Red Letters (English and Russian Edition)

S. I?A? Grodzenski?,Tim Harding

ISBN 10: 0953853659 / ISBN 13: 9780953853656

Published by Chess Mail Ltd, 2003

Seller Inventory # 9780953853656-2-2

Synopsis:

R200002918. RED LETTERS : THE CORRESPONDENCE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS OF THE SOVIET UNION. 2003. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 160 pages, textes en Anglais avec un CD-rom.. . . . Classification Dewey : 794.1-Echecs

Synopsis: This is an important work for chess history and also will be of great practical interest as numerous previously unknown or forgotten master chess games are made available in the West for the first time. The Correspondence Chess Championships of the Soviet Union were a series of high-level postal chess events held continuously from 1947 onwards and involving many leading masters and grandmasters of chess from the USSR. Many players who then or later were famous as professional grandmasters or opening theoreticians competed in these events at one time or another. On the break-up of the USSR in the 1990s, the preliminaries of the last two championships had begun and these were completed by the Russian federation with players from other nations of the former USSR. The final of the last championship was due to end in December 2001, about 10 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union; the quarter-final stages had just begun ten years earlier. Sergey Grodzensky profiles the champions and other leading personalities and presents the best games from the events. The games were collected by Tim Harding with assistance from his co-author and from German journalist and correspondence chess grandmaster Herman Heemsoth who presented all his notebooks representing many years of research. The book will have English text, selected games and some photographs. The CD-Rom will have all known games from these events, and also other games from relevant Soviet events such as team championships and women's championships. The games will be available in all the main chess database formats. The CD will also include Mr Grodzensky's original Russian text in Adobe PDF format and all relevant photographs and other material collected by the authors relating to correspondence chess in the USSR. Sergey Grodzensky's original text has been translated by well-known chess editor and translator Ken Neat.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Red Letters (English and Russian Edition)
Publisher: Chess Mail Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good