Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970

Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970
img
Our Price: $25.95

Catalog Product Code: B0163IS

*Eligible for Media Mail Shipping Details
In Stock Ready To Ship

Be the first to review this product

Share product with a friends & opponents!
img img img img
Stock Qty: 5
Weight: 0.7562
Author: Mikhail Botvinnik
Publication Date: October 9, 2012
Notation Type: DN - Descriptive
Page Count: 248

Book Description

Mikhail Botvinnik won the World Chess Championship in 1948 and held the title with two breaks until 1963. Botvinnik announced his retirement from chess in 1970. This book covers the entire period when Botvinnik was World Chess Champion.

Of the great postwar chess players, one figure stands out above all others - the Soviet grandmaster, Mikhail Botvinnik. With the exception of two one-year interludes this dedicated electrical engineer was world champion for fifteen years - from 1948 to 1963; on the second occasion that he regained his title - from Tal - he was in his fiftieth year. It was not, however, until 1970 that he announced his "official retirement" from international competition.

"Chess". wrote Botvinnik, "is an art which illustrates the beauty of logic." He could not abide errors which spoiled the beauty of the game, and the secret of his success was thorough preparation and routine, which fully justified his own self-confidence - and which were systematically adopted by the Soviet school. In controlled positional play, Botvinnik was an incomparable virtuoso - as Bronstein, Smyslov, and Tal, among many others, discovered. Above all, he was a perfectionist.

Prefaced by a short biography, this volume - the first ever published in English presents over 100 of Botvinnik's best games over the period 1947 to 1970. Nearly all the annotations are by Botvinnik himself, and they reveal the qualities that won him the champion's title. Botvinnik's Best Games is, perhaps, the outstanding collection of the decade.

Related Products

  • Siciliian Defense:Grand Prix Attack
    The f4 Sicilian has become popular and feared because it avoids the frightening amount of knowledge required to play Open Sicilians. It is often not treated with the respect it deserves. The strategic aims are quite simple to understand: CHECKMATE. The first edition was written when the Grand Prix Attack was just becoming noticed by strong chess players. Now there are over 20,000 examples in the databases. Nevertheless, the opening remains based more on the ideas explained by authors Hodgson and Day than on “theory”.
    img

    Siciliian Defense:Grand Prix Attack
    Catalog Code: B0226IS
    Our Price: $14.95

  • Combat
    My 50 Years at the Chess Board
    Sidney Bernstein, born in the Bronx, learned chess from his father at age 7, and played in his first tournament at 15. Since then, he has gone on to play in such prestigious events as the U.S. Championship, the U.S. Open Championship, the World Open, the Marshall and Manhattan Club Championships. This book is his chess biography. It contains 142 of his annotated games against the leading chess players of America and the story behind each game.
    img

    Combat
    My 50 Years at the Chess Board
    Catalog Code: B0045IS
    Our Price: $25.95

  • Tigran Petrosian - His Life and Games
    Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969 and was one of the strongest players in the world throughout his lengthy career. Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980).
    img

    Tigran Petrosian - His Life and Games
    Catalog Code: B0027IS
    Our Price: $25.95

  • The Logical Approach to Chess
    This has long been one of the standard books on basic chess strategy. It takes the player from the middle game of chess and shows how to take it to a favorable conclusion.
    img

    The Logical Approach to Chess
    Catalog Code: B0105IS
    Our Price: $19.95

  • World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games
    This collection of best games of Smyslov is probably the best collection of his annotated games in Descriptive Notation. This book was first published in 1958, the year that Vassily Smyslov was World Chess Champion.
    img

    World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games
    Catalog Code: B0178IS
    Our Price: $19.95

  • How to Play the From Gambit
    Henry Bird's 1.f4 has become the choice of many players who wish to avoid the voluminous theory surrounding 1.e4, 1.d4 and even 1.c4. If Black plays passively then he is likely to find himself in an inferior line, especially if he allows a reversed Dutch defense. But there is an exciting alternative to the main lines - the From Gambit! With l...e5 Black makes it clear that he is willing to fight. The lines which arise often involve forced piece sacrifices for both sides, and knowledge of the middlegame ideas is critical.
    img

    How to Play the From Gambit
    Catalog Code: B0107IS
    Our Price: $14.95

  • The Development of Chess Style
    This is essentially a book on chess history, showing how different styles of chess play became popular and flourished and then faded in popularity, such as for example the Hyper-Modern Style of play that became "All the Rage" in the 1920s and 1930s.
    img

    The Development of Chess Style
    Catalog Code: B0235IS
    Our Price: $18.95

  • 1958 interzonal Chess Tournament Portoroz
    The 1958 Interzonal Chess Tournament in Portoroz was one of the most important and strongest tournaments in chess history, and is still regularly discussed in chess circles today. This is the tournament where the 15-year-old Bobby Fischer earned the grandmaster title and first became a contender for the World Chess Championship. It is also the tournament where Mikhail Tal finally got his first chance to compete in a grandmaster tournament outside of the Soviet Union, and started one of the longest non-losing streaks in chess history on his march to the World Chess Championship.
    img

    1958 interzonal Chess Tournament Portoroz
    Catalog Code: B0212IS
    Our Price: $14.95

  • The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature
    Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary
    img

    The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature
    Catalog Code: B0221IS
    Our Price: $29.95

  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games
    Originally published as "Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games: Volume 1: 1485-1866". Volume 2 was never published, so the title has been shortened to "Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games". This encyclopedia set out to publish all the important games of chess which have been played since the modern laws came into force in the late 1400s.
    img

    Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games
    Catalog Code: B0048IS
    Our Price: $33.95

Tell us what you think about this item!
lb