Soviet Chess 1917-1991 By Andrew Soltis McFarland & Company | 2000 | ISBN 0-7864-0676-3 | PDF | 478 pages | 29.8 mb

This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretative history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the devastations of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet-dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.

CONTENTS Prefoce List of Crosstables Introduction

1. Up from a Basement
2. Chess to the Workers
3. Big Chess
4. Tough Examiners
5. The New Soviet Man
6. International Moscow
7. The Terror
8. Palaces, Twins and Absolute Champions
9. Barbarossa
10. Joining the World
11. Golden Age
12. Invisible Crisis
13. Fischer Fear
14. After Reykjavik
15. Target: Korchnoi
16. Scandals
17. Endgame Notes on Sources Bibliography A Guide to the Pronunciation of Players' Names Soviet Dominance of FIDE, July 1, 1991 Soviet Championship Summaries Index of Openings (ECO) Index of Players and Opponents Subject Index

NOTE: Between pages 194 and 195 there are 16 pages of plates containing 23 photographs which have not scanned well.

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