Nickel/Thormann: Schach in Ostberlin 1945-1990 Holz Volokitin (2624)

Volokitin (2624)

Kramnik's strategic power play

grandmaster Davorin Kuljasevic follows and explores Ding Liren's rise from his first chess steps in provincial China to the top of the chess world

In Thinking Inside the Box Jacob Aagaard describes his chess improvement philosophy

perhaps the sharpest of all chess openings

Nickel/Thormann: Schach in Ostberlin 1945-1990 Holz Volokitin (2624)Chess in the GDR and in divided Berlin is a largely neglected subject in literature, although it has occasionally made headlines and enjoyed state support at times following the example of its big brother, the USSR. The names of the chess masters of the time and the outstanding events before and after the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960 will soon be known only to a few. This book aims to remedy this with portraits of 24 East Berlin chess masters,