World Chess Championship 1948: The Hague-Moscow - Paul Keres

World Chess Championship 1948: The Hague-Moscow - Paul KeresHardback, 544 pages with numerous photographs, illustrations, and tables VIEW PDF SAMPLE After Alexander Alekhine died in 1946, the chess world suddenly had no reigning champion. FIDE resolved that Alekhine’s successor would be decided by a tournament in The Hague and Moscow in early 1948. Five top grandmasters – Botvinnik, Smyslov, Reshevsky, Keres, and Euwe – battled for the vacant title for over two months. Mikhail Botvinnik emerged as the new world champion, initiating the Soviet dominance of the international chess scene that would endure until the 1970s. Paul Keres’ classic tournament book on the 1948 World Chess Championship has been widely praised as one of the best chess books ever written. Garry Kasparov and Boris Gelfand rate it among their top-five favourites, and the reader studying the games and commentaries will quickly understand why. Copious verbal explanations are agreeably balanced with judicious concrete an