Championship Chess
Match Tournament for the Absolute Chess Championship of the USSR, Leningrad - Moscow 1941
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| By Botvinnik, M M |
| ISBN 1843820129 |
| SERIES Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics |
| Paperback 204 pages |
| Subject [Chess
] [Chess - Tournaments
] [Botvinnik
] [Lilienthal
] [Smyslov
] [Keres
] [Boleslavsky
] [Bondarevsky
] [Second World War, 1939-1945
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| Published April 2002 |
| UK Price £19.95 Order from amazon.co.uk |
| US Price $29.95 Order from amazon.com |
Botvinnik came, saw, and conquered at this 1941 meet of the top Grandmasters in the USSR. At this time the old champions, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine were on their way out, and this outstanding tournament triumph by Botvinnik demonstrated without a shadow of doubt that a mighty new force was on the rise. In the tournament Botvinnik dominated Keres, Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky and Lilienthal. He then set about extracting the ultimate secrets from every game by dint of the most precise analysis. Experts regard this as perhaps the best tournament book ever written. In conjunction with Harry Golombek's book on the 1948 match tournament World Championship (also available from Hardinge Simpole) it provides the perfect introduction to the amazing reign of the great Botvinnik. |
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