what will i learn from it?
that country does not exist anymore. i think after that country was dissolved it no longer was important in being best at chess.
kasparov is from russia i think
but people were from riga or belarussia
so the only really reason that the S.U. was good because of the government forcing all the countries together and they had the best players (cream of the crop) playing overseas
How do you manage to find every seven months-old OP that never got an answer and revive the thread?
How do you manage to find every seven months-old OP that never got an answer and revive the thread?
That's a good question.
I believe you needed to wait a few more months to hit the requisite seven months...
If anyone is as interested in learning about the Soviet Chess Machine as I am, I found this really interesting dissertation by Michael Hudson entitled "Storming Fortresses: A Political History Of Chess In The Soviet Union, 1917-1948." You can download the pdf online. It's about 420 pages long, but it's an easy read, not as esoteric or erudite as most dissertations tend to be. I didn't know that Karl Marx was an avid chess player until I read through about 50 pages of the dissertation. There are some grammitical errors, which made me question why this was accepted as a paper for a Ph.D candidate; regardless, it's very informative and, for the most part, well written.