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This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank. The first authoritative English translation from the Russian, this volume was written by one of the leading competitors. Its perceptive coverage includes games by Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.

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The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. Most knowledgeable chess players now rate the Zurich 1953 tournament as the greatest since World War II, and possibly the greatest tournament of all time. Here David Bronstein offers the games plus thorough and perceptive annotations.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Great Chess but a very poor book., Oct 6 2009

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F. Kennedy "Operaholic" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Paperback)

Dover Publications publish many fine books on chess, but this is not one of them.
Nothing wrong with the content - a great tournament written about by David Bronstein, one of the leading post-war artists of the game. But the book, as a book, is a dismal product and quite unworthy of Dover. The text appears to have been composed on a pre-electric typewriter and then faithfully and ruinously copied
as the published text; and the chess diagrams too are dreadfully executed.
Dover should destroy these copies and publish a new edition, printed to the standard one expects from this house.
F.Kennedy

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top level chess - A classic!, July 1 2004

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Diego Acosta (Norman, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Paperback)

How nice it is to sit down and go over a well played game with good anotations that go beyond things like: 18.Kxe7+ Kd2 19.Re5! Nxe5?! +- and where the author doesn't explain what's going on... Bronstein is an excellent writer that did more than to keep a record of a tournament with soul-less annotations and without realizing it compiled a book that shows how difficult is the game of chess when the level is high. In these games we see more than a textbook exploitation of a good knight against a bad bishop or games where one of the players was highly cooperative with his/her counterpart allowing him/her to demonstrate a win by simple means. What we see here are games where ideas in the opening clash and where important material in the middlegame is reviewed. This book is a classic and it is by far one of the best games compilation in the market. I strongly recommend playing solitaire with these games and enjoy the game of chess with it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bronstein's 1953 Zurich Interzonal, Jun 19 2004

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M. Palang "Caissa And Jesse" (The Woodlands, tx United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Paperback)

Amazingly simple and down to earth. This book is very entertaining.

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