Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik Yakov Borisovich (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 271 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Mikhail Botvinnik and Jakow Estrin. First edition. a dedication by an unknown scribe and the handwritten signatures of the former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and the former correspondence chess world champion Jakow Estrin on the title. Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. On the basis of his strong results during and just after World War II, Botvinnik was one of five players to contest the 1948 World Chess Championship, which was held at The Hague and Moscow. He won the 1948 tournament convincingly with a score of 14/20, three points clear becoming the sixth World Champion. Yakov Borisovich Estrin was a Russian chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of International Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. Condition: Signed on the title page. Pages toned. Wrappers with edge wear and bumped corners with defects on the spine else good to very good. Signed by Author(s).