The Reliable Past is the eagerly awaited sequel to Russian Silhouettes, Genna Sosonko's marvellous collection of portraits from the golden age of Soviet chess. Sosonko, who left Leningrad to settle in Holland in 1972, described champions and other key figures of Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. In this new book, the author again shows himself a perceptive chronicler of a time when chess occupied a unique position in his native country; but he also wanders across its borders with his memories of Dutch World Champion Max Euwe and touching tribute to the first ever British grandmaster, Tony Miles.
205 S., kart., 2003
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Ode to a Free Man
by Garry Kasparov
The Cat that Walked by Himself
Tony Miles 1955 - 2001
Obsession
On the occasion of Viktor Kortchnoi's 70th birthday
Docendo Discimus
Vladimir Bagirov 1936 - 2000
Luka
Anatoly Lutikov 1933 - 1989
The Reliable Past
On the occasion of Rafael Vaganian's 50th birthday
The Club
My Testimony
Viktor Baturinsky 1914 - 2002
The Professor
Max Euwe 1901 - 1981
A Born Optimist
On the occasion of Jan Timman#S 50th birthday
Essig Fleisch
Salo Flohr 1908 - 1983
Death of a Salesman
Eduard Gufeld 1936 - 2002
Beijing 2004