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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume III (1948-1953)

Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume III (1948-1953)

Voronkov, Sergey

Paperback

Series: Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships, Book 3

AthletesChessRussian History

ISBN10: 5604469211
ISBN13: 9785604469217
Publisher: Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publis
Published: Sep 10 2022
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The third volume of Sergey Voronkov's epic tale takes the reader on a historical journey through the late Stalinist period in the USSR. It covers in depth the five Soviet championships from 1948 to 1952 and the playoff match between Botvinnik and Taimanov in 1953, which concludes one month before Stalin's death. Against a background of rampant anti-Semitism, a new wave of repressions and descent into the First Cold War, in which chess was an important front, the USSR captures the world chess crown and Botvinnik and the generation that followed him, including Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, and Boleslavsky, assert their places at the top-tables of Soviet and indeed global chess. Yet a new group of legends begins to emerge, including Petrosian, Geller, Korchnoi, Taimanov, Averbakh, Simagin, Kholmov, and Furman making their championship debuts, as well as a semi-final appearance by Nikitin and Spassky's first quarter-final. At the same time, the reader learns about lesser-known masters Yuri Sakharov and Johannes Weltmander, victims of Stalinism who found solace in chess from their otherwise tragic lives.

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