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Chess Book: Russian Silhouettes (3rd Ed,2009) · Includes index · Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014) · A Vanished Age; My Misha; A Journey to Immortality; 'I Must Work, I Must Work'; The Chess King of Odessa; In a Silent Way; I Knew Capablanca ... ; A Great Teacher Inspires; 'You Ask the Questions'; The Maestro; The Jump; The Summing Up; Index of Names · The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end of a unique chapter in the history of chess. With hindsight we can only marvel at the pivotal place the royal game occupied in the biggest country in the world. Originally embraced by Lenin as 'gymnastics of the mind', chess developed into an ideological weapon during the Cold War. Supported by the Soviet leadership, chess champions, from Mikhail Botvinnik on, grew into symbols of socialist excellence. As a respected trainer who became a world-class grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes Sovie

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