia's fascination with chess.
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