Soviet Chess 1917-1991 - Hardcover

Soltis, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786406763 ISBN 13: 9780786406760

Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Soviet Chess 1917-1991 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 days of the revolution to the devastation of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet-dominated chess in the 1950s to the ch... Full description

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"Andrew Soltis' book portrays a fascinating and unique chapter of chess history. Nowhere else and never before has chess played such an important role." -- André Schulz, ChessBase.com

Synopsis

Offers an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and a record of the most interesting games played, with diagrams some 250 games. Most games are annotated and many have never been published outside the Soviet Union. Includes tournament and match scoretables, an appendix of records ach

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786406763
• ISBN 13: 9780786406760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640