Mar 11, 2012 paul keres was one of the five or six strongest players in the world from 1935 when he emerged as a sensational 19yearold at the 1935 world chess olympics in warsaw until his untimely death by heart attack at the time of an international airplane flight from vancouver to helsinki in 1975. The question of what to do next was resolved with a fiveplayer matchtournament held in the hague and moscow in 1948. Practical chess endings by paul keres with modern chess notation an essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world s greatest grandmasters. Chess keres, paul alexander kotov art of the middle game. Publication date 1959 topics pawn chess publisher new york, d. Power chess contains twentytwo of his best articles. As is the case with any other skill calculation should be trained. From 1953 until 1959 he finished second in three candidates tournaments in a row. Here the black g6pawn is the only black piece which prevents the threat of.
Yakov estrin was one of the few players to become an over the board grandmaster and a correspondence grandmaster. This book consists of 22 articles by keres published in chess life magazine during the years 19681975. The death of alexander alekhine in 1946 left the chess world without a world champion for the first time in 60 years. Because is keres and neishtadt vision and schoolarship of one of the most wonderful chess writers of the soviet union. This game from keres is similar to the one vs smyslov keres vs smyslov, 1953 where he plays the entire game on its head.
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