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BRONSTEIN My Passion by the Chess [Libros Ajedrez 9788425519833]	18,90EUR

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Preface of Garri Kaspárov

David Bronstein was, without a doubt, the most original chess player of century XX. One proclaimed champion of the USSR in 1948 and 1949 and runner-up of the world in 1951, when tying to 12 points the encounter that disputed with Mijaíl Botvínnik, then world-wide champion. Aside from its numerous contributions to the theory of openings, Bronstein revolutionized the form to play the chess with its proposals of acceleration of the game rate.

After refusing to sign a letter against Viktor Korchnoi in 1976, it was prohibited him to travel to the West during thirteen long years. The open atmosphere that was breathed in the USSR at the end of the decade of 1980 allowed him to obtain the freedom and to visit numerous countries worldwide (among them Spain, where it played by the University of Oviedo), participating in matches and giving simultaneous conferences and that made the delights of the fans to the chess.

This book is the posthumous chronicle of that period of febrile activity (1989-1997); nevertheless, Bronstein also throws a glance to the past and explains the pressures that underwent the Soviet players in the famous Match of Zurich (1953); in addition, it presents the encounter secret training that played with Víktor Korchnói in 1970.

The book contains 29 commented complete games with gracejo that characterized to him.

In some of those trips it accompanied its wife, Tatiana Boleslavskaia, musicologist and daughter to him of the great teacher Isaak Boleslavski, relates who them here from his point of view.

In order to write the one that would be its last work, Bronstein counted on the aid of Sergéi Voronkov, well-known book author and publisher and magazines of chess.

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