Grandmaster Performance - Softcover

Polugaevskii, Lev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857440684 ISBN 13: 9781857440683

Publisher: Everyman Chess, 1994

Synopsis

All the Everyman Chess books are organized in a structured style and are also presented in a series of levels. The styles encompass Openings (O); Games Collections ((G); and Training (T). The levels are arranged as follows: Children [C]; Novice (N); Club (C); and Advanced (A).

About this title

About the Author:

Lev Polugaevsky was one of the world's leading grandmasters for nearly three decades. Lev Polugaevsky was born on 20 November 1934 in Mogilev in what is now Belarus (White Russia). Polugaevsky defeated Tal and Mecking in matches. He qualified to the candidates matches for the World Championship five times, a record few had equaled, but he lost twice in matches against Korchnoi in the semi-finals for the World Championship. He won two major international grandmaster tournaments. He also won two USSR Championships, in 1967 and 1968. I met him only once. That was at the 1988 FIDE Congress and Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece. There he gave a short speech on his ideas about how to organize and conduct the World Chess Championship cycle. Polugaevsky died in Paris, France on 30 August 1995 at age 60.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1857440684
• ISBN 13: 9781857440683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192