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Author: David Bronstein
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
Notation Type: FAN - Figurine
Page Count: 232 Pages


Publisher: Edition Olms
Author: David Bronstein
Year of Publication: 2007

Pages:232
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)


Book DescriptionDavid Bronstein, one of the world's great players of the 20th century, drew a match for the world championship and was victorious in numerous international events. He was also one of the most original thinkers in the history of chess: rapidplay tournaments, clocks with the addition of a certain time after every move, his own version of random chess - these are just a few of the ideas that have sprung from his fertile imagination.

After his refusal to join other Soviet grandmasters in denouncing Viktor Korchnoi for his defection in 1976, Bronstein was barred from travelling to the west for 13 long years. When the barriers finally came down in the late 1980s, he eagerly used his newly-gained freedom to travel to numerous countries in Europe, delighting chess enthusiasts with his original ideas and gaining new friends of different nationalities.

This book gives an account of those traels, on some of which Bronstein was accompanied by his wife,who adds her own intriguing impressions. He includes some thirty instructively annotated games from this period, which showed that the old tiger had not yet lost his claws. Bronstein also looks back into the past, and in particular, to a secret training match he played with Victor Korchnoi in 1970, the games of which have never previously been published.

When this book was in the final stages of publication, David Bronstein passed away. It is the hope of the publisher that this book will provide a fitting tribute to the later years of this remarkable man, who had so many friends throughout the chess world.

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