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Aug 10, 2017 · 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).
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In his critical memoir, The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein, Genna Sosonko shares memories of the life and the career of the grandmaster who has inspired the chess world with his ideas and his games, and who in 1951 almost became World Champion. | Photo (right): Anne Fürstenberg. Mega Database 2017.
His new book, The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein (Elk and Ruby Publishing House), is a chess book with no chess in it. Rather it is a fact-based novella, in the style of Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov or Gabriel García Márquez. It focuses on the theme of decades-long, gnawing obsession.
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It gives me immense pleasure to introduce the first English edition of Genna Sosonko’s book The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein, a work devoted to the life and times of a brilliant grandmaster who was just a step away from reaching the very summit of Mount Olympus, and who, in terms of his understanding of the game, undoubtedly belonged to the ...
Aug 10, 2017 · 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.
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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).
- Genna Sosonko
The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein by Genna Sosonko. 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).
