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- The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein
The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein
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- Sosonko G.
- Elk and Ruby
- 271 blz.
- Engels
- 2018
First published in Russian in 2014 and written by Genna Sosonko – widely recognized as the number one writer on the history of Soviet chess – this is a truly unique book about the life and destiny of the great chess player David Bronstein (1924-2006).
Emerging from a challenging background – he narrowly escaped the holocaust in WWII, during which he starved, and his father spent seven years in a gulag – Bronstein faced Botvinnik in the world championship match in 1951 and nearly defeated him. But this ‘nearly’ inflicted a wound on David so deep that it would not heal for the rest of his life.
Sosonko knew Bronstein well. Their conversations – many of which have made it into this book – not only portray the thoughts and character of one of history’s most original grandmasters but also take us back to a time unlike any other in world history. This is not a biography in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, Sosonko’s fascinating book asks eternal questions which don’t have neat and simple answers.
With a foreword to the English edition by Garry Kasparov.
Content
006 Chapter 1: Regrets? I've had a few
021 Chapter 2: Life had its ups and downs
038 Chapter 3: The art of being different
053 Chapter 4: High noon in the capital
070 Chapter 5: The post-mortem
082 Chapter 6: Moving on
113 Chapter 7: The river only flows in one direction
126 Chapter 8: The Prince of Darkness
141 Chapter 9: The Philosopher
162 Chapter 10: A free man
181 Chapter 11: Moscow
207 Chapter 12: The Sorcerer's apartment
246 Chapter 13: Minsk
261 Chapter 14: Le Misanthrope
267 Epilogue: David the Seventh
Emerging from a challenging background – he narrowly escaped the holocaust in WWII, during which he starved, and his father spent seven years in a gulag – Bronstein faced Botvinnik in the world championship match in 1951 and nearly defeated him. But this ‘nearly’ inflicted a wound on David so deep that it would not heal for the rest of his life.
Sosonko knew Bronstein well. Their conversations – many of which have made it into this book – not only portray the thoughts and character of one of history’s most original grandmasters but also take us back to a time unlike any other in world history. This is not a biography in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, Sosonko’s fascinating book asks eternal questions which don’t have neat and simple answers.
With a foreword to the English edition by Garry Kasparov.
Content
006 Chapter 1: Regrets? I've had a few
021 Chapter 2: Life had its ups and downs
038 Chapter 3: The art of being different
053 Chapter 4: High noon in the capital
070 Chapter 5: The post-mortem
082 Chapter 6: Moving on
113 Chapter 7: The river only flows in one direction
126 Chapter 8: The Prince of Darkness
141 Chapter 9: The Philosopher
162 Chapter 10: A free man
181 Chapter 11: Moscow
207 Chapter 12: The Sorcerer's apartment
246 Chapter 13: Minsk
261 Chapter 14: Le Misanthrope
267 Epilogue: David the Seventh