The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. When its participants are the world's strongest players . . . the tournament as a whole represents a step forward in the development of chess creativity. We may take as examples of such tournaments the events at Hastings 1895, St. Petersburg 1914, New York 1924, Moscow 1935, and Groningen 1946. Beyond doubt, Zurich-Neuhausen 1953 deserves a place among them. David Bronstein ventured this evaluation of Zurich 1953 just three years after the event, in the preface to the first Russian edition of this book. Since that...
The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. When its participants are the world's strongest players . . . the tournament ...
-His abrasive, biting wit shines through his prose even in translation ... always sparkling and provocative.- -- Chess News Known as -The Father of Modern Chess- and -The Stormy Petrel of the Chess World, - Aron Nimzovich (1886-1935) transformed his greatest performance into a brilliantly eccentric and entertaining book. In this account of his victory at the 1929 Carlsbad Tournament, Nimzovich offers a captivating retrospective of his triumph over some of the best of his contemporaries: Capablanca, Spielman, Maroczy, Rubinstein, Marshall, Euwe, Bogolyubov, Tartakower, Samisch,...
-His abrasive, biting wit shines through his prose even in translation ... always sparkling and provocative.- -- Chess News Known as -The...
