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Alekhine's Odessa Secrets Chess, War & Revolution Sergei Tkachenko
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Very nice condition. Inside is very clean with no markings.”
- Original Language
- Russian
- ISBN
- 9785950043338
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elk I Rubi / The Limited Liability Company Elk & Ruby Publishing House
ISBN-10
5950043332
ISBN-13
9785950043338
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038836594
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alekhine's Odessa Secrets : Chess, War and Revolution
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Chess
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Games & Activities
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"The book is a wonderful mix of chess, chess history and modern history, in which Alekhine's life, games and analysis, and the important chess figures of that period are examined in the context of the tumultuous events following the Russian Revolution. Just like Boris Gelfand - who provides the foreword to the English edition - I read the book from cover to cover in one go... ...the meat of the book is the extraordinary amount of work that Tkachenko has put into bringing together so many sources from that time to shed fresh light on such topics as Alekhine's officer's uniform and decorations, the time he spent in a Cheka jail in 1919, his subsequent employment in the Foreign Department of the Odessa Gubernia Executive Committee, and his various marriages... It's a wonderful, beautifully produced book illustrated with many photos and facsimiles of original documents. A treat for anyone interested in Alekhine's life and times and the Odessan players with which he spent so much time in 1918 and 1919." - Grandmaster Matthew Sadler in New In Chess magazine, April 2018 "The book draws on a fantastic variety of sources, local newspapers, numerous archives, biographies and other historical works that are not available in English and thus unknown to nearly all of us...There are also numerous minor biographies of other local characters, thereby providing interesting sidebars to the main story as these include descriptions of chess life in Odessa, the city itself during the upheavals of the early 20th century, and what motivated people to act the way they did in those turbulent times. Tkachenko has written a phenomenal book that puts the record straight on many historical discrepancies and this in particular will be welcomed by all readers who appreciate chess history." - FIDE Master Carsten Hansen in American Chess Magazine, October 2018 "A masterpiece, and an unusual one" - FIDE Master James Vigus, CHESS Magazine, October 2018
Synopsis
Sergei Tkachenko has written a fascinating account of Alexander Alekhine's time spent in Odessa during World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, as well as of the impact of Odessa on his later life. Sergei, an Odessa native and ex-world chess composition champion, has carried out original research., *** SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 *** Sergei Tkachenko has written a fascinating account of Alexander Alekhine's time spent in Odessa during World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, as well as of the impact of Odessa on his later life. Sergei, an Odessa native and ex-world chess composition champion, has carried out original research drawing from Odessa, Voronezh, Cheka and KGB archives among others, as well as local newspapers from the time. His research, together with a review of Russian-language secondary materials, has dug up lots of new information and analysis on Alekhine, including on his trips to Odessa and their reasons, his service during World War I, his interrogations by the Cheka and his ties to the White Movement. Sergei portrays Alekhine's Odessa relatives and the Odessite chess masters against whom he played a number of friendly and simultaneous games during his three trips to the Ukrainian city. Sergei provides a detailed description of chess in Odessa from the beginning of the nineteenth century and through the upheavals of the early twentieth century, including the city's leading chess organizers, the main and university chess clubs, and even high society's chess-themed ballroom parties. He goes on to describe the chaos under Bolshevik rule during the Civil War, during which Alekhine was arrested by the Reds and very nearly executed. The author reviews the backdrop to Alekhine's arrest and investigates the circumstances of his last-minute release. His heart-rending account of terror by the Cheka brings home to the reader how near the chess world was to losing its greatest player of the first half of the twentieth century. This book then goes on to review the strong Odessa links with key events surrounding Alekhine later - his exile, failing marriages, plans for a match with Botvinnik, murky death and eventual burial ten years later. Alekhine's Odessa Secrets: Chess, War and Revolution includes 24 complete games (some handicapped) with annotations from Alekhine, Sergei Tkachenko and Sergei Voronkov (co-author with David Bronstein of Secret Notes), as well as five puzzles and one fragment. Alekhine played in 22 of these games and the fragment and set three of the puzzles. Furthermore, the book contains around 100 photos, mostly of Alekhine's Odessa contemporaries among chess masters and politicians, as well as of the places he frequented in Odessa and key publication clippings and memorabilia. With an introduction to the English edition by Boris Gelfand.
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