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The Soviet School of Chess: How Russia Dominated World Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)
 
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The Soviet School of Chess: How Russia Dominated World Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)

by A.A. Kotov (Author), M. Yudovich (Author)
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  • Paperback: 396 pages
  • Publisher: Hardinge Simpole; 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,608,973 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book discusses the first Russian grandmasters and prominent masters, such luminaries as Mikhail Chigorin, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Alexander Tolush and many others. Also included is a section dedicated to the women players. There are numerous, chessboard diagrams, and page upon page of annotated games and game fragments in the book.

Chess is a national game in Russia. It is played by millions of men, women, and children. Large-scale tournaments are held regularly in factories, offices, and schools.

The Russian style of play is characterized by creative scope, boldness and energy in attack, plus tenacity and resourcefulness in defense. It is founded on scientific methods of studying theory and training for competitions. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars in depth analysis of soviet chess domination, 22 Jul 2002
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The Soviet Union and its affair with chess, 29 Jul 2002
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis, 6 Jul 2007
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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