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Botvinnik : 100 Selected Games by Mikhail M. Botvinnik (1960, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486206203

ISBN-139780486206202

eBay Product ID (ePID)184775

Product Key Features

Book TitleBotvinnik : 100 Selected Games

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicChess, Puzzles

Publication Year1960

IllustratorYes

GenreGames & Activities

AuthorMikhail M. Botvinnik

Book SeriesDover Chess Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Edition DescriptionAnnotated edition

SynopsisLearn chess from a World Champion! These 100 games were selected and annotated by Botvinnik himself as the best games he played before becoming World Champion in 1948. Includes contests against Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, Smyslov, and others. Author explains his theories, the development of Russian chess, and six end game studies., World champion who dominated chess in the 1940s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams., The 100 outstanding games in this volume are Mikhail Botvinnik's own choices as the best games he played before becoming World Champion in 1948. They cover the period from his first big tournament -- the USSR Championship of 1927, in which the 16-year-old Botvinnik became a master -- to the International Tournament at Groningen in 1946 -- in which he demonstrated his qualifications for winning the world championship. Botvinnik, an expert analyst as well as a champion, had annotated these games himself, giving a complete exposition of his strategy and techniques against such leading chess players as Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Tartakower, Vidmar, and many others. In a foreword, he discusses his career, his method of play, and the system of training he has adopted for tournament play. A careful study of these 100 games should prove rewarding to anyone interested in modern chess. A full variety of the most popular modern-day opening is provided, including the Ruy Lopez, Sicilian Defense, French Defense, Queen's Gambit Declined, Nimzo-Indian Defense, and others. This volume also includes a long article on the development of chess in Russia, in which Botvinnik discusses Tchigorin, Alekhine, and their influence on the Soviet school of chess; the author's six studies of endgame positions; and Botvinnik's record in tournament and match play through 1948.